On Thursday, right-wing extremists in the U.S. House of Representatives will vote to try to defund Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of women’s health care and family planning services. In my latest video with MoveOn, I lay out the economic argument for funding family planning and women’s health services, and why it’s […]
On July 18 and 19, thousands of MoveOn members will join Teach-ins to Save the Economy! Over the last several months, MoveOn has worked with Robert Reich to break down some of the solutions to the challenges we face in taking back our economy–from making work family-friendly, to creating Medicare for all, to ending mass […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, The best shot we’ve got at saving our broken health care system is to expand Medicare for all Americans. But first, we have to make something very clear: Medicare critics are wrong. They say that Medicare is a problem. In fact,Medicare is more efficient than private health insurance. It’s the solution. […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, There is nothing just about our criminal justice system. It’s racist and destructive. It’s not making us safer. And it’s a disaster for our economy. Please watch End Mass Incarceration now to see what we can and must do. End Mass Incarceration is the latest in the “Big Picture” series I’m […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, Here’s a big-picture idea: instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies and then invest the revenue so that it benefits everyone. Every ton of carbon that’s released into the atmosphere costs our nation between $40 and $100, and we release millions tons of it […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, To prevent the rise of a new aristocracy, we need to raise the estate tax—a tax on inherited wealth. And we need to do it now. The richest 1 percent of Americans hold 42 percent of our nation’s wealth.1 We haven’t seen this concentration of wealth since the Gilded Age of […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, More money out of your pocket. Less money for our communities. All so big corporations can pad their bottom lines. Most Americans believe it’s time to end corporate welfare. If you agree, I need you to watch and share this video right now. No more handouts for Big Oil, no more […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, More money out of your pocket. Less money for our communities. All so big corporations can pad their bottom lines. Most Americans believe it’s time to end corporate welfare. If you agree, I need you to watch and share this video right now. No more handouts for Big Oil, no more special tax […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, Elementary school students waking at 2 a.m. with nightmares about high-stakes tests. Middle schoolers stuck in crowded classrooms in underfunded schools. College grads whose reward for surviving it all is a lifetime of debt. Our broken education system is squashing passion for learning, eroding the love of teaching, and grinding up […]
Dear fellow MoveOn member, There is only one way to truly tame Wall Street, so that everyday Americans like you and me don’t end up losing our jobs or our savings or our homes. You won’t see this solution on mainstream TV. Please watch and share it now. This is the fourth idea in our […]