by Richard Eskow | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
The once-proud political project known as "centrism" is collapsing around the globe, despite increasingly desperate attempts by billionaire backers to revive it. The center-right's implosion can be seen in the weakened state of Theresa May's Conservatives in Great...
by Tim Wilkins | Oct 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On House Budget The House GOP is pushing through a budget that slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and other vital services. Call your representative today at (888) 516-5820 and tell them to vote NO! on the House budget. GOP Tax Cuts Blow Up Deficit...
by LeeAnn Hall | Oct 4, 2017 | Blog
Nine million children in this country are at the brink of losing health coverage. What do our lawmakers say about this? Not a damn word. Why? Because they care more about themselves than our children, and our country's future. But if they won't speak up, we will. On...
by People's Action | Oct 3, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On House Budget The House GOP is pushing through a budget that slashes Medicare, Medicaid, and other vital services. Call your representative today at (888) 516-5820 and tell them to vote NO! on the House budget. Dems Condemn Gun Violence,...
by Julie Chinitz | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Republican leadership isn’t subtle with their looting of the public treasury these days. Last Friday, Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, resigned for sticking the public with a more than $1 million bill for his personal use of private charter...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Senator Bernie Sanders received rapturous applause from progressives for his recent foreign-policy speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. “One of the finest speeches of his career,” wrote The Nation’s John Nichols. “The progressive foreign policy speech...
by People's Action | Oct 2, 2017 | Breakfast
Senate Budget Focused on Tax Cuts for Rich GOP’s New Budget Tries to Keep It Simple: Big Tax Cuts for the Rich, Not Much Else. NY Magazine: "The long-awaited draft Senate budget resolution for fiscal year 2018, which is significant for its role in “setting up” tax...
by Mark Trahant | Oct 2, 2017 | Blog
The Senate has given up on destroying Medicaid and much of the health care system and is now focused on restructuring the federal tax system (and destroying entitlement programs in the process). House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate leaders announce their framework for...
by Miles Mogulescu | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
In Puerto Rico, we may be seeing a prequel of what a post-climate change dystopian world may look like, and it’s truly terrifying. I hope I’m wrong. Here’s an imagined picture of what Puerto Rico could look like in a few weeks or a few months, unless rescue efforts...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
The eastern German state of Saxony is a long way from Ohio, but the two places have a lot in common. Abandoned factories are falling into ruins in both places. There is fear, anger, and despair in the cities and countryside. People are dissatisfied with the status quo...
by People's Action | Sep 29, 2017 | Breakfast
ICE Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in 'sanctuary cities' around the nation. LA Times: "Immigration officials on Thursday announced hundreds of arrests in an operation targeting communities where police and elected officials have...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 28, 2017 | Blog
This week's 60th anniversary of the day nine African American students braved violent backlash and racist insults from whites in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate Central High School, is prompting a wave of articles on the struggle for racial justice in American...
by Tim Wilkins | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
GOP Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Not Working Families Trump tax plan benefits wealthy, including Trump. NYT: "The tax plan that the Trump administration outlined on Wednesday is a potentially huge windfall for the wealthiest Americans. It would not directly benefit the...
by Libero Della Piana | Sep 28, 2017 | Blog
Fresh off their failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Congressional Republicans are aglow with the hope of passing sweeping tax cuts. It’s as if Trump has cast himself as the villain in a cheap horror film. In this B movie, he flails around with an axe, trying to...
by People's Action | Sep 27, 2017 | Breakfast
GOP Abandons Bid for Health Repeal Vote Senate won't vote on GOP health care bill. CNN: "The Senate will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill to repeal Obamacare, Republican leaders announced Tuesday, dealing a devastating blow to President Donald Trump and GOP...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 27, 2017 | Blog
Kameen Thompson started his workday Sept. 15 thinking that his employer, ArcelorMittal in Conshohocken, Pa., the largest supplier of armored plate to the U.S. military, might hire some workers to reduce a recent spate of overtime. Just hours later, though, he...
by People's Action | Sep 26, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is still moving in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. Sen....
by Robert Borosage | Sep 26, 2017 | Blog
The Republican health care bill slated for vote this week is an astounding immoral affront to the American people. It would strip tens of millions of health insurance and raise the costs for millions more, while claiming to protect them. It’s so bad, even its authors...
by People's Action | Sep 25, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is still moving in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. GOP...
