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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / January 22, 2018
One Year In, Resistance Spreads from the Streets to the Ballot Box
With all we’ve been through, it seems like an administration measured in dog years, but in fact this weekend we’ve survived just one year of Donald Trump — at least those of us not yet deprived of health care, exposed to greater risk by a gutted ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 9, 2017
A Great Night for Progressives – Now Let’s Keep It Going
Tuesday night’s Election Day victories across the country were a referendum on Donald Trump, his enablers in Congress and state capitols, and their regressive and divisive policies. This sweeping repudiation at the polls demonstrates powerfully ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / November 1, 2017
Election Hacking Strikes at the Heart of Democracy
Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee recently announced that they support the findings of the U.S. intelligence community — Russia attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 U.S. elections by hacking ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / June 26, 2017
A DA Forum: How to Read the Special Elections, and What Next
There has been a range of reactions from progressives to the loss in the hard-fought special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional race—and to the outcomes in California, Montana, Kansas, and South Carolina as well. Because this has been a ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / May 25, 2017
The Right Steps Up its Attacks on the Labor Movement
Whenever the Right takes power in the United States – from the United States Presidency to a state capitol – it sets its sights on strengthening the conservative lock on power structurally by making changes to our elections processes. It also ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / April 28, 2017
The Resistance Takes on Trump’s Assault on Climate Action
Just as the first hundred days of the Trump Administration began with the massive resistance of the Women’s March, they will end tomorrow with marches all across the country to stand up to his assaults on the fragile progress the country has ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 25, 2017
Democracy in the Balance: A Time to Resist and Restore
“Business must learn the lesson… that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination — without embarrassment and without the ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / March 3, 2017
How Philanthropy and Civil Society Tell America’s Story – And Their Own
DA President Gara LaMarche delivered the following keynote remarks to San Diego Grantmakers, a donor network helping grantmakers’ philanthropy have greater impact, on March 2, 2017. The video above was played before his speech. Thank you. ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / February 26, 2017
Progressives Must Mobilize and Persuade – And Get Better at Each
The 2016 election is more than three months past, and we are living each day with its apocalyptic consequences. We need to fight Trump and what he stands for on multiple fronts. We need to fight the Muslim ban, the global gag order, a border ...
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Democracy Alliance Blog / From The President / February 20, 2017
Trump and Us, One Month and Counting
Though it seems to many of us like it’s being measured in dog years, the Trump Presidency is just one month old, today. Though Donald Trump in office has proved every bit as appalling as his campaign warned us he would be, he’s faced many more ...
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