As long as they’ve got decent insurance, a few bucks in the till, political contributions to the right people and a Supreme Court majority, corporations will always receive preferential treatment.
President Obama made some big news today by announcing that he supports a constitutional amendment like the one proposed by Bernie Sanders to overturn Citizens United.
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
Americans for Prosperity are hauling their boy Scott Walker to D.C. to do some public Koch-sucking and World Net Daily will live-stream it
Sen. Bernie Sanders has seen his statements about wealth inequality attacked by the right, but PolitiFact has confirmed that Bernie Sanders is speaking the truth.
Citizens United has created an entire class – a cabal – that is coming between the people and the representative government that the founders intended.
In his new report, America For Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, Sen. Bernie Sanders named names and called out the billionaires who using Citizens United to buy our democracy.
We as Americans should learn from the dramatic lessons of Paraguay just how powerful the unchecked hand of corporations can be.
Right wing values are all about profit values –and nothing more. Whether poisoning our water, triggering a war or making us pay the receipt for their economic stupidity.
Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they’ve had many bad days recently and that its fun to watch their heads explode
Here’s a shocker for you. A lawyer has called Karl Rove ‘delusional’ and ‘lying’ in his response to questions filed about his PAC with the FEC.
Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a blistering criticism of the Supreme Court after they strengthened Citizens United by overturning Montana’s campaign cash ban.
House Democrats are gearing up for a showdown with the corporate media and their Republican pals over language in a bill that would strengthen Citizens United.
John McCain has indirectly accused his fellow Republicans of using Citizens United to get foreign money into their campaign to defeat President Obama.
At the behest of corporate broadcasters, a single subcommittee vote by House Republicans killed an FCC disclosure guideline and strengthened the role of secret money in American politics.
In response to the Koch Brothers’ plan to spend $400 million on Republican election campaigns, Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the Kochs and urged America to stand up against Citizens United.
The Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act is due in late June. One justice should have sate the vote out.
Because of Citizens United, it takes over 181,000 donations to Barack Obama to match one anonymous twenty five million dollar donation to a Romney supporting Super PAC.
Senator Sanders explained in a few seconds why, in the wake of JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon’s preschool gambling, the banks need to be broken up and regulated.
In what is being dubbed, hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters in more than 30 countries have retaken public space to demand a sustainable economy that serves people over profit.
Three court cases and FEC complicity have left campaign financing in a high-dollar frenzy with the victor getting the spoils of a billion dollar election.
Mitch McConnell is sticking up for all the ‘oppressed’ corporations in America by trying influence the Supreme Court when it reconsiders the Citizens’ United.
While the privileged-paranoia duopoly over American politics is nothing new to us, we find that Breitbart’s twisted career haunts, warps and dysfunctions our democracy to this day in a very direct and troubling manner.
The U.S. is catawampus; in short the country is a mess driven by a right-wing Supreme Court and the gun-nut red states.
Republicans have been plenty busy since Obama became president in 2008, and a large part of what has been occupying their time has been rigging the election of 2012.
When even holdouts like Obama are feeling forced to use Super PACs, the American people need to effectively step in and require change.
He’s a former governor and U. S. Congressman, and—unlike his competitors for the Republican Presidential nomination—an eminently sensible man. Chances are good you may never have heard of him, and even better that you had no idea he is running for President, but populist firebrand Buddy Roemer soldiers on undaunted.