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Jim Crow Returns: Interstate “Crosscheck” Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote
Investigative journalist Greg Palast details how new voter ID laws risk disenfranchising millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters.
Chief Caleen Sisk: It’s All One Big Project
Tribal leaders and river and groundwater protection advocates on Monday, October 27, announced their strong opposition to Proposition 1, Governor Jerry Brown's controversial State Water Bond.
Goliath Gets Bigger: Prop. 1 War Chest Grows to $16.4 million
The big corporate money behind the water bond largely determines who the bond will benefit - billionaires, corporate agribusiness, oil companies and the 1 percent, not the people, fish …
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Faces of Fracking: Rebecca Claassen
A grassroots effort in Santa Barbara County to stop intensive oil production fights against millions from the oil industry.
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Fasting for Democracy: Why I’ve Given Up Food to Fight Corruption
The struggle to end corruption and establish political equality regardless of wealth is a struggle to ensure that universal suffrage still means something.
FAIR TV: Time Magazine Fail, Climate Change Dodge and Erasing Non-Voters
FAIR TV covers Time magazine's attacks on public school teachers, new GOP tactics on climate change denial and campaign coverage.
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A Difficult Season
Love the important people in your life not in spite of their flaws but because of them.
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A Kansas Group’s Push to Oust Judges Reveals a Gap in Campaign Finance Rules
Kansas election overseers are grappling with a new kind of dark money.
Gas Free Seneca Statement
We call on Senator Chuck Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Tom Reed to step up, speak out, and help their constituents keep the Finger Lakes safe from heavy …
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Anelo, From Forgotten Town to Capital of Argentina’s Shale Fuel Boom
A tiny town in Argentina prepares for shale drilling.