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One Contact can lead to hundreds of votes! Four million Americans turn 18 every year, but only about 30% of them are registered to vote. Yet when they do register, very high percentages turn out to vote. For example, in 2020, 86% of registered 18- to...
by Bethesda 1971
on Wed Apr 10, 2024 at 11:31 AM PDT
with 44 Recommends
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Well before I got a time-out, some people were arguing with me saying that PDA has a spending cap. This is true, although it’s arbitrary and can be changed. There’s still around $4 billion of PDA funding still available — billions of dollars, not...
by Jim Carner
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 04:03 PM PST
with 34 Recommends
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Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida, the youngest member of Congress, has a plan to stem the decades of Big Pharma’s price-gouging. On Thursday, Frost and fellow Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui of California introduced the “EPIPEN Act,” which would...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 10:47 AM PST
with 155 Recommends
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Ignorance has halted the chance for a product geared toward inclusion from making an appearance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the products being swimming caps designed for natural Black hair. According to CBS News, Fédération Internationale De Natation...
by Aysha Qamar
on Fri Jul 02, 2021 at 01:33 PM PDT
with 105 Recommends
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Tom Sullivan at Digby’s Place, Josh Marshall at TPM, and others are making an important point. Democrats have just won a major victory for the American People — but that’s not enough. People need to KNOW Democrats did it, and what it means...
by xaxnar
on Mon Mar 08, 2021 at 12:50 PM PST
with 9 Recommends
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This is just too perfect. A little, pricey at $46, but then I’m like: “Ohhhhhh, I get it.” Available at the Biden Inaugural store. Union-Made in USA.
by Dead Eyed Suburbanite
on Fri Dec 18, 2020 at 07:15 AM PST
with 22 Recommends
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Nothing demonstrates the lack of vision among the center/right of the Democratic Party like the jumble of names they’ve concocted for their healthcare proposals. Medicare for America or Medicare ...
by subir
on Sat Aug 03, 2019 at 10:30 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Eric Levitz with New York Magazine penned an intriguing piece titled: Voters Want an ‘America First’ Foreign Policy (Just Not Trump’s).
Levitz summarized a recent Survey about America’s Views On Foreign Policy (‘America Adrift‘ ) conducted by the...
by soulflower
on Fri May 10, 2019 at 08:29 AM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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Letter sent by Bernie on April 13, as reported by the NY Times:
Dear members of the Board of the Center for American Progress and CAP Action Fund:
I write to express my deep concern and disappointment with the destructive role that...
by subir
on Wed Apr 17, 2019 at 07:03 PM PDT
with 238 Recommends
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One of the good things about Twitter is it’s ability to reveal the vapidity and unearned privilege of so many people in politics. It also serves as a regular reminder that we share little if any values with prominent #NeverTrump conservatives. Here’s...
by subir
on Thu Feb 14, 2019 at 10:32 AM PST
with 212 Recommends
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The Center for American Progress (CAP) is perhaps the most influential left-wing think-tank in DC. So it may come as a shock that among its largest donors is a regime deeply implicated in the war ...
by subir
on Wed Jan 16, 2019 at 07:10 PM PST
with 51 Recommends
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The second-highest cause of pediatric death in the United States is firearms. More children die from them every year than die from cancer and heart disease combined. According to new research, even when adjusting for factors like poverty, unemployment,...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 08:23 AM PDT
with 76 Recommends
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Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress decided to tweet about her “work trip”:
As if the humble-bragging about being in France wasn’t enough, she promptly decided to make things much worse:
What, pray tell, is this “work trip” in...
by subir
on Sat Jul 07, 2018 at 11:43 AM PDT
with 94 Recommends
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Hello friends.
I know I usually have a piece up by Thursday night, but this has been...Fucking hell, what a week.
Anyway, I want to do something a little different, and it’s gonna take a little more time. So kindly bear with me, and check in...
by ShowerCap
on Thu Jun 28, 2018 at 04:20 PM PDT
with 124 Recommends
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Despite Trump threatening a government shutdown if he didn’t get additional limits on immigration, the Senate calculated the situation correctly, ignored him and passed a long-term spending bill. The House then passed the bill and Trump signed.
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by bmethven
on Sat Feb 10, 2018 at 05:32 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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Is this really the best tack to take in a Trump administration? Why haven’t you extolled the virtues of charter schools enough? I honestly don’t know what’s happening anymore, there’s no way CAP doesn’t know Trump/DeVoss would love to privatize all...
by BWMcCoy
on Tue Oct 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM PDT
with 5 Recommends
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Depends on your definition of progressive, I'm sure. According to The Nation, CAP is a DC think tank founded by John Podesta and now run by Neera Tanden. Yes, that Podesta, The Man Behind the Clinton Campaign. Tanden took over from Podesta, although he...
by elenacarlena
on Thu May 18, 2017 at 01:56 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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The Nation is reporting today on the “Ideas Conference” held Tuesday by the Center for American Progress (CAP) at The Four Seasons, invite only, and $1000 a head to attend the Progressive Party afterwards. CAP’s president is Neera Tanden, a very...
by roonie
on Thu May 18, 2017 at 07:04 AM PDT
with 348 Recommends
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and she is still leading in MT with perhaps 1/3 of vote in.
And the huge lead she is building up in CA looks to be impossible for Sanders to overcome.
It could be 5 of 6.
by teacherken
on Tue Jun 07, 2016 at 08:54 PM PDT
with 24 Recommends
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Taxable Income. What comes to mind? Your paycheck? Or, your passive income, profit, dividends, and/or stockholder withdrawals?
If you receive your Taxable Income mainly by paycheck, you are the ...
by Schi
on Tue Oct 20, 2015 at 04:07 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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