Mark Gamba

There are some undeniably good things Obamacare accomplished-- top-most, prohibiting predatory insurance companies from ripping off the general public by denying reasonably-priced

In a new note to her supporters, Will County board member, Rachel Ventura, the progressive running for Congress in IL-11, articulated something that most of the primary candidates we’ve been talking with have been saying.

Data for Progress, Sean McElwee's outfit, has been doing an especially important-- even magnificent-- job this cycle.

Ro Khanna's grandfather was arrested during the Indian independence movement and wound up sharing a British prison cell with Mahatma Gandhi. No doubt, that's from whom Khanna got the moxie to stand up yesterday in front of Congress and make this absolutely incredible speech opposing the NDAA-- which would be better named "the endless War and Corruption bill." I implore you to listen to what Khanna had to say. It's less than 2 minutes but it has enough in it to be worth an hour to every single American.

The right-wing, corporatist American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding a summit in Scottsdale, AZ this week. That caught the attention of super-progressive, Flagstaff-based congressional candidate Eva Putzova, who noted in an e-mail to her supporters that ALEC brings conservative lawmakers together with corporate lobbyists...

In the 1920s, conservatives were suspicious of-- and hysterical about-- rural electrification proposals... you know, "Socialism!!!" So President Franklin Roosevelt had to get the ball rolling with an executive order (May 11, 1935). At the time, just 3% of farms and ranches were electrified.

Nate McMurray is running to represent the working families of western New York in CongressYesterday, Kara Voght, a reporter for Mother Jones, noted that There’s a Wave of Democratic Insurgents Hoping to Join the Squad and asked if the Squad can become bigger-- and a bigger force in Congress.

Joe Barton (Villain-TX)Republican former Congressman Joe Barton is a 70 year old energy lobbyist now. Once he was the all-powerful chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee as well as the dean of the Texas congressional delegation. His dream was the deregulation of electric and gas-- and everything else. Barton, one of Congress' most corrupt members, was the ultimate climate change denier.

I don't know if Ambassador Gordon Sondland is going to turn out to be the John Dean of Trump's impeachment or not-- or if he's just the one who winds up putting Rudy Giuliani in prison-- but his testimony yesterday was pretty damning. Watch the quid pro quo segment above. Fox anchor Chris Wallace mentioned on Fox News-- so watched by Trump supporters living their bubble-- that Sondland "took out the bus and ran it over President Trump, Vice President Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney. He implicates all of them." That must be disturbing for them.

I got my first job-- when I was still in high school-- working in a print shop. I started out as a minimum wage worker, making $1.15 an hour. The first time I realized I was, as the president of a division of TimeWarner, making $1,000,000 a year, I was astounded and even confused.