Tag Archives: progressive causes

Go Ahead and Try: When Silencing A Woman Becomes A Rallying Cry

In a rare move, Senate Republicans dusted off an old rule to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during her floor speech opposing Jeff Sessions’ nomination to Attorney General. Warren was in the middle of reading from a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr’s widow, opposing Sessions consideration for a federal judgeship […]

The GOP may be shouting the loudest, but it is into an increasingly progressive and diverse electorate

The New Year has arrived and presidential politics is in a fractured state as fissures between the GOP establishment elite and a vocal revolutionary hungry far-right base widen with each perceived slight by the other. Despite the influence of deep-pocketed coffers like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Anderson, Paul Singer, and Harold Simmons, the establishment no […]

In case you missed it, California just took a giant leap forward in voter registration

Voting is one of the most basic and strongest forms of self-expression available to every man and women in this day and age. It allows people to lend their voice to a cause, social movement or the election of their country’s next leader. It is a right that has been fought for and bled over, peacefully protested […]

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