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The Painters Union has driven a bus through swing states trying to turn out union members for Kamala Harris. It hasn’t been the smoothest ride.

The Fair Share Amendment demonstrates how a straightforward and well-designed progressive tax policy that targets millionaires can achieve popular support and be easy to enforce. But even more important is how the revenues are spent.

Arizona is one of 10 states with abortion, a top voting issue, on ballots.

For years, Puerto Rico’s right-wing establishment has branded the Left as “communists” seeking to impoverish the island by isolating it from the US. Yet decades of economic mismanagement have discredited the Right and strengthened the Alliance

How activists are building solidarity in battleground states and beyond.

Energy and political status are urgent issues for a Puerto Rico facing the compounding calamities of neoliberal austerity, climate catastrophes, and energy crisis.

Josh Abate was by far not the only Marine — active or retired — who went into the Capitol that day. Some one-third of the 200 active and retired military participants arrested for their role in the Capitol attack were Marines.

Political Violence, Way Back When (1919), A Very Catchy Ditty (1949), Death With Dignity (1994), A Very Important Conference, I Think (1984), When Ernie Met Bert (1969), A Very Big Win for Militant Musicians (1944), Apartheid Must Go! (1974)

In a private video training session, a top Pennsylvania Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.

What explains Kamala Harris’s poor numbers with voters who belong to unions? The decline in real wages for union members under Biden may have something to do with it.