Another Seattle City Council candidate eliminated in last Tuesday’s Top Two election has bowed out with a classy, graceful Facebook post. Last week, it was
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Rod Hearne reflects on his now-ended campaign for Seattle City Council District #3
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People can’t rise if they can’t afford healthcare… They can’t rise if the minimum wage is too low to live on… They can’t rise if
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LaunchAfter two corrections, The New York Times’ botched Clinton email story still has an error
After two corrections, The New York Times’ botched Clinton email story still has an error Media Matters excoriates The New York Times for its sloppy,
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LaunchNetroots Nation 2015: Where Bernie Sanders is king
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LaunchThe mad scramble to get off the Republican debate bubble
Tossing Trump in on stage turns every debate into a fiasco, which is bad for the Republican Party but ratings manna for the cable networks.
LaunchJeb Bush: “I don’t get economic policy from my bishops or my cardinals or my pope”
I hope I’m not going to get castigated for saying this by my priest back home, but I don’t get economic policy from my bishops
Launch“They’re rapists,” Donald Trump says of Mexican immigrants
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LaunchInitiative 735 volunteers working to make sure ‘the small potatoes matter’
You can call them crazy dreamers, or naive. But I’m rooting for them. It’d be great to call something a “citizens’ initiative” again that doesn’t
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