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October 1, 2010 9:14 pm | By Brian
Pro-GOP Outside Groups Eclipse Parties in Spending
Traditionally, political parties and their campaign arms spend the most amount of money promoting their congressional and senatorial candidates across the country. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, however, a flurry of outside groups has materialized with gigantic…
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October 1, 2010 6:59 pm | By Jen Herrick
It gets better
It’s not often that a web site like Gawker makes me stop and think, but staff writer Brian Moylan did just that in a moving post about anti-gay bullying. If we can't save these kids' lives, then all of our…
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October 1, 2010 6:30 pm | By Jen Herrick
Menendez introduces LGBT-inclusive immigration reform
Senator Menendez has sent a strong message that same-sex couples and their families deserve equal rights under immigration law. On Wednesday, he joined with Senator Leahy to introduce a comprehensive immigration reform bill that is LGBT-inclusive. Both men support the…
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October 1, 2010 4:19 pm | By Brian
News Corp Helps Chamber, Chamber Helps Republicans
Much like how Sarah Palin advised Christine O’Donnell to “speak through Fox News,” News Corp. is increasingly speaking through pro-corporate groups political groups. Following their $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association, the parent company of Fox News is…
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October 1, 2010 3:30 pm | By Miranda Blue
Obama to Senate: Stop Playing Games with the Courts
On Wednesday night, the Senate left for recess without confirming a single one of the 23 judicial nominees who had been waiting for a vote, most of them for several months. The GOP blocked the majority of these nominees not…
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October 1, 2010 1:46 pm | By Brian
YEO stands up to Sharron Angle’s Dangerous Health Care Stance
When video emerged of Sharron Angle, the Republican nominee in Nevada for US Senate, dismissing insurance mandates for covering autism and maternity leave, Nevada Assemblyman David Bobzien stood up to her dangerous attacks. Angle told a crowd at a Tea…
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September 30, 2010 3:52 pm | By Kyle
Right Wing Watch In Focus: “Rogues’ Gallery”
Today, People For the American Way released our latest Right Wing Watch In Focus report examining the slate of extremist GOP Senate candidates running for office this year. Entitled "The Rogues' Gallery: Right-Wing Candidates Have A Dangerous Agenda for America…
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September 30, 2010 3:27 pm | By Miranda Blue
The Tea Party’s Populist Paradox
The Hill today succinctly outlines the 2010 Tea Party Paradox—even while Tea Party candidates spout populist rhetoric, the powerful interests backing them have pretty much the opposite of populism in mind. Large corporate donations to groups that don’t have to…
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September 29, 2010 6:14 pm | By Brian
Senate Dysfunction Continues as Two Republicans Block Women’s Museum
Republican obstructionism found another victim today in the senate: a bipartisan bill to sell unused land for the construction of the National Women’s History Museum has been held up in the Senate. Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Tom Coburn (R-OK)…
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September 29, 2010 6:09 pm | By Drew Courtney
Americans For Prosperity Sends Us an Email
Yesterday, PFAW released “After Citizens United,” documenting the torrents of money that have poured into the political system since the Supreme Court’s disastrous decision allowing corporations the same rights as people to influence elections. Imagine my glee when I found…
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September 28, 2010 10:36 pm | By Paul Gordon
New Term for the Supreme Court, New Opportunities for Corporations
As detailed in PFAW Foundation’s report Rise of the Corporate Court, the Roberts Court has been routinely and consistently bending the law and the Constitution to elevate the rights of corporations over the rights of individuals. To borrow a metaphor…
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September 28, 2010 9:44 pm | By Miranda Blue
Johnson: Protecting Victims of Child Abuse Will Hurt Business
A devotion to business interests over the needs of ordinary people is a theme that unites ultra-right-wing Tea Party candidates throughout the country. But how far does that devotion go? Today, a video emerged of Wisconsin Senate candidate Ron Johnson…
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September 28, 2010 8:44 pm | By Miranda Blue
DeMint’s Democracy
If you needed any more proof that Congress’s “deliberative body” has officially become its “dysfunctional body,” today we have this: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint warned Monday evening that he would block all legislation that has not been cleared by…
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September 28, 2010 4:58 pm | By Brian
Conservative Groups Saturating the Airways
The Associated Press and the Washington Post described today what many predicated after the Supreme Court in Citizens United knocked down most restrictions on corporate spending in elections: political groups with a pro-corporate agenda and little transparency have flooded the…
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September 27, 2010 7:30 pm | By Miranda Blue
Surprise, Surprise: Wisconsin Voter Caging Stems Back to Koch Brothers’ Corporate Agenda
Last week, we wrote about a voter suppression plan concocted by GOP and Tea Party-affiliated groups in Wisconsin meant to keep young and minority voters from the polls this November.Think Progress dug further into the issue, and traced much of…
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September 24, 2010 10:23 pm | By Miranda Blue
Judge Finds Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Dismissal Unconstitutional
A district court judge has ruled that the Air Force violated Maj. Margaret Witt’s constitutional rights when it fired her for being a lesbian. In 2008, a federal appeals court panel ruled in her case that the military can't discharge…
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September 24, 2010 6:20 pm | By Ben Betz
Disgusting
THIS is faction that’s setting the Republican Party’s agenda and that will cement its complete control over the GOP — and perhaps Congress — if enough Tea Partiers and hard-right candidates are successful in their bids for office this November.…
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September 24, 2010 6:17 pm | By Ben Betz
Muslim Bashing = Racism
To borrow from Bill Maher, I'm going to go ahead and make my own "New Rule." NEW RULE: Republicans and right-wing activists cannot get breathlessly indignant every time someone calls them out for racism while actively promoting vile Islamophobic hate…
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September 24, 2010 4:34 pm | By Miranda Blue
“The ACLU Chromosome” and other judicial disqualifiers
Politico today outlines an emerging trend in judicial obstruction. While partisan battles over judicial nominees have in past years focused on the occasional appellate court judge or Supreme Court justice, these days even nominees to lower-profile district courts are fair…
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September 24, 2010 5:00 am | By
Hung out to dry
Republicans have given us a sneak peek of what they have in store for America if they succeed in taking over Congress on Election Day ... and it's not pretty. On Tuesday, Republican senators voted in lockstep to block the…