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Health Care Showdown GOP ObamaCare fight faces do-or-die procedural vote. The Hill: "Time is ticking away on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hopes of passing ObamaCare repeal legislation before the July 4 recess. A CBO score that found the legislation would...

Would a Berniecrat Have Won Ossoff’s Georgia Race?

Reams of commentary have been written about the results of the recent special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Jon Ossoff lost the seat, which was left vacant by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, to his Republican rival by a margin...

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GOP Wants Health Vote ASAP Senate Republicans face key week as more lawmakers waver in support for health-care bill. WaPo: "At least five Republicans have already come out against their party’s bill — which can only afford to lose two votes — and over the weekend,...

Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can

Charter schools have become a fetish of both Democratic and Republican political establishments, but local news reports continue to drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund. An independent news outlet in New...

WV Voters in DC Ask Senators to Save Health Care

Sleepy but excited voters got on a bus at dawn in Charleston to ride six hours over the Allegheny Mountains to Washington, DC so they could ask their senators to save health care for West Virginians before it's too late. This group of grassroots activists made the...

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Senate Health Bill Unveiled Obama Rips The Senate GOP Health Care Bill. HuffPost: "'The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill,' the former president wrote in a Facebook post. 'It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to...

The Lessons We Learned From Jon Ossoff’s Defeat

The special election for the open congressional seat in Georgia was the most expensive in history, with an obscene $60 million in total spending. Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate, narrowly lost in the upscale, suburban sixth district, which is heavily Republican....

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Health Care Repeal Senate GOP set to release details of health care repeal. CNN: "Senate Republican leaders plan to release their health care plan Thursday, the first time the public - and their fellow GOP senators - will get to see what they have been working on...

Big Pharma Gets $28 Billion Tax Break in GOP Health Plan

There will be a lot of losers if the House GOP’s disastrous plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ever becomes law: people with preexisting medical conditions, working families, older folks, kids. One of the few winners would be the nation’s...

Veto the Cold-Hearted Health Bill

Donald Trump is right. The House health insurance bill is “mean, mean, mean,” as he put it last week. He correctly called the measure that would strip health insurance from 23 million Americans “a son of a bitch.” The proposal is not at all what Donald Trump promised...

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Senate to Unveil Health Bill After weeks of secrecy, US Senate to unveil health-care bill. CNBC: "U.S. Senate Republicans plan to unveil the text of their draft health-care bill on Thursday as senators struggle over issues such as the future of the Medicaid program...

Arizona and Ohio Speak Up to Defend Health Care

223,300 in Arizona. 360,000 in Ohio. That’s how many people will lose their Medicaid coverage if the GOP forces through the health care repeal they're currently drafting behind closed doors in the Senate. Arizona and Ohio voters overwhelmingly oppose the repeal, as...

GE's Immelt Steps Down: 'Meanness and Greed' Win Again

Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric since 2001, is retiring. The 61-year-old will be making a well-compensated exit. Fortune magazine estimates that Immelt will walk off with “nearly $211 million,” on top of his regular annual pay. Immelt’s overall General...

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Special Elections Georgia special House vote seen as referendum on Trump. Politico: "It’s Election Day in Georgia, where a House special election has put President Donald Trump’s popularity back on the ballot, turned suburban Atlanta into a battleground for the first...

How to Destroy the Economy With 50 Votes

I have been wondering what I should say about the Republican health care legislation in the Senate. We do know that there is a policy split among Senators about how much and how fast to cut Medicaid. We know the bill will cut taxes. But beyond that there is more...

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Hatred Flares 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque. WaPo: "According to accounts from police and a mosque official, a group of four or five teens were walking back from breakfast at IHOP early Sunday when they were confronted by a...

Tennessee Dads Ask Senators for a Simple Father's Day Gift

A group of Tennessee dads gathered inside a dimly-lit parking garage on a rainy Nashville day to send a message to their senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander. Their message was simple: this Father's Day, they want their senators to protect Medicaid. The assembled...

Infighting Is Good for the Democratic Party

  Given the Democratic Party's recent failures, isn’t it time to debate ideas and strategy?   The populist uprising championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, now America’s most (only?) popular politician, just gathered at the People’s Summit in Chicago. Over...

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DHS Targets Undocumented Parents, Spares Kids For Now Obama's attempt to grant amnesty to millions of undocumented parents is over before it even began. The Atlantic: "U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly signed a memorandum Thursday revoking an...

Subjugation in Steel

One cost of freedom is steel. To remain independent, America must maintain its own vibrant steel industry. Steel is essential to make munitions, armor plate, aircraft carriers, submarines and fighter jets, as well as the roads and bridges on which these armaments are...

Resistance in a Time of Gunfire

  The smell of gun smoke had net yet lifted from an Alexandria baseball field when the calls for unity began. “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us,” said House Speaker Paul Ryan. “You're going to hear me say something you've never heard me say...

Resistance & Power: Our March to Springfield

Samantha Nichols of The People’s Lobby and Reclaim Chicago speaks at the People's Summit in Chicago, Illinois about "Resistance and Power," and her participation in the 200-mile march from Chicago to Springfield to demand a People and Planet First Budget for Illinois....

Winning Clean Energy & Climate Justice for All

Rev. Tony Pierce, the co-senior pastor of the Heaven's View Christian Fellowship in Peoria, Illinois and of board chair of Illinois People's Action and Fair Economy Illinois, speaks about "Winning Climate Justice for All" at the People's Summit in Chicago, Illinois on...

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Show of Unity Baseball shooting changes mood on Capitol Hill. CNN: "Five people were shot Wednesday morning, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise, shattering a sense of security on Capitol Hill. But members' response to the shooting came down to one goal: unity. In a...

What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are

The Treasury Department has released their report on financial regulations they want to scrap. Spoiler alert: the Wall Street sharpies who Trump put in charge of our economy, who made fortunes on both ends of the housing collapse, think pretty much all regulations on...

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Tell the Senate We Know What They’re Doing: Trading Our Health Care Away in the Dead of Night Senate Republicans are scheming behind closed doors to raise our premiums, cut and cap Medicaid, and hurt people with preexisting conditions. Let’s stop this silent and...

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Russian Intrusion Russians breached 39 state election systems. Bloomberg: "Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software...

The Koch Brothers & Trump: The Men Who Sold the World

When he withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump gave a speech so filled with falsehoods that it triggered detailed rebuttals by publications ranging from Politifact to Scientific American. The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" column, which hands out...

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