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Progressive Movement News / June 27, 2016
For Immigrant Families, Supreme Court Denies Needed Relief
The divided Court’s ruling last week in U.S. v. Texas froze President Barack Obama’s signature immigration reform program in place. The 4-4 tie allowed a lower court’s injunction halting implementation of Deferred Action for ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 24, 2016
DA Founder Rob Stein on the Koch Brothers and Political Trust-Busting
The lurid attraction of a Donald Trump-dominated presidential election spectacle is likely to obscure another clear and present political danger that will be hidden from most Americans. That danger is the purchase — there’s no other way to put ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 23, 2016
News Roundup, June 23
Civil rights leaders and economists unite; Nick Hanauer slams House Speaker Paul Ryan for weak grasp of middle-class economics; Hillary Clinton’s LGBTQ bona fides are explored; and more.
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Progressive Movement News / June 23, 2016
At Common Cause, New Leadership Steps Up
The good-government watchdog group with offices in 35 states has announced Karen Hobert Flynn as its tenth President. She brings 30 years of experience as a democracy reform activist, many of them with Common Cause and state affiliates. She ...
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Progressive Movement News / June 22, 2016
ProgressNow Founder to Head Social Change Firm Fenton
Michael Huttner, who started ProgressNow in 2003 and later founded political consultancy The Huttner Group, has been named CEO of Fenton Communications. Fenton, which bills itself as a “social change firm,” was established “to advance human ...
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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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