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Organizing report: Dallas Stops Evictions expands tenant movement to South Dallas

October 26, 2020 By Stu Becker

DSE activists are expanding their tenant organizing to more areas of Dallas, to apartments where horrendous living conditions are the norm.

Democrats right to close the door on McConnell’s sham COVID rescue bills

October 22, 2020 By Tim Libretti

McConnell's goal was simply to give Republican Senators some flimsy evidence to claim they supported rescue measures that Democrats didn’t vote for.

GOP Senate ignores 24 million unemployed workers, schedules Barrett vote first

October 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The panel’s ten Democrats boycotted the vote to move the Barrett nomination, calling the vote a sham. They said the priority should be an economic rescue package.

Some 17 percent of U.S. workers got jobless benefits last week

October 15, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Since the beginning of the pandemic 64 million have sought state or federal benefits.

To Biden and Harris: Don’t keep your best policies packed away

October 9, 2020 By John Wojcik

Both Biden and Harris have missed opportunities to present in a clear way the most important alternatives the Democrats have to Trump’s disastrous pandemic policies.