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Keeping Fighting Like Hell: Nina Turner on What Bernie Sanders and Progressives Should Do Next
"If Manchin and Sinema can push their will on the entire U.S. Senate and president, then the progressives—almost 100-strong—should damn sure be able to push their will too. They should not move. They got to hold. There's too much at stake." ...[Read more]
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GOP Wants Tax on Middle Class Instead of Rich for Infrastructure, Sanders Says
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said on Wednesday that Republicans are “insistent” upon taxing the working class in order to pay for the upcoming infrastructure bill in lieu of raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations. In an interview on CN ...[Read more]
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Workers With Health Insurance Face Rising Out-of-Pocket Costs
A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows annual premiums for a family now top $21,000, and deductibles have more than doubled since 2010. ...[Read more]
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Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal Unveil Bill That Would Tax Wall Street to Make College Free
Senator Bernie Sanders and Congress member Pramila Jayapal have introduced legislation that would tax Wall Street to pay for higher education. The bill would make community college free to all and would eliminate tuition and fees at public four-year colle ...[Read more]
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Starving Yemen
Yemen is starving to death. More accurately, Yemen is being starved to death.  The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf States, has deliberately chosen to weaponize starvation in its war against Yemen’s Iran-backe ...[Read more]
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Trump is still raking in the cash from many gullible supporters who buy into his scam: legal expert
Although former President Donald Trump has been gone from the White House since January 20, his diehard supporters remain true believers — and many of them are still sending him money. Richard W. Painter, who served as chief White House ethics lawyer un ...[Read more]
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More Than Two-Thirds of Students Want Police Out of Schools
Anew survey of more than 600 middle and high school students across four states finds that 41 percent feel “very unsafe” or “unsafe” when they see police officers at their public schools. One-third said they feel targeted by police based on an asp ...[Read more]
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Trump’s defense for scamming his supporters for donations falls apart under scrutiny
On Monday, responding to a bombshell report in the New York Times that Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign ripped off his supporters with a reoccurring donation scheme that emptied some donors bank accounts, the former president issued a statement c ...[Read more]
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46 Million in US Say They Would Not Be Able to Afford Needed Health Care
A new study released Wednesday morning shows that nearly 50 million Americans would be unable to afford quality healthcare should the need for treatment suddenly arise, a finding seen as further evidence of the immorality of a for-profit insurance system ...[Read more]
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Universal Health Care is a Popular Idea in America, So Why Does Biden Seem Intent on Enriching Private Insurance Companies? – CounterPunch.org
A new poll by Morning Consult and Politico finds that a majority of Americans—55 percent—support Medicare for All. Strangely, the pollsters headlined their results by saying, “Medicare for All Remains Polarizing.” Nearly 80 percent of all Democrat ...[Read more]
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Trump Team, Including Giuliani, May Face Charges for False Statements in Georgia
Prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump and his legal team’s attempts to upend election results in Georgia using false allegations of fraud are likely planning to utilize a little-used law in the state that makes it a crime to knowingly ...[Read more]
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