Blog - /blog/2019/02/21/how-much-could-we-buy-70-top-marginal-tax-rate/
- How much could our federal government pay for if the top marginal tax rate was raised to 70 percent?
Blog - /blog/2019/02/14/tell-congress-use-their-power-no-national-emergency-border/
- The president will declare a national emergency in order to commandeer federal funds to build his wall, according to reports today.
Blog - /blog/2019/02/11/deja-vu-four-days-until-shutdown/
- It's deja vu all over again.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/25/border-solution-must-not-include-wall/
- It’s time to end this shutdown once and for all, and it’s time to end the fiction that Americans want or need a wall at our border.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/23/end-shutdown-near/
- It’s day 33 of the shutdown. An announcement Wednesday by House Democrats offered yet another possible solution to the ongoing government shutdown battle over the president’s dem...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/12/longest-shutdown-ever/
- Congress has the power to make things right, but it would take a bipartisan stand against the president.
Blog - /blog/2019/01/30/demilitarize-budget-fight-climate-change/
- While the Trump administration fixates on a militarized non-solution to the non-crisis at the border, the real crisis is staring us in the face: accelerating climate change. And demilitarizing the U.S...
Blog - /blog/2019/01/04/shutdown-day-14/
- If anyone wins, let’s hope it’s the majority of Americans who want nothing to do with border walls or shutdowns.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-2018/
- As of midnight on Friday, major parts of the U.S. government are closed.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/17/government-shutdown-looms-over-trumps-border-wall-funding/
- Congress gave themselves a deadline of Friday, December 21 to pass legislation funding roughly one quarter of the federal government for the rest of the 2019 fiscal year.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/10/trump-wants-750-billion-military-nearing-record-spending/
- ...military spending from its current $716 billion to a cool $750 billion.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/07/nine-things-buy-5-billion-instead-border-wall/
- President Trump has said that he will veto any bill that doesn’t give him the $5 billion he has demanded for his border wall.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/04/trump-spending-210-million-soldiers-tear-gas-children-border/
- ...military troops at the U.S./Mexico border keeps escalating—unarmed refugees are being tear gassed, and direct costs of the situation are expected to reach $210 million through December.
Blog - /blog/2018/12/03/call-your-senator-stop-us-role-yemen-war/
- You can help end the war in Yemen today.
Blog - /blog/2018/11/28/commission-wants-pentagon-budget-increase-nearly-1-trillion-2024/
- ...military spending of $972 trillion in 2024. But the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit. If you don’t know where $700 billion is going, why would you know where $1 trillion is going?
Blog - /blog/2018/11/20/pentagon-fails-audit-asks-raise/
- Asking for more money is not a good look for the Pentagon right now. But that’s just what a national security commission did last week, the day before the Pentagon announced that it had complete...
Blog - /blog/2018/11/05/npp-fall-party-2018-northampton-ma/
- NPP's Fall Party is November 13, 2018!
Blog - /blog/2018/08/29/today-international-day-against-nuclear-tests/
- Activists around the world are uniting to call for a stop to all nuclear weapons testing. Period.
Blog - /blog/2018/07/13/trumps-nato-military-spending-request-would-add-600-billion-world-military-spending/
- At the NATO summit, President Trump first scolded the United States' allies for not spending as much as NATO guidelines suggest on their militaries - now at two percent of each country's GDP (a measur...
Blog - /blog/2018/06/21/house-gop-budget-calls-drastic-cuts-domestic-programs/
- This week the House majority released their budget blueprint for fiscal year 2019, which begins October 1.
