Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
Governor Christie, originally touted by the press as the “moderate” candidate in the GOP field, is desperately trying to stay...
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Obama Annihilates Scott Walker After Governor Signs Wisconsin Right To Exploit Law
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Democrats Blast Scott Walker For Comparing Labor Unions To ISIS
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
The State Where Even Republicans Have a Problem With Busting Unions
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Koch-Republican Governors Robbing Pensions And Slashing Wages
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Scott Walker Secretly Meets with the Koch Brothers
Watchdog organizations Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy jointly filed a public records request today seeking details...
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Declares War on Workers
Bruce Rauner’s campaign for governor of Illinois hit a rough spot when it was revealed that he was talking about...
Jeb Bush Regurgitates His Political Family’s “Compassionate Conservative” Line
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
Wyoming Republicans Kill Medicaid Expansion
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
GOP Passes Bill That Would Take Health Care Away From 19 Million People
The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 239-186, but House Republicans didn’t just vote to repeal Obamacare....
Bill Maher Mocks Republicans Who Pretend To Care About The Middle Class
Bill Maher calls out Republicans who feign concern for the middle-class by giving them a history lesson on where the...
The Koch Organization Will Spend $1 Billion in Effort to Buy the 2016 Elections
Charles and David Koch plan to spend as much as one billion in 2016 in an attempt to capture the...
Republicans Suddenly “Concerned” About Inequality
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Takes From Children And Retirees To Give Tax Cuts To The Wealthy
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
Boehner and McConnell Evasive When Asked About Alternative to Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
GOP Majority Leader Cuts Off Keystone XL Debate So GOP Reps Can Meet With The Kochs
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Koch Party Shill Delivers State of the Union Response
Newly-elected Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) gave the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, perhaps providing further...
The GOP’s newest ruse to destroy Social Security
The GOP has a fresh strategy to attack Social Security: pitting older Americans against people with disabilities. The Social Security...
Top Democrats In Congress To Release Unapologetically Progressive Tax Plan
In a sharp departure from party leaders’ proposals over the last few years, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today announced...
Bernie Sanders Exposes Republican Scheme To Cut Social Security For The Disabled
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is warning that Republicans are plotting to cut Social Security benefits for 11 million disabled Americans...
GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America
There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous...
John Boehner Votes to Create 35 Jobs! It’s a Jobgasm!
You can no longer say House Republicans are opposed to job creation. Set aside for a moment President Obama’s creation...
House Republicans Pass Bill That Would Take Away Health Insurance From 1 Million Workers
House Republicans passed a bill would take away health insurance from at least 1 million workers by a vote of...
ALEC Sharpens Attack on Environmental Safeguards
After being accused of “literally lying” about climate change by one of its own high-profile business members, excoriated for being...
Democrats Decry Social Security Sneak Attack
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Social Security advocates are accusing House Republicans of launching a sneak attack on disability insurance on...
Bernie Sanders Flexes His Muscles By Introducing Bill To Create 13 Million New Jobs
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said today will introduce legislation when the new session of Congress convenes this month to...
Sanders Has a Couple More Good Ideas: Break Up Big Banks, Expand Social Security
Promising to put forth and lobby on behalf of two bold progressive policy ideas in the months ahead, Sen. Bernie...
How Newt Gingrich’s Language Guru Helped Rebrand the Kochs’ Message
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
Government by Wall Street: JPMorgan CEO whipped votes for spending bill
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
Bernie Sanders Unveils a 12 Point Economic Plan to Break the Koch Oligarchs
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
Koch-linked organization uses ‘dark money’ to fight political disclosure
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
The Long, Dark Shadows of Plutocracy
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...
Scott Walker: Denying Health Care To Low-Income People Helps Them ‘Live The American Dream’
Defending his fellow Republican governors’ decision to block Medicaid expansion in their states, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday...
Bernie Sanders to Colbert: “Frightening the Billionaire Class” Should be Goal of Grassroots Movement
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
Corporate America Steps Up for Maine’s Right-Wing Gov. Paul LePage
Although Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, has been referred to as “America’s Craziest Governor,” he won his re-election last week –...
Obama should devote final years to changing economic conversation
Presidents are rarely able to accomplish much in the last two years of a second term. Tuesday’s election results guaranteed...
The Peasants Still Have Their Pitchforks
What can we expect Congress to do about America’s staggeringly top-heavy concentration of income and wealth over the next two...
Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to ‘Fix’ Failed Democracy
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
Richmond: The little town that beat big oil
“The Chevrons of the world, the Koch Brothers and the others … their religion is greed … we cannot allow...
Republicans Smear Mary Burke, Sneer at Minimum Wage
Silly season is almost over. But in these waning days before the November 4 election, Republicans are getting in their...
With Election in a Dead Heat, Union-Busting Gov. Scott Walker Attacks the Unemployed
Gov. Scott Walker finds himself in a startling dead heat with Democratic candidate Mary Burke, business executive and former state...
Scott Brown’s Big-Money Sellout
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
Why It’s Time to Update Overtime Pay Rules
Americans are working longer hours and are more productive—yet wages are largely flat. Indeed, the median worker saw a real...
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Thinks $7.25 Is a Living Wage
Reasonable people may differ on the precise definition of a living wage. But the consensus is that $7.25 an hour...
Koch-affiliated money is pouring into Alaska like never before. Labor unions are going all out to fight back
Republicans’ most likely path to retaking the Senate in November requires GOPers to pick up seats in six key states:...
Governor: I Don’t Know What The Minimum Wage Should Be Because ‘The Private Sector Decides Wages’
In a gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was asked whether he supports the concept of a...
Bernie Sanders: Purchase of Election by Chevron Shows We Have ‘Oligarchy, Not Democracy’
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
Eighty percent of Americans want to hike wages, but powerful Republicans keep saying “no”
The first national campaigns of the Republican Party, more than 150 years ago, linked economic progress with democratic participation, urging...
“More Money Than I Could Count”: Mitch McConnell’s Very Special Relationship With Lobbyists
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
