FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: Valerie Jean-Charles covidresponse@fenton.com Progressives Mobilize to Pass Heroes Act, House COVID Relief Bill Groups Vow to Continue Fighting for Improvements and Additional Relief WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders of the country’s biggest progressive organizations pledged today to mobilize their millions of members to pass the HEROES...
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Believe survivors has always meant that people who come forward with allegations of sexual violence deserve the presumption of truth, and that their allegations should be heard and respected, not ignored or dismissed. Sexual violence is an epidemic in our country. We owe survivors a process where they are treated...
How MoveOn members came together in March in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic It’s clear that we are living in an unprecedented moment. Within all of the uncertainty, MoveOn members across the country have pulled together to stand up for one another, keep each other safe, and hold...
Millions of MoveOn members will mobilize as part of group’s ‘America for All’ campaign; more than 30,000 members in battleground states are expected to volunteer in person More than 7 million ‘high-potential’ voters in key battlegrounds are group’s turnout targets Grassroots are energized to hold elected officials accountable after complicit...
We are upgrading our petition system! Please take a look at the FAQs below: The new system: Will the petition site be down during the upgrade? Yes. Certain MoveOn petition pages will be down beginning Monday, December 9 while we complete the upgrade. This means you won’t be able to...
[democracy id=”19″] Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race. Who will be next.
An Iran born Danish millionaire set a willfully uninformed Donny Deutsch straight on his ignorant comment about healthcare in Denmark. The Dane also pointed out how disingenuous Deutsch was with his personal characterization. It all started last week on Real Time with Bill Maher where Donny Deutsch said the following....
Senator Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News and said that if Bernie Sanders is the nominee of the Democratic Party, Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, will not vote for him. Centrist Democrats are always expressing concerns about whether Progressives would show up for their less than progressive candidates in the...
[democracy id=”18″] Below you can read Sen. Elizabeth Warren Medicare For All plan: Warren will increase the 3% wealth tax on people with more than a billion dollars to 6%. Warren is proposing $20.5 trillion in new federal spending under the proposal. https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6535845-Elizabeth-Warren-Medicare-for-All-Plan
GOP disinformation and gaslighting got real wacky yesterday, with Devin Nunes claiming a projection of cult of personality that sure sounds like Trumpism. WATCH: Rep. Nunes on the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry and Chairman Schiff: “These are a group of people loyally following their leader as he bounces from one outlandish...
After mocking Kathy Griffin last year, Tomi Lahren chose to lampoon @AOC this year. Tomi Lahren dresses as Ocasio-Cortez for #Halloween https://t.co/yyMIfyHdZ3 pic.twitter.com/j2gQ5eSwX3 — The Hill (@thehill) November 1, 2019 Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren dressed as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for Halloween this year, referring to the freshman lawmaker as “the thing that scares...
At a private fundraiser last night, Trump talked about meeting Steve Scalise’s wife after he was shot: she “cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day … I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.” pic.twitter.com/RNbBq52klv —...
For too long the mainstream media has been given a pass for being the patsy of the plutocracy. Many times they ask loaded questions with an intent to mislead and in doing so placate their masters, the pharmaceutical industrial complex, the healthcare industrial complex, the energy industrial complex, and every other...
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Stop your search for the Top Anti-Trump Communities on Facebook. The Politicus has you covered! If we are missing one of your favorites. Please add them in the comments and we will continuously build this list based on your suggestions. FU Trump Investigation of the Trump-Russia Conspiracy in the 2016 Election...
Here is The Politicus Top 5 Political Books of October 2019: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation’s capital. In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow...
[democracy id=”16″] He has done it again, Trump’s bag man Devin “Sue a Fake Cow ” Nunes is at the center of the whistleblower naming being released. Is it time for him to face the music? This isn’t the first time he has broken the law. Remember this: 2 White House...
Political Wire has a story behind its paywall this morning: Pence Not Willing to Defend Trump on Quid Pro Quo Vice President Mike Pence appeared on Face the Nation yesterday to mostly talk about the operation targeting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But buried at the end of the...
More and more “political professionals” believe Elizabeth Warren will be the Democratic nominee. They also believe Warren will have a tough time beating Trump. What do you think? [democracy id=”15″]
Building one stunt upon another — after the House GOP bum’s rush yesterday on the SCIF, Lindsey Graham made up reasons contradictory to those he espoused in 1998 to object to the House’s investigation. Since the display was meant to satisfy the White House, it got little attention by MSM. The...
A distortion that probably didn’t need publicity because the sample is flawed. “The survey from Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday found that 47 percent of registered voters polled said the Democratic Party has moved “too far left;” however, most of those voters identified as Republicans.” By contrast, 37 percent of...
Apparently, Trump’s lawyer(s) have been volunteering, in the context of immunity, the exposure of the VPOTUS to indictment. Not much space under that bus. Why does Donald Trump's legal team keep bringing making the unprompted point that a vice president can totally be prosecuted while in office?! (…wonders Mike Pence,...
