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...
Category: Fighting Back
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....
President Obama Slams Republican Neocon Warmongers
During his press conference on the Iran deal, President Obama annihilated Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Congressional Republican talking points...
Macy’s: The Latest Merchandiser to Give Trump the Boot
Macy’s has reacted to Donald Trump’s racist comments about Mexicans and Latinos by dropping all Trump merchandise from their stores....
Teachers Confront Union Buster at National Conference
When is disruption not just a super cool buzz word but something that’s actually, well, disruptive? That would be when...
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Smacks Down Anti-Union ‘Right To Exploit’ Bill With His Veto Pen
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
Bernie Sanders Launches His Presidential Campaign With A Declaration Of War On The Kochs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
Economist Robert Reich – Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #4: Bust Up Wall Street
When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street. When the...
‘Fight for 15’ protest shuts down McDonald’s HQ
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Bernie Sanders Calls For A Mobilization Of Millions Of Americans To Take Down The Kochs
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
Progressive Democrats Vow To Defeat Fast Track Authority on TPP
Liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are uniting with moderate Democrats to oppose a Senate plan to...
Protests For $15 Minimum Wage Are Heating Up
The Fight for $15 campaign to win higher pay and a union for fast-food workers is expanding to represent a...
Protesters Disrupt Activist Investor Summit
Activist investors became targets themselves Monday when protesters briefly took over a conference focused on how to shake up companies....
How Elizabeth Warren Made Expanding Social Security Cool
For years, Washington politicians and policymakers been talking about cutting Social Security benefits. The Beltway consensus, unduly shaped by deficit...
The Wealthy Get Paid Sick Days. The Poor Don’t.
President Obama has proposed a right to paid sick leave for all workers in this country. Family economic security is...
Democrats Gear Up to Battle Wall Street in the New Congress
Democrats appear to have learned some lessons from their 2014 mid-term whipping. Numerous analysts said the lack of a coherent...
