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Green Energy: The Future is Now
Green Energy: The Future is Now
As the Green Party candidate for Congress in upstate NY District 21, when I describe the threats of global warming and the urgent need for an electric grid and national economy based on clean, renewab ...
15 May, 2018
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9 min read
It’s About Dignity, Stupid!
It’s About Dignity, Stupid!
First, let me apologize. I don’t really think you are stupid. I was competing for your attention with an oxymoron. And also to demonstrate how easy it is to get attention by using denigrating language ...
11 May, 2018
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4 min read
In Wake of Local GOP Collapse, Millennial Candidates Push Third Parties
In Wake of Local GOP Collapse, Millennial Candidates Push Third Parties
California is a blue state, but Los Angeles County is way blue: Clinton bested Trump by 50 percentage points.Few local elected officials belong to the GOP, and only 18% of registered voters are Republ ...
11 May, 2018
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3 min read
Voter Suppression: How Politicians Are At War With Your Vote
Voter Suppression: How Politicians Are At War With Your Vote
Voter suppression is a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing people from voting and is different from political campaigning.Campaigning attempts to change ...
09 May, 2018
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9 min read
CA NPP Candidate Kahle: Nonpartisan Primaries Are Great For Our Broken System
CA NPP Candidate Kahle: Nonpartisan Primaries Are Great For Our Broken System
The race for the 50th Congressional District in San Diego, California has been a page-turning, headline-grabbing feast for observers.The Incumbent has been caught up in an FBI investigation, anot ...
09 May, 2018
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3 min read
Chase CEO Could Change Everything About Drug Pricing
Chase CEO Could Change Everything About Drug Pricing
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon seems poised to attack the rising costs of health care one way or another.In April of this year, Dimon used his annual letter to shareholders to add to what we know abo ...
07 May, 2018
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6 min read
What Exactly is an NPP Candidate and Could Two Reach the November General Election in CA?
What Exactly is an NPP Candidate and Could Two Reach the November General Election in CA?
For the first time in California's history, a No Party Preference candidate(s) has a real opportunity to reach the November General election.The possibility of one or more independents getting to Nove ...
05 May, 2018
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4 min read
Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld Wants to Help The Libertarian Party Win in 2020
Former Mass. Governor Bill Weld Wants to Help The Libertarian Party Win in 2020
In 2016 the Libertarian Party enjoyed 50-state ballot access for the first time since 1996, and polled higher than any third party had since Ross Perot took the 1992 presidential election by storm on ...
04 May, 2018
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3 min read
CA Consumer Privacy Act Submits 625,000 Signatures
CA Consumer Privacy Act Submits 625,000 Signatures
This week, supporters of the California Consumer Privacy Act submitted 625,000 signatures statewide in an effort to qualify for the November ballot.Alastair Mactaggart, lead sponsor of the initiative ...
03 May, 2018
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1 min read
Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution Organization Endorses Independent Over Democrat in Lt. Gov. Race For California
Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution Organization Endorses Independent Over Democrat in Lt. Gov. Race For California
Imagine if Bernie didn't have to run as a Democrat.Thanks to California's non-partisan primary, the Our Revolution endorsed Gayle McLaughlin can.Why?Because in California, (except for the preside ...
02 May, 2018
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2 min read