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Rep. Henry Cuellar speaks during a news conference

AOC Endorses Cisneros Primary Challenge Against Cuellar

"Cuellar, the last anti-choice 'Democrat' in the House," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, "had a 70% voting record of siding with Donald Trump."

War With Russia Over Ukraine 'Last Thing' US Needs, Say Progressives

Dems to Biden: Overhaul Drone Program That Has Killed Thousands of Civilians

Asked About Black Voters, McConnell Says Quiet, Racist Part Very Loud

Fetterman Calls Fall of Union Membership 'A National Disgrace'

Jamaal Bowman Arrested Alongside Other Voting Rights Protesters

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) holds a rally outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to pass voting rights legislation on January 19, 2022.

Humanity at "Doom's Doorstep" Says Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Man holding sign that says "Democracy Is Not for Sale"

12 Years After Citizens United, the Supreme Court's Right-Wing Revolution Continues

Lisa Graves · Jan 20, 2022

The only possible silver lining of the reactionary John Roberts' Court—itself brought into being by billionaires and dark money—is that perhaps it will fuel a fresh wave of citizen activism to overturn these regressive rulings.

How Are the US and Other Countries Doing on Fighting Climate Change?

Richard Heinberg · Jan 20, 2022

Making a Case Against the US Going to War Over Ukraine

Mitchell Zimmerman · Jan 20, 2022

Beware the GOP's Election Cop Proposals

Thom Hartmann

Israel Violates Geneva Convention (Again) With Home Demolition in Occupied East Jerusalem

Juan Cole

American Empire's Prison From Hell: Guantánamo

Karen Greenberg

America's Class War: Organized Labor Is the Best Tool to Push Back Against the Rich

Chris Hedges

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A woman uses a fire to provide heat in her home

'A Basic Human Right': Bowman, Markey Unveil Affordable Energy Bill

Julia Conley · Jan 20, 2022

The Denka neoprene production plant emits chloroprene and other hazardous air pollutants in Reserve, Louisiana, on August 12, 2021.

Heavily Polluted Louisiana Community Asks EPA to Step In

Kenny Stancil · Jan 20, 2022

500K Jobs Lost, Starvation Looms as US Holds Afghan Funds Hostage

Brett Wilkins · Jan 20, 2022

Senate Panel Approves Antitrust Bill to Rein in Big Tech

Jake Johnson · Jan 20, 2022

Sheikh Jarrah eviction and home demolition

Israel Accused of 'War Crime' of 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Sheikh Jarrah

Brett Wilkins · Jan 20, 2022

'Getting A Lot of New Followers,' Says Cisneros After Cuellar FBI Raid

Julia Conley · Jan 20, 2022

President Joe Biden talks to reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

Biden Criticized for Ignoring Question on Student Debt Promise

Kenny Stancil · Jan 20, 2022

Then-Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) gestures as he speaks next to President Donald Trump during a rally to support Republican Senate candidates at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia on December 5, 2020.

DeSantis, Perdue Push GOP Election Police Force

Andrea Germanos · Jan 20, 2022

100+ Ultra-Rich People Warn Fellow Elites: 'It's Taxes or Pitchforks'

On Eve of Key Fight, Sanders Asks: 'Will Manchin and Sinema Vote With GOP?'

Amid 'Slow-Motion Coup,' Manchin and Sinema Help GOP Sink Voting Rights

Dems Urged to Hold Senate Floor for 'As Long As It Takes'

Tsunami Triggered by Huge Volcanic Eruption Hits Tonga

As Sinema Defends Filibuster, Progressives Say 'Vote Her the Hell Out'

Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World

Fetterman Calls Fall of Union Membership 'A National Disgrace'

Poor People's Campaign Readies 'Massive, Nonviolent' Effort to Save Democracy

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World Economic Forum Grapples with Pandemic-Troubled Global Economy

Jubilee USA Network

Jan 20, 2022

Widespread Union Organizing in 2021 Not Enough to Reverse Membership Decline, says CEPR Expert

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Jan 20, 2022

Bipartisan Bill Protecting People From Platform Monopolists, Led by Sens. Klobuchar and Grassley, Passes out of Senate Judiciary Committee

Open Markets Institute

Jan 20, 2022

Demand Progress Statement on the Passage of Antitrust Reform Bill Out of Senate Judiciary Committee

Demand Progress

Jan 20, 2022

Congressman Jamaal Bowman Arrested During Voting Rights Protest

Congressman Jamaal Bowman

Jan 20, 2022

Number of Workers Represented by a Union Declined in 2021, Showing Why We Must Reform Our Broken Labor Law

Economic Policy Institute

Jan 20, 2022

War & Peace

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500K Jobs Lost, Starvation Looms as US Holds Afghan Funds Hostage

Sen. Bernie Sanders urged the Biden administration "to immediately release billions in frozen Afghan government funds to help avert this crisis, and prevent the death of millions of people."

