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...
by Bill Scher | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
Last month I listed the "16 House Republicans Who Could Lose For Blocking Immigration Reform" incorporating incumbents who are in districts that "professional congressional handicappers ... deem to be competitive races, and where according to Latino Decisions poll...
by Digby | Jul 29, 2014 | Democracy
Who could have ever predicted that No Labels was just another wingnut welfare operation? Elias Isquith writes in Salon: The No Labels dream is coming up on its fourth birthday, and in that time the group has made exactly zero progress towards its goal of untangling...
