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People are ready to work, ready to do their part, ready to fight for their futures and their kids’ futures, but they see a government
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It is astounding to me from a moral perspective that folks in the Republican Party stay up nights figuring out how they can give more
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How the netroots + grassroots turned back the forces of austerity The Nation’s Mary Bottari explains how people-powered politics stopped the neoliberal and conservative campaign
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