Tag: voting rights

Folks, our democracy depends on all of us – now more than ever. This November 6th, please do your part.

In my thirty-five years of teaching college students, I’ve not encountered a generation as dedicated to making the nation better as this one.

Measure 103 was reportedly proposed to counter efforts to raise corporate taxes at the state level, such as 2016's Measure 97, which voters rejected.

Now, we have a choice: we can continue to talk at each other, or we can invest in one another, and do the deep listening that is required to win real improvements in people’s lives.

At least 6 million U.S. citizens cannot vote in the United States because they have been convicted of a felony.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shocking upset is the surest sign yet that the Democratic Party’s future lies in its left flank – and in challenging capitalism head-on.

Progress! Meaning a national commitment to advance the economic, political and social circumstances of the American majority of workday families and poor people.

Jim Crow endures in Georgia as voter suppression efforts persist across the state. But get-out-the-vote activists are undaunted.

Demonstrators descended on Washington Monday in the latest protest staged by the new Poor People’s Campaign, which organizers say is the most expansive wave...

Tuesday’s primaries show that from universal healthcare to early childhood education and taxing the wealthy, progressives are winning the battle of ideas in the Democratic Party.