The Nazi roots of the Koch brothers
“The father of these famous rightwing billionaires was Fred Koch, who started his fortune with $500,000 received from Stalin for his assistance constructing 15 oil refineries in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. A...
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On Obama’s Lost Army
Obama’s Lost Army This article answers a lot of questions I had about the Obama presidency from the beginning. Team Obama had amassed a huge base of enthusiastic volunteers & supporters from the campaign,...
Report on Town Hall with Rep. Adam Smith in Kent, Aug 17, 2019
After a short introduction by Dana Ralph, Mayor of Kent, Rep. Smith spent twenty minutes giving an overview of his political positions.   They were uniformly progressive. He spoke on concentration of wealth, racism, sexism,...
Suppress speech of white supremacists? Or just protest their policies?
Should progressives suppress speech of white supremacists? Or just protest their policies when they arrive? I got the email below from Northwest Accountability Project Donald, While American families are grieving and coming to terms...
Bernie Sanders, please stop calling yourself a socialist. You’re a social democrat!
(edited November, 2025) Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. But he’s not a socialist at all, not even a democratic socialist. Noam Chomsky and Cornel West say that Sanders is a social democrat...
What Senator Lindsay Graham said about Trump
Fact-checking site Snopes says: Yes, Lindsey Graham did call Trump a ‘Race-Baiting, Xenophobic Bigot’ in 2015?
Gun show by Cynthia Linet
(Click on the images to zoom.) In the A/NT Gallery at Seattle Center through July 27, there’s an exhibit of art about America’s obsession with guns.   The artist, Cynthia Linet — more famous for...
Why Progressives are more pro-life than conservatives
The GOP’s environmental policies are likely to bring about a massive abortion of humanity. Denying medical care to people who can’t afford it shortens lives. War is abortion of born people. Lax gun control...