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The Story's Backwards: Democrats Don't Need Corporate Wing, the Corporate...
Share of wealth, the Top 1% vs. the Bottom 99% Now that the issue of income inequality is starting to become more mainstream, threatening to split economic populist Democrats and Third...
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The year in Elizabeth Warren
For an awful lot of us, the highlight of the 2012 election was Elizabeth Warren's victory over Scott Brown in Massachusetts. That's because of moments like this, from the campaign: "You built a...
View ArticleXL, Koch Brothers, & Third Way
Because global warming isn't bad enough....What is at issue in the Keystone XL and Alberta tar sands matter and governmental policies that will determine whether the tar-sands oil will undercut the...
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New Report on Global Protest Movement, 2006-2013
A new report published by a German think tank is worth looking at. World Protests 2006-1013 doesn’t contain any major surprises, but our communities should take a look. The short version: citizens are...
View ArticleWarren and Sanders "Embrace The Suck"
This will be a short diary. But I just wanted to note that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders just voted for the budget bill, the one that does not extend UI benefits...the one that Pelosi urged...
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Winning Warren-Style
Noam Scheiber was out with a great new piece last week contrasting Elizabeth Warren’s political message and priorities with New York City Mayor’s Bill de Blasio, where he described Warren’s populism...
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Elizabeth Warren: "It Hurts... It Just Makes Me Madder Than Hell"
President Obama gave a terrific State of the Union speech last night. His message was broadly progressive in a wide variety of ways, really focused on economic issues which will help low and middle...
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Elizabeth Warren still taking on the banksters, regulators
At a Senate Banking Committee hearing this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed JPMorgan Chase and government regulators for the huge payout the bank made to CEO Jamie Diamond. She pointed out...
View ArticleGlobal Warming Throwdown. HRC/Billy Kock vs. Elizabeth Warren. Pick a side.
I listened to PBO's State of the Union address with growing anger. "Drill baby drill", fast track TPP. This not what I wanted to hear! Then I read my latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine this month...
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Who's fighting student loan reform? Why, the lender, of course
Wednesday morning, Republicans filibustered Sen. Elizabeth Warren's student loan reform bill that would allow borrowers to refinance their loans, effectively answering the question implied in her...
View ArticleChris Matthews schooled by Elizabeth Warren on politics and the Democratic...
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren was interviewed by Chris Matthews this past Thursday, and after watching that interview, one must admit this woman has the fire in her belly to really get things done....
View ArticleReady for Warren: What we’ve accomplished, and what’s next
A few months ago, our Ready for Warren crew burst onto the scene at Netroots Nation with a powerful video and a huge show of support for the idea that Warren should run for president in 2016. Since...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren’s Winning Ways
Much has been made of Elizabeth Warren being the go-to Democrat in this cycle, being eagerly welcomed in places like West Virginia and Kentucky where few other Democrats were. Elizabeth's populist...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren's Criticism of Obama's Bankers is Making the WaPo Editorial...
On Friday, the New York Times did some editorializing in the Business section to defend Obama's nominee for deputy undersecretary to the Treasury for domestic finance, Democratic bundler and investment...
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Wall Street Prick says, "I like Hillary."
The candidates for president will be announcing themselves shortly and nearly everybody is calling Hillary Clinton the presumptive favorite to represent the "left."Before going any further, for all...
View ArticleCan Warren implement comprehensive anti-Koch reform?
We need real Democrats to get our legislature back to work in 2016. Corporatist "electeds" will continue to lie to and steal from the public until we re-engage and take back our government. On the...
View ArticleMillions March Organized
No indictments so far for the murders of Mike Brown, John Crawford, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, or countless others killed in cold blood with no remorse in their own neighborhoods while...
View ArticleSingularly Bad Idea: Wall Street Taking Over Public Education
Hedge fund CEOs and various kinds of slick venture capitalists see tapping the public education "market"- the pool of public dollars federal, state, and local governments spend on education- as a great...
View ArticleWill Warren stand up for mindless consumers against big pharma abuses?
Check it out:Some opponents of government regulation want to blame drug price increases on the FDA and its safety inspections. That's awfully convenient, but after 30 years of successful cost and...
View ArticleDemocrats displeased with Warren's push for transparent governing
Last year, liberal darling Sen. Elizabeth Warren helped doom President Barack Obama's effort to nominate former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to head the Federal Reserve. Now the Democratic senator...
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Break Up the Big Banks and #OccupyCitibank
[This is an announcement from some Occupy Wall Street folks in support of an action tomorrow, 12/18/14. I am one of the signatories.]Occupy Wall Street is an idea whose time has come. And those of us...
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Moderate Dems angry that Warren liberals are raining on their pro-biz parade
This is cute. The New Democrat Coalition—a "pro-growth, fiscally responsible" group of Democratic lawmakers—thinks the Democrats'"lack of pro-business messaging" is what hurt them in 2014:[M]embers...
View ArticleWhy Elizabeth Warren Strikes Such a Chord
It seems like just about everyone these days is talking about Elizabeth Warren. I saw Jay Leno- not a very political guy or especially progressive- the other day on Bill Maher's show, talking about how...
View ArticleThe Draft Warren movement: Crashing the gate of the 2016 election
In response to an op-ed where Markos Moulitsas told the movement pushing to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for president to "pack it in" and go home, Ready for Warren campaign manager Erica Sagrans...
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