Remember how, this past summer, we all came together, fought like hell, and killed the Republican health care plan that would have robbed some 22 million Americans of their coverage? Well, it looks like it’s time for us to get back in fighting shape, as the Republicans seem hellbent on pushing legislation through Congress before […]
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In a last ditch effort to satisfy their donors, Republicans attempt to kill the ACA and transfer billions of dollars to America’s super-rich by calling it a “middle class tax cut”
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Elizabeth Warren outlines the fight ahead for Progressives at Netroots Nation 2014
One of my favorite people in the whole world, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, dropped by the Netroots Nation conference yesterday in Detroit to talk about banking reform, the threat of oligarchy, the fight to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and those things that she feels that we, as Progressives, are ready to fight for. […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Detroit, Politics Also tagged big banks, corporate personhood, corporations are not people, corruption, Elizabeth Warren, gay rights, infrastructure, lobbyists, marriage equality, minimum wage, net neutrality, Netroots Nation, populism, power grid, Presidential politics, Progressive platform, progressive politics, social security, tax loopholes, too big to fail, trade agreements, unfair policies, Wall Street reform 15 Comments