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Latest right-wing atrocity would snuff out your Constitutional right to free speech and assembly by putting an exorbitant fee on public protests. Ideally, elections are about ideas. In … Read more
A People’s Action report highlights universal desire for real populist reform. If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously … Read more
Bands of nouveau corporate royalists are today’s Goons in Gucci In the fierce labor wars of the last century, industrial barons employed Pinkertons and other goons to bloody … Read more
ALEC is sponsoring corrupt special interest bills across America Just days after last November’s election, jubilant members and top staffers of the notorious corporate front group, American Legislative … Read more
The states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, not strongholds of plutocratic power. In a 1932 dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted that the benefit … Read more
ALEC’s bold new constitution aims to salve the GOP sadz. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC, a Koch subsidiary), sent out an emergency e-mail to their employees who … Read more
Guest Editorial: Let’s work together to reform our democracy and make it work. By Victoria Collier and Ben Zion-Ptashnik. Copyright, Truthout.org. Reprinted with permission. (A guest editorial — … Read more
Hunger Games, American Style By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News The few rich men who control the Capitol have successfully managed to consolidate the majority of the nation’s … Read more
Corporate greed is also preempting democracy The failure of our corporate and political leaders to make sure every worker gets good health care is causing some unpleasant consequences … Read more
“The United States of ALEC” — a film review by Gary Chew The elephant is this room is not the Republican Party, although it is a reasonable facsimile. … Read more
