Saturday, April 12, 2025

Tag: progressive movement

This is not a drill. Fascism is on the ballot. But...

Rather than being for personal absolution, voting is a tool in the political toolbox—if the goal is to avert the worst and improve the chances for constructing a future worthy of humanity.

Progressives rally 150,000 strong in support of Harris: A united front...

A diverse coalition of progressive leaders and grassroots organizers mobilize to defeat Trump while pushing Kamala Harris on critical issues like Gaza and a working-class agenda.

Magical thinking about Biden 2024 paves the way for another Trump presidency

Biden's approval plummets as key demographic support wavers: staffers voice concern over Gaza policy.

Showdown in Nevada as Democratic establishment targets party chair

It’s a classic battle between top-down corporate money and bottom-up progressive activism.

Big Business defeated as Socialist Kshama Sawant’s victory certified in Seattle

"The ruling class in the United States is afraid of these kinds of movements and so we should not be surprised by the reaction."

Will Trump’s mania to slice and dice the right help or...

Whatever the Georgia results, progressives still need more non-stop, grassroots consciousness-raising and many more elected lawmakers everywhere.

What Election Day revealed about progressive policies

Americans are hungry for change, as evidenced by what happened on Election Day.

Ocasio-Cortez warns Biden that just throwing progressives a ‘couple of bones’...

“At the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before,” says New York Democrat in new interview. “People need to feel hope.”

Social Security is the key to progressive change in America

We can change all of this, but instead of just letting Congress try and tinker with it, let’s start by building a mass movement to demand a secure and improved Social Security system.

Creating a progressive movement within the Democratic Party

If the candidates and supporters can come up with a uniform platform and promise to vote for the leading progressive candidate in order to defeat centrist and right-wing candidates, that will be a real victory.

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Trump accused of weaponizing Social Security and immigration system to target immigrants and silence...

Critics warn of authoritarian overreach as Trump administration marks immigrants as “dead” to force deportation and targets lawful residents for protected political speech.

House passes bill to shield Trump from legal accountability, restricts judges from halting unconstitutional...

Republicans push sweeping limits on judicial authority after courts repeatedly block Trump’s executive actions as unlawful or unconstitutional.

Trump faces Palestine

The legacies of colonialism and the set of ideas behind that Act of 1688 are still with us and continue to target formerly colonized (and still colonized) peoples.

Revealed: Meat industry behind attacks on flagship climate-friendly diet report

New evidence seen by DeSmog suggests this surge of outrage against the report was stoked by a PR firm that represents the meat and dairy sector. 

This chart explains why Trump backflipped on tariffs. The economic damage would have been huge

The answer is simple: the economic cost to the U.S. was too high.