Category: Election 2016
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Bernie-mentum Nudges Clinton Forward On Debt-Free College
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announces changes to her college affordability plan that closely tracks a key component of the platform challenger Bernie Sanders put forward in his race for the Democratic nomination.
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People\’s Summit Seeks To Take \’Political Revolution\’ To The Next Level
Continuing Sen. Bernie Sanders\’ \”political revolution\” is the focus of a weekend People\’s Summit that is bringing to Chicago an estimated 3,000 progressive leaders and grassroots activists.
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No \’Boring\’ Senate Candidates Who Leave Us Snoring On Election Day
An inside-the-Beltway article has Democratic Senate candidates following a \”cardinal rule of politics\” in a year in which cardinal rules are made to be broken. One Senate candidate following a different path is surging ahead.
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The Fight for $15 Takes On D.C. and the Democratic Platform
Members of the Democratic Party platform committee were greeted by dozens of low-wage workers challenging them to support \”$15 and a union\” – on the heels of a victory that showed how people power has changed the game.
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The New Agenda For Taking On Wall Street
More than 20 progressive organizations representing millions of voters starting Tuesday are putting their weight behind a five-point agenda for the next stage of Wall Street reform.
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Ben Jealous On The \’Gift\’ The Sanders Campaign Gave Progressives
In a video interview, Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAACP and a key supporter of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, explains why he believes a multiracial progressive movement will emerge from the Sanders campaign.
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Questionable Assumptions Behind Critiques of Sanders\’ Economic Plan
Two reports reinforce one of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\’s chief attack lines against competitor Bernie Sanders: that his \”numbers don\’t add up\” and that he is making promises \”that cannot be kept.\”
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Sanders Didn\’t Start The Fire, So Don\’t Ask Him To Put It Out
Bernie Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself long before he \”felt the Bern\” himself.
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Fight for $15 Movement Confronts The Presidential Candidates
In New York, before the Democratic candidates get to their debate and the Republican candidates get to a major fundraiser, they have to get past the nationwide demonstrations of the Fight for $15 movement.
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Maybe Ivanka Trump Will Help Us Fight Real Voter Suppression
The daughter of Donald Trump complained of New York\’s \”onerous rules\” that will keep her from voting in the Republican primary. But New York isn\’t even on the list of states that have recently added onerous voting restrictions.