West Virginia Democratic leaders demand action, compassion from Manchin. “The tactic of those who are making millions from the status quo is delay, delay, delay…”
WVDSEC Members, Leaders on Manchin Delaying Aid
New WVDP Leaders Demand Manchin Protect Roe
West Virginia Democratic leaders demand action from Manchin to save lives, saying the US Supreme Court decision “will disproportionately impact and harm low-income families and minorities. This decision will kill people.”
Build Back Better: $15K for the typical WV family
State-by-state analysis reveals that a typical WV family of four would save $15,800.
Compromising Our Democracy
Think about how damning this is: the only way Manchin will agree to protect our democracy is to make sure it can remain a corrupt democracy.
Love democracy, hate corruption
We love the idea of having our voices represented in government, but find ourselves ”represented” by politicians who repeatedly choose the side of their donors and themselves—not working people…
Trickle Freaking Down Doesn’t Freaking Work
“The billionaire class isn’t just a group of people who happen to be superrich. It’s a dynastic oligarchy with a single overriding objective: controlling the government to protect its inherited wealth.”
Dear West Virginians, I Double Dog Dare You (Open letter)
It helps corporations to have their bought political mouthpieces incite regular folks to blame the other party, whichever "other" party that might be. That's because the constant bitter fighting keeps people from being able to recognize and process who's really calling the shots. The distraction allows more and more of our money to be funneled to already-wealthy corporate execs.
West Virginia’s Gas-hole Politicians
China would prefer the U.S. to be less competitive in the future, to fall behind in creating renewable energy infrastructure, to have to buy our solar panels from THEM, while our politicians fall all over themselves to move us backward rather than ahead.
Rigged to Sacrifice Regular People
Governor Justice's administration is jamming through the Antero Frackwaste dump, that will threaten so many families with the same sort of future that Minden, WV, is experiencing right now.
How the wealthy buy WV elections and write WV law
Donald Trump, at a primary debate in August of 2015, explained: "I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they're there for me."
Later, he said it more bluntly, "When I call, they kiss my ass, okay?"
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