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Why are the billionaires laughing?

It’s easy to laugh when the corporate press treats you as a glorious success instead of the epitome of a broken social order. Billionaires laugh because they know the corporate media prefers to fawn over them rather than hold them to account.

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Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Donna Smith is the former executive director of Progressive Democrats of America and currently a Medicare for All campaign surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Rise and Shine: Medicare for All Saves Us All

Stand tall and with the power of our shared commitment and let’s teach more people to be active constituents who push their own Congressional members to co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act of 2021. 

Donna Smith ·

Sen. Elizabeth Warren pictured with the author and her husband, Larry Smith. (Photo: Progressive Democrats of America)

She Persists: A Reflection on Elizabeth Warren's Sense of Shared Humanity

Warren has been and ever will be the kind of powerful, American woman I will look up to with wonder and gratitude.

Donna Smith ·

"What came as a huge shock following my recent birthday was not the financial relief—though that is lovely," writes Smith. "The more significant and potentially cost-saving result for all of us lucky enough to have Medicare coverage is the mental and emotional relief I have felt in such a short time. It’s as if someone lifted a ton of weights off of my back and set my sails into a prevailing wind." (Photo illustration: David McNew/Getty Images)

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After years of pain, anxiety, and poverty under the status quo it is almost impossible to describe the relief I've felt after becoming eligible for Medicare this month.

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Post-Debate Musings: Bernie’s Heart and His Courage Just Fine with Me

It will be nice when all of the candidates stop lying about how badly we Americans want to keep our private coverage. Are you kidding?

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The promise of our shared interests in anything close to attainment of our declared values and reason for being is lost to us unless we all stand together

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Donna Smith ·

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Progressive momentum could lead to historic breakthroughs in the midterms and beyond. Realizing such potential will require transforming and energizing the Democratic Party

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