Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of...
Led by the self-proclaimed Grim Reaper, the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to take up nearly 400 bills passed by the...
We haven’t seen his name on any of the ballots in the first four states, but that’s about to change....
During his State of the Union address this Tuesday night, President Trump touted the strong economic winds currently blowing around...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Elizabeth Warren lashed out Thursday at her moderate Democratic rivals seeking the White House, accusing them...
New polling results released Friday find broad support for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax, with Americans across most demographic...
The typical American family now spends $6,000 on health insurance premiums each year. Add in the co-payments and deductibles that...
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Thursday night that America’s billionaire class is “scared,” and rightly so, after numerous outlets reported that...
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
I remember when Gore stood before Congress and gaveled in the proceedings that certified his election loss. He was repeatedly...
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
In a furious tweetstorm, a former adviser to the Ohio Republican Party expressed disgust at how far the GOP has...
If you’re wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to advance a bipartisan bill to expand background checks...
Last week, House Republicans were given yet another opportunity to separate themselves from Donald Trump’s lawsuit to destroy the Affordable...
Trump promised a manufacturing revival in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, but after losing manufacturing jobs, voters in those states look...
The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn — a move that...
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
America is the only place in the world where any citizen over the age of 35 can run for president....
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) exposed some of the biggest flaws and loopholes in campaign finance laws this week ― and she...
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
Corruption / Lobbyists / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published January 11, 2019
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 11, 2018 · Last modified December 14, 2018
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Corruption / Fighting Back / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published September 19, 2018 · Last modified September 20, 2018
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their...
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
Corruption / Crime / Politics
by onepercenttakers · Published March 20, 2018 · Last modified March 22, 2018
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
Back in the depths of the Cold War, people used to talk about “doomsday machines,” devices that could destroy the...
As 2017 draws to a close, Donald Trump has blown the record for presidential first year vacation days out of...
As president, Trump is a sloth who is spending 4-8 hours a day laying in bed, watching TV, or tweeting....
NEW YORK ― Four women who have accused President Donald Trump of sexual harassment and assault are demanding that Congress investigate...
Just when we thought the National Rifle Association couldn’t be any more repugnant, the extremist gun organization rises to the...
A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that the number of Americans who think that Trump is mentally fit to be...
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.
