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Even If All US Drilling and Fracking Halts Today, Warns New Report, 'Flood of Toxic Waste Streams' Will Grow for Decades

Straight to Wall Street Fundraiser After Leaving Poor People's Forum, Biden Tells Fat Cat Donors: 'You Guys Are Great'

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden addresses the Moral Action Congress of the Poor People's Campaign June 17, 2019 at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Billionaire Trump backer was among those solicited by the 2020 Democratic candidate

Bernie Sanders Calls Fact That Minimum Wage Worker Cannot Afford 2-Bedroom Apartment in Any U.S. State 'A National Disgrace'

Julia Conley, staff writer

"So long as there is a national housing shortage," says Rep. Ayanna Pressley, "...

Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back at Liz Cheney: 'What Do You Call Building Mass Camps of People Being Detained Without Trial?'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Concentration camps are considered by experts as 'the mass detention of...

Women's Rights Advocates Call On Democratic Candidates to Address Healthcare and Equity Issues Affecting Women in 2020 Debates

'If This Is True, They Are Even Bigger Lunatics Than We Realized': UN Officials Reportedly Believe Trump Planning 'Massive' Bombing Campaign in Iran

'This Should Scare the Hell Out of You': Photo of Greenland Sled Dog Teams Walking on Melted Water Goes Viral

Trudeau Approval of Tar Sands Pipeline, Say Critics, Would Make 'Absolute Mockery' of Climate Emergency Declaration Approved Less Than 24 Hours Ago

Backing Just Transition for Workers, International Union Leader Says, 'No Jobs on a Dead Planet'

Outrage and Warnings of 'Ethnic Cleansing' as Trump Threatens Mass Raids Against Millions of People in the US

WATCH: Rep. Katie Porter Explains to Swing District Constituents Why Her Conscience Demands Support for Trump Impeachment Inquiry

Aiming to Oust Another Pro-Corporate Democrat, Educator Jamaal Bowman Launches Progressive Challenge to Rep. Eliot Engel

'Barreling Towards Another Catastrophic War,' Trump Orders 1,000 More Troops to Middle East to Threaten Iran

Teens in Cage Protest Trump Immigration Policies Outside UN

Because 'This Is a Public Health Crisis,' Pennsylvania Gov. Urged to Investigate Link Between Fracking and Childhood Cancers

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We Must Do Better: Winning With Love and A Non-Endorsement

The ghastly MAGA guy just kicked off his re-election campaign in Orlando with lies, Nazis, old white people and chants of "Lock Her Up!" because these folks are some stupid. Happily, he was met with a Win With Love protest flying his "gaseous orange twin," dismal polling - all six Democratic frontrunners beat him - his own undocumented workers calling him out, and a blistering editorial from the long-GOP Orlando Sentinel urging America to please vote for anyone but Trump, because duh.