n the eve of what could have been the first vote on single-payer legislation in our nation’s history, we have just learned that because of last minute developments, the vote and debate on Congressman Weiner’s …

By Frank Shaffer | BradBlog
I grew up in a fundamentalist missionary family that in the 1970s and 80s morphed into my father’s activity as one of the founders of the Religious Right. We would hobnob …

By Miles Mogulescu | Huffington Post
Yeah, that means you Weiner, and you Grayson, and you Schakowsky, and you Grijalva and you Woolsey, and all the rest of you in the House Progressive Caucus (I think …

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Bill Moyers Essay: Restoring Accountability for Washington’s Wars| PBS

By Candidate Marcy Winograd
Participating in 350 Day, October 24, 2009, members of Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles spelled out 3-5-0 with their bicycles before riding from Santa Monica to …

Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the ‘Robust’ Public Option
By PDA-Chicago Steering Committee: Bill Bianchi, Lorin Klugman, Arlene Gloria Hirsch, Allan Nowakowski, and Jim Rhodes
The PDA-Chicago steering Committee wants to weigh in on …

By Laura Bonham, PDA Deputy Director and Communications Director
As the frenzied healthcare debate inches forward under a cloud of misinformation, we want to reiterate that PDA is firmly committed to Medicare for All, single-payer healthcare.
Our …

he Film That Can Stop the War, How to Put it on Your Community Access TV Station
It’s do or die time for the peace movement, as the Obama administration heads for granting all or part …