by Robert Borosage | Nov 21, 2014 | Democracy
NOTE: This official statement by the Campaign for America's Future was released after President Obama announced his executive action on immigrant deportations Thursday night. President Barack Obama’s decision to waive the threat of deportation to upwards of five...
by Editors | Nov 7, 2014 | Democracy
Elise Scott understands voter suppression. She’s seen it first-hand, growing up in the south in the 1960s. “New voters had to be identified by two registered voters,” she recalled in an interview this week. “My father could not find two white men to identify him....
by Richard Eskow | Nov 6, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]http://youtu.be/4qG4Lnenx4w#start=945[/fve] On Wednesday we spoke with Celinda Lake, a leading strategist for Democrats and progressive organizations, about the election's results. Her key observations: ● It was a “wave” election. That can be seen in the...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 5, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
Debacle. Bloodbath. Call it what you will. Democrats, as expected, fared poorly in red states in an off-year election. Worse, unpopular Republican governors survived. This was ugly. Yes, the electorate was as skewed as was the map. Many Republicans won office with the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
[fve]http://youtu.be/9kIfLigGGyk?list=UUcnNWp-tx3-FaCWV4pMFTAg[/fve] Here's an interview with CAF's very own Roger Hickey on the importance of this election, the factors shaping it, and what we've seen (and haven't seen) that have brought us to this point. Hickey also...
by Leo Gerard | Nov 4, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The rich always vote for themselves. They go for their self-interest, their tax breaks, their liability escapes (think Wall Street). Meanwhile, they've relentlessly instructed the non-rich that they too must vote for the rich. They've promised for decades that if the...
