It just so happens that, on the very same day that Mark Valente gave money to Michael Conaway’s re-election campaign, the Director of Administration for Valente and Associates also gave exactly the same amount of money to Conaway.

S. 968, the Protect IP Act, allows the government or a corporation to enforce a takedown of a website if a judge determines it is an “ISDIA” (Internet site dedicated to infringing activities). Two very different stories about the Protect IP Act are being told. Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act has one take: [...]

Lobbyist Henry Ryan isn’t one of Farenthold’s constituents. He lives in Washington D.C., not Texas. So why is Ryan giving money to Blake Farenthold?

The undemocratic appointment of Mark Erwin to the leadership of Americans Elect takes the new political party even further to the right, showing that Americans Elect is not at all the centrist organization it claims to be.

Corporations say that these changes are necessary to help them create jobs, but as James Moran pointed out, the truth is that corporations already have the resources necessary to create jobs, but are refusing to pitch in. They want those extra profits to go to the top 1 percent, not to create jobs for working America.

The Save Our Climate Act would protect us from the economic damage of climate change, and eventually provide dividend checks to American citizens of over one thousand dollars per year. What’s not to like about that?

Democrats competing to replace David Wu in Congress offer different perspectives on the Occupy Portland protest.

Roy Blunt was in South Carolina meeting with members of the 1 percent, the upper crust financial elites who treat members of Congress as portions of their great estates. The 99 percent of Missouri were in Saint Louis today, marching from Kiener Plaza from to the Justice Center.

Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand refused to take a stand for Americans’ constitutional rights this year, but they’re working hard to defend the integrity of pancake syrup. Seriously, they think that distinguishing between Aunt Jemima and maple syrup is more important than protecting the privacy of American citizens.

A roll call of the names of 47 senators who voted to protect accused terrorists from being put on trial for their crimes is presented in this article.