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Demand Progress works to win progressive policy changes for ordinary people through organizing, lobbying, and elections in the United States.
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Newswire article Friday, January 15, 2021 What Senators Need to Ask Avril Haines at Her Confirmation Hearing Today Avril Haines, President-elect Biden's designee to be the Director of National Intelligence, will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) at noon today for her confirmation hearing. As has been reported in the Daily Beast and elsewhere, Haines has a history of positions and... Read more |
Newswire article Wednesday, December 16, 2020 New Report: Americans Oppose Having Corporate Insiders Run Biden Administration This morning, Demand Progress released a new report “Americans Want a Progressive Biden Administration” demonstrating broad, cross-party support for keeping corporate insiders outside the administration. Notably, the polling shows that 56 percent of Americans don’t want Biden to appoint corporate... Read more |
Newswire article Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Case Against Facebook Heightens Need For Independent Executive Branch Today the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 state attorneys general filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. This follows the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Google, which was filed in October. The following may be attributed to David Segal, Executive Director of Demand Progress,... Read more |
Newswire article Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Freedom from Facebook and Google Coalition Lauds State and Federal Efforts to Break Up Facebook The following statement may be attributed to Sarah Miller and David Segal, co-chairs of Freedom from Facebook and Google: "Our coalition launched in 2018 to call for Facebook to be broken up, because its anti-competitive acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp have undercut online privacy,... Read more |
Newswire article Thursday, December 03, 2020 Why Gina Raimondo Would Be a Disastrous Pick for HHS POLITICO reported Wednesday that Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is under serious consideration to run the Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration. After years of destructive leadership in Rhode Island, where she is overseeing one of the worst COVID crises in the... Read more |
Newswire article Friday, November 20, 2020 Progressive Groups Launch Grassroots Efforts To Lobby Against Corporate Cabinet, Release List of Corporate Insiders Biden Should Reject Today, five progressive organizations led by the Demand Progress and the Revolving Door Project launched the “No Corporate Cabinet” campaign, dedicated to keeping corporate insiders out of the Biden administration. Partners include Climate Investigations Center, Documented, and True North Research... Read more |
Newswire article Thursday, November 12, 2020 50+ Organizations Demand President-Elect Biden and Senate Democrats Reject Corporate Nominees for Cabinet Positions Today, Demand Progress and the Revolving Door Project – joined by more than fifty prominent progressive and good government organizations – called on President-elect Joe Biden as well as Democratic Senators and Senators-elect to reject corporate executives, lobbyists, and prominent corporate... Read more |
Newswire article Tuesday, September 15, 2020 In Front of Today’s Senate Hearing, More than a Dozen Groups Urge Swift Enforcement Against Google to Put an End to Anti-Competitive Behavior Today the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing about Google’s dominance of the online advertising industry—and more than a dozen groups representing millions of Americans who want to ensure that the Internet isn’t dominated by a handful of corporations and remains free and open have called... Read more |
Newswire article Monday, September 14, 2020 Leave Patriot Act out of Continuing Resolution: ACLU, Demand Progress, FreedomWorks, NAACP, and More Today, 24 organizations called on Congressional leaders not to include controversial, expired FISA authorities in the Continuing Resolution or any other must-pass legislation. The expired authorities include Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which the government claimed as the basis for the NSA's... Read more |
Newswire article Thursday, August 06, 2020 20+ Groups Commend Antitrust Subcommittee, Outline Next Steps for Curbing Big Tech’s Power On the heels of last week’s historic Big Tech hearing, 23 organizations today sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, commending the subcommittee for its successful hearing and urging the subcommittee to recommend... Read more |