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Wisconsin Republicans know they're in trouble, rush agenda
When you try do eliminate major segments of the population, right along with democracy itself; when you do everything in your power to obliterate unions, a major source of funding for the Democratic...
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Poll-itics: Scott Walker's numbers continue to get worse, voters would recall...
Key: Independents are now starting to support Democrats. Via Public Policy Polling: Scott Walker's popularity has continued to decline over the last three months and Wisconsin voters now say they...
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Scott Walker's Wisconsin
Today's WisPolitics headlines are a sad reminder of what Scott Walker and his thugs are doing to Wisconsin: WisPolitics: Senate committee approves conceal carry bill Election officials wary as Walker...
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"Many in Congress do not seem to want to hear what we have to say..."
Screen grab from Rep. Steve Chabot's recent town hall meeting. Today's L.A. Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter: Talking point Re "Congress is in no mood for town brawls," Aug. 26 I...
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VIDEO: ALEC and the Circumventing of Our Democracy
My buddy Lee Camp nails it again. Warning: Strong language, so lower the volume at work. Corporate profiteering, circumventing government, legislating a woman's uterus, privatizing prisons, opposing...
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"Shareholder democracy" is a joke... (hello, Rupert Murdoch)."
Michael Hiltzik has another informative column up at the L.A. Times that makes a lot of important points about workers vs. workers (Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's divide and conquer strategy), how this...
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Got "Sheldonfreude"? Think again. Super PACs are still a threat.
Michael Hiltzik has another illuminating column in today's L.A. Times, this time about Citizens United and the continuing practice of buying influence. The big bucks flowed and will continue to flow,...
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"I haven't noticed liberals stocking up on guns, ammo. Which has more faith...
Today's L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist,'" Opinion, April 23 The American right wing is filled with people who have a visceral...
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Education dean at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison: ALEC is still at it. Goal:...
Julie Underwood, dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is giving everyone a heads-up about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s national network of corporate...
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Nancy Pelosi, House Dem leaders brainstorm ways to restore Voting Rights Act...
Photo via Richard Ellis/Getty Images Thank you Nancy Pelosi, for moving quickly to try to undo the damage that the Supreme Court inflicted on democracy. Key word: try. Unfortunately, there is no easy...
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Supreme Court appears poised to allow more of the wealthy few to buy elections
The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court may very well allow the wealthy few to have even more opportunities to drown out the rest of us. Yes, again. More big donors with more money than most of us...
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Nightmare on First St! US might look very different in 2014 thanks to...
Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543 There were two articles in Sunday's Los Angeles Times that had me reaching for two bottles: Pepto Bismol and Jose Cuervo...
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"Poof goes the middle class"
Today's Los Angeles Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "Poof goes the middle class," Opinion, Oct. 23 Thanks to Doyle McManus for his timely review of Tyler Cowen's book,...
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Seventh grade student spoke out, got kicked out. "My school is run by fear."
Having taught all grade levels in a couple of school districts, and having been a huge student advocate at those schools, when I hear about a story that starts out with this, I listen: "My name is...
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WI GOP State Senator not "willing to defend them anymore... There is no...
Link Per The Cap Times, WI GOP State Senator Dale Schultz was on on The Devil’s Advocates radio show discussing voter suppression, specifically bills that cut back on early voting. Schultz's own...
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Stew of corruption: Just add politicians, cash, and simmer.
Last night, Rachel Maddow did a segment on several recent corruption scandals involving state level politicians, in this case Democrats. It was pretty jaw-dropping. Included in her report was the...
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The Supreme Thwart: SCOTUS "re-created legalized bribery"
Apparently "legalized bribery" is fine with the Roberts Supreme Court. As you can see by my previous post Billionaires and Supreme Court undermine our "1st Amendment right not to be drowned out", this...
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Ben Sasse (R) will "promote almost anarchistic vision" as Senator: Religion...
Ben Sasse is now Nebraska's GOP nominee for the United States Senate. As Think Progress notes, Nebraska is a solid red state that backed Romney over Obama by "a massive 21 point margin in 2012." In...
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NE mayor: "Take me to fucking court because I don't care. Minorities are not...
Nebraska Mayor "Take Me to Fucking Court" must be taking his cues from Ben Sasse. I recently posted about how Ben Sasse (R) will "promote almost anarchistic vision" as Senator: Religion trumps law. I...
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"Absence of a strong wave comes as something of a setback for GOP"
A report just came out from the Center for the Study of the American Electorate. It confirmed what many of us already knew: that Americans are "staying away from the polls in droves." Not good, not...
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