Category: Election 2016
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Bernie Sanders\’ Underappreciated Interview With Ebony Magazine
In the interview Sanders fields questions about the Black Lives Matters protests at his early campaign events and the fact that some blacks feel taken for granted by the Democratic party.
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Evolution or Revolution? Town Hall Clarifies the Choice for Democrats
Monday\’s CNN town hall forum brought into sharper relief the fundamental question that Democratic primary voters face: Do we need a technician to repair our politics or a remodeler who can reimagine and rebuild?
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Six Critical Issues That The Fox Business GOP Debate Missed
We matched our Platform for People and the Planet that the Campaign for America\’s Future helped release last year and a transcript of the GOP debate. Here\’s what we found.
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A New Warning Against Taking Black and Brown Votes For Granted
Steve Phillips challenges Democrats and progressives to stop seeing people of color as \”nuisances who need to be silenced for fear of alienating White swing voters\” and instead as essential to the progressive coalition.
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MoveOn Political Action Endorses Bernie Sanders
\”This vote was not only decisive, but participation was broad-based, with more ballots cast than any other endorsement vote in MoveOn\’s history,\” says MoveOn\’s executive director.
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\”Bleeding-Heart,\” Or Just Bloody? The GOP Poverty Show
When you hear the rhetoric from the Jack Kemp Foundation\’s \”Expanding Opportunity\” forum Saturday, it pays to watch what conservatives have done to low-income people, not what they say.
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The Crisis In White America the GOP Did Not Debate – But Democrats Must
Studies like the one done by two Princeton University professors on increasing mortality rates among whites are precisely why progressives need to unapologetically press the case for bold economic reforms.
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Stan Greenberg Sees a Way for Democrats to Retake the Senate in 2016
Winning the Senate will take offering voters a progressive reform agenda, which Democracy Corps lays out in a strategy memo and Greenberg details in his latest book, \”America Ascendant.\”
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A Mayoral Candidate in Maine Might Have the Antidote to Trumpism
Lewiston, Maine is getting national attention because of its bombastic, conservative mayor. His opponent aims to show the nation that a progressive populist can win in what looks like hostile territory.
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A Trojan Horse In Clinton\’s Pledge To \”Enhance\” Social Security?
The difference between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on protecting Social Security is concerning a lot of people who are fighting to strengthen the program.