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 our partners on Thursday, November 8 at Catholic Seamen’s Club to urge Congress to preserve health care reforms and not bargain…

Now that most of us have voted or will have done so shortly, what comes next? You may not have gotten aboard for this election, but let’s grab the future.  Most likely, unless we do something ourselves, there won’t be any change but more of the same downhill ride with the two 1% parties. Many…

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 called on Secretary of State Sam Reed to denounce the recently announced practice by the King County Republican Party of sending…

From Slate’s interview of Thomas Frank (Tom Frank: Obama’s made left “futile and irrelevant”): “The only honest way for progressives to assess the experience of these past four years is by coming unflinchingly to terms with our own futility and irrelevance. Rahm Emanuel, Bill Daley, all these guys [in the Obama Administration]– they see liberals…

Join this special interactive live podcast with the Sensata workers of Bainport. They have been striving for an economy that works for everyone, not just “Vulture Capitalists.“ This is your opportunity to hear from, ask questions with, and bolster the spirits of some of these courageous workers/warriors. On Halloween, Vulture Capitalists once again descended upon…

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 from the disasters of the Bush Administration and to reinvent themselves by 2010 as the saviors of the middle class.  In…

From:  http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/02/king-county-warns-that-gop-is-trying-to-collect-ballots King County Elections has posted an announcement on its home page about the GOP trying to collect ballots, and saying, basically, don’t give them your ballot. “We recommend that voters return ballots to an official King County Elections ballot drop-off location or through the US Postal Service,” the website advises. In other words,…

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 by Dorothy Van Soest (Chair, State Legislative Resolution Planning Committee, SLRPC), “The total of 68 signatures you’ve gathered represents 27 of…

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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 election was stolen. They may be correct. How should the Left react?  Will there be protests and other action against…