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November 8, 2024

Amidst the Darkness, a Few Bright Spots in the Fight Against Inequality

Sarah Anderson Inequality

Washington state beat back efforts to repeal both a capital gains tax and a payroll tax that funds long-term care insurance. Illinois voters showed support for a tax hike on millionaires. Three red states passed paid leave.

November 8, 2024

Republicans Have Won South Texas Latinos. Does the Democratic Party Have a Path Back?

Jack Herrera Texas Monthly

The shift toward Donald Trump in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020 grew into a sweep for the GOP in many border counties on Tuesday. Could the path back be making voters here feel welcome again—not just as Latinos but as working people?

November 8, 2024

Trump Got Away With It — Because of the Biden Administration’s Massive Missteps

Ankush Khardori Politico

Blame Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court.

Lee Greenwood | John Oliver

November 8, 2024

John Oliver discusses Lee Greewood, naturalization, and a better song to play at naturalization ceremonies

Trump's Three Biggest Donors

November 8, 2024

Elon Musk, Dick Uihlein, and Miriam Adelson all want the same thing from Donald Trump

Humanitarian Leader Urges U.S. To Stop Arming Israel Before Trump Takes Office

November 8, 2024

Top U.N. officials are again warning that the entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is "at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence."

How Trump’s Second Term Will Be Different

November 8, 2024

What Donald Trump’s win means for abortion, immigration, foreign policy, and more.

Post-Election Call to Action | Maurice Mitchell

November 8, 2024

Working Families Party, MoveOn, Indivisible, and more than 200 other organizations come together to discuss the path forward to protect our democracy and activatw their local communities

November 8, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | November 8, 2024

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Post-Election Call to Action | Maurice Mitchell. How Trump’s Second Term Will Be Different. Humanitarian Leader Urges U.S. To Stop Arming Israel Before Trump Takes Office. Trump's Three Biggest Donors. Lee Greenwood | John Oliver.

November 7, 2024

WSLC: ‘Hope Is a Radical Act of Resistance’

President April Sims and Secretary Treasurer Cherika Carter, Washington State Labor Council The Stand

We cannot deny that fascism, fueled by racism and misogyny, has been leveraged to divide and weaken working people. But our movement was built to fight the forces that seek to undermine democracy and enslave the human soul.