Hundreds of protests against the NDAA’s provisions of arbitrary imprisonment of people within the borders of the USA, citizen and non-citizen, took place yesterday, February 3, 2012.

In some quarters of Washington DC, people have grown fond of saying that all Americans care about is the economy. But take a look at the five congressional bills looked up most often by Americans during the week of January 22, 2012: H.R. 3261 Stop Online Piracy Act: Popularly known as SOPA, this bill would [...]

This isn’t the first time that the idea of the Gandhi-King exchange has been proposed in Congress. Similar legislation was introduced in 2009 – when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, but the bill was not accepted and promoted by Democratic Party leadership.

Keith Ellison and 194,454 progressive Americans are warning Barack Obama that he won’t have their support if he sacrifices Social Security and Medicare in the current round of bargaining over the deficit.

Progressive protests opposing Republicans’ imbalanced fiscal policy are larger than Tea Party protests were in 2009.

Judy Chu speaks out against roving wiretaps, and on March 12, protesters will meet outside the U.S. Capitol to demand repeal of the Patriot Act. For more info, see the Patriot Act Protest page on Facebook.

Marcy Kaptur and Move to Amend push for constitutional amendments to undo the Citizens United Supreme Court decision which allowed practically unrestricted campaign finance.

Given that the current leadership of Congress has pledged to cut government spending, why doesn’t it start with itself, and eliminate government subsidies for bottled water on Capitol Hill, when the building has perfectly good plumbing?

Despite promises to the contrary, it now seems clear that the war in Afghanistan will continue for three more years at a minimum, with some in Congress proposing a permanent military occupation of Afghan soil. Two years ago, as Americans prepared for the inauguration of Barack Obama as President, with a strongly Democratic House and [...]

An organization is seeking to change this arrangement, and create a new system in which House seats are allocated for every fifty thousand Americans. To do so would require creating more than two hundred thousand seats in the House of Representatives.