Congress

Obamacare repeal is a stealth tax break for billionaires

January 18, 2017 By Josh Hoxie

Repealing the Affordable Care Act will strip low-income families of what little resources they have.

Remembering Shirley Chisholm

November 30, 2016 By Patrick J. Foote

According to Chisholm: “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”

India-born Pramila Jayapal, a fighting progressive, wins Washington State primary

August 11, 2016 By Tim Wheeler

As a Washington state senator, Jayapal championed protections for immigrants and minorities and voting rights for all, and for a raise in the state minimum wage.

Communist Party of France plans to build broad left coalition

June 9, 2016 By Tony Pecinovsky

French communists pledged that they will have half a million conversations with French voters this fall.

Two of Virginia’s Congressional districts get re-drawn over GOP objections

May 31, 2016 By Art Cook

Judges re-drew Southern Va.'s 3rd and 4th Congressional districts; GOP lawmakers had concentrated the region's African-American voters into a single district.