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Progressives’ Case Against Hillary Clinton

Let’s start with what Hillary Clinton stands for. She is pro-Wall  Street, pro-Big Pharma, pro-Monsanto, pro-Fracking, pro-Big Media, pro-globalism, pro-TPP (yes, she is) and pro-military industrial complex. She is funded by the 0.1% and will rule for the 0.1%.

Build a party of 99%

Dr. Jill Stein is encouraging people to vote Green. A 5% vote for the green party means a $10 million dollar matching fund from Federal government which give the green party the opportunity to grow. Only 1700 shares – they need more

Bernie Sanders: First, beat Donald Trump; then implement most progressive agenda in U.S. history

Nov. 8 is Election Day and, from now until then, I will be working as hard as I can to see that Donald Trump is defeated and that Hillary Clinton becomes our next president. But defeating Trump is not enough. On the day after the election I intend to work equally hard, with millions of other Americans, to make certain that the new president and Congress implement the 2016 Democratic Party platform, the most progressive party agenda in American history.

Money Manager Thinks “High-Decibel” Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Know Her Place

Roger Lowenstein, the journalist-turned-chairman of the Sequoia mutual fund, criticizes Warren, “the nation’s unelected regulatory czar,” for being too outspoken about the financial industry. Lowenstein is the director of a mutual fund, which stands to lose significant market share if investors leave for index funds. So his hit job on Elizabeth Warren has the dual purpose of lobbying a regulatory agency to protect his business.

Dan Rather sounds the alarm: 'Now is a time when none of us can afford to remain seated or silent'

History will demand to know which side were you on. This is not a question of politics or party or even policy. This is a question about  the very fundamentals of our beautiful experiment in a pluralistic  democracy ruled by law.  When I see neo-Nazis raise their hands in terrifying solute, in  public, in our nation's capital, I shudder in horror. When I see that action mildly rebuked by a boilerplate statement from the  President-elect whom these bigots have praised, the anger in me grows

Trump is being sued on behalf of 42 million people – the citizens of NY, VA, Massachusetts, and Washington state

Donald Trump’s executive order, which temporarily banned immigration from certain Muslim-majority countries, and suspended admission of refugees from Syria, sparked immediate and massive protests and action. In addition to the ACLU’s actions, as well lawsuits from the Committee on American-Islamic Relations and the city of San Francisco, three states have now sued the federal government over the executive order, saying that it violates the constitutional rights of people in the United States and establishes a discriminatory law on the basis of religion.

The big lesson of Trump's first 2 weeks: resistance works

It’s easy to miss amid Donald Trump’s frenetic pace of activity and nonstop media coverage, but the most important story in American politics right now isn’t about what Trump is doing: It’s that the  opposition is working.

Opponents on the left are making plans to show up in force when members of Congress hold town forums during this month’s recess.

For weeks, a swelling group has been showing up every Friday here at the local office of Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen to demand that he hold a town-hall meeting to answer its concerns about his fellow Republicans’ plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. After weeks without an answer, the congressman’s staff replied that he would be too busy, that such gatherings took considerable planning and that just finding a meeting place could be tough. So the group, NJ 11th for Change, secured venues in all four counties that Mr. Frelinghuysen represents for times during the congressional recess this month – and constituents plan to show up even if he does not.

Bernie Sanders on Trump and the resistance: 'Despair is not an option'

The senator talks about his fight to make the Democratic party more attractive to working-class people – and on taking his progressive populism to the heartland in order to topple Trump. Sanders occupies an exalted pedestal in American politics today. In 2016 he won 23 primary and caucus races to Clinton’s 34, notching up 13 million votes. Given the odds stacked against him – Clinton’s establishment firepower; the skewed weighting of the “superdelegates” that tipped the primaries in her direction by reserving 15% of the votes for the party establishment; and the cynical efforts of the party machine through the Democratic national convention to undermine Sanders’ campaign by casting aspersions on his leadership abilities and religious beliefs, as revealed in the Russian-hacked WikiLeaks emails – that was no mean achievement.