Oct 31, 2011: What States Are Doing To Restrict Voting Rights
Perhaps the most nefarious legislation to pop up in states over the past year have been new laws intended to make it more difficult for people to vote. In an unprecedented move, Republican-controlled legislatures have passed a wide range of new bills in 2011 that will restrict, rather than broaden, access to the ballot box. [...]
Oct 28, 2011: The Do-Nothing But Kill Jobs Congress
When Voting Against Job Creation Just Isn’t Enough As we’ve been documenting, Republicans keep voting against millions of American jobs. But it doesn’t stop there! The bills they’ve managed to get enacted — namely spending cuts through taking the entire government hostage and threatening to shut it down — have actually killed 370,000 jobs according [...]
Oct 27, 2011: Survey Says: The Public Supports the 99% Movement
The Verdict Is In As the Occupy Wall Street protest and growing 99 Percent Movement enters its second month, poll after poll shows public support for the movement. Here’s the rundown. 82…percent of New York State voters think it’s OK for the Occupy Wall Street protesters to protest. 70…percent of Americans have heard “a lot” [...]
Oct 26, 2011: ThinkProgress & Rick Perry Completely Agree That…
It’s Time to See Millionaire Mitt Romney’s Missing Tax Returns Back on Oct. 14, we asked if Mitt Romney had something to hide since he’s never released his tax returns despite running for or holding elective office for the better part of two decades: Not when he ran for the Senate against Ted Kennedy in [...]
Oct 25, 2011: 2012ers Unite Behind Massive Giveaways To The Wealthy
Trillions In Giveaways to the Rich Enacting massive tax giveaways to the wealthiest Americans seems to rank just after an all-consuming desire to defeat President Obama on the Republicans’ priority list. Texas Governor Rick Perry’s flat tax plan, which he released today in South Carolina, is just the latest entry in the Republican contest to [...]
Oct 24, 2011: The 99 Percent Are Winning
On Friday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was scheduled to make a speech on income inequality at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Yet after learning that the event would be taking place in a forum open to the public and that hundreds of protesters from Occupy Philly [...]
Oct 21, 2011: Oops, They Did It Again!
Republicans Vote Down American Jobs — AGAIN In their never-ending quest to protect millionaires and billionaires, Senate Republicans once again voted down American Jobs. Last week, they joined together to unanimously oppose the millions of jobs that would be created by the American Jobs Act. Last night, the Senate took up one part of the president’s [...]
Oct 20, 2011: The Romney Rule
Time to Repeal the Romney Rule You’ve heard of the Buffett Rule proposed by President Obama — the simple idea that no millionaire should be able to use tax loopholes to cheat the system and pay a lower tax rate than hardworking middle class Americans. All President Obama is proposing is that millionaires and billionaires [...]
Oct 19, 2011: The 99 Percent Effect On The Media
How the 99 Percent Are Changing America One News Story at a Time As ThinkProgress cataloged, the corporate media sought early on to attack the Occupy Wall Street protest and the 99 Percent Movement as a whole. Right-wing outlets like Fox News and The Daily Caller continue to do so, but the 99 Percent Movement appears to [...]
Oct 18, 2011: Will The GOP Say No To 400,000 Jobs?
Who Will the GOP Put First: Teachers & First Responders OR Millionaires & Billionaires? Last week, the Senate GOP voted down the president’s jobs plan — and thousands of jobs in each and every state across the country. But President Obama isn’t taking no for an answer and is breaking his jobs plan into pieces [...]
