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Paul Loeb
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Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time and he The Impossible Will Take a Little While. new anthology on
political hope, www.paulloeb.org.
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Link the SAVE Act to the History of Republican Voter Suppression
Donald Trump asked Republicans to pass the SAVE Act “for Jesus.” He’d have been better calling out George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. The debate has focused on the bill’s many dangerous aspects, and the next steps to trying to pass it are unclear. But the SAVE Act builds on voter suppression that…
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Incorporate Arm Bands in the Mayday Strike: A Lesson from the Past
Major unions like the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and citizen groups like Indivisible and Public Citizen are calling for a national Mayday strike. It’s a powerful idea, building off of a Minnesota day this past January where people didn’t go to work or school…
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It Can’t Happen Here: Washington State’s Cautionary Tale for the California Governor Race
Will California’s gubernatorial candidates realize that they could split the vote enough in the primary to create a Republican victory? The 2016 Washington State Treasurer’s race offers a cautionary tale. All candidates competed together in the primary under similar rules to California. Three…
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Holding Musk Accountable: Here's How We Supercharge the Tesla Boycott
I’ve been struggling to imagine Elon Musk might do if he gets his trillion-dollar payday. He could spend a million dollars a day for 3,000 years. Or, more realistically, $100 million a day for 30 years. He could spend the $290 million he invested in Trump’s election and do it 3,400 times,…