
While re-electing President Obama should be the top priority, there are many important candidates and issues further down the ballot.

While re-electing President Obama should be the top priority, there are many important candidates and issues further down the ballot.

Single payer health care, progressives making a difference, the myth of ‘voter fraud,’ immigrants in private prisons and the Bush tax cuts.

Rep Vern Buchanan of Florida’s 13th District is under investigation for money laundering. With his history of financial misconduct, including a multi-million dollar fine for defrauding stockholders, things are looking grim for this 2-term Congressman.

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.