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Weekend Reading List

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For this weekend’s reading list, we have stories about some of Mitt Romney’s billionaire sugar daddies, the impact of markets on our society, wrongful convictions in the US, progressive economics, and tips for evaluating the accuracy and validity of polls.

Weekend Reading List

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For this weekend’s reading list, we have an in-depth investigation showing that Texas almost certainly executed an innocent person, a report on how a stable middle class encourages economic growth, an article uncovering other organizations promoting corporate conservative state legislation, how Mitt “Severe Conservative” Romney is a servant of the right-wing, and how profit-making has led Louisiana to have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Keep Up the Pressure On ALEC And Its Supporters

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There was big news Tuesday when the shadowy right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”) announced it was shutting down its Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which had pushed the controversial voter suppression laws and Stand Your Ground laws in state legislatures throughout the country.

Weekend Reading List

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For this weekend’s reading list we have articles on the Buffett Rule, ObamaCare reducing the deficit, the oil industry making massive profits yet cutting jobs, speaking to your children about diversity and inclusion, and the 50th anniversary of the Students for a Democratic Society founding.

To Win, Progressives Must Speak Out

Speak-out

In order to counteract the vapid nature of our media and the conservative megaphone that we face, it is up to all of us progressives to take the progressive message to the American people, the media, the White House, members of the House and Senate, and the letters to the editor pages of our local newspapers.

Weekend Reading List

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For this weekend’s reading list, we have an interview with the author of a new book on how to tackle the deficit without destroying government, a critique of the GOP’s ‘faith-based’ economic theories, a study on conservative media bias that helped destroy ACORN, an accounting of how states have been unable to reform health insurance, an analysis of how computerized voter registration systems would increase voting rolls while saving money, and a critique of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s undemocratic governance.