Tag: progressives
The (progressive) case against Mayor Pete
Footage of Mayor Peter praising the Tea Party at a 2010 conference and calling for more bipartisanship is not a good look for the millions of Americans hoping to chart a more progressive course post 2020.
Obama: A great president or a sell-out?
Those of us who were there at the 2008 election – and who worked hard for Obama to win – remember Hope and Change.
Why 2020 won’t be won by centrists
In reality, what’s going to beat Trump are new ideas that mobilize America, that let Americans see what the wealthy and powerful who bankroll Trump have done to this nation.
‘House Democrats must not delay’: Progressives, 2020 contenders demand Kavanaugh impeachment...
"Confirmation is not exoneration. Like the man who appointed him, Kavanaugh should be impeached," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
‘Hell no,’ say Progressives, after GOP Sen. Joni Ernst suggests cutting...
"No matter how hard you try to hide, the American people will be watching—and we won't let you cut our earned Social Security benefits."
Why ‘primary’ should be a verb for progressives
Progressive activists often see a frustrating pattern. Many Democrats in office are good at liberal platitudes but don’t really fight for what...
Kamala Harris says she was a progressive prosecutor. Her record tells...
As Senator Kamala Harris rises in the early presidential polls, she is facing increasing scrutiny over her record as a prosecutor in...
What should progressives do to get a progressive government?
In other words, the candidates who are strongly progressive need to band together so they can win.
‘There is no middle ground:’ Bernie Sanders says Democrats must not...
"In my view, we will not defeat Donald Trump unless we bring excitement and energy into the campaign, and unless we give millions of working people and young people a reason to vote, and a reason to believe that politics is relevant to their lives."
Which one will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorse for president: Bernie or Liz?
"Band together, progressives, so you can win, so your ideas can become law and move our country forward, away from the brink to which Trump has brought us."
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.