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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / August 13, 2018
Keeping Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court is an essential fight for progressives
When this squalid period in American history is over, those who enabled a mendacious, bigoted, traitorous President will have a lot to account for. But many of those who enable him do it because they are in striking distance of an accomplishment ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / June 27, 2018
This Is What Happens When the Right Steals The Supreme Court
By Gara LaMarche, Democracy Alliance President The Supreme Court ended its term this morning, and that’s a relief, because the damage it has done in the last few days alone has dealt a series of harsh blows to our basic rights. This is what ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / April 19, 2018
Charting the Course for Progressive Power
Democracy Alliance President Gara LaMarche delivered these remarks at DA Spring Conference in Atlanta, GA, on April 16, 2018. Welcome to the DA’s Spring Investment Conference. We meet in Atlanta, a key city of the South, and will hear from both ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / January 22, 2018
One Year In, Resistance Spreads from the Streets to the Ballot Box
With all we’ve been through, it seems like an administration measured in dog years, but in fact this weekend we’ve survived just one year of Donald Trump — at least those of us not yet deprived of health care, exposed to greater risk by a gutted ...
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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 / 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 / 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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From The President
Blog posts, speeches, musings, and other updates from the Democracy Alliance President.