The Minimum Wage Is 85 Years Old This Week-- Our Corporate Masters & Their GOP Servants Want It Dead
When the 1930 elections came around, the Republicans were still in control of both chambers. The effects of the Great Depression that...
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Howie Klein
- May 25
- 5 min
Reasoning With Republicans-- Not The Traitors In Congress... Just Relatively Normal Ones
Bernie Gives It A Try This headline seems unremarkable on any site I would normally be accessing: Biden must resist Republican debt...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 23
- 8 min
While The GOP Tries Cutting Social Security & Medicare, Progressives Have Very Different Ideas
Pouring gasoline onto the fire, the Fed raised interest rates by a quarter of a percent yesterday. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 26, 2022
- 5 min
Voters Will Back Dems If They Fight For THEM-- Not For Gottheimer's, Manchin's & Sinema's Donors
That’s Mandela Barnes’ new TV ad— the kind of economic populism every Democratic candidate should be leaning into. Incumbent Ron Johnson,...
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Mike Siegel
- Jul 28, 2022
- 3 min
Ground Game Texas: Fighting For A New Politics, City By City
-by Mike Siegel After my Congressional campaigns in 2018 and 2020, building progressive coalitions in parts of Texas that had never seen...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 23, 2022
- 3 min
Far Right Sacramento Judge Stops Ballot Initiative To Increase The Minimum Wage
I follow Joe Sanberg on Twitter so I’m up to date on the ins and outs of the struggle for a fair minimum wage. His current pinned tweet...
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Howie Klein
- May 12, 2022
- 6 min
It’s Fear That Cripples The Democratic Party-- Fear Of Our Policies, Fear Of Who We Are...
"Somehow, in my lifetime, the Democrats have gone from being the party of the factory floor to the party of the faculty lounge." -Paul...
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Howie Klein
- Dec 26, 2021
- 7 min
The Enemy: Conservatives
Mostly under the Build Back Better rubric, Bernie and other progressives came up with a relatively strong package of programs to address...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
Drug Prices Will Never Come Down While Corporate Whores Are Integral To The Democratic Party
Does this sound complicated? Democrats can do the right thing-- the popular thing that people elected them to do-- say, lower the cost of...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
If The Democrats Don't Clean Up Their Own House With Primaries, The GOP Will Do It For Them
In 2019, the House passed the Raise the Wage Act. Only 6 Democrats voted with the Republicans to kill it-- 6 Blue Dog scumbags... worst...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 11, 2021
- 6 min
Never Forget: Conservatives-- From Both Parties-- Killed Raising The Minimum Wage
New polling by YouGov shows how popular raising the minimum wage to $15/hour is. Overall, 57% of registered voters favor it and 33%...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min
Who Is The Worst Democrat In The Senate?
Manchin is a rational political player; Sinema isn't. I know her; she's certifiably insane. I'm not joking. When I first met her she was...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
The New Populist Trump-GOP Is Busy Trying To Re-Brand
The new GOP has decided it will be a party of the working class; it's a very bad fit. The party establishment is still predominantly...,...
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Howie Klein
- May 8, 2021
- 6 min
Should Kyrsten Sinema Resign?
Conservatives-- like Kyrsten Sinema-- have always opposed not just raising the minimum wage, but the very concept of a minimum wage. In...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
Do You Find It Beyond Belief That There Are Dems Who Oppose Raising The Minimum Wage To $15?
The gradual implementaion of a $15 minimum wage is a step in the right direction-- but it should have been in place during the Obama...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Suggestion: Want A Minimum Wage Hike? Don't Vote For Anyone Who Doesn't
A friend of mine continued working-- remotely-- during the pandemic and wound up spending much less money than usual. Hee's pretty flush...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 8, 2021
- 8 min
When It Comes To Raising The Minimum Wage, Conservative Dems Are Terrible-- Republicans Are Worse
Let's reiterate: in 2019, the House passed a $15 minimum wage bill, 231-199. Generally speaking, the Democratic position was AYE and the...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 7, 2021
- 6 min
At Least Biden will Always Be Better Than Trump-- & His COVID-Rescue Package Is Better Than Trump's
On Friday, Trump sent a cease and desist order to his grand old party-- or at least to the RNC, the NRSC and the NRCC-- demanding they...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 6, 2021
- 4 min
Will The Media Stop Calling Conservatives "Moderates" Now?
Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Romney, Sasse, Portman, Toomey, Moran... They all fell in line and voted against Biden's very conservative...
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Howie Klein
- Mar 5, 2021
- 5 min
Prediction: The Democrats Will Lose Congress In 2022-- And Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Won't Be Reelected
A couple days ago Nicole Sandler called to talk with me about what points we should go over on her radio show. I suggested we discuss how...
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