Tag: Democrats
The hidden money funding the midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
Electing Democrats in November without confronting neoliberalism will not be enough
If Democrats win in the next couple of elections but continue to make the rich richer with neoliberal policies (as Obama did), that will just be another opening for a Trump-type.
Dozens arrested in Senate Building as Democrats accuse GOP of ‘railroading’...
"They are totally intent on getting Judge Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court, come Hell or high water. You have to ask yourself, why?"
New poll indicates Democratic women are most motivated voting group ahead...
Experts are hoping that the group "most motivated" to vote above all others will "form the battle lines for this fall’s midterm elections."
Progressives need a clear strategy for 2020 and beyond – here are...
We have significant numbers. But we need to continue to build our ranks, and mobilize behind a winning political strategy.
A new roadmap for getting change done
The victories of young, fresh insurgents get the most attention, but equally important is the beginning of reform within DNC.
As Democrats urged to dump all documents, Booker releases 50 more...
"If Democrats don't put up the strongest possible resistance, using every weapon they have, an electoral darkness may descend on them as well, since they will be complicit in the damage to come."
DNC facing insurgency from its progressive base
The nervousness among the party leadership these days is becoming palpable.
It’s time for Democrats to abandon stale centrist politics once and...
The party’s centrist wing is terrified. The political enterprise they’ve spent their careers building runs counter to the big, universal redistributive policies being supported by the Democratic base.
The Kavanaugh hearing is about political posturing, not keeping a political...
Sen. Gravel’s high bar for political courage.
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Israeli soldiers expose ‘kill zone’ campaign in Gaza, citing war crimes and systematic devastation
A new report from Breaking the Silence reveals shocking testimony from Israeli troops describing the creation of a lethal buffer zone inside Gaza, the deliberate razing of civilian infrastructure, and the normalization of killing civilians.