Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
Category: Fighting Back
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Pope Francis, Bill McKibben, & Poor People’s Campaign Address Climate Change
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
Young People Are Leading a Growing Movement Against Low Pay
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
The Poor People’s campaign kicked off 40 days of nonviolent protest, reviving King’s anti-poverty efforts
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and in...
Alt-Right Maine Governor Paul LePage Sued Over Denying Medicaid
Maine is a very interesting state, politically. On the one hand they have perhaps the most right-wing governor in the...
Colorado Communities Sue ExxonMobil & Suncor Oil For Climate Change Costs
A lawsuit filed in Colorado state court by the counties of Boulder and San Miguel and the city of Boulder...
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
Elizabeth Warren Tells HUD Chief Ben Carson He Should Be Fired For Not Enforcing The Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tore into Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Thursday, ripping the former neurosurgeon for...
Bernie Sanders’ Economic Inequality Town Hall Attracts 1.7 Million Viewers
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on economic inequality drew about 1.7 million live viewers during an online...
New York City Plans to Divest $5 Billion from Fossil Fuels and Sue Oil Companies
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
Fight For $15 Movement Plans Fast-Food Workers’ Strike Across South
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
Bernie Sanders Brilliantly Dismantles All Of The Lies Trump Told In His SOTU Speech
In this Majority Report clip, we watch Bernie Sanders, piece by piece, cut through Donald Trump’s State of the Union...
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Hold Health Insurers Accountable
WASHINGTON ― In a speech to a liberal health policy conference on Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed new rules to...
Protesters Heckle Paul Ryan And Scream Liar As He Celebrates Cutting Taxes For The Rich
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House...
Activists Target Reactionary Midwest Politicians Opposing Wage Increases
U.S. activists plan protests in up to 400 cities across the United States on Monday’s Labor Day holiday to demand...
Obama Raises $10.8 Million To Combat GOP Election Rigging
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their...
Bernie Sanders Attacks Nissan’s ‘Greedy’ Anti-Union Campaign
Bernie Sanders has attacked Nissan for doing “everything it can” to stop workers from unionizing at its Mississippi plant despite...
Trumpcare is Dead. Long Live Obamacare!
Seven years of Republican promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act withered away to almost nothing on the Senate floor...
Bernie Sanders Celebrates Trump’s Crushing Healthcare Defeat In The Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated the collapse of the Republican health care bill and called it a great victory for...
California Governor Jerry Brown Trolls Climate Change Denier Trump At G20
While President Trump was blowing off the G20 session on climate change to spend more than 2 hours chilling with Vlad Putin,...
Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Obama Blasts Republicans For Stealing People’s Heath Care In Order To Cut Taxes For Rich
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to...
Catholics Petition The Senate To Stop Trump From Taking Health Care From Americans
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop...
Congressional Candidate Wendy Carrillo Stands Up To Klan Terrorist David Duke
Wendy Carrillo is one of the two dozen candidates in California vying for the opportunity to represent the state’s 34th...
After Trumpcare Failure, Bernie Sanders & Progressives Push Medicare For All Plan
With the plan to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act dead for the moment, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying...
Seattle Refuses To Do Business With Wells Fargo In Dakota Access Protest
On February 7th, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to stop doing business with Wells Fargo Bank because it has...
Progressive Bernie Sanders Feels Honored by How Much the Billionaire Class Hates Him
Senator Bernie Sanders has more than a few things to be proud of: he led a massive, populist political movement...
Klan Sympathizer Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Nominee for Attorney General, Confronted at Confirmation Hearing
WASHINGTON ― Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and his supporters sought on Tuesday to convince the American public that he won’t...
Journalist Amy Goodman Invokes 1st Amendment Rights Against N. Dakota Pipeline Company
October 13, 2016 – Award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, charged with criminal trespassing for filming an attack on Native American-led pipeline...
Union Workers Launch #BoycottTrump Protest After His Refusal to Negotiate at Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV – Citing federal law allowing boycotts for the purpose of forcing an employer to honor their duty...
Justin Bieber Condemns Big Pharma For Blocking Medical Marijuana Legalization
Medical marijuana advocates have a new ally ― and he’s tweeting his support to a massive audience. Justin Bieber criticized...
California Governor Calls Out Big Pharma On Price Gouging
On Friday, California governor Jerry Brown signed off on a new state law that would allow businesses such as restaurants...
Elizabeth Warren’s Fight Against Payday Lenders Comes to the Post Office
Nine years ago, a Harvard law professor dreamed up a new concept: a government agency devoted solely to protecting consumers...
Petition Calls For Employers To Offer Fossil-Free Retirement Options
Many in the US are at least partly reliant upon employer-offered retirement planning for their post-employment financial well-being. With that...
Raising The Minimum Wage Popular With Americans
Americans are broadly supportive of proposals to raise the minimum wage, although they can’t agree on how high it should...
Sanders Says Walker’s “Right Wing” Ideology Kills People
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday night accused Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker of supporting an agenda that kills people. “Governor Walker...
President Obama Stymies The Right-Wing Oligarchs By Taking The Citizens United Fight To The States
While addressing the Illinois General Assembly, President Obama did what the billionaires and special interests fear most. He took the...
Robert Reich: How To Punish Disloyal Corporations
Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move...
Bernie Sanders Opposes Nomination of FDA Chief Over Ties to Big Pharma
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday said he would vote against President Barack Obama’s nomination to head up the Food...
Senate Democrats Push For Unionization Of Senate Workers
Thirty-four members of the Senate Democratic caucus including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Al Franken...
Hillary Clinton addresses Fight for 15 protesters: “Your advocacy is changing our country for the better.”
Fast-food strikers got a boost to their campaign on Tuesday morning, when Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton personally tweeted out...
Hillary Clinton Vows To Eliminate Taxpayer Subsidies to Big Oil
Hillary Clinton vowed to take away big oil’s subsidies and use the money for clean energy while campaigning in Iowa....
Bernie Sanders calls on Americans to fight the billionaire class
On Friday, Bernie Sanders may have been the first sitting United States Senator to call for “political revolution” at a...
Senators Sanders and Warren propose bill to stop bankers from gambling with depositors’ money
Two of the most prominent liberals in the Senate have joined forces to take on the big banks as Sen....
