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Virginia General Assembly starts 2018 session with push for progressive laws
January 16, 2018Republicans have a tiny majority, but progressives are not letting that slow them from pushing for major reforms supported by the grassroots.
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AFL-CIO unions gear up for major push in 2018 election cycle
January 16, 2018The determination of the nation’s labor movement to come out on the winning side of this year’s election battles was strongly reflected at discussions during last weekend’s AFL-CIO Martin Luther King conference.
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Rev. Barber rouses crowd at Labor’s Martin Luther King conference
January 14, 2018Plans underway for a new Poor Peoples Campaign in cities across America
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GOP-run House passes renewal of spying program
January 12, 2018The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for six years.
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Trump to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran immigrants
January 12, 2018Salvadoran immigrants in the United States have just received an expected, but nevertheless traumatic blow from the xenophobic Trump administration.
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