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November 12, 2016

Joint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential Election

Senate President pro Tempore

While Donald Trump may have won the presidency, he hasn't changed our values. America is greater than any one man or party. We will not be dragged back into the past. We will lead the resistance to any effort that would shred our social fabric or our Constitution.

November 12, 2016

The TPP is Dead: The People Defeat Transnational Corporate Power

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Global Research

The Obama administration faced reality on Friday when they recognized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would not be ratified by this Congress. The TPP is dead.

November 11, 2016

Commemorating Peace

Jan Barry Portside

Jan Barry, poet and longtime activist in Veterans for Peace, puts the Veterans Day holiday in its historical and spiritual perspective.

Millions Sign Onto Call for Electoral College to Award the Presidency to Popular Vote Winner Clinton

November 11, 2016

Millions sign petition for the Electoral College to elect the Hillary Clinton, who received the most votes, as president. The chair of the National Popular Vote Initiative explains how to assure that the top vote getter will win.

Michael Moore: Get Out and Protest

November 11, 2016

The filmmaker says the demonstrations that have broken out in the wake of Donald Trump's victory are only going to get bigger.

John Oliver: School Segregation

November 11, 2016

Public schools are increasingly divided by race and class. John Oliver discusses the troubling trend towards school resegregation.

November 11, 2016

Revenge of the Forgotten Class

Alec MacGillis ProPublica

Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were playing with fire when they effectively wrote off white workers in the small towns and cities of the Rust Belt.

November 11, 2016

Left Counters Election Losses With Ballot Measure Victories

Liz Essley Whyte Center for Public Integrity

Initiatives on minimum wage, marijuana, gun control and other key issues win voters' approval

November 11, 2016

Amid DNC Reckoning, Ellison Emerges As Progressive Antidote to Trump

Lauren McCauley Common Dreams

The first Muslim elected to US Congress is being asked to take the reins of the Democratic Party

November 11, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- November 11, 2016

Portside

Elizabeth Warren | 'Why We Are Angry'. Leonard Cohen | Democracy. John Oliver: School Segregation. Michael Moore: Get Out and Protest. Millions Sign Onto Call for Electoral College to Award the Presidency to Popular Vote Winner Clinton.