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Don't Let Anyone Question Your Patriotism

Our political disagreements over the direction of the country and who is best qualified to lead it in the right direction should never be used as a weapon to question our love for this country. In fact, the willingness to be intensely engaged in the struggle to being this nation closer to its ideals is the very mark of a patriot. That's why we're telling Fox News and the right in general: Stop attacking patriotic Americans simply because you don't agree with them. more »

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Help AFSCME Tell Congress to invest in America

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All Aboard the McCain Express

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thenation.com — The most important glue binding conservatism together is a shared sense that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. And to conservatives, McCain has been too often one of the sneerers. That helps explain the strange McCain contortions Republicans have been forcing themselves into in recent weeks.

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Take Back America: Podcast Preview

Take Back America 2008Listen as our communications director, Toby Chaudhuri, offers a preview of "the progressive convention," Take Back America 2008, on my "LiberalOasis Radio Show."

Links to the complete schedule and more on the main conference page. more »

Progressives Rising

2008: A Sea-Change Election

Progressives-rising-240px.gifThe 2008 election has the potential to be not simply one of change, as conventional wisdom suggests, but of sea-change—an election that marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics for the past three decades.

"Progressives Rising—2008: A Sea-Change Election" details the signs of the emergence of that era, and cautions that progressives will not only have to continue to drive the debate in the election season, but will also have to define, expand and claim the mandate after the election.

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DMI Sends Members of Congress Home with Their 2007 Grades!

If the middle class could give your Congressmember a grade, what would it be? Today, DMI releases grades for every senator and representative, evaluating their votes on key legislation that affects the current and aspiring middle class. more »

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Obstruction Alert: Renewable Energy Stalled in Senate

 New Power, New Vision for New EnergyAs oil prices hit record highs, all indications are that a stubborn conservative minority in the U.S. Senate will stand in the way of sensible energy legislation that would shift tax breaks away from Big Oil, which doesn't need them, and toward renewable energy companies that do. more »

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Parting the Red Sea

Take Back America 2008Why should you take a progressive politics vacation in Washington D.C. March 17-19? Thinks of it as a Nation cruise, only without Alexander Cockburn in beachwear. Plus, in one of the first sessions of the conference, we will be parting George Bush's Red Sea. more »

Bush’s Legacy and the Damage Done

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progressive.org — With President Bush attending his last G8 summit in Japan, it is a good time to assess the foreign policy legacy of his Administration — and what a legacy!

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Invisible Tragedies - Four Construction Workers Killed Every Day Building America

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huffingtonpost.com — Every day an average of four construction workers are killed as they go about building America, because OSHA under President Bush is failing construction workers.

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The Doctors' Revolt

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prospect.org — Doctors, the traditional advocates for the medical status quo, are increasingly in favor of major reforms to the U.S. health-care system.

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McCain: Noun, Verb, Terrorism

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prospect.org — For all John McCain's supposed experience, he has the same absurdly simplistic and factually ignorant understanding of the problem as President Bush.

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