by Libero Della Piana | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
President Donald Trump has done something no one else could do until now. He has united the National Football League around the National Anthem protest of quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Friday, Trump went on a tirade aimed at Kaepernick and other professional athletes...
by People's Action | Sep 22, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is moving again in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. Activists...
by Julie Chinitz | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Republican leaders in the Senate are hurtling toward a repeal vote that will shred federal protections in the Affordable Care Act, kill the ACA’s subsidies and Medicaid expansion, and suffocate the fifty-year Medicaid program that benefits everyone from newborns to...
by Miles Mogulescu | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Senator Lindsey Graham — who is fast becoming the gravedigger of the Senate, with his last-ditch attempt to resurrect the Republican’s zombie “repeal and replace” of Obamacare — is strangely framing his action as a bid to kill Bernie Sanders' Medicare For All bill,...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 21, 2017 | Blog
Hillary Clinton’s book-length reflection on the 2016 presidential race, What Happened, struggles to answer the haunting question of how a highly experienced candidate with a massive political machine lost to Donald Trump and his vile clown campaign. The book is less...
by People's Action | Sep 21, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is moving again in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. GOP...
by People's Action | Sep 20, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is moving again in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. Governors...
by Josh Crandell | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog
Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans, this time by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small businesses. When President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act into law in 2010, it required the Consumer...
by People's Action | Sep 19, 2017 | Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is moving again in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. GOP Makes...
by Julie Chinitz | Sep 19, 2017 | Blog
How cruel and inhumane can a piece of legislation get? The latest Republican proposal to repeal health care – yes, GOP leaders are at it again – takes us to a new low, with a revised version of repeal analysts are calling even more damaging than a...
by People's Action | Sep 18, 2017 | Breakfast
St. Louis Protests After Officer Acquitted of Murder More than 80 arrested in third night of St. Louis protests. CNN: "Protesters angry over the acquittal of St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, a white cop acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a black man,...
by Paul Engler, Sophie Lasoff | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog
The Resistance Movement against Trump has been powerful — but how do we keep it going? We are in the midst of one of the largest social movements of our time, with record numbers engaged after decades of demobilization. The Women’s March was the largest single day of...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
This year, there's a certain type of “back-to-school” news story you’re bound to see in local newspapers. The stories typically start with: “[Student A] goes to school in her pajamas, and [student B] often does her lessons with a pet dog or cat on her lap.” Instead of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
Sometimes a headline writer can get carried away. Way away. “Paychecks hit high for middle class,” shouted out the front-page headline of this past Wednesday’s Washington Post print edition. In fact, “paychecks” in the United States — the wages workers receive for...
by Jeff Bryant | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
While the vast majority of American parents are addressing Back to School season by buying supplies, readying their children, and joining with other families in preparing for a hopefully successful new year, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is traveling...
by People's Action | Sep 15, 2017 | Breakfast
Dallas Removes Statue of Robert E. Lee Dallas removes Robert E. Lee's statue from city park. U.S. News & World Report: "Workers in Dallas removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park on Thursday, with police on hand to provide protection after the...
by Mark Trahant | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog
Bernie Sanders has introduced his version of health care reform, a plan he calls “Medicare For All.” At least fifteen Democrats have signed on as co-sponsors to the single-payer plan. “This is where the country has got to go,” Sanders told The Washington Post. “Right...
by Robert Borosage | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog
First came Donald Trump’s threats to build a massive wall on the U.S .border with Mexico. Then the Muslim ban, his disgraceful response to Charlottesville, and his pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now Trump has amped up his racially divisive politics by rescinding the...
by People's Action | Sep 14, 2017 | Breakfast
Trump Approves, Then Denies, Plan to Save DACA How last night's dinner with Trump, Pelosi and Schumer went down. Politico: "AT ROUGHLY 9:45, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s offices put out a statement saying that PRESIDENT TRUMP agreed to quickly 'enshrine the...
by Bernie Horn | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
We are about to embark on a nationwide debate over taxes. Newspapers want to call this a debate over “tax reform.” It is not. Progressives should never say “tax reform” and never accept this phrase as the basis for debate. Whether it’s a matter before federal, state...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog
Bernie Sanders unveiled his Medicare for All bill this week, and 16 Democratic senators signed on as cosponsors. The last time he introduced a bill like it, not one senator was willing to join him. They considered the idea impossible, utopian. Times have changed. The...
