The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Justice On the Take: How Dark Money Is Seeping Into U.S. Courtrooms
Right-wing organizations have committed unprecedented sums of money to influence state judicial elections, including a number of key state supreme court retention races.
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How the Waltons of Walmart Are Obstructing Our Clean Energy Future
The nation's richest family is funding nearly two dozen organizations working to roll back renewable energy policies, while pushing for regulations aimed at hindering the growth of rooftop solar power.
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Money Driving Politics: $430 Million Spent on Ad Wars In State Elections
More cash has gone to governors' races in Florida, Illinois and Pennsylvania than any U.S. Senate race – while Texas’s lieutenant governor and AG top state-level funding.
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World's Biggest PR Company Axes Climate Change Deniers – But Forgets About A.L.E.C.
If Edelman is serious about not working for groups that deny climate change, it needs to dump the American Legislative Exchange Council – which which works harder than anyone to block climate policy.
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The Matter With Kansas: State Is Broke Thanks to Governor's G.O.P. Tax Cuts
Kansas is hundreds of millions of dollars short in revenue collection, its job growth has lagged the rest of the nation, and Moody's has cut the state's bond rating. More Republican economics, anyone?
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Ohio Signs Nation's First Anti-Renewable Energy Bill Into Law
Clean energy’s brought 25,000 jobs and at least $1 billion in private sector investment to the state – so why did lawmakers enable the fossil fuel industry to turn back the clock on Ohio?
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Impunity in West Virginia As Criminal Law-Breaking Polluters Still Walk Free
Freedom Industries, which failed to show up at a Congressional hearing this week, knew about the leak of toxic chemicals but chose purposely not to report them – one of many company crimes for which managers should be behind bars.
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A Midwest Republican Senator Crusades Against the Corruption of Money In Politics
“I have always thought business should have access to the public square – I never thought anybody should be able to buy the public square, and that’s where we’re at right now."
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Revolving Door: Koch and Halliburton Are Lobbying Hard to Block a Carbon Tax
Despite an array of conservative economists and former Republican lawmakers, Koch and Halliburton lobbyists are funding the campaign against it.
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Launch of Green Tea Coalition Drives A Wedge Through Georgia's Tea Party
The across-the-spectrum Green Tea Coalition - including activists from the Tea Party Patriots, Occupy Atlanta and the NAACP - is uniting to challenge Koch Brothers-funded big business ideology.
