The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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This Organization Wants to Create A Thousand Bernie Sanders. Here’s How.
For the millions of Americans who agreed with Bernie’s “future to believe in,” there is a very simple explanation for what is wrong with our government: it’s not filled with Bernie Sanders. The Incorruptibles has a plan to change that.
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Meet the Organizers Pursuing a Progressive Takeover of the Republican Party
Brand New Congress is going after red states and Republican voters with left populism.
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Prominent Democratic Fundraisers Realign to Lobby for Trump's Agenda
Democratic fundraisers who raised record amounts of campaign cash for Hillary Clinton are now retained by top telecom interests trying to repeal net neutrality, representing for-profit prisons, and pushing with corporate interests to weaken financial regulations.
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Connecticut Got Big Money Out of Elections – So Why Are Democrats Gutting the Program?
The Citizens’ Election Program signed into law in 2005 seriously curbed the influence of corporations and the rich on state elections – but in the last two years, CEP’s very existence has come under threat with bipartisan vigor.
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You Get What You Pay For: If Money Is Speech, Can Democracy Work?
Like many laws that bend public policy toward private advantage, campaign finance laws tilt the political playing field toward outcomes that are undemocratic – a self-reinforcing cycle of economic inequality begetting political inequality begetting economic inequality.
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Trump's E.P.A. Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.
In March, the EPA abruptly changed its stance on the poisonous chemical chlorpyrifos, greenlighting it instead of banning it. Not surprising: the company that makes it has cultivated a cozy relationship with the Trump administration.
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Act Out! [111] - How & Why the UN Fails + A Very Unhappy Birthday to Corporate Personhood
Given its backwards position on women's rights, it seems ludicrous that Saudi Arabia would get a seat on a UN Council tasked with upholding and forwarding women’s rights around the globe. But that is precisely what happened.
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Dysfunction and Deadlock at the Federal Election Commission
A 2015 Bloomberg poll found that at least 87 percent of Americans favored changes to campaign finance laws so that wealth does not dictate political influence – yet our FCC continues to betray the American public and jeopardize our democracy.
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Building the Institutions for Revolt
"People who understand power tend to have the patience to build a base, do the training, raise the money, so when they go into action they surprise people,” says community organizer Michael Gecan of the Industrial Areas Foundation.
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Donald Trump’s White House Counsel Is Proud “Architect” of America’s Corrupt Big Money Politics
Don McGahn, soon to be Donald Trump’s White House counsel, bears as much responsibility as any single person for turning America’s campaign finance system into something akin to a gigantic, clogged septic tank.
