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Talking Turkey: Ten Myths Conservatives Believe About Progressives

By Sara Robinson
November 25, 2008

Firing BackIt is that time again: Thanksgiving, the official kickoff of the 2008 holiday season. As you prepare to head once again into the family fray to spend quality time with your conservative relatives, it helps to note that most of the right wing's favorite anti-liberal slanders are rooted in some deeply-held—and deeply wrong—assumptions about who liberals are, and what we believe. Your best defense is to listen closely for these underlying myths and fables at work—and be prepared to challenge them head-on. Here's how.

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Fed’s $1.6 Trillon Bet

By Charles R. Morris
From washingtonindependent.com
October 15th, 2008

washingtonindependent.com — Amid the clamor over the crisis on Wall Street, the U.S. Treasury’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Rescue Program, or “TARP,” bill and the evolving collapse of the global banking system, little attention has been paid to the extraordinary credit extensions at the Federal Reserve. But these are now without parallel in Fed history, including during the Great Depression.

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The Next Fight

By Robert Borosage
October 15, 2008

How about a little "straight talk" in the last presidential debate? The conventional wisdom about cutting domestic spending and balancing the budget is wrong for today's economic crisis. Let's focus instead on what must happen: a large, bold plan to rebuild America, put people to work, and get the economy going.

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Framing the Progressive Victory

Submitted by Isaiah J. Poole
Produced by Institute for America's Future
July 29, 2008

Even though polls show majorities of the public favoring progressive positions on issues, Bernie Horn—senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and author of the book, "Framing the Future"—fears that the movement could lose opportunities to win elections this year because of how advocates talk about issues with swing voters. more »

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Don't Let Anyone Question Your Patriotism

By Isaiah J. Poole
July 1, 2008

Our political disagreements over the direction of the country and who is best qualified to lead it in the right direction should never be used as a weapon to question our love for this country. In fact, the willingness to be intensely engaged in the struggle to being this nation closer to its ideals is the very mark of a patriot. That's why we're telling Fox News and the right in general: Stop attacking patriotic Americans simply because you don't agree with them.

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Help AFSCME Tell Congress to invest in America

By Jeremy Baker
June 19, 2008

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All Aboard the McCain Express

By Rick Perlstein
From thenation.com
April 4th, 2008

thenation.com — The most important glue binding conservatism together is a shared sense that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. And to conservatives, McCain has been too often one of the sneerers. That helps explain the strange McCain contortions Republicans have been forcing themselves into in recent weeks.

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Take Back America: Podcast Preview

By Bill Scher
March 9, 2008

Take Back America 2008Listen as our communications director, Toby Chaudhuri, offers a preview of "the progressive convention," Take Back America 2008, on my "LiberalOasis Radio Show."

Links to the complete schedule and more on the main conference page.

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Progressives Rising

2008: A Sea-Change Election

By Robert L. Borosage
Campaign for America's Future
March 12th, 2008
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Progressives-rising-240px.gifThe 2008 election has the potential to be not simply one of change, as conventional wisdom suggests, but of sea-change—an election that marks the end of the conservative era that has dominated our politics for the past three decades.

"Progressives Rising—2008: A Sea-Change Election" details the signs of the emergence of that era, and cautions that progressives will not only have to continue to drive the debate in the election season, but will also have to define, expand and claim the mandate after the election.

Also see:

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DMI Sends Members of Congress Home with Their 2007 Grades!

By Andrea Batista Schlesinger
March 12, 2008

If the middle class could give your Congressmember a grade, what would it be? Today, DMI releases grades for every senator and representative, evaluating their votes on key legislation that affects the current and aspiring middle class. more »

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Obstruction Alert: Renewable Energy Stalled in Senate

By Isaiah J. Poole
March 5, 2008

Take Back America: New Power, New Vision for New EnergyAs oil prices hit record highs, all indications are that a stubborn conservative minority in the U.S. Senate will stand in the way of sensible energy legislation that would shift tax breaks away from Big Oil, which doesn't need them, and toward renewable energy companies that do.

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Parting the Red Sea

By Rick Perlstein
March 5, 2008

Take Back America 2008Why should you take a progressive politics vacation in Washington D.C. March 17-19? Thinks of it as a Nation cruise, only without Alexander Cockburn in beachwear. Plus, in one of the first sessions of the conference, we will be parting George Bush's Red Sea.

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Our Demand: Create American Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
November 6, 2009

A planned $1.5 billion dollar Texas wind farm—seeking financing with U.S. stimulus money—will create only 30 permanent jobs in America, but 2,000 wind-turbine manufacturing jobs in China. We asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu to prohibit this type of use of Recovery Act funds and have called on the Obama administration to use taxpayer dollars to foster the creation of a green manufacturing sector, with good-paying jobs, here in our own country. These articles explain the issue and why it is important. more »

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The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It

By Jacob Hacker
November 6, 2009

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New Unemployment, Old Solutions

By Eric Lotke
November 6, 2009

Today’s unemployment data contain gloomy news. Gloomy, but expected. The interpretation of the data is even worse. more »

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Message To Energy Department: U.S. Greenbacks For U.S. Green Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
November 6, 2009

News of the potential use of U.S. more »

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The Underlying Reasons For The Shooting At Fort Hood

By Mark Ames
From airamerica.com
November 6th, 2009

airamerica.com — It’s hard to pinpoint what’s the most shocking thing about Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas. Let's start with this: there’s nothing all that ground-breaking about it. Happens all the time, it’s just that we’re a nation of amnesiacs who forget all the unpleasantness, and refuse to learn the valuable lessons.

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Fort Hood Has Enough Victims Already

By Wajahat Ali
From guardian.co.uk
November 6th, 2009

guardian.co.uk — Whatever was in the mind of alleged shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan is no reason to question the loyalty of Muslim Americans.

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From the Party of "No," To the Party of "Slow"

By Daniel J. Weiss
From climateprogress.org
November 6th, 2009

climateprogress.org — Senate Republicans are demanding lengthy economic analyses of progressive clean energy policy, despite having spent careers voting for and against major energy legislation without such delay.

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Attack of the Palinites

By Eugene Robinson
From washingtonpost.com
November 6th, 2009

washingtonpost.com — Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.

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