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Progressives eye Texas race as test for toppling incumbents

January 28, 2022 Will Weissert, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Henry Cuellar is an increasingly rare politician in the Democratic Party, a conservative-leaning lawmaker whose unapologetic defense of gun rights and the energy industry during his 17 years in Congress long […]

HILL: Gary from China

November 3, 2021 Frank Hill

Progressives want America to buy into their cartoonish vision about rich people. They want voters to believe that only white people can get rich in America; rich white people have always been rich, and rich […]

ZAHRAN: Progressive politics and the English language

May 5, 2021 Mary Zahran

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell In 1946, George Orwell wrote “Politics and the English Language,” an essay in which he criticizes the use of language by politicians to […]

Progressives irked by spotlight on GOP at Dem convention

August 21, 2020 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For nearly three minutes at this week’s Democratic National Convention, Cindy McCain recounted Joe Biden’s friendship with her late husband, John McCain, the Arizona senator and former Republican presidential candidate. Colin Powell, […]

Up next for police defunding advocates: Win local elections

July 14, 2020 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

ATLANTA — A coalition of progressive groups are forming a political action committee to back local candidates who want to redirect money away from police departments into social services. An outgrowth of the “Defund the […]

ICON Lecture will take on ‘progressive agenda roadmap’

March 5, 2020 A.P. Dillon

CHAPEL HILL — A lecture on government spending, which highlights the high cost of progressive programs, will be taking place next month as part of the ICON Lecture series. Adam Michel, a senior policy analyst […]

WILLIAMS: Young people ignorant of history

November 13, 2019 Walter Williams

A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that one in three millennials saw […]

MILLER: The other whistleblower

October 30, 2019 Nan Miller

With all the hype surrounding the anonymous whistleblower, scant attention has been paid to the other whistleblower who surfaced in September — in plain sight. In a Wall Street Journal piece titled “Take Two Aspirin […]