"Words that make actions speak louder."
Monday’s CNN town hall forum brought into sharper relief the fundamental question that Democratic primary voters face: Do we need a technician to repair our politics or a remodeler who can reimagine and rebuild?
We matched our Platform for People and the Planet that the Campaign for America’s Future helped release last year and a transcript of the GOP debate. Here’s what we found.
Steve Phillips challenges Democrats and progressives to stop seeing people of color as “nuisances who need to be silenced for fear of alienating White swing voters” and instead as essential to the progressive coalition.
“It’s going to be a campaign issue,” says an activist and homeowner who is among those who will be hurt by a Koch brothers-backed push to make home solar power adoption prohibitively expensive.
“This vote was not only decisive, but participation was broad-based, with more ballots cast than any other endorsement vote in MoveOn’s history,” says MoveOn’s executive director.
In a poll of people between the ages of 18-29, more identified as conservative on economic policy issues than liberal. But in several areas, majorities sided more with progressives.
When you hear the rhetoric from the Jack Kemp Foundation’s “Expanding Opportunity” forum Saturday, it pays to watch what conservatives have done to low-income people, not what they say.
Government spending is not out of control. It’s the negative effects of not spending what we should that are threatening to spiral out of control. For conservatives, there is evil genius in all this.
Thanks to the organizing efforts of Good Jobs Nation and other allies, Senate officials signed a new contract with the workers that brings their average pay closer to a living wage.
Whether you are skeptical of the Paris agreement or see them as a groundbreaking accomplishment for the planet, you should see them as an opportunity for us as citizens to keep our leaders accountable.