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Tom Weis

Tom Weis

Tom Weis is the president of Climate Crisis Solutions in Boulder, Colorado.

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US President-elect Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020. - US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the deeply experienced Antony Blinken for secretary of state, also nominating the first female head of intelligence and a czar for climate issues, with a promise to a return to expertise after the turbulent years of Donald Trump. (Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

Radical Climate Centrists? Say It Ain't So, Joe

Come on, man. For someone who talks so much about the need to be guided by science, why isn't Joe Biden’s climate thinking guided by the scientific consensus.

Tom Weis ·

Sanders Warren Biden

Like Sanders and Warren, I'm Backing Biden

 Any hope of advancing the popular causes championed by Sanders and Warren begins with removing Trump, flipping the Senate, and electing more progressives to the House.

Tom Weis ·

It all begins with putting Trump’s exhausting psychodrama behind us and getting back to loving and caring for one another as Americans. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

History Will Damn Trump & Co. for Betraying the Vision of Our Founders

A societal reckoning is required to fulfill our founding promise of liberty and justice for all.

Tom Weis ·

The utter unpreparedness of the United States for a pandemic is Trump’s fault. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's Resignation Would Save Countless American Lives. You Could Even Call It a Blessing From God

Too many have needlessly suffered and died on his watch.

Tom Weis ·

Trumpgate Makes Watergate Look Like Child's Play

"All attempts by Trump & Co. to undermine the election—or subvert its results—must be systematically resisted. We the people cannot, and will not, let our beloved democracy die."

Tom Weis ·

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, speaks during an event to open a campaign office at Eastern Market in Detroit, Michigan, on December 21, 2019.

DNC Showing Its True Colors (Again)

The Democratic elites so fear Bernie's political revolution they are changing the rules to promote a Wall Street centrist.

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The youth-led Sunrise Movement launched a campaign earlier this year to urge the Democratic Party to hold a 2020 presidential primary debate about the climate crisis. (Photo: Sunrise Movement/Twitter)

DNC Dithers While the World Burns

Does anyone else find it strange that nearly every Democratic presidential candidate has publicly called for a climate debate the DNC refuses to hold?

Tom Weis ·

How do Democrats envision making the leap from fearfully refusing to sponsor a climate debate to the next President of the United States suddenly being positioned to rally an entire nation to get behind a World War II-scale national climate mobilization? (Photo by mdgovpics/Flickr)

Another Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez: How Are Democrats Going to Contain the Climate Worldfire If They Won’t Even Hold a Climate Debate?

Either the Democratic Party is committed to mobilizing America to "address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II" or it isn't.

Tom Weis ·

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