Newsletter Archives

August 2019

Welcome to our late-summer picnic!

July 2019

Here's the straight skinny on Medicare for All

June 2019

Let's decode Trump's Afta-Nafta trade deal

May 2019

The devastation of farm country is biting us all on the butt

March/April 2019

The People are revolting! (in the best sense of the word): A 20th Birthday Retrospective

February 2019

As we gape at Trump's sideshow, corporations are picking our pockets

January 2019

Bold, plain-talk, progressive populism excites voters across many lines of difference

December 2018

How workaday folks are curbing the power of plutocratic elites

November 2018

The bitter Battle of Kavanaugh will burn through our culture and politics for decades

October 2018

It should be easy for every citizen to vote. Republicans have made it way, way harder.

September 2018

Trump's privatizers are running amuck

August 2018

Take heart from these tales of regular folks battling the bastards--and beating them back

July 2018

Trump's border cruelty is a test of our national character

June 2018

Gentrification shreds the fabric of our cities while making rich developers even richer

May 2018

What are progressives fighting for?

March/April 2018

Patience and secrecy cloak the Koch's complex conspiracy

February 2018

The Koch Klan is funding a stealthy war against the principle of the Common Good

January 2018

Fed up with corporate-rigged politics, ordinary people are working together to win elections

December 2017

It's time to play Amazon's new hit game, "Milk the Taxpayer!"

November 2017

Coalitions of agriculture outsiders tackle powerful agribiz insiders

October 2017

If we spread the profits around, smart robots can work for ALL of us

September 2017

"Thinking" robots will soon shake our definition of worth

August 2017

Our ravenous appetite turns humble sand into an endangered national treasure

July 2017

You'll be gobsmacked by the populist victories won in this conservative Colorado town

June 2017

Corporate "repair prevention" schemes steal the right to fix our own belongings

May 2017

GOP state legislatures are attacking local democracy

April 2017

From Resistance to Insistence

March 2017

Freaked out by Trump and his menagerie of mutants? Let's focus our anger--and have a greater impact

February 2017

Fake news? Here's some real news: Cities around the country are breaking corporate chains

January 2017

The 2017 State of the Plate: Sustaining the push to a healthy, humane, and human-scale food system

December 2016

We can beat back the Reign of Trump--if we unite in a movement for Populist Justice

November 2016

Oddities, reflections and vignettes from the cratered road to Election 2016

October 2016

Don't miss "The Battle of Two Pipes," an epic story from the American heartland

September 2016

The Koch brothers' massive money cache is worming deep into our country's political terrain

August 2016

White progressives must join with people of color to expose and confront Donald Trump's coded racism.

July 2016

What's next for the Bernie Sanders revolution? The populist insurgency is ratcheting up.

June 2016

Carrier and Nabisco close US plants, hop to Mexico--and stoke the anger of working-class America

April/May 2016

A story from Texas epitomizes global corporate greed. And the elites are wondering why working folks are rebelling?

March 2016

Mavericks and mad-as-hellers march to Washington for a pro-democracy rebellion. Because it's time.

February 2016

Reinventing business "ethics": How corporate honchos gave themselves cover to be as rapacious as they wanna be

January 2016

Can an unabashedly progressive presidential campaign actually win this November?

December 2015

Were our leaders bold enough to do enough about climate change soon enough?

November 2015

It's been an eventful year in the populist fight for healthy, sustainable—and tasty—food for all

October 2015

Travel that is fast and efficient—even fun? Let’s get on board with High Speed Rail

September 2015

The rebellious spirit of Matthew Maguire’s first Labor Day is spreading again across our country. Join the parade.

August 2015

A plucky (and smart!) grassroots coalition has pushed the dastardly Trans-Pacific Partnership to the edge

July 2015

The Lowdown's 1st Annual Gooberhead Awards!

