An Economy for the One Percent

As volunteers delivered over one million signatures to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Walker was slated to attend a high-dollar fundraiser in New York's financial district.

"Right to Work" Bills Resurface in Indiana

Republicans are hurrying to put this legislation to rest before the Super Bowl comes to Indianapolis next month.

One Woman Tackles Walker's Top Lieutenant

Lori Compas almost single-handedly led a grassroots petition drive to recall 17-year incumbent and WI Senate Majority Leader, Scott Fitzgerald.

Citizens United: Costly, and Unpopular

A growing number of Americans are pushing to amend the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United.

Headlines

Jan 25 2012 - 9:30am | Sara Jerving
Presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have been publicly going at it, trying to discredit one another in order to gain the frontrunner status in the GOP primary race.
Jan 25 2012 - 9:20am | Anne Landman
Mitt Romney's 2010 tax returns show that in 2010, Romney and his wife, Ann, paid an effective tax rate of 13.9 percent on $21.6 million in income -- much lower than the 35 percent the country's top...
Jan 24 2012 - 8:32am | Mary Bottari
While volunteer after volunteer from each of Wisconsin’s 72 counties marched into the state’s election board to deposit over one million signatures for the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,...
Jan 23 2012 - 1:52pm | Wendell Potter
PARK CITY, Utah -- The  journey I embarked on when I made the decision to leave a successful career in the health insurance business was a spiritual one. I can trace the decision to a true...
Jan 21 2012 - 9:47am | PR Watcher
A guest post by Bob Sloan; read more from this author at the Daily Kos. Indiana Republicans, who hold solid majorities in the state House and Senate as well as the governor's mansion, have once...
Jan 20 2012 - 9:19am | Brendan Fischer
January 21 marks the second anniversary of Citizens United v. F.E.C., where a narrow majority of the U.S. Supreme Court asserted that the Constitution prevents Congress from limiting the amount of...
Jan 19 2012 - 7:15pm | Emily Osborne
Lori Compas is the Fort Atkinson woman who almost single-handedly led the grassroots petition drive to recall 17-year incumbent and Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau. The...
Jan 18 2012 - 5:17pm | Mary Bottari
Thousands of websites across America have gone dark this week in protest of supposed anti-piracy bills in Congress. I first noticed when I went to MichaelMoore.com to see how he was covering the...
Jan 18 2012 - 11:55am | PR Watcher
January 20 marks the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's disastrous decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C., where a narrow majority of the Court asserted that the Constitution prevents...
Jan 18 2012 - 11:16am | Mary Bottari
So many signatures were delivered demanding the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other state officials, that one scribe dubbed it the "greatest popular democracy movement in Wisconsin...

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January 19, 2012 - 7:15pm
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