The week brought a mix of positive and negative political signs, largely very good cabinet appointments by MLG, polling evidence that Trump voters would support a progressive economic agenda, surging approval for the Green New Deal and disappointing indicators from Democratic Party Centrists in DC. Time to call-email Heinrich, Udall and Lujan.
But Washington, D.C. centrist Dems appear to want business as usual in relation to climate change. Take money from fossil fuels, we’ll put you on the House climate change panel. Exxon Mobil, give us some help with the wording on this bill. That way of doing business can and will no longer work. You are…
Your Most Meaningful Gift to Our Future: You and Your Personal Story of Why You Care You’d have to be blind to not realize that our nation and world are a drift. With our very future at stake, we quibble in committees about piecemeal solutions that are wholly inadequate; we have people at our border…
The Brennan Center for Justice is not Truthout or some other publication that can get all hyperbolic over a relatively small issue. So when they sound the alarms about the ways in which Trump could use Constitutional “emergency powers” to shut down the internet, arrest advocates, and suspend an array of constitutional rights, it is…
Trump told them the Dems didn’t understand them, that he would get them jobs and protect them from those scary immigrants and from others threatening to take their guns. But on minimum wage, tuition-free college, universal health care and other social justice issues, they support progressive positions even more strongly than centrist Dems. Hmmm. Read…
Our elected officials in DC need to hear from us. We need to let them know that climate change is the biggest threat to mankind in human history, that we are tired of tepid, non-responsive solutions, and a well thought out response has been developed, one that responds with an appropriate level of urgency. TODAY,…
And Retake offers a hearty yes. We’ve been waiting for NM Voices for Children to announce a series of tax reform plans to be introduced into legislation. Today, we give them the stage and off a guest blog to one of the most important advocacy groups in New Mexico. We will, no doubt, heartily endorse…
Thank God for bold vision, thank God for Ocasio-Cortez and her advocacy for The Green New Deal:. “This is going to be the New Deal, the Great Society, the moon shot, the civil-rights movement of our generation.” And not a moment too soon. Read on for why this may be our only shot at minimizing…
Normally an off-day for Retake, but late breaking actions hit my in-box and I thought you should know, as they are happening today. As a bonus, I include links to three tremendous The Nation articles on the midterms and their long-term impact. Very worthwhile reads. Plus stunning video of Pelosi, Schumer, and Trump discussing wall…
This post includes a report on the HSA, encouragement to attend the Santa Fe County Commission this afternoon as they consider Commissioner Anna Hansen’s Resolution on Climate Change which would commit $5M in County funds to renewable development and a report on Time Magazine’s selection as Person of the Year. Not Trump, that God.