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April 21, 2021 at 2:57 PM

The day our traffic fell off a cliff

On May 4 of last year, with no warning and for no apparent reason, the number of readers visiting Common Dreams via Google search results dropped like a stone. Friend, On May 4 of last year, with no warning and for no apparent reason, the number of reade…

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April 20, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Chauvin Guilty on All Counts, Including Murder of George Floyd | News & Views

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April 20, 2021 at 6:04 PM

This is so incredibly dangerous.

Donations to progressive organizations have dropped significantly since the beginning of the year. Friend, Today, as we kick off our Spring Campaign, the progressive movement faces an incredibly dangerous time. Donald Trump is no longer in the White Hous…

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April 19, 2021 at 10:23 PM

'This Wasn't Policing, This Was Murder': Chauvin Trial Heads to Jury | News & Views

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April 16, 2021 at 9:32 PM

'Unacceptable and Shameful': Anger Erupts Over Biden Plan to Keep Trump-Era Refugee Cap | News & Views

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April 15, 2021 at 9:49 PM

60% of US Voters Want Biden to Support Patent Waiver for Covid Vaccines | News & Views

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April 14, 2021 at 10:54 PM

Global Coalition Demands WTO Ditch Pharma-Friendly Stance on Vaccine Patents | News & Views

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Click here to view this message in a browser window.   News & Views | 4/14/21 Feature... 250 Groups Urge WTO Chief to Ditch Pharma-Friendly Approach and Embrace Vaccine Patent Waiver by J…

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April 13, 2021 at 11:34 PM

'Incredibly Encouraging': US Plans Withdrawal From Afghanistan | News & Views

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April 12, 2021 at 9:46 PM

Critics Warn $15 Billion Merger of Global Water Giants Would Create 'Dangerous Corporate Monopoly' | News & Views

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April 10, 2021 at 5:28 PM

Rigged Systems and the Courageous People Fighting Back | Your Week In Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Browser View | 4/10/21 Your Week in Review As Activists' Hunger Strike Reaches Day 13, Calls Mount for Biden to End US Complicity in Starvation of Yemen by Jake Johnson, staff wr…

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April 9, 2021 at 9:54 PM

Sanders Calls Those Behind Amazon Union Drive an 'Inspiration to Workers' Nationwide | News & Views

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Click here to view this message in a browser window.   News & Views | 4/9/21 Feature... Despite Defeat, Sanders Calls Those Behind Amazon Union Drive an 'Inspiration to Workers' Nationwide …

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April 8, 2021 at 9:47 PM

CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years, Warns NOAA | News & Views

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Click here to view this message in a browser window.   News & Views | 4/8/21 Feature... Despite Pandemic Shutdowns, CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years by Jessica Corbett, staff…

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April 7, 2021 at 10:12 PM

Bolsonaro a 'Threat to the Planet,' Says Lula as Brazil Death Toll Hits All-Time High | News & Views

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April 6, 2021 at 9:33 PM

Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever | News & Views

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April 6, 2021 at 1:16 AM

'Follow the Money': Corporations Gave $50 Million to GOP Lawmakers Behind Voter Suppression Onslaught | News & Views

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April 4, 2021 at 3:23 PM

'Long Overdue' Progress and Justice... and the Long Road Ahead | Your Week In Review

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Browser View | 4/4/21 Your Week in Review Derek Chauvin Trial Week 1: Raw Video, Raw Emotions as Witnesses to George Floyd's Death Testify by Brett Wilkins, staff writer Multiple…

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April 2, 2021 at 8:13 PM

Suspect Dead, Officer Killed After Vehicle Rams Security Barrier on Capitol Hill | News & Views

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April 1, 2021 at 9:29 PM

'What Are They Waiting For?' Dems Pressured to Nuke Filibuster Now | News & Views

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March 31, 2021 at 9:12 PM

Critics Warn Biden Infrastructure Plan 'Falls Woefully Short' on Climate Crisis | News & Views

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March 30, 2021 at 9:35 PM

Experts Warn Failure to Rapidly 'Vaccinate the World' Creates Dangerous Opening for Covid-19 Mutations | News & Views

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March 29, 2021 at 9:47 PM

If Minimum Wage Grew Like Wall Street Bonuses It Would Be $44 | News & Views

A daily roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Click here to view this message in a browser window.   News & Views | 3/29/21 Feature... Minimum Wage Would Be $44 Today If It Had Increased at Same Rate as Wall St. Bonuses: Analysis by …

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March 27, 2021 at 12:56 AM

'What You're Doing Is Historical!' Sanders Rallies With Amazon Workers in Alabama | News & Views

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March 25, 2021 at 9:33 PM

Lawmakers Told to 'Focus on Structural Power' of Big Tech's Toxic Business Model | News & Views

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March 24, 2021 at 10:00 PM

80 Billion Ways to Cut the Pentagon Budget | News & Views

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March 23, 2021 at 9:22 PM

WHO Chief Blasts 'Grotesque' Vaccine Inequality as Rich Nations Block Speedy End of Global Pandemic | News & Views

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March 22, 2021 at 10:36 PM

'This Is Tax Evasion' | News & Views

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March 20, 2021 at 3:48 PM

Neoliberalism Doesn't Care About Planet's Health, Public Health—or Yours | Your Weekend Edition

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Browser View | 3/20/21 Your Week in Review All Health Is Public Health by Tinashe Goroga, Dana Brown, and Siddhartha Mehta The pandemic has blown up the myth that our personal he…

