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How You Can Help Save the Senate
The Huffington Post, 11-3-14The battle for the Senate has been a cliffhanger for months. Races in at least ten states that will decide the balance of power have remained too close to call, despite...
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Why Kay Hagan Lost In North Carolina
The Huffington Post, 11-13-14CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- When the smoke cleared, the most expensive contest of 2014 had become the costliest Senate race in U.S. history. More than $111 million was spent by...
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Rick Santorum Wishes Obama Was More Like Jesse Helms
The Huffington Post, 11-19-14This week, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum announced he'd make a decision next year about running for the White House again in 2016. Last week, while...
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How The GOP Blocked The Vote In North Carolina
OpEdNews, 11-24-14CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Over the summer and into the fall, while polls showed other Senate Democrats in swing states like Colorado and Iowa falling behind their GOP challengers,...
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CIA Torture Report Confirms Bush Hurt Anti-Terror Fight
The release of the long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture methods confirms that former President George W. Bush sacrificed our country's values and demeaned our most...
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Tell Congress To Reject GOP CRomnibus Deal Allowing Rich To Buy More...
Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 12-11-14Not content with the loosened campaign finance rules made possible by Citizens United, the GOP is attempting to pass a stealth provision that would open the big money...
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Tell Obama To Veto Cromnibus and Stop Secret Congressional Luxury Car Perk
Huffington Post, OpEdNews, 12-16-14Over the weekend, the CRomnibus budget deal passed the Senate by a 56-40 margin after narrow approval by the House. The outcome is a win for big corporations and...
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GOP Admits There Was No Benghazi Scandal
Now that the 2014 elections are over and the issue is no longer worth exploiting, the GOP-controlled House Select Intelligence Committee has released its final report on the 2012 attacks on the U.S....
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Two-Thirds Of Likely 2016 Voters Support President Obama's Executive Action...
A new poll released in the wake of President Obama's announcement of his executive orders on immigration shows two-thirds of voters likely to cast ballots in 2016 support these long overdue reforms....
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Justice for Michael Brown: Unarmed And Shot Six Times = Not Right
Tonight's announcement that a grand jury in St. Louis County, Missouri had decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the August 9 shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown should come as no...
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Steve Scalise's Ties to David Duke Show GOP Can't Escape its Embrace of Racism
GOP House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) confirmed on Monday that that he had addressed a white supremacy conference in 2002 organized by former KKK Grand Wizard and onetime GOP presidential...
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Ferguson Protestors Called "Lynch Mob" by Right-Wing Dark Money Group
In a stunning display of historical ignorance, a spokesman for the right-wing dark money group Americans for Limited Government denounced Ferguson protestors as a “lynch mob” out to get Darren Wilson....
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This Black Family Had Their Yard Sign Burned for Voting Democratic
In the closing days of the 2014 elections, GOP voter intimidation efforts intensified nationwide. In North Carolina, mailers containing incorrect voting information blanketed the state, sent to voters...
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How Darren Wilson's Fairytale Testimony Destroys His Own Credibility
On Alternet, Chauncey DeVega shows how Wilson's testimony resembles the "ramblings of a paranoid white supremacist."Wilson's own words reveal a deep racial bias and thoroughly discredit his version of...
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Why is America Still The Only Developed Country Without Paid Maternity Leave?
The Supreme Court hears testimony today in "the most high-stakes challenge to pregnancy discrimination law in a generation,"according toTime magazine. At issue is the case of former UPS employee Peggy...
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The US Needs Police Review Board Laws
Why do we need police review boards to oversee local law enforcement agencies? Because as Eric Garner's July 17 death in Staten Island shows, body cameras aren't enough. This is how Wisconsin passed...
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GOP Says Eric Garner Was Too Obese And "Shouldn't Have Resisted"
In response to a Staten Island grand jury's decision not to indict police officers involved in the July 17 death of Eric Garner, Republican Congressman Peter King of New York told CNN's Wolf Blitzer...
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How The GOP Is Scheming To Steal The Electoral College In 2016
Frustrated by their inability to win the national popular vote, Republicans are again exploring ways to re-write the rules.By monkeying with the electoral college in blue states like Michigan,...
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John Lennon Spoke Out For Peace and His Message Lives On
Shortly before 11 pm on December 8, 1980, thirty-four years ago today, John Lennon was shot dead. He was the most radical rock star of his generation, and his refusal to stop speaking out about...
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How The Left is Waking Up
After the midterms resulted in billionaires buying a U.S. Senate majority for Republicans, the CRomnibus spending bill fight has re-energized progressives and set the stage for full-throated opposition...
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The Skeletons in Jeb Bush's Closet
Jeb Bush is gearing up for his own presidential run, hoping to take advantage of Hillary Clinton being the likely Democratic nominee in 2016. Analysts predict a Bush-Clinton dynasty rematch will be...
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Jeb Bush's Ties to Terrorists and Corrupt Cuban Exiles
Today, President Obama announced the historic news that he is moving to normalize relations with Cuba. This move comes after 50 years of failed U.S. policy that attempted to undermine the Cuban...
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Phony Anti-Vaccine Propaganda Is Killing U.S. Children
The Huffington Post, 1-16-15When the nation turned our eyes to watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, we saw actress and former Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy urging viewers to kiss...
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Why The Chapel Hill Shooting Was More Hate Crime Than 'Parking Dispute'
OpEdNews 2-17-15, HuffPo 2-18-15CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- When word of the execution-style murders of three Muslim students here leaked onto social media on the evening of Feb. 10, the internet exploded...
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10 Questions Voters Were Not Allowed To Ask Trump At The Town Hall Debate
Medium 10-8-16, HuffPo 10-12-16 |Donald Trump is the biggest bullshit artist our nation has produced in the past few decades. But his con game is full of holes. Anyone with a little common sense...
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