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• Is It Time to Give Up? Dahr Jamail Weighs In

  By paulgibson51 on August 17, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Dahr Jamail is the author of the best-seller, The End of Ice, and a celebrated contributor to Truthout. We’ve been honored to get to know Dahr as a friend, as well as a favorite guest on Retake on the Radio…. Read More ›

• Strategies for Overcoming SCOTUS; Midterm Update; Santolina Call to Action

  By paulgibson51 on August 11, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  In last week’s post, “Biden Climate Bill is About More than Climate: It Taxes the Rich & Large Corporations, Allows Medicare to Negotiate Drug Prices & More,” we described how, as long as we lack the power to force meaningful change,… Read More ›

• Biden Climate Bill is About More than Climate: It Taxes the Rich & Large Corporations, Allows Medicare to Negotiate Drug Prices & More

  By paulgibson51 on August 2, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Today we summarize the deal brokered with Sen. Joe Manchin and nine other Democrats. The new Inflation Reduction Act is VERY far from perfect — there is much to like but as our analysis reveals there is as much to… Read More ›

• NM Nearly Last in Legislative Professionalism, UNM Study Finds

  By paulgibson51 on July 26, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  A report on Legislative Professionalism for the State of New Mexico was developed by Dr. Timothy Krebs and Dr. Michael Rocca of the University of New Mexico. The purpose of their report is, first, to compare the New Mexico state… Read More ›

• The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind: We Just Need to Act

  By paulgibson51 on July 23, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  How exactly does NM benefit from Pattern Energy exporting our wind to other states? They are pocketing significant profits that could be ours. Retake has been part of a coalition of NM advocates, Public Power NM, who have been meeting… Read More ›

• Dems Don’t Need Better “Messaging” They Need More Candidates Like Gabe Vasquez and John Fetterman

  By paulgibson51 on July 20, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  “Messaging” smacks of inauthenticity, as it amounts to hiring consultants to study polls and then tell you what you should think and how you should talk about it. “Messaging” is transparently sugar-coating issues rather than speaking authentically from the heart…. Read More ›

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