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Now Questions Arise about Acting President Rory Gamble

When considered altogether, according to MACPAC's report, their Medicaid programs will be more than $1 billion short.

If voters overcome the tricks and traps designed to make voting difficult and vote in large numbers in 2020, fundamental democratic reform is teed up to move.

How did the traditional middle class incubate so much hatred towards the people, leading them to embrace racialized fascism centered on the Indian as the enemy? The answer is the rejection of equality and the fundamentals of a substantial democracy.

As Senators Warren and Sanders have made the ever-widening income inequality centerpieces of their election campaigns, a host of plutocrats have gone public with their anger at all this billionaire-bashing, and others are running for the White House.

Louisiana is one of the states, mostly Southern, where energy companies use eminent domain to take property for oil and gas infrastructure. Typically the seizures are in rural and poor areas where political support for the oil industry is strong.

Labor unions see an opportunity to organize one of the fastest-growing industries.

By raising an issue that affects not only teachers, but the communities they live and work in, CTU is deploying a strategy known as “bargaining for the common good.”

A “military bourgeoisie” has used the country’s complex set of conflicts-within-conflicts for career advancement, financing their private wars through kidnapping, the taxation of commodities and movement of people, poaching, and protection rackets.

In Indian Country, we’re in a political moment which is ripe for Native grassroots organizing, the best in my lifetime. Tribal sovereignty will only be realized for all Indian Nations with a broad and deep democratic system.