Working Families

Ever since the Tea Party takeover of Congress, they’ve been waging vicious class warfare – on behalf of the rich, against everyone else.
It’s hard to believe: after two years of gut-wrenching recession and non-stop budget battles, the richest Americans still haven’t sacrificed a single penny.
Millions of Americans have seen jobs disappear, homes foreclosed and retirement [...]

Results are still coming in, but it’s already clear that our amazing growth only continued in 2008

This just in from our friends at MoveOn.org.  It’s a great message and our favorite, no surprise, is #5!

Dear MoveOn member,
You don’t live in Ohio. You don’t live in Florida. The chance is pretty small that New York will decide the presidential election. So: Why vote?
Here’s why. This list is important-so please read [...]

From autoworkers to online activists, WFP supporters are a diverse bunch.  Here’s an open letter from New York bloggers calling for the ‘netroots’ to “vote change like they mean it” by voting for Barack Obama on the Working Families Party ballot line (“Row E”):

Help Us Build Progressive Strength in New York
by: Justin Krebs
This open letter [...]

We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. The Nation magazine has joined the call to vote for Barack Obama on the Working Families ballot line:

By Katrina vanden Heuvel
“In an otherwise desultory fall election, there is one lever New York voters can pull on Election Day that will make a real difference – that of [...]

We did it! But Obama’s historic win is only Round One in the fight for working families.