Every year on the state and local level, the Netroots works to elect candidates to offices large and small, win victories in legislative fights and hold their elected officials accountable....
Posted by | April 7, 2012
The American Legislative Exchange Council has been behind virtually every major right-wing state law in the past two years, including union-busting, teacher-bashing, voter suppression, attacks on immigrants, privatizing basic public...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Deval Patrick won an unlikely race for governor in 2006; two years later, Barack Obama was elected president. In January 2010, Scott Brown won an unlikely race for U.S. Senate;...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Working across class, generation, ethnic and trade barriers, Working Rhode Island is following the “One Big Union” model in exciting and dynamic ways. Built out of a common need to...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
In state after state, working people and the progressive community have met unprecedented attacks on their salaries, pensions and social services with blow-out success. But it’s not enough to play...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
With reproductive rights under constant attack, young women and men face some of the most extreme consequences of social conservatives' anti-sex policies and are too often sold out in compromises...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
American college campuses are hotbeds of idealism and activism. The 2008 election, the massive protests in Wisconsin and Ohio and the Occupy movement showed that when this young constituency is...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
We all know the tedious stereotype about the humorless feminist, but the reality is so much different. One look at online feminism confirms that feminists really are funny, and usually...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
From birth control to same-sex marriage, it's clear that the right is reinvigorating a culture war on sex and sexual freedom ahead of the 2012 election. We need to fight...
Posted by | April 7, 2012
Studies show women voters are the key to election success and that women rule social media platforms. But few candidates or causes use those tools to effectively engage those crucial...