June 2015

Let's defend our public treasures: 'America's best idea' is under attack

May 2015

Activists crumble Big Coal, shame Koch-head science, storm to a populist internet victory, and more!

April 2015

For-profit colleges get rich by sinking students into debt--and their scam is financed by our tax dollars

March 2015

Cupid and his friends at the post office are fighting back against flimflamming privatizers

February 2015

What Occupy, the Climate March and #BlackLivesMatter have in common--and why that should inspire us all

January 2015

New trade pacts create secret, pro-corporate tribunals that use their powers to eviscerate our democratic laws

November 2014

Egged on by the Hawks of Doom, Obama sinks America into a misguided war with the Islamic State

September 2014

Amazon's ruthless practices are crushing Main Street--and threatening the vitality of our communities

August 2014

Like Walmart, only with supercomputers and drones: At Amazon.com "cheap" comes at a very hefty price

July 2014

The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling!

June 2014

Warning: The virtues of the egalitarian internet are standing in the way of higher corporate profits!

May 2014

Do elites really think they can knock us down without provoking us to stand up and push back?

April 2014

Lessons from corporatized college: Even PhDs are being squeezed out of the middle class

February/March 2014

Citizen Snowden: Why he matters

January 2014

Seeds of a movement: A 21st century Populist renewal is flourishing at America's grassroots

December 2013

America isn't broke. There's plenty of money to build an economy worthy of our ideals and can-do spirit

November 2013

A rebellion of restaurant workers is challenging the deplorable low-wage ethic of the fast-food behemoths

October 2013

In the name of making us "safe," the NSA has shredded privacy rights and now treats all citizens as suspects

September 2013

The support of anti-choice candidates by brand-name corporations fuels the national war on women

August 2013

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not about free trade. It's a corporate coup d'etat--against us!

July 2013

America’s true history is not about "Great Men," but about grassroots rebels and movements

June 2013

One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation's social, economic, and moral strength

May 2013

The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats

April 2013

Here's who is buying America's democracy

March 2013

Corporate kangaroo courts have quietly usurped our constitutional right to trial by judge and jury

February 2013

The drone-industrial complex wants 30,000 eyes in the sky spying on us Americans by 2020

January 2013

Five ways we can make government work for We the People in 2013

December 2012

Wall Street, the Kochs, and Rove lost to the people-- so let's make Washington govern for the people

November 2012

In this season of feasting, let's celebrate real food and reject gene-tinkered tomatoes and cloned cows

October 2012

The Big Three Myths fabricated by right wing fabulists to frame America's elections

September 2012

Guided by the Koch brothers, Republicans have installed czars to run Michigan's cities

August 2012

The minimum wage is a disgrace, and raising it would be a boon to the whole economy

July 2012

Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America

June 2012

The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries--and what they want in return

May 2012

The great American medicine show, a spectacle of deceit, manipulation, and flimflammery

April 2012

Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders-- and pay for the corporatization of war itself

March 2012

The Post Office is not broke--and it hasn't taken any of our tax money since 1971

February 2012

In the Constitution, "security" means protection from our law enforcers, not by them

January 2012

Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how

December 2011

Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America

November 2011

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

October 2011

Citizens united against Citizens United: A grassroots campaign to restore democracy

September 2011

It's time to name the tea party politicians (and their sponsors)--and call them out

August 2011

Why are we letting corporate Supremists steal our democracy from us?

July 2011

Summertime Lowdown: A picnic basket of absurdities, oddities, and some sweet positives

June 2011

Billionaires' front groups attack workers, public schools, and young voters

May 2011

A battery of elected ideologues opens fire on those who serve the public

April 2011

The Big Three secret funders of the $75 million campaign to trash Democratic candidates

March 2011

Here's who is buying America's democracy

February 2011

The top four victories handed to corporate America by today's Supreme Court--so far

January 2011

A new Wall Street sin tax could raise $100B a year to reinvest in Main Street America

December 2010

Postcards from the frontroads and backroads of the 2010 election campaigns

November 2010

Grassroots progressives give us real reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving

October 2010

In Iraq, Obama says it's over but it's not; In Afghanistan, who wants to die for Karzai?

