Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Black leaders express ‘profound indignation’ over Schumer and Pelosi’s failure to defend Maxine Waters...

"We write to share our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump administration and others in the GOP."

In Memphis, an attack on both immigrant rights and press freedom

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – jailed journalists around the globe should be free to do their work, outside the prison walls that confine them today.

Be a viral superspreader

We can do this, if we remain nonviolent, committed, and unified.

Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 3

Labor Day: When workers are recognized as human, $30 trillion to the richest white Americans, Los Angeles educators vote to strike, and more.

Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand

Race is mobile and ever-changing. But ultimately, it serves to maintain white supremacy, at both a local and global level.

The great return march and the women of Gaza

“Women will always be in the front lines of our national struggle.”
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Meet Victorina Morales, an undocumented immigrant who spent five years as Trump’s housekeeper

We speak with an undocumented housekeeper from Guatemala named Victorina Morales, who helped expose what was happening on the Trump properties by speaking on the record to The New York Times.

When you lift from the bottom, everyone rises

Have we entered America’s third era of reconstruction?

The global right wing’s bizarre obsession with pedophilia

Instead of combating real-existing pedophilia, the far right has waded into the deep end to battle Satanism and homosexuality, which they tend to equate.

The South is rising again

The real story is that a fresh, "Reclaim the South" movement of young African-American populists is emerging, kindling long-suppressed hope in the racially scarred Deep South.