
Tuesday, June 5 is the day that Wisconsin voters have the opportunity to restore the state’s tradition of honest, progressive government.

Tuesday, June 5 is the day that Wisconsin voters have the opportunity to restore the state’s tradition of honest, progressive government.

For this weekend’s reading list, we are focused on the June 5 Wisconsin recall election.

For Mitt “severe conservative” Romney, few things tell us more about his inability and unwillingness to stand up to the reactionary extremists that have taken over the GOP than his embrace of Ann Coulter.

As we remember those who have fallen in war this Memorial Day, we should also honor their legacy by working to ensure that we send our soldiers into harms way only when there no better options, and that we fully support our troops and their families, while at war and after they return home.

All of the Senators earning an A+ or A ranking for helping veterans are Democrats, while almost all of the Senators who earned a D or lower grade are Republicans.

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.

The good news is that despite the meddling of out-of-state billionaires and millionaires, this election is winnable for Barrett. It is up to progressives to put him over the top by getting involved.

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.

Romney is demonstrating time and again that reactionary conservatives, not moderates, would be running the show if he were to be elected President.

The contrast between President Obama and Mitt “Severe Conservative” Romney could not have been any clearer than it was this week.

I write as a proud supporter to urge you to take a stand on the civil right issue of our time and to strongly and publicly support marriage equality.

This weekend, we read about North Carolina’s anti-LGBT Amendment One, Paul Krugman’s new book, immigration, the SEC and more.

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.

Mitt Romney was, of course, there to continue demonstrating that reactionary conservatives, not moderates, would be running the show if Romney were to be elected President.

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.

Romney’s failure to stand up during the Republican primaries for the centrist values he will spend all fall pretending to support is a far more politically and substantively telling fact.

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.

While Mitt ‘Etch-a-Sketch’ Romney continues to struggle to defeat Rick ‘Man on Dog’ Santorum in the GOP Presidential primaries, President Obama has spent the last couple of weeks making clear that Romney will face a far tougher opponent in the general election if he becomes the GOP nominee.

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.