by Terrance Heath | Oct 22, 2014 | Blog, Democracy, Progressive Vision
With Election Day just two weeks away, the words of Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award recipient and Moral Mondays movement leader Rev. William Barber remind us, "If we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now!" His new book reminds us of the moral power...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn't like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, female people, especially people it believes are inclined to vote for Democrats. Republican politicians have hatched...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 8, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The Senate is scheduled to consider later today the Democracy For All Amendment to undo the damage the Republicans on the Supreme Court did with their Citizens United and other rulings that allow corporations and billionaires to purchase our elections. We the People...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 2, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Eric Cantor was a congressman from Virginia and was House majority leader. He was known for being particularly friendly to Wall Street and the giant, multinational corporations. In the June Republican primary, his Virginia constituents got fed up with this and booted...
by Bill Scher | Aug 6, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
David Brat's Republican primary defeat of Rep. Eric Cantor (Va.) was widely attributed to a groundswell of right-wing anti-immigrant fervor, despite the fact that Cantor had taken the lead in blocking immigration reform, and despite the fact that their congressional...
by Bill Scher | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Two months ago, Sen. Rand Paul declared, "I say everywhere I go I am for immigration reform.". Everywhere, with the exception of the Barefoot Bar in Okoboji, Iowa, when caught between anti-immigrant bigot Rep. Steve King and two undocumented immigrants who came to...
