Tag: money in politics
The End of Big Money in Elections? 6 Reasons to Think...
Signs of change are cropping up everywhere from grassroots actions to the presidential campaigns.
Meet the Organizers Planning the Biggest Sit-In in a Generation
If Congress hasn't taken action to help get money out of politics by April 10, 3,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in a week-long series of sit-ins.
Why Peace People Should Care About Money in Politics
While millions of people all over the world are being killed and injured by wars and violence, a small few are making billions from the never-ending war machine.
The 2016 Presidential Elections and the Cost of Democracy
For the moral importance of democracy is not the language of money but the ‘Will of the People.’
Oscar Shoutouts Roundup
Several winners at last night's awards ceremony used their acceptance speeches to speak out on causes meaningful to them.
ACTION ALERT: Democracy Spring April 2016: Mass Civil Disobedience to End...
Are you tired of having the best government money can buy?
Look Who’s Buying American Democracy
How much more evidence do we need that our system is in crisis? How long before we make it work for all of us instead of a handful at the top? We must not let them buy our democracy.
How Much ‘Free Speech’ Can You Buy?
Mega-rich families and the corporations they control have bought more than a million dollars' worth of "free" speech in this so called "democratic" election process. It's time we get Big Money out of our political system.
VIDEO: #12. Most Important of All: Get Big Money Out of...
All that we need to do as a nation is achievable only if we get big money out of politics because an economy that works for everyone is a democracy that works. So it's about time we put an end to dark money.
VIDEO: The Three Biggest Myths Blinding Us to the Economic Truth
Why should Americans be worried about who government is for? Because money in politics causes many decisions to become rigged against average working Americans. It's time we get money out of politics.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.