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'You Are Beautiful. You Are Loved': Allies Show Solidarity on Transgender Day of Visibility

A person holds a transgender pride flag as people gather on Christopher Street outside the Stonewall Inn for a rally to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York, June 28, 2019. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

'Piecemeal Solutions Won't Suffice': Progressives Press Biden to 'Go Big' on Infrastructure Plan

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Activists plan to welcome President Joe Biden to Pittsburgh on Wednesday with four billboards calling for a "bold" economic recovery plan. (Image: Green New Deal Network)

"Millions of us are depending on Congress to take this once-in-a-generation opportunity and deliver the jobs, care, and justice we so urgently need, and we intend to make them deliver."

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As Biden Prepares to Unveil Infrastructure Plan, Progressives Push $10 Trillion Investment

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

One-year-old Dara Faraez walks across the floor in front of the podium as Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) speaks at the Back the THRIVE Agenda press conference on September 10, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network)

"The THRIVE Act is the agenda that establishes the pillars for economic renewal...

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Senate Dems Employ Obscure Law in Effort to Reverse Trump Rollback of Methane Emissions Standards

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A gas flare is seen at an oil well site on July 26, 2013 outside Williston, North Dakota. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

While lawmakers are also using the Congressional Review Act to challenge one...

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U.S. lawmakers are signing on to a new pledge that promotes investing $10 trillion over the next 10 years in creating millions of union jobs that address climate change, economic inequality, and systemic racism. (Image: Sunrise Movement)

Progressives in Congress Commit to Sunrise Movement's $10 Trillion 'Good Jobs for All' Pledge

Construction workers upgrade the Green Line light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston on August 6, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Democrats Unveil 'Build Green' Infrastructure and Jobs Act

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) speaks as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) looks on during a press conference about student debt outside the U.S. Capitol on February 4, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

To 'Ensure Justice and Accountability for Police Brutality,' Pressley Leads New Bill to End Qualified Immunity

The reality of college tuition debt was on display at the Northeastern University graduation at the TD Garden in Boston on May 3, 2019. (Photo: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Biden 'Can and Must Go Big,' Say Progressives Urging President to #CancelStudentDebt

Iranian medical personnel cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for an elderly woman who has infected by the new coronavirus disease in a COVID-19 section of the Rasoul-e-Akram hospital in western Tehran at midnight on December 14, 2020. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Citing 'Moral and Public Health Imperative,' Progressive Lawmakers Press Biden on Sanctions Relief

"Our study adds to the mounting evidence that air pollution from ongoing dependence on fossil fuels is detrimental to global health," said co-author Eloise Marais. (Photo: Marcel Kusch/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Study Shows Fossil Fuel Pollution Killed 8.7 Million People in 2018—Almost One-Fifth of Global Deaths

Members of the National Guard assist police officers in dispersing protesters who are gathering at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Bernie Sanders Says Trump 'Directly Responsible' for Insurrection Effort

A pro-Trump marauder howls in the gallery of the U.S. Senate Chamber during a deadly invasion of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Citing 'Open Sedition,' Rep. Ilhan Omar Vows Trump Impeachment Resolution

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) heads to the Senate floor of the Capitol building on December 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. McConnell said today the Senate would “begin a process” to consider bigger Covid-19 relief, from the recently passed $600 per person to $2,000. (Photo: Tasos Katopidis/Getty Images)

As New Jobless Figures Show 'Massive Pain on the Eve of the New Year,' Dems Rip McConnell for Stonewalling $2,000 Relief Checks

Wearing a face mask to reduce the chance of transmission of the coronavirus, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a vote May 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Warren Leads Call for DOJ to Probe 'Frenzied and Unprecedented' Spree of Federal Executions Under Trump

In an effort to seal off the revolving door between special interests and government, Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) recommended that President-elect Biden enact "a total ban on lobbyists employed by corporations from serving in the administration, especially at executive agencies they lobbied." (Photos: Kena Betancur/Getty Images (L) and Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images)

After Four Years of 'Outright Grift' Under Trump, Trio of Democratic Senators Urges Biden to 'Padlock the Revolving Door'

A woman checks her cell phone as she waits in line to enter the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C on November 29, 2017 for a hearing on Carpenter v. United States. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

ACLU Sues to Find Out How and Why Federal Agencies Are Accessing Americans' Cell Phone Location Data

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Stand Up America

Sen. Markey, Rep. Jones Join Progressive Groups in Urging Congress to Expand the Supreme Court

Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement's Good Jobs for All Campaign Gains Momentum, Pledge Is Launched and Signed by Senators Sanders, Markey; Reps. Bowman, Pressley, and More

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders and Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Combat Corporate Greed and End Outrageous CEO Pay

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders, Colleagues Introduce Tax on Billionaire Wealth Gains to Provide Health Care for All

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Omar, Sanders, Merkley, Markey, Barragán Introduce Bill to End Corporate Handouts to the Fossil Fuel Industry

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders, Harris, Markey Introduce Bill to Provide Monthly $2,000 Payments During the COVID-19 Crisis

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Naomi Klein, Sivan Kartha

The Realism of Bernie Sanders' Climate Policy

Aviva Chomsky

Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

Ed Markey

Americans Deserve Privacy Protection From Big Data