All posts tagged: progressives

Christian nationalists are panicking because religious progressives are thriving 

Christian nationalists are panicking because religious progressives are thriving 

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Christian nationalists are sounding a bit panicked these days. I can’t say I am surprised. On Saturday (March 28), 8 million Americans of diverse faiths and beliefs joined together in streets and squares around the world for No Kings protests. The next day, the Christian holy day of Palm Sunday, thousands more came out again. All of these people were rejecting the rising autocracy of our current moment, and many of them were Christians.   No wonder, then, that the late James Dobson’s Family Institute recently published an article blaring an alarm: “The Left Wants to Hijack Jesus! Don’t Let Them.” The essay, written by longtime religious right activist and failed Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer, warned that the “secular left” is out to take away “the Jesus we know.” These arguments break down quickly, however, as Bauer focuses on the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, James Talarico, and Kentucky Governor and possible presidential candidate Andy Beshear, whom Bauer attacks for supporting full dignity of transgender people and for their faithful conviction that …

The Pacific Northwest’s Anti-Democracy Progressives

The Pacific Northwest’s Anti-Democracy Progressives

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Jeff Eager via RealClearPolitics, Seattle, which is home to Amazon and Microsoft, currently employs some 193,000 well-compensated Washingtonians working in the tech sector. One major reason that Seattle emerged as the first big tech hub outside of California is obvious: It is the only West Coast state with no state income tax. Its state constitution forbids an income tax. High wage workers and entrepreneurs seeking a piece of the relatively laid back, outdoors-focused Pacific Northwest lifestyle can move to Washington without taking a state-mandated pay cut. For the progressive Democrats who dominate state politics in the Pacific Northwest, money in the pockets of anyone other than the government and its political allies is wasted. To grab more of it, legislative Democrats in Washington are pushing through an income tax in the guise of a “millionaire’s tax” that would levy a 9.9% tax on incomes over $1 million. Just yesterday, as the “millionaire’s tax” neared the finish line in the Washington legislature, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he and his wife have relocated …

A Gaza doctor seeks to carry on a New Jersey progressive’s legacy

A Gaza doctor seeks to carry on a New Jersey progressive’s legacy

Published by Sam Flores

In New Jersey’s 12th Congressional district, Dr. Adam Hamawy is bringing a national profile and the support of a sitting senator to the race, which could make the difference in a crowded Democratic primary. New Jersey’s 12th district, currently represented by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., who is retiring after this current term, is among the safest of safe blue districts, which stretches across a patch of the state southwest of Newark. Watson Coleman carried the district by about 25 points in 2024. This means that whoever wins the Democratic nomination is more than likely to carry the November election, a dynamic that has already drawn more than a dozen candidates into the primary. While Hamawy isn’t the only progressive in the race, he has gained an early edge with fundraising, volunteers and the support of Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., whose life he actually saved after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004. In terms of money, Hamawy raised some $350,000 in just the first few weeks of his campaign, which launched in …

Trump turns to progressives for ideas on affordability

Trump turns to progressives for ideas on affordability

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump is looking for unlikely allies as he rolls out a new agenda to try to address Americans’ concerns about affordability and position Republicans for the midterm elections: progressives. On Monday, he called Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after she delivered a speech excoriating her own party for being too cozy with its wealthy donors, according to Warren and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt. “I delivered this same message on affordability to him directly,” Warren said. “I told him that Congress can pass legislation to cap credit card rates if he will actually fight for it. I also urged him to get House Republicans to pass the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act, which passed the Senate with unanimous support and would build more housing and lower costs.” In recent days, Trump has renewed a campaign promise to cap credit card interest rates at 10% after having failed to push it in the first year of his term, vowed to ban large investors from buying up housing, and directed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and …