Blog - /blog/2025/11/18/7-progressive-policy-wins-human-needs-over-militarism/
Nov. 18, 2025 - This Election Day, progressive ideas swept the polls this month on Election Day. Across multiple elections at the state and local government levels, voters chose pro-people and planet agendas over mil...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/pamphlet-divest-violence-invest-people-and-planet/sources-divest-violence-invest-people-and-planet/
Nov. 5, 2025 - ...War and militarism drive and enable fossil fuel use, and fossil fuel use drives war and militarism. Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War. Estimating the Military’s G...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/pamphlet-divest-violence-invest-people-and-planet/
Nov. 5, 2025 - ...of the most urgent threats we face, and they are deeply connected. Militarism fuels environmental destruction and accelerates climate change, and the climate crisis intensifies conflict and ...
Blog - /blog/2025/10/31/maga-priorities-golden-dome-over-hungry-families/
Oct. 31, 2025 - ...of Americans by refusing to fund SNAP during the Republican-led government shutdown, resulting in the first ever lapse of food stamp benefits beginning on November 1. ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/07/09/10-ways-the-gop-budget-will-make-life-worse/
July 9, 2025 - ...of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/10-terrible-ways-gop-budget-causes-harm/
July 8, 2025 - The new law slashes vital services to pay for tax cuts for the rich and massive hikes in military and deportation funding.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2025/06/13/trump-military-parade-pollution-emissions/
June 13, 2025 - Among other concerns, the US military parade will produce as much pollution as created to heat 300 homes for a year.
Blog - /blog/2025/05/13/trillion-dollar-trade-what-if-presidents-budget-prioritized-communities-instead-war-profiteers/
May 13, 2025 - ...of Education, green energy, and so much more. The U.S. already...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/tax-day-2025-notes-and-sources/
April 9, 2025 - ...War and Weapons The Pentagon (Department of Defense), nuclear weapons activities, war costs, and international military aid. Subfunctions: 051, 053, 054, 152 Example programs: Department o...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/
April 9, 2025 - ...war, mass deportations, and programs that are on the Trump-Musk chopping block — and which programs cost less than a dozen eggs.
Blog - /blog/2025/03/17/congress-boosts-war-machine-and-executive-power-while-cutting-services-working-people/
March 18, 2025 - While the continuing resolution is a step in the wrong direction, we must stay focused on an even bigger fight ahead: budget reconciliation.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/trump-gop-stack-deck-against-struggling-americans-build-war-and-mass-deportation/
March 4, 2025 - ...of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-reach-historic-levels-militarized-spending-expense-human-need/
Feb. 12, 2025 - ...of working people.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-would-increase-spending-pentagon-and-deportations-expense-sol/
Feb. 11, 2025 - ...of giving more to weapons contractors and demonizing immigrant communities.
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/
April 3, 2024 - It’s spring, and that means Americans are filing their tax returns. Most will know whether they get a refund, but how many know where their tax dollars really go?
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/tax-day-2024-notes-and-sources/
March 26, 2024 - ...of the taxes withheld from your paycheck.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/30/Sending-Israel-more-aid-is-lose-lose-proposition/
Nov. 30, 2023 - ...of mass destruction we’re seeing in Gaza is unimaginable to most of us in the United States. But we see suffering here too — in the form of homelessness, the opioid epidemic ...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - ...war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into real human needs — healthcare, education, housing, and a jus...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - ...of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/24/report-trillion-militarized-spending-crushing/
May 24, 2023 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
