Category: Left

Tom Steyer Could Spend His Millions Now Where it Could Make a Real Difference

Tom Steyer Could Spend His Millions Now Where it Could Make a Real Difference

Steyer and Need to Impeach should be carpet bombing the airwaves right now, putting the political screws to Republicans, making it politically impossible for them to continue their through-the-looking-glass, conspiracy-based defense of Trump.
The Nation Must Come to Terms With Its Violent Past With American Indians

The Nation Must Come to Terms With Its Violent Past With American Indians

Thanks to House Democrats, particularly Rep Sheila Jackson-Lee and legislation she's been shepherding this year, the nation has finally begun to have a long-past-due conversation on its history of chattel slavery--particularly how to make that history right for the descendants of slavery through reparations.
Trump’s ‘Space Force’ Is More Like a Lead Balloon

Trump’s ‘Space Force’ Is More Like a Lead Balloon

What is today's compelling need--the current rationale--for establishing a Space Force now?
Our Nation Is Off Course Because We’re Looking at the Wrong Heroes

Our Nation Is Off Course Because We’re Looking at the Wrong Heroes

Mister Rogers, Big Bird, and all of Big Bird's friends pointed us toward compassion. We are the ones who chose to turn away to a path of cruelty and divisiveness instead, as embodied by Donald Trump.
House Approval of New Voting Rights Bill Is Clarion Call

House Approval of New Voting Rights Bill Is Clarion Call

Friday's vote should ring clear as a bell that yes, Democrats are hard at work and particularly hard at work at protecting the civil and voting rights who need them most.
It Appears To Be Time for Devin Nunes To Switch Seats

It Appears To Be Time for Devin Nunes To Switch Seats

It's time for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif) to compel his colleague Nunes to move from his spot off of the dais and out to the witness table.
With Her Fundraising, Rep Ocasio-Cortez Raises the Bar

With Her Fundraising, Rep Ocasio-Cortez Raises the Bar

Without dialing for dollars or lobbyist meetings, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez raised more money than any other House Democrat in the third quarter, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is known for her fundraising prowess.
This Thanksgiving, Perhaps It’s Time Again To Be Thankful To Be Americans

This Thanksgiving, Perhaps It’s Time Again To Be Thankful To Be Americans

In our current tribalistic and hyper-partisan lives, we have perhaps become too often accustomed to identifying ourselves or our neighbors first as Democrats or Republicans, liberals or conservatives... instead of what unites us first as Americans.
Trump’s Wall: Ineffective, Waste of Money, Hurts the Military

Trump’s Wall: Ineffective, Waste of Money, Hurts the Military

So, now that he's had a chance to construct at least part of his long-loved wall, Trump has compiled a record of being ineffective, wasteful in government spending, and weak on the military.