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One thing that really bugs me about modern day, Fox-watching ‘conservatives’ is how little interest they have in maintaining and expanding the institutions that have made America great. I receive blank stares or even hostility when I talk about...
by AChris
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 04:24 PM PDT
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Hi all: If anyone has read my posts, you will notice I do some political work in Central PA. I helped create a PAC to help rural and progressive Dems in Central PA. The PAC is called Progress Centre and our focus is to help provide the support that...
by RobertZeigler
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on Sat Apr 06, 2024 at 07:54 AM PDT
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In order to have any type of conversation we have to agree on a fundamental plane. The United States is a sovereign nation, with borders. The citizens of the country through their elected representatives get to choose who gets to stay in that country,...
by ViewFromTheMiddle
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 04:20 PM PST
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Hi all, Some of you may have read my posts and such. I'm a Rural Progressive in Central Pennsylvania, (Centre County). I'm in the county of Pennsylvania that shows up as a blue dot on the map when they show elections in the state. The county itself is...
by RobertZeigler
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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RSVP Now for Sunday's Town Hall with one the world's great advocates for peace and social justice, Rep. Barbara Lee, candidate for the U.S. Senate in California. Victory in this race will change the world! Across the entire 19- year history of PDA,...
by Progressive Democrats of America
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 10:14 AM PST
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Activist Protest Music is a long-lost art, but the MAGAs are ready to shut it down completely anyway Reposted from My Substack Over the New Year’s holiday, the Right-wing became amazingly triggered by Punk Pop Group Green Day changing one word in their seminal protest song “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:30 AM PST
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If you think Marianne Williamson or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a chance of winning the US presidency, then I have some swampland in Florida that I would like to sell you. Before I get into why their candidacies are generating harm for our communities,...
by LaurieAtBrowardforProgress
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 04:24 PM PST
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The right wingers have pushed for a flat tax off & on for decades, but the devil is always in the details. Here’s a way to steal their thunder while making for a truly fair tax. Here’s the key: The right wingers want to impose a flat tax that doesn’t...
by dlsamson
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 07:49 PM PST
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Today is, as we all know, December 20. On December 12, eight days ago, President Biden harshly criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel for their indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. From the beginning, early on in President Biden's speeches ,...
by Dem
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on Wed Dec 20, 2023 at 08:19 AM PST
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The top line general election polls numbers from polls conducted before even the first election during either major party's primary has taken place are unreliable. There are some really strange views found below the top line numbers held by a majority...
by Dem
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 07:50 AM PST
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The birding community tends to be deliberate and conservative in its system of naming, but last month the American Ornithological Society (AOS) caused quite a stir when they announced that all American birds named after people will get new names. The...
by OceanDiver
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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On October 28, 2023, the United Nations strongly called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, acknowledging the urgent need to address the escalating situation. It came after a recent night of ground incursions and intense bombardment by Israeli forces...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 10:14 AM PDT
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Briahna Joy Gray: “Biden can be ten times better than Trump… I’m not voting for him.” — 2023 Briahna Joy Gray, 38, is an American political commentator on Rising from The Hill, a former corporate lawyer, and political consultant who served as the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 07:48 PM PDT
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As you go through life once in a while you find someone who inspires you. I have found that with the writing of Robert Hubbell. I encourage you to subscribe to his Substack: Today’s Edition. I’m trying to encourage him to publish his 5x-a-week...
by spicey
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on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 03:10 PM PDT
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A friend shared a video from The Young Turks with me (Yeah — social media strikes again). He was boggled by the people being interviewed. This was from just a few days ago. Here’s a description from the YouTube video link about what was going on:...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 07:47 AM PDT
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a spirited force of nature took the helm of the United States: the 26th President, Teddy Roosevelt. His mythos could hardly be more potent: a sickly child who, by sheer refusal to accept his lot (and the benefit of a...
by organboy
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 01:05 PM PDT
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West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee Passes 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights Resolution October 4, 2023 West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee Passes 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights Resolution For Immediate Release October 3,...
by TroyNMiller
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on Wed Oct 04, 2023 at 11:38 AM PDT
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The longtime progressive publication “Hightower Lowdown”, published by Jim Hightower, can no longer afford paper publication, and so has moved to /substack. Hightower is an long-time FDR progressive, and has supported rural and labor-related issues for...
by FreeBandit
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on Thu Sep 28, 2023 at 02:53 PM PDT
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Why Student Loan “Forgiveness” is misleading, and not progressive. (Specifically about Biden’s Student debt relief plan) The federal government has student loan programs, many of which pass no interest to the borrower. They’ve made arrangements with...
by Rachel Brown
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on Wed Sep 27, 2023 at 02:58 PM PDT
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Hi all: I tend to give updates about what I am doing in Central PA for my countywide seat (Recorder of Deeds in Centre County) and how things are going. I am happy (and honored) to be the only candidate endorsed by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the...
by RobertZeigler
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on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 08:33 PM PDT
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