Sunrise Movement Rallies Outside Democratic National Committee Headquarters Over Climate Change Debate Failure
The environmental activists want the DNC to reverse its position against hosting a climate change debate for presidential candidates.
Aída Chávez
Aída Chávez is communications director and policy adviser at Just Foreign Policy. She was previously The Nation’s D.C. correspondent and a reporter at The Intercept, More Perfect Union, and other outlets.
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Elizabeth Warren Wants to Ban Private Prisons
Warren’s proposal would end all contracts the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have with private detention providers.
Hawkish Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel Is Facing Two Primary Challengers
Jamaal Bowman and Andom Ghebreghiorgis have both launched progressive challenges to Engel, citing the New York representative’s record on foreign policy.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Campaign Organizers Are Training Working-Class Progressives to Take on the Consultant Class
“Things like Movement School, where we wanna get more progressive leaders trained at the local level, the state level, matter a lot because the current infrastructure isn’t serving our policies.”
Bernie Sanders Calls for Brazil's Judiciary to Release Lula in Wake of Corruption Exposure
Sanders is responding to The Intercept’s exposé on Operation Car Wash, an anti-corruption probe that landed the former Brazilian president in prison.
Voices
The Day I Met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
She wasn’t yet the target of conservative hate-thirst, and up until two months before I met her, she was still going by “Sandy” and working at a bar.
The Right Opens Up a New Front in the Census War: Criminal Records
In a congressional hearing, a witness from the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute said that the Census Bureau should ask about criminal records.
A Genuine Populist Is Running for West Virginia Governor. His Donor Rolls Broke the State’s Campaign Finance Software.
Stephen Noble Smith is running to be West Virginia governor — and doing it by building a populist, progressive political movement from scratch.
Sunrise Movement Calls for Mass Climate Demonstration Outside Democratic Debate in Detroit
Sunrise Movement activists were joined by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Ed Markey at the final stop on the group’s road trip.
The War on Immigrants
Sen. Ron Wyden Demands Answers From DHS and Private Intel Firm Over Spying on Anti-Trump Immigration Protests
Homeland Security distributed information about protests collected by spies for hire. An influential senator on surveillance issues wants to know why.