Brett Wilkins · Jan 20, 2022

Israel Accused of 'War Crime' of 'Ethnic Cleansing' in Sheikh Jarrah

Brett Wilkins · Jan 20, 2022

Jayapal, Lee Resolution Promotes More Peaceful US Foreign Policy

Brett Wilkins · Jan 19, 2022

Anti-War Veterans Group Issues Its Own 'Nuclear Posture Review'

Jessica Corbett · Jan 19, 2022

Civilians Reportedly Among 20 Yemenis Killed in Saudi Airstrike

Brett Wilkins · Jan 18, 2022

Climate Emergency

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After Year One, Climate Group Says Biden 'Failing Us'

"Biden can't be the climate leader he claims to be when he is actively conducting major lease sales and lobbying oil states to produce more fossil fuels," said the youth-led Sunrise Movement.

Jake Johnson · Jan 20, 2022

Demonstrators gather for a climate protest outside of the White House

360+ Climate Groups to Biden: Phase Out Fossil Fuels on Public Lands

Jenna McGuire · Jan 19, 2022

Climate change campaigners stage a naked demonstration at the offices of PR company Edelman, in Victoria, London, in protest against Edelman's PR work for energy company E.On on September 1, 2009.

450+ Climate Scientists Demand PR Industry Drop Fossil Fuel Clients

Andrea Germanos · Jan 19, 2022

A worker performs maintenance at the BlueWave Community Solar Farm in Grafton, Massachusetts on December 4, 2017. (Photo: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Rising US Renewables Expected to Spur Decline in Fracked Gas

Kenny Stancil · Jan 18, 2022

A man paddles on a boat as plastic bags float on the surface of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 21, 2020.

Global Plastic Pollution Is a 'Deadly Ticking Clock': Report

Kenny Stancil · Jan 18, 2022

Covid-19

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Catching Up With Progressives, Biden to Provide N95s Nationwide

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced the Masks for All Act in July 2020, called the move "a good first step."

Julia Conley · Jan 19, 2022

A worker finalizes details to start the production at the recently inaugurated CIGB Industrial Biotechnological Complex in Mariel, Cuba, on November 5, 2021.

Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World

Kenny Stancil · Jan 19, 2022

A healthcare worker prepares a coronavirus vaccine dose

Vaccine Apartheid Means Pandemic 'Nowhere Near Over': WHO Chief

Jake Johnson · Jan 19, 2022

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch stands during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2021.

Gorsuch Chooses to Go Maskless While Backing Forced Pregnancy for Women in Texas

Andrea Germanos · Jan 18, 2022

Jeff Zients briefs the media on the Covid-19 pandemic response

Biden Urged to Fire Covid Response Chief Over 'Damning' Failures

Jake Johnson · Jan 16, 2022

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Biden Criticized for Ignoring Question on Student Debt Promise

"Biden may have dodged a question today, but he won't be able to ignore 45 million student loan borrowers if he attempts to turn payments back on in May," said one advocate.

Kenny Stancil · Jan 20, 2022

Critics Warn Puerto Rico Debt Plan Will Lead to More Austerity

Julia Conley · Jan 19, 2022

UN Chief Urges Global Solidarity on Covid, Climate, and Debt Relief

Jessica Corbett · Jan 17, 2022

Protesters hold signs denouncing the Republican Party's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act outside the New York Stock Exchange on December 19, 2017.

Lawmakers Seek to Weaken Ban on Surprise Medical Bills

Kenny Stancil · Jan 17, 2022

Billionaires 'Had a Terrific Pandemic' While Inequality Killed Millions: Oxfam

Jon Queally · Jan 17, 2022

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'Getting A Lot of New Followers,' Says Cisneros After Cuellar FBI Raid

FBI agents appeared to launch an investigation at Rep. Henry Cuellar's home hours after Democratic leader Steny Hoyer endorsed the congressman.

Julia Conley · Jan 20, 2022

DeSantis, Perdue Push GOP Election Police Force

Andrea Germanos · Jan 20, 2022

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin speak to reporters

Amid 'Slow-Motion Coup,' Manchin and Sinema Help GOP Sink Voting Rights

Jake Johnson · Jan 20, 2022

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks with reporters as he arrives to a luncheon with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building on October 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Ted Cruz's Pro-Corruption Case Gets Supreme Court Review

Andrea Germanos · Jan 19, 2022

Beverly Bailey canvasses in San Francisco on January 31, 2012, to get two health initiatives on the November state ballot.

South Dakota Voters Sue Over Right-Wing Attack on Ballot Measures

Kenny Stancil · Jan 19, 2022

Rights & Justice

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'A Basic Human Right': Bowman, Markey Unveil Affordable Energy Bill

Sen. Ed Markey called the proposal "the ambitious and comprehensive legislation we need to help ensure the health and safety of American families and support a just transition away from fossil fuel consumption."

Julia Conley · Jan 20, 2022