Instead Of Whining About Biden Dragging Them Down, Senate Dems Should Pass A Minimum Wage Increase
Voters Want Action For THEM A few days ago we looked at some of Biden’s shortcomings as a president.There were a lot of them— and...
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Howie Klein
Jan 126 min read
Want To See Biden Vanquish Trump And The Democrats Take Back The House? There's A Weapon...
I can’t imagine that there are any DWT readers who would disagree with Patriotic Millionaires' assertion that Biden and congressional...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20232 min read
Wondering Which Democrats Refuse To Co-Sponsor The Bill To Raise The Minimum Wage?Here's The List
How Can A Democrat Oppose Raising The Minimum Wage? Most Democrats (around 78% of House Dems) are co-sponsors of the Raise the Wage Act...
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Howie Klein
Jul 27, 20238 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
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 8, 20212 min read
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, 20218 min read
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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