September 2010

Corporate kings grab our tax subsidies but create no new jobs. Obama fiddles.

August 2010

Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive

July 2010

Big biz wants to own the information superhighway while We the People bump along the backroads

June 2010

To put the progress back in "progressive," we need a real populist movement

May 2010

Facts--not myths--about our economy

April 2010

300 ex-Congress critters are among the hired guns who kill progressive reforms

March 2010

Giving corporations more power to buy politicians of their choice

February 2010

How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform

January 2010

ACORN's real "crime" is that it empowers the poor

December 2009

These folks aren't waiting for change, they're making it happen

November 2009

The "Drug War" is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will

October 2009

The four biggest reasons for escalating war in Afghanistan--and why they're bogus

September 2009

Supreme Court considers vast increase in the political power of corporations

August 2009

Renewable energy can green America's environment, economy, and democracy

July 2009

Obama's reform plan is to "watch" Wall Street rather than restructure it

June 2009

Everyone hates corporate healthcare-- now, public demand could really change it

May 2009

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against corporate power

April 2009

Q: What made Wall Street implode? A: They were making too much money to stop

March 2009

Time for real workplace democracy-- not the phony company version

February 2009

Team Obama's plan for Afghanistan is a disaster in search of a strategy

January 2009

Senators bail out their banker buddies but stiff workers and their unions

December 2008

The many REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL after Election Day 2008

November 2008

The five most wanted men from Wall Street and Washington

October 2008

Political outsiders are the only change we can count on

September 2008

Why the McCain drill-more-oil campaign is pure flim flam

August 2008

Heartless Phil and "honorable lobbyists" would run McCain's White House

July 2008

If Obama wins, who will be on his team--and who should be?

June 2008

Who are the big-money givers behind the candidates?

May 2008

What 8 years of BushCheney have done to the world

April 2008

What 8 years of BushCheney have done to our economy

March 2008

Checks for $600 won't fix our economy--let's have a real stimulus package

February 2008

Swim against the current folks! (Even a dead fish can go with the flow)

January 2008

Immigrants come here because globalization took their jobs back there

December 2007

America to D.C. -- Democrats included: We're mad as hell and you're not listening!

November 2007

BushCheney really is planning to attack Iran!

October 2007

The presidency is taking over the courts and Congress

September 2007

This is the Marx Brothers, bumbling around Animal Farm!

August 2007

Loan sharks wreak havoc on Main Street and Wall Street

July 2007

Politicians are selling our bridges rather than building them

June 2007

The Bushites have outsourced our government to their pals

May 2007

Yet the war goes on...

April 2007

Corporations that paid-to-play in the last election

March 2007

Who paid for Repubs and Dems in our last election?

February 2007

People are electing candidates who shun corporate cash

January 2007

Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation

December 2006

It was a “throw the bums out” AND a “change America’s direction” election

November 2006

Terrorists? Nope, it’s Bush&Co. who’ve blasted our infrastructure

October 2006

Repubs have a rock on their back, Dems meekly mumble

September 2006

Our national parks are being trashed and taken over

August 2006

Where Bush's arrogance has taken us

July 2006

Let's look at our economy by the numbers

June 2006

The four Big Lies about universal health care

May 2006

Who's spying on us? Rumsfeld's Pentagon takes the lead

April 2006

Spy on 'em, torture 'em, lock 'em up. Is this what America stands for?

March 2006

No-fat? Low-carbs? Baloney! Go for the no-junk diet!

February 2006

States, cities go for Living Wage, Clean Elections, and medical pot

January 2006

How the social glue of America is being dissolved

December 2005

A real Democratic Party would say "We're on your side!"

November 2005

Our oldest mountains are being blown away

October 2005

It's time for people's housing, people's transit, and PEOPLE FIRST!