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March 19, 2021 at 9:52 PM

'Not in 2030 or 2050...Now!': Climate Strikers Worldwide Demand Urgent Action | News & Views

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March 18, 2021 at 9:19 PM

CDC Report Shows Poverty a Key Driver in Vaccine Inequities | News & Views

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March 17, 2021 at 9:39 PM

'Everyone In, Nobody Out': Medicare for All Act Introduced With 112 Co-Sponsors | News & Views

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March 16, 2021 at 10:06 PM

Medicare for All Would Have Prevented Hundreds of Thousands of Covid Deaths | News & Views

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March 14, 2021 at 8:57 PM

Bold Relief Wins Out Over Watered-Down Bipartisanship | Your Weekend Edition

A weekly roundup of progressive headlines, opinion, and analysis Browser View | 3/14/21 Your Week in Review Congress Urged to Take 'Immediate Action' to Stop Debt Collectors From Snatching Relief Checks by Jake Johnson, staff writer A legislat…

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February 27, 2021 at 12:22 AM

$15 an hour: It's all up to Kamala Harris

Progressives to VP Kamala Harris: 'This Is Not a Difficult Decision. Use Your Power. Keep $15 In.' Friend, Last night, the Senate parliamentarian announced that--in her opinion--President Biden's $15 an hour minimum wage increase must be removed from the…

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February 26, 2021 at 10:27 PM

'It Should Be Easier to Raise Minimum Wage Than to Drop Bombs on Syria' | News & Views

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February 26, 2021 at 7:09 PM

Facebook is out of control

Facebook is intentionally suppressing progressive news stories. Friend, Last September, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, something very, very strange happened. Suddenly, at the very moment that people usually flock to Common Dreams f…

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February 26, 2021 at 12:10 AM

Legendary populist Jim Hightower CENSORED

He named names--and he didn’t pull punches. Friend, Jim Hightower, America’s #1 populist, is one of our most important voices challenging corporate power. But when he called out the Wall Street hedge fund scavengers destroying the newspaper industry, his…

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February 25, 2021 at 10:32 PM

Why This GOP Lawmaker's Childhood $6 Wage Makes the Case for At Least $15 | News & Views

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February 25, 2021 at 4:07 PM

What the corporate media won’t tell you about the fishes.

Yesterday, a story hit our inboxes that we immediately knew was huge news. Friend, Yesterday, a story hit our inboxes that we immediately knew was huge news. New research finds that unless we take action, one in three freshwater fish species are headed f…

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February 25, 2021 at 12:19 AM

Woah. Did you see what Facebook just did?!

Facebook just shut down links to all news stories in the entire country of Australia for almost a week. Friend, Facebook just did something that should terrify everyone who cares about democracy anywhere in the world: For six straight days, Facebook shut…

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February 24, 2021 at 10:22 PM

'All You Telecom Lobbyists Are Bound to Lose': Big Net Neutrality Win in California | News & Views

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February 24, 2021 at 3:24 PM

The beginning of a post-Trump slump?

I’m writing to you today to give you an inside peek into the history of our funding here at Common Dreams--and share with you some concerns I have for the future. Friend, My name is Kimberly Monaghan, and I'm the board chair of Common Dreams. I'm writing…

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February 24, 2021 at 12:39 AM

'Unacceptable': Progressives Reject Manchin Plan to Cut $15 Minimum Wage Proposal to $11 | News & Views

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February 23, 2021 at 10:09 PM

Bill Moyers: Democracy is suffocating in lies

Donald Trump is no longer in office, but our democracy is still running dangerously low on oxygen. Friend, In the final months of Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency, the great journalist Bill Moyers said: “Truth is the oxygen of democracy . . . and unl…

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February 23, 2021 at 2:52 PM

This is our moment. We can’t let it slip away.

A window of opportunity has opened allowing us to once again make real change. Friend, When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, we faced a global climate emergency, brutal economic inequality, deep systemic racism, and a broken democracy hijacked by corpor…

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February 23, 2021 at 1:20 AM

Naomi Klein: Who's Afraid of the Green New Deal?

Texans are living through the collapse of a 40-year experiment in free-market fundamentalism. Friend, With Texas in the eye of a political storm—and state residents the latest victims of callous indifference by those who put profits over people—there's n…

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February 22, 2021 at 10:20 PM

Amid Utility Price-Gouging, Demands Grow for Texas to 'Forgive All Utility Bills' | News & Views

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February 22, 2021 at 6:17 PM

An existential threat to everything we care about

How can we defend voting rights when most Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump? Friend, How can we defend our democracy when a majority of Republicans STILL believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump? How can we …

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February 21, 2021 at 6:09 PM

Bill Moyers: Democracy is running out of oxygen

Donald Trump is no longer in office, but our democracy is still running dangerously low on oxygen. Friend, In the final months of Donald Trump’s disastrous presidency, the great journalist Bill Moyers said: “Truth is the oxygen of democracy . . . and unl…

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February 20, 2021 at 6:09 PM

Tucker Carlson, are you kidding?!

No, the blackouts in Texas were not caused by wind power or the Green New Deal. Friend, As Texas suffered through widespread blackouts and deadly arctic temperatures, Governor Greg Abbott went on Fox News and blamed—get this—wind power. Then Tucker Carls…

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February 20, 2021 at 4:31 PM

Time to Go Big and Bold for People and Planet | Week In Review

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