Syndicated columnist and author David Sirota takes a look today at the importance of down-ballot races for building progressive power.  It’s a strategy, as Sirota notes, that the WFP has used to build real power for working people here in New York:

Those…

Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor argues the merits of raising taxes on millionaires to help close New York’s budget gap in an op-ed today in the Daily News:

To help stop budget bleeding, raise taxes on the rich

By Dan…

City Hall takes a look at the WFP’s coming effort to elect more progressives to the New York City Council next year.  (Note: Working Families Party members are yet to endorse anyone for next year’s races and endorsement interviews won’t be…

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…

WNYC’s Amy Eddings and the Albany Times Union’s Rick Karlin and Irene Liu take a look at the chances the Democrats (with an assist from Working Families) have to retake the State Senate after a generation of Republican control.

Senate Republicans…

The New York Times today featured the Working Families Party’s campaign online and in the streets to keep term limits in voters’ hands:

Fighting Bid to Extend Term Limits, Politician by Politician

They are angling for the magic number: 26. That…

The New York Times reported today on the WFP’s newly launched campaign to keep the City Council and Mayor from extending term limits without the permission of voters who’ve approved term limits (twice!).  Don’t forget to visit http://itsourdecision.org and send your message…

The Capital Region’s Metroland featured this week the Working Families Party’s campaign to push Democrats to hold Wall Street accountable and extend the bailout to the middle class:

Whose Bailout Is This?

The Working Families Party urges Congress to help the middle class…

Dan Cantor, the Working Families Party’s Executive Director, was on WNYC’s Brian Show Lehrer Show today, calling for the bailout to include homeowners and working families and for sensible oversight - including capping Wall Street salaries at $1 million -…

At a breakfast panel hosted by the Drum Major Institute today, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine called on New York’s elected leaders to pass a Paid Family Leave program similar to the one passed in New Jersey this Spring. The…