"Words that make actions speak louder."
An estimated 3,000 people left the People’s Summit in Chicago Sunday with a commitment to turn Bernie Sander’s presidential campaign into a permanent independent movement for justice and equality.
Continuing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution” is the focus of a weekend People’s Summit that is bringing to Chicago an estimated 3,000 progressive leaders and grassroots activists.
An inside-the-Beltway article has Democratic Senate candidates following a “cardinal rule of politics” in a year in which cardinal rules are made to be broken. One Senate candidate following a different path is surging ahead.
In a video interview, Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAACP and a key supporter of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, explains why he believes a multiracial progressive movement will emerge from the Sanders campaign.
Bernie Sanders is not the match that lit a progressive populist flame. The match was the unrest with Democratic Party politics that revealed itself long before he “felt the Bern” himself.
House Republicans have proven themselves incapable of bringing even their own budget to a floor vote. But there is still reason to get members of Congress to declare their support for the People’s Budget.
Jacob Hacker’s latest book examines the history of shared prosperity through an activist government that conservatives have worked hard to make us forget and that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is working to reclaim.
The People’s Budget formally released this week by the Congressional Progressive Caucus is not a symbolic exercise. It is central to a debate that the country must have to challenge economic thinking in both political parties.
Competing budgets offer a sharp contrast between the progressive vision of a government working to strengthen working families and a conservative vision of government that all but abandons struggling people.
The New York Times on Monday is the latest publication to find that New York City, under its unapologetically progressive mayor, “has rarely been in better financial shape.”