democracy
Court tosses Montana ban on Super PACs, CWA vows to fight
June 29, 2012The top union proponents of constitutional limits on corporate spending in politics, vowed to step up that drive.
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Progressives say stakes in 2012 ‘higher than ever’
June 26, 2012With over 80 progressive organizations participating, the ninth annual conference of the Campaign for America's Future opened in Washington under the banner of "Take Back the American Dream."
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Florida asks: Democracy or voter purges?
June 21, 2012Will right-wing elected officials in the state act to stop Gov. Rick Scott and Republican Party allies from continuing an illegal voter purge?
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Labor rolls out biggest voter protection effort ever
June 12, 2012At a packed press conference the AFL-CIO, joined by the NAACP, the National Council of La Raza and the Generational Alliance, announced the launching of what could be the biggest voter protection effort in U.S. history.
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Watergate was only one of Nixon’s five wars
June 11, 2012Forty years after the news of the Watergate burglary, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein take on certain historical revisionists who claim Watergate was nothing more than a misguided political caper.
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