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Farmers Rally at White House to Protest Monsanto's GMO Empire Hundreds of small farmers and advocates for organic seed growers gathered outside the White House Thursday, calling on President Obama and other lawmakers to come to their aid as they continue their fight against Monsanto, one of the world's largest, most powerful—and to them sinister—industrial agriculture corporations Read the Full Story

Idle No More -- Think Occupy, But With Deep Deep Roots I don't claim to know exactly what's going on with #IdleNoMore, the surging movement of indigenous activists that started late last year in Canada and is now spreading across the continent, but I sense that it's every bit as important as the Occupy movement that transfixed the world a year ago; it feels like it wells up from the same kind of long-postponed and deeply-felt passion that powered the Arab spring. Read the Full Story

Senate Dems: We'll back Obama if he raises debt limit unilaterally Senate Democratic leaders have sent a letter to President Obama pledging their support if he raises the debt ceiling unilaterally in the face of Republican resistance. Support has been growing among Democrats in Congress for Obama to invoke the 14th Amendment or another legal justification for expanding the nation’s borrowing authority without congressional approval. Read the Full Story

A Ringing Defeat for Stop-and-Frisk and a Huge Win for Civil Liberties In March of 2012, several New York City residents sued the New York Police Department over alleged overreaches of its controversial stop-and-frisk policy.* The plaintiffs argued that the NYPD “has a widespread practice of making unlawful stops on suspicion of trespass” outside certain buildings in the Bronx, and asked the court for relief from the department’s Trespass Affidavit Program (TAP). Read the Full Story

What’s Lost if the Voting Rights Act Falls? What’s Lost if the Voting Rights Act Falls? Odds are, the Supreme Court will strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act after hearing a case from Alabama that will be argued next month. Read the Full Story

NRA accuses White House of 'attack' on 2nd Amendment rights The National Rifle Association said Thursday it was "disappointed" by its meeting Thursday with Vice President Biden, accusing the Obama administration of using the time to "attack the Second Amendment." The statement, issued shortly after the conclusion of the conference, deflated any prospect of an unlikely alliance between the White House and the gun lobby group as President Obama looks to push a set of new gun regulations in the coming month. Read the Full Story

Solyndra stunk. The green stimulus didn’t. The federal clean-energy loan guarantee program that gave you Solyndra wasn’t just a multibillion-dollar political debacle – it also didn’t create jobs, didn’t reduce carbon emissions and ran up financial risk for taxpayers. Read the Full Story

Americans Die Younger Than Peers Americans die younger and have more illnesses and accidents on average than people in other high-income countries—even wealthier, insured, college-educated Americans, a report said Wednesday. Read the Full Story

What a Real 'War on Poverty' Looks Like This week, Melissa Harris-Perry asks us “to have a conversation not only about the poor but with people who are themselves living in poverty.” Read the Full Story

Occupy Steubenville: Anonymous Takes On Ohio Sheriff The word “occupy” has taken on a new meaning since September 2011. Of course, it still means to physically reside in a space—to seize or hold property otherwise denied to the public in the cases of Occupy Wall Street and its various chapters—but now the word is also used as a euphemism when protesters seek justice in the wake of institutional failure. Read the Full Story

Tentative Ruling Allows Walmart to Be Named as Defendant in Wage Theft Class Action An update, with comment from the warehouse workers' attorney, appears below. In a tentative ruling released minutes ago, District Court Judge Christina Snyder signaled she intends to grant a request to add Walmart as a named defendant in a federal class action lawsuit over alleged wage theft at its California distribution centers. Read the Full Story

Social Issues Are Economic Issues, Exhibit 1,463: Michigan’s Dual Agenda Slams Low-Income Women We’re barely more than a week into 2013, but Michigan has been very busy lately. As a pre-holiday gift to workers, Governor Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work” bill into law after the Republican-controlled state house passed it 58-51, making the payment of union dues voluntary for most unions and thus severely weakening their power. Read the Full Story

Farmers Rally at White House to Protest Monsanto's GMO Empire

Idle No More -- Think Occupy, But With Deep Deep Roots

Senate Dems: We'll back Obama if he raises debt limit unilaterally

A Ringing Defeat for Stop-and-Frisk and a Huge Win for Civil Liberties

What’s Lost if the Voting Rights Act Falls?

NRA accuses White House of 'attack' on 2nd Amendment rights

Solyndra stunk. The green stimulus didn’t.

Americans Die Younger Than Peers

What a Real 'War on Poverty' Looks Like

Occupy Steubenville: Anonymous Takes On Ohio Sheriff

Tentative Ruling Allows Walmart to Be Named as Defendant in Wage Theft Class Action

Social Issues Are Economic Issues, Exhibit 1,463: Michigan’s Dual Agenda Slams Low-Income Women

Progressive Democrats of America

Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites-with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside the Democratic Party, and outside in movements for peace and justice, PDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victories of November 2006 and 2008. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles.

For over two decades, the party declined as its leadership listened more to the voices of corporations than those of Americans. PDA strives to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up-from every congressional district to statewide party structures to the corridors of power in Washington, where we work arm in arm with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In just a couple of years PDA and its allies have shaken up the political status-quo on issues from ending the Iraq war, voter rights, protecting Social Security, a full employment economy, national healthcare and economic justice.

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