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November 9, 2024

Yes for Legislative Audit, No to MCAS in Massachusetts

Matt Stout The Boston Globe

‘A stunning rebuke.’ Voters’ support for legislative audit, ditching MCAS mandate sends message to Beacon Hill.

November 9, 2024

Underlying the Democrats’ Defeat

Gus Speth Democracy Collaborative

I will say this,” one House Democrat said. “The Democratic Party has a major working-class voter issue. It started a decade ago as a working-class White issue. It’s now gotten even worse and spread across racial lines.” —The Washington Post, 11/6/24

November 9, 2024

Labor Movement Must Unite Working Class

UE Officers UE

Resist Corporate Agenda, Fight for Real Solutions

November 9, 2024

Media Blame Left for Trump Victory—Rather Than Their Own Fear-Based Business Model

Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas FAIR - Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting

To a corporate media that largely complemented, rather than countered, Trump’s fear-based narratives on immigrants, trans people and crime, blaming the left is infinitely more appealing than recognizing their own culpability.

November 9, 2024

Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights

Amy Goodman Democracy Now!

People are hurting, and millions of them didn’t vote either way. They just didn’t vote. I want people to hear that. The vote totals went down. They didn’t go up. They went down. And we have to take this very seriously.

November 8, 2024