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Now what? We need to build a grassroots progressive movement — wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party. The stakes are too high and crises too extreme to accept “moderate” accommodation to unending war, regressive taxation, massive unemployment, routine foreclosures and environmental destruction. A…

Whatever the results this Election Day, it’s clear that visionary progressive ideas will be less welcome at the start of the next Congress. And that’s saying something, given their track record in this Congress. But with that reality comes a new opportunity: the chance to tell our own story as progressives, instead of having it…

On Saturday, I\’ll have the privilege of addressing more than 100,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the One Nation Working Together rally to send the message that we want the change we voted for in 2008. This gathering of progressives will bridge many issues: jobs for all, comprehensive immigration reform, civil rights, environmental…

Long-suffering victim is hardly the American image. Paul Revere, Mother Jones, John Glenn, Martin Luther King Jr. — those are American icons. Bold, wry, justice-seeking. So how is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me casualty of China’s illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing…

Last weekend was the anniversary of Martin Luther King\’s March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, and Labor Day is next weekend. Last weekend Glenn Beck tried to hijack the MLK march anniversary in the name of the far right and their tea party noisemakers, but we know who has been on our side and…

You wouldn\’t know it from this past weekend\’s media coverage of Glenn Beck\’s effort to co-opt the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the site of his famous \”I Have a Dream\” speech in Washington, but there was a counterdemonstration that day that featured people who had marched with and worked alongside Dr.…

When progressive activists gather next week at the annual America’s Future Now conference, frustration and dismay will be widespread. Action on jobs is stalled among mixed signals from the White House. A Democratic Congress pours billions into the war in Afghanistan even as legislation to forestall the unimaginable layoff of 300,000 teachers is derailed in…

America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake. Aimee Semple McPherson. Father Coughlin. Joe McCarthy. Once in a while, when the cultural cross-currents intersect just so,…

The change agenda at America\’s Future NOW! Alexander Zaitchik will be featured on a panel entitled \”Tea Parties, Beck, Bachman and Blarney\” REGISTER NOWfor AFN 2010 America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge…