Progressive Party and Green Party of Missouri Long Defunct. What Now, Missouri?
After the elections of 2000 and 2004, progressive activists in the state of Missouri were active in the Missouri Green Party and the Progressive Party of Missouri, organizing liberal alternatives to...
View ArticleConsequences for Senate Democrats Who Voted To Trash Constitutional Liberty...
Yesterday afternoon, the Senate voted to keep a Defense authorization bill as is, even though the legislation contains provisions to allow the imprisonment, without time limit, of Americans seized by...
View ArticleSheldon Whitehouse Steps Up To Deal With Climate Change, But Senate Declines...
For some months now, I’ve been poking at Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on the issue of climate change. Whitehouse has been an eloquent speaker on the issue, calling upon his Senate colleagues to take...
View ArticleWhich Senate Democrats Have Failed To Confront Discrimination On The Basis Of...
There’s good news for Americans who care about freedom from discrimination in the workplace. In the U.S. Senate, Al Franken has introduced S. 1088, a bill that would prohibit discrimination in public...
View ArticleThree Senate Democrats Join Climate Change Deniers
This week, Senator Bernard Sanders offered an amendment to S.1, Republican legislation to approve the construction Keystone XL tar sands pipeline across the American Midwest. The amendment didn’t...
View ArticleRoll Call: Anti-Environment Democrats Who Voted To Send Tar Sends Pouring...
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to approve S. 1., legislation to approve the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, despite strong environmental problems and the export of American steel jobs overseas...
View ArticleNames Of The Senate Democrats Who Just Voted To Help Republicans Override...
We often hear from Democratic Party activists that, if it wasn’t for the nasty Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate, President Obama’s legislative agenda would move forward without obstruction....
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