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February 14, 2020 at 2:33 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Facing Retirement With Fear

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Facing Retirement With Fear Glen Heck spent 28 years sweating in a Campti, La., paper mill that he likes to say was “hotter than nine kinds of hell.” The Democratic-controlled House passed—with bipartisan support — a commonsense pl…

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February 13, 2020 at 3:17 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld NH Students Fight Voter Suppression With Turnout By 3:30 p.m. on Election Day 2020, as several town officials stood behind tables in the gym where a trickle of people fed hand-marked paper ballots into an Accu-Vote scanner, a …

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February 12, 2020 at 3:08 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Young Voters Make All The Difference For Bernie

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Adiel Pollydore Young Voters Make All The Difference For Bernie It took every one of us to bring home Senator Bernie Sanders’ victory in the New Hampshire Primary last night. A lot of us, like me, are young people who have a vision for a sust…

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February 11, 2020 at 3:23 PM

Progressive Breakfast: People Power Is Winning In New Hampshire

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Lisa Demaine People Power Is Winning In New Hampshire This is it, folks! Tuesday’s presidential primary is our big day – when the people power our member-driven organization, Rights & Democracy (RAD), has built over the last four years wi…

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February 10, 2020 at 4:38 PM

65°F in Antarctica, snowing in Concord, N.H.

Dear John, One of the most frustrating things about fighting for real climate change action can be the folks who are supposed to be on your side, but aren’t. There are so many people who will say all the right words at a campaign event but then will turn around and push po…

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February 10, 2020 at 3:22 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Inside Iowa Vote-Count Meltdown

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld Inside the Iowa Democratic Party’s ‘Boiler Room’ Meltdown The app and software that failed to report and count the Iowa Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential caucus results were not the only miscalculation by …

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February 7, 2020 at 2:34 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Candidates Must Act Now For A Sustainable Future

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Gisele Hart Candidates Must Act Now For A Sustainable Future The world is literally on fire because of climate change, and the next President of the United States must take swift action to end our dependence on fossil fuels. That’s why, in Ne…

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February 6, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Progressive Breakfast: The Day America Became A Monarchy

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Adrienne Evans The Day America Became A Constitutional Monarchy The GOP-controlled Senate, by voting to acquit Donald Trump from impeachment, has made a mockery of our system of governance. By clearing him from charges of abuse of power and obs…

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February 5, 2020 at 3:21 PM

Progressive Breakfast: You Say You Want A Revolution?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm You Say You Want A Revolution? You say you want a revolution? Well, there is a recipe. It’s 2020, and you may be asking yourself where to put your energy in this very important year. To achieve transformational change, first we ne…

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February 5, 2020 at 4:07 AM

Fight Trump’s lies about Medicare For All

Dear John, Trump lied about Medicare for All tonight in his State of the Union address--and we have to fight back. If he gets away with spreading this kind of lie, we could lose the fight to get every person the health care they need. Join us to fight Trump’s lies about Med…

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February 5, 2020 at 12:16 AM

Bernie is leading!

Dear John, Bernie Sanders is currently leading in the first batch of Iowa Caucus results! Candidate Percentage Votes Bernie Sanders 26.3% 28,220 Pete Buttigieg 25.1% 27,030 Elizabeth Warren 20.7% 22,254 He's ahead in final alignment votes…

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February 4, 2020 at 3:51 PM

Progressive Breakfast: We The People Won Big In Iowa

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Hugh Espey We The People Won Big In Iowa Last night we made history. In Iowa, we kicked off incredible momentum that will carry the groundswell of voters who want Medicare for All, Clean Water, the Green New Deal, and Free College for All int…

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February 3, 2020 at 3:42 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Bernie Stands With Iowans, We Stand With Him

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Cherie Mortice, Dartanyan Brown Bernie Stands With Iowans, We Stand With Him I’m Cherie Mortice, and I’m Dartanyan Brown. We’re members of Iowa CCI Action and People’s Action, and we’re voting for Bernie Sanders. Here’s why: We believe peop…

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February 1, 2020 at 12:41 AM

Mayor Pete is attacking US

Dear John, On the eve of the Iowa Caucuses, Pete Buttigieg is on the attack—but not against Donald Trump or even his opponents in the primary. He’s hurling false attacks at us—and unluckily for him, we kept the receipts to prove that he’s not telling the truth. Donate now t…

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January 31, 2020 at 3:42 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Why – And How – We Endorsed Bernie Sanders

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January 30, 2020 at 2:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Democrats Should Want Joe Biden To Testify

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January 29, 2020 at 3:20 PM

Progressive Breakfast: The People’s Housing Platform Moves Us Towards Housing Justice

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January 28, 2020 at 3:16 PM

Progressive Breakfast: We Don’t Need Another Liar-In-Chief

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January 28, 2020 at 2:48 AM

Biden's lies about Medicare for All

People's Action members with Iowa CCI Action held Biden accountable for his lies. They occupied his state office, demanding he tell the truth about Medicare for All. Dear John, Joe Biden is lying about Medicare For All. As the Iowa Caucuses approach, he’s repeating talking po…

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January 27, 2020 at 3:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Trump Gets An F From Workers

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January 24, 2020 at 12:56 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years

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January 23, 2020 at 4:01 PM

Progressive Breakfast: We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not A Truce

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January 22, 2020 at 2:49 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Lies in the White House, Cancer in Our Neighborhoods

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January 21, 2020 at 3:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Iowa Human Trafficking Scam Exploits Foreign Students

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE David Goodner Iowa Human Trafficking Scam Exploits Foreign Students Fifty-seven international students studying at a state technical college in Sioux City are being exploited in school and on the job after being lured to I…

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January 20, 2020 at 1:38 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Dr. King’s Radical Revolution Of Values