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Other than a rhetorical diversion into the use of “lynching”, Lindsey Graham is one of a few Senate Republicans unencumbered by the possibility of sitting as an impeachment juror. RWNJ pundits have taken to attacking Graham to fill the space of media reaction and in the absence of many Trump...
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Harry Reid had many progressives up in arms last week as he left the impression that Elizabeth Warren is not as progressive as her campaign rhetoric indicates. I beg to differ. A few days ago, former Senate Majority Leader Reid was David Axelrod’s guest on his CNN podcast The Axe...
I was concerned that the corporate mainstream media would adopt Hillary Clinton’s narrative of Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian asset. Chuck Todd, the MSM standard-bearer and others have not. Chuck Todd gets this one right Anyone who read or heard Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Secretary Hillary Clinton’s statement smearing Congresswoman Tulsi...
When presidential candidate Julian Castro said “Police violence is also gun violence”, I nearly jumped out my seat. Castro also said” I’m not going to give these police officers another reason to go door-to-door in certain communities because police violence is also gun violence While Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar fought...
House gets dropped on WH’s Ukrainian shadow puppet show in latest #Trumpeachment news, even as WH tries to invalidate the now official inquiry. I’m Melting! Wicked witch gets doused because he’s already publicly admitted to the crime. Sir, please pay attention. You are the whistleblower. https://t.co/shWCy1hzSt — Jennifer Taub 🌻...
>@RepDennyHeck on Fiona Hill's 10 hour testimony today: "If the woman doesn't have an eidetic memory––total recall–– she's very close to it." That's very bad news for Trump and Rudy Colludiani. Very, very bad. 😏cc @Delavegalaw @GottaLaff @Kris_Sacrebleuhttps://t.co/mfzCGlUtUs — Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) October 15, 2019 Fiona Hill’s attorney’s letter to...
Turkish bombardment continues prior to a Turkish ground advance over the border. At least 16 Kurdish fighters have been killed by Turkish forces. #Turkey has already conducted 181 airstrikes in the area. Civilian casualties are unknown. These attacks and the death toll are on the President’s hands. #Syria https://t.co/vrGp4cFy1i —...
After Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) appeared on Fox and Friends this morning and said military action may be called for against Iran, MoveOn had the following statement. Statement of MoveOn campaigns director Justin Krebs: “Senator Coons going on Fox and giving ammunition to Trump administration war hawks who are trying...
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There has always been the view that Ronald Reagan was a racist. Well; with the recent release of the Nixon tapes, we now know it’s true!
In the last eight months, six migrant children are known to have died after being taken into U.S. immigration custody. This tragic tally includes 16-year-old Carlos Hernandez Vásquez, 2 ½-year-old Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vásquez, 16-year-old Juan de León Gutiérrez, 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin, 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo, and 10-year-old Darlyn...
Members say they want a candidate who ‘inspires the public with deep progressive values’ and ‘makes the connections between racial, social, and economic injustice.’ WASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads a new MoveOn straw poll with the support of 38% of members nationwide, followed by Bernie Sanders with 17%....
Nationwide First Choice Second Choice Elizabeth Warren 37.8% Bernie Sanders 16.5% Joe Biden 14.9% Pete Buttigieg 11.7% Kamala Harris 6.8% Undecided 2.2% Beto O’Rourke 1.8% Andrew Yang 1.1% Jay Inslee 1.1% Cory Booker 1.0% Amy Klobuchar 1.0% Tulsi Gabbard 0.8% Marianne Williamson 0.8% Someone Else 0.4% Michael Bennett 0.3% Julián...
After intensive search process, MoveOn selects accomplished and experienced progressive movement organizer and leader as its next executive director; Epting’s tenure will begin in fall MoveOn announced today that after an intensive multi-month search process, its boards have selected Rahna Epting to serve as the next executive director of MoveOn...
2020 Democratic presidential candidates Secretary Julián Castro, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Senator Elizabeth Warren will all appear on stage at MoveOn’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco, California, on June 1. At the event, each candidate will present “One Big Idea” that will change...
Yeah, just so you know, he wasn’t talking about Trump. ThinkProgress: On Monday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson warned about the supposed dangers of Democrats’ threats to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee. “These people are fascist,” Carlson...
After MoveOn members asked candidates to skip the AIPAC conference, no 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are yet publicly committed to attend the AIPAC conference in DC this weekend! The story comes after a number of leading candidates—Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, Mayor Julián Castro,...
NEW SURVEY: Over 74% of MoveOn Members Believe 2020 Presidential Candidates Should Not Attend AIPAC Conference AIPAC conference to be headlined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Mike Pence, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer & Rep. Kevin McCarthy A new survey from MoveOn Political...
“Congress must not give into Trump’s demand for increased funding for a wall, his deportation machine, or border militarization in the next round of this fight” WASHINGTON, DC — Moments ago, Donald Trump announced a deal with Congress to end the government shutdown and reopen the federal government for three...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019 CONTACT: press@moveon.org MoveOn, United We Dream, Indivisible, and other groups call for national action on Tuesday, the day Trump intends to deliver a State of the Union address. WASHINGTON — During a television appearance tonight on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes, Rep. Katie Hill...