by Chris Blankenhorn | Mar 12, 2021
The “For the People Act” (H.R.1/S.1) passed the House on March 3 and is now under consideration by the Senate. The bill was also adopted by the House in 2019 but had no chance of passage in the Senate with the Republicans in control. But now that this voting and...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Mar 4, 2021
By Howie Hawkins The “For the People Act” (H.R.1/S.1) is voting rights legislation now pending in Congress. Civil rights organizations are urgently supporting this bill in order to secure voting rights against over 250 voter suppression bills introduced by Republicans...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Feb 24, 2021
By Howie Hawkins February 24, 2021 I was asked by Energy Advisor, a weekly publication of the Inter-American Dialogue, to write a 250 word commentary responding to the following questions. I sent them a shorter version of my response below, but here is a fuller...
by Chris Blankenhorn | Jan 1, 2021
By Howie HawkinsJanuary 1, 2021 By giving unconditional support to Joe Biden, progressive Democrats almost got Trump re-elected. Trump came within as few as 21,462 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin of winning the Electoral College. If those votes had gone to...
by H20 Staff | Oct 27, 2020
By Howie Hawkins In 2004, a number of prominent progressives issued statements calling on people to vote for Democrat John Kerry in the close states and the Green Party candidate in the so-called safe states where the outcome would not be close. In 2020, many of...
