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Why We Are In This Mess? Money And Bullying
An Inside Story Of Congressional Corruption -by Marie Newman , former Congresswoman Howie and I have commiserated many times about the...
Howie Klein
Mar 275 min read
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One Of The First Efforts Of An Authoritarian Is To Delegitimize Any Kind Of Independent Media
Resistance Last week, former Chicago congresswoman, Marie Newman, wrote that “There is no question we must fight and be a strong, loud...
Howie Klein
Mar 199 min read
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Musk Enjoyed Taking Over The Oval Office; Now He Wants An Adjoining Office Shaped Like A Trapezoid
Texas MAGA freshman and former investment bankster Brandon Gill, Dinesh D’Souza’s son-in-law, is a lifelong hard core right wing...
Howie Klein
Feb 139 min read
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Joe McCarthy And Roy Cohn Walked So Donald Trump Could Stumble
The Republicans’ Marxist Smear Campaign Is Nothing More Than A Coward’s Playbook Less dependable to stand up to Trump than Lisa...
Howie Klein
Jan 307 min read
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Why Are Democratic Candidates Being Pulverized In The Midwest, Particularly In Rural Counties?
Dan Osborn ran as an independent on a platform that most Democrats would recognize economically to the left of a garden variety red state...
Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20247 min read
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Call Me Crazy, But Maybe Democrats Should Put More Focus On Economic Populism Going Forward
Would Bernie Have Won? We'll Never Know My mind was blank last night when I went to bed, seeing Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin...
Howie Klein
Nov 6, 20246 min read
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There's A Lot More To Saving Our Democracy Than Defeating Trump— The Threat Of The Oligarchs' PACs
Thanks To Citizens United AIPAC And The Crypto-criminals Control Congress Bernie gave an inspiring speech at the convention last night....
Howie Klein
Aug 21, 20247 min read
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No Labels— A ScamPAC Run By Grifters, Funded By Wealthy Suckers
I read a long lawyerly letter this morning from Alan Grayson to the Federal Election Commission, the iRS and Department of Justice and...
Howie Klein
May 23, 20245 min read
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Give AIPAC The Finger-- You're Either For Genocide Or Against Genocide... There's No In Between
AIPAC and its allies funnel Republican and (illegally) Israeli money into Democratic primaries to defeat progressives. Last cycle they...
Howie Klein
Jan 21, 20243 min read
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Is Chicago On The Verge Of Electing An Anti-Choice Conservative Republican Mayor?
Chicago is a month away from electing a new mayor in a runoff pitting progressive City Commissioner Brandon Johnson and conservative,...
Howie Klein
Mar 10, 20234 min read
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War Budget-- Soon It Will Be A Trillion Dollars
A horribly wasteful $847 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA- H Res 1512)— disguised in the records so that no one will be...
Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20223 min read
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Today Is A Really Bad Day For Congressional Democrats-- And For America
As Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic establishment puts the finishing touches on transferring congressional power— with no debate and...
Howie Klein
Nov 30, 20223 min read
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All That Stuff We Need Congress To Do? None Of It Will Happen Without Campaign Finance Reform
Chicago Congresswoman Marie Newman is one of just a small handful of members of Congress who does just rail against corporate PACs in...
Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20224 min read
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There's No Organized Effort Among Progressives In Congress To Defend Themselves From AIPAC
The most evil of the Republican PACs is AIPAC’s United Democracy Project (plus their associated Democratic Majority for Israel), not just...
Howie Klein
Jul 14, 20228 min read
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Republicans Haven't Been Able To Shut Down The Progressive Movement-- Can Hakeem Jeffries & AIPAC?
Punchbowl’s Heather Caygle gave Hakeem Jeffries a free ad this morning. I’ll get to it in a moment. But first let me say it made me...
Howie Klein
Jul 1, 20225 min read
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Remember When You Thought The Handmaid's Tale Was Far-Fetched?
Americans— and especially American women— are growing increasingly furious at the 6 reactionaries on the Supreme Court and their...
Howie Klein
Jun 30, 20226 min read
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Who Congress Choses To Protect-- And Who It Choses To NOT Protect
Tuesday afternoon, the House passed the Senate's version of a Supreme Court protection proposal, which pointedly leaves out the families...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20222 min read
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Hakeem Jeffries' War Against Progressives And Progressivism
I want you to look at this little box directly below from ProgressivePunch. It shows the two members of Congress who have the most...
Howie Klein
Jun 5, 20222 min read
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The Racist Reactionaries Are Out To Destroy Detroit Progressive Rashida Tlaib
Biden was quick to endorse reactionary Democratic incumbent, Oregon Blue Dog Kurt Schrader, despite Schrader having killed Biden's...
Howie Klein
May 28, 20223 min read
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$10,000 Isn't Enough-- It's An Insult
I graduated from college in 1969 and Biden graduated a few years earlier. $10,000 in 1969 was a lot of money. In fact $10,000 in 1969 is...
Howie Klein
May 16, 20227 min read
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