A small number of billionaires own and control our economy. Increasingly, they own and control our government through a corrupt campaign finance system.
This is not democracy. This is oligarchy.
We must overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
Nearly every presidential administration following FDR with the cooperation of Congress has been working tirelessly to tear down the modest reforms ushered in by the New Deal, many modern Democrats don’t even pretend to support New Deal social programs like Medicare and SS
The US needs a strong military, but we do not need a defense system that is designed to make huge profits for a handful of giant defense contractors.
We do not need to spend almost a trillion dollars on the military, while children go hungry.
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Hundreds of doctors, medical students, and activists are meeting in Chicago to organize, strategize, and fight for #SinglePayer#MedicareForAll.
#PNHP2024 is off to a great start!
The only thing more ridiculous than President-elect Trump creating a position for Elon Musk is Democrats refusing to wield power similarly when in power.
Democrats let the unelected parliamentarian stop them from raising the minimum wage when they held the House and Senate.
Israel blew up the historic Grand Mosque, the oldest Mosque in Gaza.
This was built in 1291. 657 years before the Rothschilds invented modern day Israel.
Qatar has withdrawn from Gaza ceasefire talks, accusing the parties of having no intention of ending the conflict in Gaza.
"There never were serious ceasefire negotiations," says @MouinRabbani. "This entire process from the outset has been a complete charade.”
ICYMI: A new report from The Lancet reveals how Israel is deliberately targeting mothers and newborns in Gaza.
This is reproductive violence.
This is genocide.
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The Ark. Board of Corrections just signed off on the governor's plan to build a new 3K bed prison in Franklin County, barely 12 hours after a contentious town hall meeting in which locals expressed opposition to the proposal in the strongest terms.
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