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The Republican House leadership took a meat cleaver to the continuing resolution that would fund the government through the rest of the 2011 fiscal year (ending October 1st). The Republicans on [...]

We just got word that the House has begun debate on the bill to send $34 billion more to fuel the war in Afghanistan. And it’s coming just after Wikileaks revealed the horrors of war via [...]

It was “the strongest signal to date” that members of Congress won’t support the status quo in Afghanistan. And it happened because of you. Last night, thanks to your phone calls and emails and [...]

Rep. Mike Honda along with Reps. John Conyers, Alan Grayson and Raúl Grijalva issued a statement yesterday challenging the conservatives in the House to be fiscally responsible by opposing the [...]

The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, is delaying a vote on new Afghanistan war funding until Congress extends funding to states and the unemployed. It’s a move [...]

Today marks a heartbreaking milestone in the US’s misguided military engagement in Afghanistan. 1,000 American soldiers—fathers, mothers, daughters, sons—have perished in the war. It’s difficult [...]

pardon the Obama signs in the back.  What’s important about this video is the rush for the youth vote.  As a recently graduated ‘youth’ – well kind of youth…perhaps [...]

The disaffection of Ohio’s working class. by George Packer October 13, 2008 “You can’t make the assumption that because people are suffering economically,” a union official said, that “they’ll [...]

[The simplest and — we would hope! — most nonpartisan issue in the coming elections is whether voters who are entitled to vote will be allowed to, and whether votes legitimately cast [...]

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