September 2005

All politicians who support a war should be drafted

August 2005

Will this judge rule for the powerful—and against The People?

July 2005

The great corporate jobs-for-subsidies con-job

June 2005

A corporate plan to trump our laws and the Constitution

May 2005

A city in Texas starts smart-energy driving

April 2005

Naming the names behind the grab for Social Security

March 2005

Social Security ain't broke, so don't fix it, tweak it

February 2005

More brand names behind the Bush agenda

January 2005

Bush II brought to you by...

December 2004

Fables, flim-flam, and urban legends of our time

November 2004

Reasons to celebrate and be hopeful!

October 2004

Progressive groups are busting out all over

September 2004

Can we prevent another stolen election?

August 2004

The numbers tell the tale of the Bush presidency

July 2004

Our health and education— trashed

June 2004

We'll have to build the people's John Kerry

May 2004

The People's media reaches more people than Fox does

April 2004

Bushco's mad, mad, mad, mad mad cow policy

March 2004

It's not just jobs we're losing—it's America's middle class

February 2004

The Bushites' betrayal of our troops and vets

January 2004

We the people have driven the Dems to populism

December 2003

Cops were told to savage their fellow Americans

November 2003

Tom DeLay thinks he’s God’s man in Congress

October 2003

Who's counting our votes? Bushite corporate bosses

September 2003

Bush, Ashcroft & Co. vs. Jefferson, Madison & Co.

August 2003

Citizens triumph over the kleptocrats

July 2003

The corporate push for more trade scams

June 2003

CEOs pay themselves $7,452 an hour (on average)

May 2003

These guys have launched World War IV

April 2003

How a clerical error made corporations “people”

March 2003

Most of the world says no to Dubya’s war

February 2003

How did we get in this handbasket?

January 2003

The homeland rebels against the security act

December 2002

If you're not using the party, let us borrow it

November 2002

Local and organic farmers fight back

October 2002

The bush gang's plan to rule the world

September 2002

Locking down democracy to keep america “free”

August 2002

A bunkered government behind an iron veil

July 2002

Bush’s military budget costs us our future

June 2002

Stop the corporate takeover of our water

May 2002

Let’s make higher ed. free for all americans

April 2002

How wal-mart is remaking our world

March 2002

Don’t focus on enron, focus on the system

February 2002

Looting the treasury

January 2002

Let’s declare energy independence — now!

December 2001

Let’s all build some downhome democracy

November 2001

Follow the money—-- to the Saudi princes

October 2001

Showing patriotism in a time of terrorism

September 2001

NAFTA gives the shafta to North America's farmers

August 2001

Millions of Americans are kept from voting

July 2001

A modest proposal for the senate democrats

June 2001

Uncovering a cover-up of chemical killers

May 2001

Wall street is out to conquer 31 countries

April 2001

We can bring power back to the people

March 2001

Bush Inc. brings back Star Wars

February 2001

Bush incorporated is open for business

January 2001

Why not try democracy in america?

December 2000

The missing 100 million presidential ballots

November 2000

Let's builld a politics that gives us a real chance

October 2000

When polluters challenge, al gore backs down

August 2000

Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped

July 2000

Our tax billions go to losing a war in Colombia

June 2000

The Democrats sell out the middle class over China

May 2000

Nader's slugging it out with the party duopoly

April 2000

Where have all the issues gone?

March 2000

Crime in the suites

February 2000

Election 2000 already decided! big money's guy wins it!

January 2000

The seattle tea party

December 1999

Go, Granny, Go!

November 1999

Bill Bradley talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk

October 1999

American ceos are wallowing in wealth

September 1999

How they took the care out of our health care system

August 1999

How .05% of Americans buy our elections

July 1999

What's for dinner?

June 1999

How we won the war

May 1999

Hemp

April 1999

The new racketeers

March 1999

There's a plan for one world government