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Former ALEC Supporters Now Find Connection Toxic
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue / Flickr)With thousands of consumers expressing their concerns about the American Legislative …
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Tennessee House Passes Bill to Allow Criminal Prosecution for Harming Embryos
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. (Photo: Scott Fegette / Flickr)Tennessee has long had a law that allowed prosecutors to charge someone for …
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Obama Sees Steep Dropoff in Cash from Major Donors
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House)President Obama’s re-election campaign is straining to raise the huge …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Karl Rove’s Super PAC Under Scrutiny, and More
In today's On the News segment, George Zimmerman out on bail, for-profit college supporters in Congress opposing student loan reforms, Colorado and California look to pass marijuana legalization laws …
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FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Service Provider
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server …
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Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. An Afghan boy waits as his father receives medical care at a cooperative medical engagement site near …
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Student Loan Interest Rates Loom as Political Battle
President Obama begins an all-out push on Friday to get Congress to extend the low interest rate on federal student loans, White House officials said, an effort that is …
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Bail Hearing This Morning for Gunman in Martin Shooting
Sanford, FL - Family members of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who was arrested last week on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, testified at …
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Vermont Legislature Votes to Overturn Citizens United
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Progressive activists are celebrating another victory today after the Vermont Legislature became the third in …
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Hang on to That Paycheck! ALEC “Sharpens Focus on Jobs“
This week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) announced that it would disband its controversial “Public Safety and Elections Task Force” to "Sharpen its Focus on Jobs, Free Markets …