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow Dr. King’s Radical Revolution Of Values This Monday, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. If he hadn’t been murdered, he would be 91 years old. How would Dr. King view today’s activists? The w…

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January 17, 2020 at 3:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Sen. Collins Lies About Accepting Opioid Money

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Mike Tipping Sen. Collins Lies About Accepting Opioid Money In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmac…

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January 16, 2020 at 3:05 PM

Progressive Breakfast: The Numbers We Need To End Our Overdose Crisis

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Priscilla Robinson The Numbers We Need To End Our Overdose Crisis Governor Murphy just told us fewer New Jerseyans died last year from preventable overdoses than the year before. That’s good news. But we agree with Governor Murphy that …

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January 15, 2020 at 2:48 PM

Progressive Breakfast: America’s Do-Nothing Senate

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway America’s Do-Nothing Senate The Republican-controlled Senate has ignored around 400 bills the House passed this year. When these legislators refuse to legislate, they’re telling the American people that they couldn’t care less…

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January 14, 2020 at 2:31 PM

Progressive Breakfast: What Corporate Democrats Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Richard Eskow What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’ “Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases…

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January 13, 2020 at 3:04 PM

Progressive Breakfast: How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Joy Blackwood How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards More than sixty members of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Opioid Network gathered with health care experts, providers and advocates for three d…

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January 10, 2020 at 2:43 PM

Progressive Breakfast: To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Suzette Brooks Masters To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love A massive wave of immigration has transformed our country over the last fifty years. We’re up to 14 percent foreign-born, which is near a historic high. And immigration…

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January 9, 2020 at 10:57 PM

Homes Guarantee vs. everything

John: Everyone living in the United States should have safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing: a Homes Guarantee. I DEMAND HOUSING JUSTICE Housing = health care As I write this email, I think about the more than 3 million people forced…

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January 9, 2020 at 3:21 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugee…

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January 8, 2020 at 1:49 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton – a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor – has said he would …

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January 7, 2020 at 4:06 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Have Democrats Changed Course On Charters?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Have Democrats Changed Course On Charters? Education has been mostly ignored in previous presidential elections, and the topic had not come up for serious discussion among the candidates in televised debates prior to the Public Edu…

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January 6, 2020 at 3:21 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Are America’s Rich Getting Tired of Winning?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Are America’s Rich Getting Tired of Winning? The obituaries for Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chair who died December 8 at age 92, almost all echoed a noble, even heroic narrative. Between 1979 and 1987, one obit crowed…

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December 30, 2019 at 11:38 PM

We know how to stop Trump's plan for 2020

Dear John: In a moment, I’m going to ask you for a donation to People’s Action—but before I do, I want you to understand Trump’s plan to get reelected in 2020. But I’m also going to tell you how we can stop him. Earlier this year, we warned that if we don’t organize in rural…

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December 19, 2019 at 4:31 PM

It's Bernie Sanders.

Dear John: It’s time. People’s Action is endorsing Bernie Sanders for President. This wasn’t a decision we made lightly. We have a deep commitment to democracy, and we stuck to that commitment, designing an endorsement process that was a vehicle for the multiracial working…

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December 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: People’s Action Endorses Bernie Sanders

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Holly Otterbein People’s Action Endorses Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders has won the endorsement of People’s Action, a coalition of 4…

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December 18, 2019 at 4:10 PM

Progressive Breakfast: How America Broke Up With The Democratic Party

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Thom Hartmann How America Broke Up With The Democratic Party Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and…

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December 17, 2019 at 4:01 PM

Progressive Breakfast: The New Know-Nothings And Why We Must Impeach

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins The New Know-Nothings And Why We Must Impeach Trump’s America feels more and more like the 1850s, when our country’s viol…

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December 16, 2019 at 5:07 PM

Mobilize TOMORROW for impeachment

Dear John: At People’s Action, we fight for an economy that promotes gender, racial, and economic justice and an agenda that puts people and the planet first. But we can’t have those things if Donald Trump turns our government into a corrupt machine for his personal benefit. …

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December 16, 2019 at 3:54 PM

Progressive Breakfast: What Trump And The GOP Learned From Obama

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith What Trump And The GOP Learned From Obama As President Trump’s impeachment unspools, news coverage is buz…

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December 13, 2019 at 2:47 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Charter School Fraud Tops $1 Billion

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Charter Schools’ Billion-Dollar Fraud Stinks Worse Than We Thought When members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secr…

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December 12, 2019 at 3:08 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Mayor Pete, Get Big Money Out Of Your Campaign​

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Greg Chung Mayor Pete, Get Big Money Out Of Your Campaign What will it take to get big money out of politics? As a voter and a student, …

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December 11, 2019 at 3:11 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Payday Lenders Use Installment Loans To Escape Scrutiny

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Payday Lenders Use Installment Loans To Escape Scrutiny Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler v…

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December 10, 2019 at 2:05 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Thom Hartmann Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook? Has Facebook gone from merely being a destination on the internet to something…

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December 9, 2019 at 2:42 PM

Progressive Breakfast: What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Andrea Flynn What Breast Cancer Taught Me About Health Care Every weekday for six weeks this fall, I had radiation for early-stage breast can…

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December 6, 2019 at 2:45 PM

Progressive Breakfast: Will 2020 Contenders Take On Inequality?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Will The 2020 Contenders Take On Inequality? Is America’s political discourse on inequality finally getting real? In the early go…

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December 5, 2019 at 11:54 AM

Progressive Breakfast: Why Have No Republicans Turned On Trump?

view in browser MORNING MESSAGE Thom Hartmann Why Have No Republicans Turned On Trump? There is a very simple reason why some Republicans voted for the impeachment proceedings a…

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