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Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives What the civil war in Syria has exposed is that the massive political and social transformation, and real regime change under way is led by people themselves. US military involvement serves only to escalate the destruction. Read the Full Story
Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal The Pentagon will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan, according to administration officials. Read the Full Story
Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man One of California’s great mysteries is the state’s governor, Jerry Brown. In a time when America’s politicians strive to be everywoman and everyman, Brown goes his own way. While a nation frantically chases youth, the 75-year-old governor who glories in his age and experience, is at the top of his game. Read the Full Story
No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale.  And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers.  And wow are people outraged! Read the Full Story
Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing Pentagon officials today claimed President Obama and future presidents have the power to send troops anywhere in the world to fight groups linked to al-Qaeda, based in part on the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), passed by Congress days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Read the Full Story
An urgent message to 200 members of Congress They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. Read the Full Story
When the IRS targeted liberals Under George W. Bush, it went after the NAACP, Greenpeace and even a liberal church.                          Read the Full Story
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record Here's who is buying America's democracy The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Read the Full Story
Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats Some of you might remember "CREEP" from 1972's Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could've been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself, but instead it referred to the "Committee to RE-Elect the President." Read the Full Story
H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act” Since 2000 more than 50,000 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. have closed and roughly 50,000 industrial jobs have been lost each month.  Now service sector jobs, where the remaining two-thirds of all workers are currently employed, are disappearing.   Read the Full Story
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records The Associated Press says the U.S. Department of Justice has secretly obtained a trove of journalists' phone records in what its chief executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion Read the Full Story
MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY More Than 175 Members of Congress to be urged to Support Legislation  to Tax Wall Street, Raise Revenue for Main Street Recovery and Bring a Halt to Austerity

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image Syria: the threats, costs, claims and lives
image Pentagon Said to Seek $80 Billion for War Amid Withdrawal
image Jerry Brown: California’s Mystery Man
image No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
image Video: Pentagon Accused of 'Rewriting Constitution' to Wage Endless War in Senate Hearing
image An urgent message to 200 members of Congress
image When the IRS targeted liberals
image Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 1--donors on the record
image Logo Lowdown from the 2012 elections. Part 2--donors OFF the record, or off the radar
image H.R. 1000, the “Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act”
image Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark Decries Government's "Big Brother" Seizure of AP Phone Records
image MAJOR PUSH AT CONGRESS: PROSPERITY, NOT AUSTERITY
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Friday, 24 August 2012 21:32

House Democrats’ majority hopes rest on several former members

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Alan Grayson is trying to return to Congress

Who doesn’t like a good comeback story?

That’s a question voters will answer come November in some of the most competitive House races in the country. For Democrats, who need to net 25 seats to seize back the majority, a handful of pickup opportunities rest with former members trying to win their old jobs back.

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Friday, 27 July 2012 15:34

I Won't Close the Lemonade Stands

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I Won't Close the Lemonade Stands

One of my opponents has a new ad, claiming that I will shut down all children's lemonade stands. 

Seriously. 

He says that I won't be acting alone, of course. I will do it in concert with my "progressive cronies" - the actual term in the ad. Presumably in return for corporate PAC contributions from Big Lemon. 

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Friday, 27 July 2012 15:18

Gov. Howard Dean: Alan Grayson Deserves Your Support

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Alan Grayson was a terrific Congressman during the term he spent in Congress. As a freshman member of the House of Representatives, he changed the national debate on health care, and made it stick. The Republicans have hated him for it ever since. They spent millions against him, to get him out of Congress in 2010. But now he's back.

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Friday, 20 July 2012 00:00

They're Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

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They're Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Alan Grayson was on national TV with Rev. Al Sharpton discussing Republican healthcare plans for seniors and the uninsured. Their old plan was “don’t get sick”; their new plans are far worse. This is what Alan said:

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Friday, 20 July 2012 17:35

Under Romney's budget plan, seniors would pay an extra $6,400 a year for health care

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Under Romney's budget plan, seniors would pay an extra $6,400 a year for health care

Mitt Romney's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program would enable him to pay for a massive tax cut for the rich, which former Rep. Alan Grayson described as Romney's "shell game" on PoliticsNation.

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