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Your Member Of Congress, Even If A Democrat, Is Probably NOT A Climate Champion-- Want To Check?
The Republican Party is split between two factions when it comes to Climate-- those who don't believe it's even a thing and confuse it...
Howie Klein
Apr 6, 202214 min read
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Ever Wonder What Bigots Like Marjorie Traitor Greene & Robert Foster Think Of The GOP Closet Cases?
In the early 1930s, the Nazi campaign platform did not include killing 6 million Jews-- and certainly not during the collapse of Weimer...
Howie Klein
Mar 27, 20227 min read
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How Do You Know Who's A Real Climate Champion And Who's Shilling For The Bad Guys?
Last night I had dinner with two of my old friends who have been part of environmental activism in a big way since the 1970's. We wound...
Howie Klein
Mar 18, 20223 min read
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Select Committee Needs To Grow A Pair-- Serve Subpoenas On Members Who Conspired In Insurrection
People have faith in Justice when it's administered fairly-- and not just as a weapon against poor people and people of color. I noticed...
Howie Klein
Mar 16, 20226 min read
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Ethics-Wise, Ami Bera = Sean Casten?
Ami Bera's sick, elderly father, Babulal Bera, only got a year in prison-- the designated scapegoat to keep his corrupt New Dem son out...
Howie Klein
Feb 20, 20223 min read
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3 House Races Pitting Democratic Incumbents Against Each Other
There are 3 congressional races where Democrat incumbents are battling it out. Fortunately none of them pit two good candidates against...
Howie Klein
Feb 13, 20223 min read
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Corporate Knives Are Out For Marie Newman-- The Smear Campaign Has Begun
A conservative smear operation is blasting away at Marie Newman, financed by the same pack of GOP-slimedogs who have financed all the...
Howie Klein
Feb 2, 20222 min read
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New Michigan Redistricting Has New Dem Haley Stevens Primarying Progressive Andy Levin
In 2017 I got a call from Haley Stevens, a young woman who was running to represent western and northern Detroit in Congress (MI-11), a...
Howie Klein
Dec 30, 20212 min read
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Jared Golden Is A Scumbag
Only one Democrat, Jared Golden of Maine, voted with the Republicans against the Build Back Better Act this morning. He deceived Maine...
Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20213 min read
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Corrupt Conservatives In Illinois Would Like To Silence A Courageous Progressive Voice In Congress
Let me start with something uninformed and typically stupid and misleading from 3 Politico senior reporter about the IL-06 congressional...
Howie Klein
Oct 30, 20214 min read
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Blue America's First Incumbent Endorsement For 2022: Marie Newman (IL)
This is the third cycle in a row we've endorsed Marie Newman-- and she's gotten better and better each time. She didn't quite manage to...
Howie Klein
Sep 5, 20212 min read
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Who Did The SCOTUS Anti-Choice Decision Help Politically?
Abortion Showdown Looms Last year, despite massive spending by the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and by Republican donors--...
Howie Klein
Sep 2, 20217 min read
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Want To See Democrats Turn The Midterm Map Blue? Passing The Soft Infrastructure Bill Will Do It
Hours after shutting down the GOP filibuster (68-29) on the conservative "hard" infrastructure bill that the media insists on calling...
Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20217 min read
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The Domestic Terrorist-- A Key Component Of The Republican Party Base
This morning, the NY Times reported that the FBI is warning that "some QAnon believers could turn to violence as predictions fail to bear...
Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20213 min read
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The Republican Party Is Targeting Marie Newman
A few days ago, the NRCC announced ten new target incumbents they're working on defeating this cycle. Most of them are a pack of...
Howie Klein
May 9, 20212 min read
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Whose Ox Is Going To Be Gored By Biden's Tax Proposal?-- Part II (Hint: Not You)
This morning, Chicagoland progressive congresswoman Marie Newman told me that "The best kept secret so far in the Biden administration is...
Howie Klein
Apr 25, 20214 min read
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Progressive Policy Is Popular-- So Why Can't Unified Democratic Government Pass Any Of It?
Spoiler alert: the congressional Democrats need new and improved-- more dynamic and less sclerotic-- leadership. Alexandra Hunt in a...
Howie Klein
Apr 19, 20216 min read
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Marie Newman-- 3 Months In
When you look at the ProgressivePunch rankings of voting records, Marie Newman (D-IL) is tied for first place-- a perfect 100% score,...
Howie Klein
Apr 12, 20214 min read
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Is Biden's Infrastructure Plan Too "Skinny?"
I can't believe it has taken this long, but the Biden administration has finally started firing the environmental saboteurs Trump placed...
Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20217 min read
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Does Anyone Think It's News When Republicans Lie About Immigrants?
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) has always had an extremely pronounced tendency to run his mouth when it is...
Howie Klein
Mar 16, 20215 min read
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