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Progress Michigan Demands Resignation of Rep. Schriver After He Leans Full Tilt Into Racist Conspiracy Theory

press releaseBy Progress Michigan February 8, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENews from Progress Michigan Thursday, February 8, 2024 Contact: Denzel McCampbell, denzel@progressmichigan.org Progress Michigan Demands Resignation of Rep. Schriver After He Leans Full Tilt Into Racist Conspiracy Theory Schriver’s recent push of the “Great Replacement Theory” raises questions about Michigan Republican Party’s acceptance of racism within their ranks MICHIGAN – On Thursday, Progress…

What The Occupy Movement Is All About

BlogBy Mitchell Rivard October 18, 2011 Leave a comment

Want to know what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about? Look no further than the shocking statistic below. The 400 wealthiest people in America are worth more than the bottom 150 million people combined. I must have seen this statistic a hundred times, but each time I read it, it continues to stun…

I dare you to make sense of this.

BlogBy Angela Vasquez-Giroux July 13, 2011 Leave a comment

Why do kids under the age of ten need firearms? To hunt for and kill their own food, which, under the policies of the Gov. Rick Snyder administration, they’ll need to do to survive. If social safety net programs are set on automatic timers, and kids can only be clothed in what’s available on discount…

What If You Claimed A Mandate, But No One Gave You One?

BlogBy Angela Vasquez-Giroux November 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Image via Wikipedia John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the incoming Speaker of the House and Senate Minority Leader, respectively, are reading the results of the 2010 midterm elections as a mandate from Americans. In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post (which, curiously, also boasts a contribution from Ben Affleck, a piece that strikes a much…

Big Oil and the Tea Party: Powerful Allies Against Clean Energy

BlogBy David Holtz October 21, 2010 Leave a comment

If Democratic voters don’t turn out on Election Day, and independent voters help make a huge Republican wave on November 2, Big Oil and Big Coal will have won a stealth victory that will doom America to dependence on foreign oil and more greenhouse gas pollution for years to come. For that we would largely…

“My hypocrisy knows no bounds.”

BlogBy Angela Vasquez-Giroux October 5, 2010 Leave a comment

Image via Wikipedia When Doc Holliday said it (famously, at least to me, in the movie Tombstone, when the outlaw is deputized by Wyatt Earp) he said it with full recognition of the lie he was perpetuating. Doc Holliday, the smooth Southern killer, was not a man who believed in the law. He spent his…

Rick Michigan’s Tea Party

BlogBy David Holtz August 16, 2010 Leave a comment

Image by Urban~Spaceman via Flickr The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly under-reported story that some of us who count tea bags have been predicting for weeks now, the far right tea party caucus of the Michigan Republican Party is taking over. Thousands of cranky “tea party” types showed up…

Putting the torch to Andy Dillon’s takeover plans

BlogBy Chad Cyrowski August 6, 2010 Leave a comment

Written by David Holtz Image by stevendepolo via Flickr Political pundits have been burning up the air waves and nets this week analyzing Tuesday’s primary election results with Rick Snyder’s takedown if not takeover on the Republican side getting lots of attention. Much less is being said about progressives and labor torching Andy Dillon’s…

How to Be Popular, Vol. 1: Work FOR People, Not Against Them

BlogBy Chad Cyrowski August 1, 2010 Leave a comment

Sea change ahead, folks, as Gallup reports that Dems have a six-point lead in generic ballots for the 2010 Congressional elections. Gallup notes: In the same week that the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans, 49% to 43% … If you read further, you’ll…

Pete Hoekstra’s Hypocrisy: The Video

BlogBy Chad Cyrowski August 1, 2010 Leave a comment

CNN asked Hoekstra if he found it hypocritical to show up for the groundbreaking of a plant he voted against by opposing funding through the federal Recovery Act. We had a few questions for Hoekstra, too. We wanted to ask about whether Hoekstra’s votes for huge tax breaks for Big Oil was the same thing–minus…

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