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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 14, 2016
In Orlando, the Price of Hate and Inaction
Mass shootings occur with grim regularity in our country, whose gun laws are insanely growing steadily more lax, not more stringent, thanks to the enormous power of the National Rifle Association and its stranglehold on politicians petrified to ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 3, 2016
Ginny Goldman Hands the Reins of the Texas Organizing Project to Michelle Tremillo
Tremillo, currently TOP’s Managing Director, will take over from founding Executive Director Goldman at the end of June. The daughter of a single mother who grew up in public housing on the west side of San Antonio, Tremillo put herself ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 3, 2016
CEL’s Inaba Departs, Jackie Mahendra to Lead
Since being founded by Ian Inaba eight years ago, Citizen Engagement Lab has helped 33 startups engage more than 9 million people. Mahendra, who joined the team in 2012 as Director of Strategy, co-founded CEL’s Kairos Fellowship for ...
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News from the DA / June 3, 2016
Kim Anderson to Join the DA Team in July
The Democracy Alliance is pleased to welcome Kim Anderson on board as Executive Vice President, beginning July 18. Anderson has been a senior figure in the National Education Association since 2001, where she is currently Senior Director of the ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 1, 2016
Social Movements Matter: The Untold Story of the Democratic Primaries
In its final stages, the Clinton-Sanders contest has been distressingly dominated by arguments over party rules while Donald Trump consolidates his control over the Republican Party and begins his general election campaign. But for most of the ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 1, 2016
CPD Gala Highlights: Mestrich on a Living Wage; Warren Hits Trump Hard
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s excoriation of Republican nominee Donald Trump at the Center for Popular Democracy‘s gala last week drew big headlines – she blasted him as a “small, insecure money-grubber” rooting for American ...
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From The President / May 20, 2016
The Only Way to Run against Donald Trump is All Out
I don’t like writing about Donald Trump. I don’t like talking about Donald Trump. I don’t like his ubiquitous presence in the media. But we have to talk and write about Donald Trump, since what was not long ago unthinkable has happened:
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Advancement Project Co-Founder Steps Down, and Judith Browne Dianis Steps Up
Penda Hair is departing to focus on representing the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP in its ongoing voting rights case. Judith Browne Dianis, who has served as Co-Founder and Co-Director alongside Hair, will serve as sole executive ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Issue One Debuts Resource for Reporters, Advocates that Puts Right-Wing Voices Up Front
“Right on the Money” argues that limiting the corrosive influence of money in politics doesn’t have to be a partisan issue – it’s “a cause that everyone from Bernie Sanders to Barry Goldwater has supported,” ...
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Progressive Movement News / May 17, 2016
Rolling Stone Names DA-Linked Progressive “Young Americans Shaping 2016”
Filing them under “millennials working to overhaul America’s rotten political structure,” the magazine included staff from Black Civic Engagement Fund grantee Black Youth Project 100, the DA-recommended group Center for ...
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