By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, May 25 2011
Republicans were supposed to win the special election in New York last night—but that was before they voted en masse for Paul Ryan’s plan to phase out Medicare. Here’s the simple ad that turned the tide:
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Elections | Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, May 25 2011
Long-shot Democratic candidate Kathy Hochul won a special election last night that largely turned on voters’ disgust at the Ryan plan to abolish Medicare.
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Economic Justice | Elections | Health Care
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, May 24 2011
If you saw Janet Mock walking down the street in her hometown of New York, you’d never guess that she was born as Charles.
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LGBTQ+ Rights
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, May 24 2011
Editor’s note: This originally ran in May of 2011, when Newt first struck out as a candidate. He wrote an epic speech then that the media absolutely skewered. Here is that original campaign-ending speech, courtesy of The Colbert Report and performed in grandiose fashion by the great John Lithgow.
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In case you missed it last week, here’s John Lithgow on ‘The Colbert Report,’ performing a hysterical reading of Newt’s ‘my first week was a disaster but I’m not quitting yet’ press release. And yes, this is completely verbatim.
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Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, May 24 2011
What’s funny about malaria? Lots.
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, May 24 2011
State Sen. Lena Taylor’s fiery defense of the right to vote in Wisconsin, which would be severely undercut by the Voter I.D. Bill, AKA “Voter Suppression Bill.”
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Civil Rights | Elections
By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, May 24 2011
The omission of these four very large slices of pie chart.
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Economic Justice | Foreign Policy
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, May 23 2011
In one minute, this scene from “The West Wing” explains some of why D.C. gets crazy about the debt ceiling:
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, May 23 2011
Wanda dishes out 30 seconds of sock-it-to-ya truthiness. Are you ready for this?
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LGBTQ+ Rights
By MoveOn Staff. Monday, May 23 2011
Less for everyone else means more for them.
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Economic Justice