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We must stop Republicans in the “lame duck†Congress from extending the Bush Tax Cuts for the richest two percent at the expense Medicare and Medicaid. Please join Health Care for America Now and...
For Immediate Release November 3, 2012 Contact: Benton Strong 206-552-0156 Washington State Democrats Chair Pelz Calls on Secretary of State Sam Reed to Denounce GOP Ballot Collection Tactics Seattle – Today, the Washington State Democrats...
From Slate’s interview of Thomas Frank (Tom Frank: Obama’s made left “futile and irrelevantâ€): “The only honest way for progressives to assess the experience of these past four years is by coming unflinchingly to...
I’m reading Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. Great book! Depressing. It tells the vivid story of how right wingers were able to quickly recover...
Below is the text of a resolution signed by 60 Washington State legislators, plus 8 candidates. The letter calls on the US Congress to end corporate personhood and to overturn Citizens United. As reported...
Progressives, Democrats, and others on the Left need to plan their post-election strategy. 1. If Obama loses If Obama loses, there will be panic and outrage on the left. Many people will claim that...
The current issue of the New Yorker has an article that well describes the culture of corruption in Washington, D.C. “Washington Man” by George Packer tells of Jeff Connaughton’s trajectory through our nation’s capital...
(Video courtesy of Fuse Washington) See John Koster, GOP House Candidate: ‘The Rape Thing’ Does Not Excuse Abortions
Somebody wake me up from this nightmare. In 2008, an amazing 45% of voters chose John McCain and Sarah Palin, despite the recession and the disasters of the Iraq War and the rampant corruption...
