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Special Recognition for Six GOP Gubernatorial Goobers
While 4,300 workers in Volkswagen’s auto factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were about to vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), thus…
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The Big Apple’s Mayor Takes a Big Bite Out of Democracy
And now: A special report from the Department of Really Bad Ideas. And this one is a doozie. It comes from Hizzoner Eric Adams, the present mayor of New…
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Friday Signpost: Learn How to Listen—and Win—with People's Action
When we hear the term “canvassing” with regard to politics, it often brings up ideas of well-meaning volunteers going door-to-door in communities…
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Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!
If you think the GOP’s Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest, pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us – you haven’t been to…
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Can’t Oil Barons Ever Be Honest? (Hint: No)
Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King once opposed a bill because, he said, he feared it would “open a whole box of Pandoras.” An odd rhetorical twist, but…
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Happy Hour with Hightower: April Ask Me Anything Video
Breaking the two-party duopoly, poor people’s food, Netanyahu versus Gaza, how Texas turned red, who’s doing good grassroots organizing, Thomas Paine…
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Why Are We Letting Greedheads and Ideologues Kill Our Post Office?
Before there was a USA – before our Constitution was adopted, and even before our 1776 Declaration of Independence – one of America’s best democratic…
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What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians?
“Somebody better investigate soon.” That’s a lyric in Bob Dylan’s “Oxford Town,” a 1962 song deploring the relentless murdering of Black people and…
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What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians?
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Reminder: LIVE: Happy Hour with Hightower and... you!
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How Many Dead Firefighters Does It Take to Ban Asbestos?
If your home or business is suddenly being engulfed in flames, you count on a quick response from the fire department. But who rushes to aid…
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How Many Dead Firefighters Does It Take to Ban Asbestos?
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LIVE: Happy Hour with Hightower and... you!
Join us here on Tuesday, April 9th at 7pm ET for an open thread live Q&A
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Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don’t
Free Market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their assertion of corporate greed over public need. Consider…
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