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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 9, 2017
A Great Night for Progressives – Now Let’s Keep It Going
Tuesday night’s Election Day victories across the country were a referendum on Donald Trump, his enablers in Congress and state capitols, and their regressive and divisive policies. This sweeping repudiation at the polls demonstrates powerfully ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / November 9, 2017
Extremes All Around: Racism, Climate Change, and Recovery
In September, Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico, and the overt incompetence of the Trump Administration’s response has worsened the disaster into a dire humanitarian crisis. And now, nearly 50 days later, Puerto Ricans are struggling to ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 1, 2017
Election Hacking Strikes at the Heart of Democracy
Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently announced that they support the findings of the U.S. intelligence community — Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. elections by hacking ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 26, 2017
A DA Forum: How to Read the Special Elections, and What Next
There has been a range of reactions from progressives to the loss in the hard-fought special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional race—and to the outcomes in California, Montana, Kansas, and South Carolina as well. Because this has been a ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 5, 2017
With Trump’s Retreat on Climate Pact, Local Leaders and Civil Society are Leading
Last week, President Trump announced the United States will withdraw from the landmark Paris Climate Accord, an historic international agreement that would hold the world’s nations accountable to reducing carbon pollution and averting the worst ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / May 25, 2017
There’s Nothing Dysfunctional About Single Motherhood
Mothers have it hard in this country. We pay lip service to support for working moms, but don’t back up our words with deeds, through critical public policies like paid family leave or high quality affordable child care. Mothers ― especially ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / May 25, 2017
The Right Steps Up its Attacks on the Labor Movement
Whenever the Right takes power in the United States – from the United States Presidency to a state capitol – it sets its sights on strengthening the conservative lock on power structurally by making changes to our elections processes. It also ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / April 28, 2017
The Resistance Takes on Trump’s Assault on Climate Action
Just as the first hundred days of the Trump Administration began with the massive resistance of the Women’s March, they will end tomorrow with marches all across the country to stand up to his assaults on the fragile progress the country has ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 25, 2017
Democracy in the Balance: A Time to Resist and Restore
“Business must learn the lesson… that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination — without embarrassment and without the ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 3, 2017
How Philanthropy and Civil Society Tell America’s Story – And Their Own
DA President Gara LaMarche delivered the following keynote remarks to San Diego Grantmakers, a donor network helping grantmakers’ philanthropy have greater impact, on March 2, 2017. The video above was played before his speech. Thank you. ...
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