Under the radar, Scott Walker is selling out Wisconsin deer hunters.
30 billionaires are major donors to a Romney-backing superPAC.
The Republican War on Working Women isn’t in your imagination. Look at the evidence.
Fox News isn’t a problem because of its viewpoint. It’s a problem because of its constant, deliberate dishonesty. (It’s worse than watching no news at all.)
Scholarship funds meant to help needy students are instead being used to siphon dollars away from public schools and into private ones.
Why cutting the Census Department’s American Community Survey is a bad idea.
ALEC says it isn’t a lobbying group. Why are they specifically exempt from lobbying restrictions?
VIDEO: North Carolina legislators get a wake-up call from constituents tired of cuts to education and basic services.
If JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon didn’t already have you steaming, he will now.
Robert Reich wrote The Commencement Address That Won’t Be Given (but maybe it should).
Finally: Well played, The Onion. Well played.
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Aren’t you tired of hearing “get a job?” (via MoveOn).
One Philadelphia woman marched with Dr. King and voted in every election since 1960 – but wouldn’t be able to vote under Gov. Corbett’s new law.
While the wealthiest Americans get richer, the rest of us are falling deeper and deeper into debt.
How the 1% think about their wealth.
Poor put-upon Wall Streeters tell Obama he should do a new version of the “race speech”…aimed at defending Wall Streeters.
#RickScottFail #40: Florida governor creates jobs…in other states?
With Newt out of the race, anti-union casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson turns to Scott Walker.
Connecticut passes same-day voter registration. #WarontheWaronVoting
Occupy and faith groups make May the month to “Move Your Money” away from big banks.
Finally: BuzzFeed celebrates the history of women in the Labor Movement in pictures.
Our Michigan State Director Fran Brennan on the continuing fight for non-cyber public schools.
Voter-suppression bills may will influence the outcome of the 2012 election.
“If that sounds like trickle-down economics all over again, that’s because it is.”
Look down the ticket for the real effects of billionaires’ big money.
Occupying the financial regulatory system.
Always worth repeating: our economy is being dragged down by an ideological crusade of public-sector job losses.
Since the austerity experiment has shredded jobs at the state level, why would we do it nationally?
Stephen King colorfully explains why taxes and charity are two different things–and why the rich need to pay their fair share.
Sad news from a great magazine.
#RickScottFail #39: Florida governor’s drug-testing policy ruled unconstitutional.
Michael Podhorzer recaps in the incredible victory of Mark Critz in Western Pennsylvania.
Finally: Tomorrow is May Day. A guide to what’s happening where.
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Activists transform Bank of America ATM’s into “Automated Truth Machines.”
How is Mitt Romney more right-wing than George W. Bush? Let us count the ways.
Wisconsin’s anti-union law, Act 10, hits teachers the hardest.
Another unintended consequence of Wisconsin’s union-busting Act 10.
When did Republican leaders in Congress make the decision to reject compromise entirely? Inauguration night.
How do we pay for the bill that keeps student loan interest rates low?
Why Rick Scott’s Florida is a grim preview of what a Romney-Ryan country would look like.
The May 1 action at the Golden Gate Bridge could launch Occupy 2.0.
AFL-CIO President Trumka asks: Is Walmart too big to obey the law?
What the Trayvon Martin case and large-scale financial crimes cases have in common.
Presenting: America’s dumbest tax loophole. Yes, it involves cows.
How misleading reporting shapes the Social Security debate.
A good question: Why is Social Security so continuously under fire?
Crossroads GPS, the Bush-veteran-staffed political operation, got 35 percent of its 2011 money from one big anonymous check.
Two simple steps to expand and strengthen the middle class.
Sen. Pat Toomey explains his anti-jobs, anti-worker votes with a telling gaffe.
The disconnect between CEO pay and the economy.
It’s been three months – we need more from the Financial Fraud Task Force.
House Republicans vote to repeal a financial reform provision allowing the government to wind down, rather than bail out, failing banks.
With ALEC under fire, another right-wing organization takes up the voter suppression cause.
A tribute to the late great Levon Helm, singer/drummer for The Band, who passed away today.
The next target for a Gingrich-funding, union-busting casino tycoon: the House of Representatives.
The Ten Million Dollar man: Karl Rove’s group Crossroads GPS gets big money from one anonymous donor.
What we can learn from the success of the campaign against ALEC’s corporate sponsors.
Related: What would a progressive counterforce to ALEC look like?
Like a stubborn, annoying neighbor, State Farm sticks with ALEC despite pressure.
Do you like Florida’s so-called “Stand Your Ground” law? Then you’ll love Scott Walker’s “Castle Doctrine.”
What people in their 20s stand to lose if the Affordable Care Act goes away.
Tweet of the Day:
@NELPNews: Job Loss in Georgia Among the Nation’s Worst bit.ly/HWWheB Georgia responds by slashing unemployment insurance bit.ly/HeZRSu
Want to fight corporate-backed voter suppression? There’s an app for that, thanks to Faye Anderson.
And that’s good, because citizens are already having a difficult time getting ID’s in Pennsylvania.
Related: How women are disproportionately affected by voter suppression laws.
Opponents of Michigan’s EFM repeal drive turn desperate – but will the media report on it?
