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More than 460,000 didn’t lose health insurance this year because of Obamacare
From the DailyKos For the first time, the federal government has complied and released information on Obamacare enrollments coming in the special enrollment period. These are the people who have had major life changes that forced them out of their previous insurance—losing a job, getting divorced, etc.—and who had the opportunity to get new coverage […]
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America’s declaration of total dependence: Barack Obama, TPP & the perils of global hyper-capitalism
by Mathew Pulver at Salon “There’s a good chance (like a 94 percent chance) that the flags present at your Fourth of July festivities will be Chinese-made. The ubiquity of American flags made in that authoritarian state is such that Congress actually had to pass a law last year banning the military from purchasing foreign-made […]
Sign the Petition: Restore the Voting Rights Act
From Nancy Pelosi – Democratic Leader The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 51 years ago today. Ever since, it has stood as a pillar of fairness, justice, and equality. The law was born from the daily courage of millions of Americans, who dared to hope for a day not marred by discrimination and […]
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Confederate Flag: No Honor in Fighting for an Unjust Cause
Supreme Court upholds Arizona’s independent redistricting commission, dealing a blow to republicans
Advocates for redistricting reform scored a crucial victory today when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission. Passed by the voters in 2000, in an effort to remove legislators’ bias from the redistricting process, the commission was imperiled by the GOP’s rabid desire to abolish it so that they could gerrymander the state’s […]
Supreme Court on the right side of history
Prior to the start of oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, The Tennessean Editorial Board opined that Tennessee’s embrace of liberty should extend to same-sex marriage. Citing the Tennessee Constitution’s assertion that “all power is inherent in the people” (Article I, Section 1) and its strong affirmation of freedom to worship or not (Article […]
Stop the Sneak Attack on Net Nuetrality
On June 12, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet Order mandating the strongest Net Neutrality protections in history finally went into effect. It was a tremendous victory for the millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands of CREDO members, who fought for these rules. But Big Telecom’s allies in Congress have slipped language into […]
TNDP CHAIR MARY MANCINI STATEMENT ON KING v. BURWELL
Nashville, Tenn. (June 25, 2015) — Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Mary Mancini released the following statement after the Supreme Court’s ruling on King v.Burwell regarding the Affordable Care Act: “We are relieved for the nearly 200,000 Tennesseans who will continue to have access to affordable health care. It’s clear that the Supreme Court justices did […]
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Neoliberalism poisons everything: How free market mania threatens education — and democracy
From Salon: Among lefties today, there may be no more toxic and discrediting a label than “neoliberal.” To be called a neoliberal is, generally, to be associated with the worst of capitalism’s excesses — Wall Street greed, union-busting, deregulation, standardized testing, wage theft, privatization, exploitation and so on. In some ways, it’s become a catch-all […]