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Published on Sep 6, 2012 by naacpvideos “1 in 2.3 million. Those are the infinitesimal chances voter fraud will occur in a federal election. That’s less likely than being struck by lightning or attacked by a swarm of bees. Right now, 33 states have proposed laws making it harder to vote. That means 23 million…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This “trade deal” STINKS! FLUSH the TPP dot ORG REPORT from the frontline of the battle for human dignity over the lust for power…. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I’m writing from Baltimore after a few days of preparation for operation FLUSH the TPP! The TPP is a “trade agreement” to hijack our social contract and replace it…

In February of this year, Chris Hedges penned an influential article, The Cancer in Occupy, in which he exposed and condemned the activities of the “Black Bloc” of violence-loving extremists who have weakened, divided and discredited the Occupy Movement.* There’s a comparable cancer in the Democratic Party: corporatist Democrats who ally themselves with Republicans on…

Without government, we’d still be hunter-gatherers. True, the government is often corrupted so as to server the few, but the solution isn’t to follow Grover Norquist and the Tea Partiers and drown government in the bathtub. The solution is to fix government so that it serves everyone.   What’s government good for? Let’s remind ourselves…

What happened to Howard Dean?   He served as chairman of the DNC from 2005 to 2009.  According to the wikipedia article about him, “He currently holds neither elected office nor official position in the Democratic party.” You’d think that Dean would play a leading role on the progressive Left, alongside Alan Grayson, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie…

Some people think there’s too much partisanship. They think we need to be politer and more accommodating to people of “conservative” political persuasion. No way! Look what the bastards did to our country!  At the end of the Clinton Presidency, we were at peace and the US government was running surpluses. After eight years of…

On July Fourth, we here in Washington actually got to appreciate a little bit of summer … finally. August delivered some hot weather that our friends back East would have easily claimed as a respite from their humidity and heat. Now we have this great weather, with the air cooling off and beautiful blue skies.…