Progressives need to grab a new honest narrative to beat back conflation that higher taxes are always bad. Corporations tax Americans with no accountability.
General News
Junk health insurance is the new weapon being used to kill Obamacare (VIDEO)
I explain in the video at the end of this article the pathology of junk health insurance and why folks buy it. It is a perfect illustration of the rationale behind Single-Payer Medicare for All.
They admit it: GOP will pay for tax cut scam with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, & more
If you are on or will be on Social Security, Medicare, or any social program, your vote in November will determine if you are likely to have it in the form you need it.
Dr. America, Sanjeev K Sriram MD: Why Single-Payer Medicare for All the only answer (VIDEO)
Many Single-Payer Medicare for All activists & proponents attended Netroots Nation 2018. including prominent Dr. America, Sanjeev K Sriram.
If elected, Republicans promise to take away the health care many have & want
Anybody sitting out this election is playing with the lives of millions of their fellow citizens as absent a blue tsunami, the health care of all Americans are in danger.QAC
Act Out! Eleanor Goldfield explains why Alex Jones banning terrible for the Left (VIDEO)
Act Out! Eleanor Goldfield makes some very important points that detail why Progressives should not rejoice over Alex Jones’ ouster from social media.
A Few Takes
Bob Woodward: “People better wake up to what’s going on” in the Oval Office
Recently in his first TV interview, Bob Woodward paints a picture for CBS’s David Martin of the Donald Trump’s administration in complete disarray.
Supreme Court gives states the right to arbitrarily purge voters
The Right is slowing eroding our democracy as they attempt to codify minority rule. A robust registration of voters can mitigate this anti-democratic act.
ABC cancels ‘Roseanne’ after Roseanne Barr compares black Obama aide Jarrett to an ape
ABC announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the sitcom “Roseanne” following “abhorrent” comments from the star, Roseanne Barr, who had compared former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
Starbucks Baristas at flooded & rebuilt Kingwood store expose their talented side (VIDEO)
These young people are more than baristas. These Starbucks baristas are not only talented but friendly smart thinking millennials.
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Sports
Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers 5-1 to win World Series
The Houston Astros beat the LA Dodgers to win the 2017 World Series. After enduring Hurricane Harvey, it could not have come at a better time.
The worse rendition of God Bless America occured at the World Series in Houston? (VIDEO)
This is likely the worse rendition of God Bless America you would have ever heard. And it happened at the World Series in Houston, Astros vs Dodgers
Netroots Nation
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s compellingly middle-class centric speech at Netroots Nation 2014
Elizabeth Warren gave a compelling middle class centric speech at Netroots Nation 2014. She was treated like a rock star as she entered to give her speech. She kindly told folks to sit down so she could get to her message. Her message was not unlike the accumulation of all the subjects she speaks about. […]
Occupy Movement
Occupy Kingwood – A Sustainable Form Of The Occupy Movement (2012-03-10)
We are now at Occupy Kingwood week 12. It stormed again all night and morning in Kingwood. That was no deterrence to our group. We still had our dedicated contingent representing Kingwood and surrounding areas along with a few newbies. I was away for two consecutive weeks. I took a mini vacation cruising the Gulf […]
Coffee Party Posts
Coffee Party USA Board of Directors 2016 Meeting in Blue Ridge, Georgia
The Coffee Party USA board of directors coalesced around a strong voter education and turnout strategy that we will be releasing in the forthcoming weeks.
Move To Amend
Move to Amend’s Daniel Lee: Transcending political parties at the People’s Convention (VIDEO)
Many grassroots organizations have converged on Philadelphia, PA using the Democratic National Convention as the catalyst to organize for a better America.
Columnists
Mr. Vice President, here is why you are one big phony
Mike Pence has offered to take a polygraph. Quick. Rush a device to his side. No – there’s no chance whatsoever he’s the senior official who wrote the anonymous New York Times commentary that branded his boss petty, amoral, and consistently acting in ways “detrimental to the health of this republic.” Why do we know […]
The Three Big Lessons We Didn’t Learn from the Economic Crisis
Ten years since the Great Recession & America’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression yet politicians have learned nothing money can’t buy.
Radio Shows: Politics Done Right
Progressives must change the narrative to change the country’s indoctrination
Progressives are out-narrative(ed) by the Right Wing Indoctrination machine and that is why we generally lose many battles.
GOP admits they’re coming after your Social Security & Lessons not learned from 2008 meltdown
The GOP admitted that they are coming after your Social Security and more. We also discuss the lessons not learned from the 2008 economic meltdown.
Guest Bloggers
The current demise of ethics
In my understanding, two factors have touched the heart of ethics: the process of globalization and the commercialization of society.
Neo-fascism: a world-wide wave
Fascism is an extreme derivative of fundamentalism, with a long tradition in almost every culture. Unfortunately, it is active around the world and formative in the United States.
Local News
DO NOT allow DCCC or Democratic Establishment to hack our primaries
Never decide on a candidate based on DCCC directives. Firstly, they have no insight into who’s more likely to win any district as they have a failing record nationally and statewide.
Houston Parents & Activists stopped board: No to charter schools (VIDEO)
Houston parents & activists stopped the school board from making them charter schools. Pressure from a united constituency can force politicians to do what is right.
Harris County wasn’t ready for Hurricane Harvey. Has anything changed?
In the year after Hurricane Harvey, an important question looms on the horizon: What happens if a storm hits this year and we still aren’t prepared?
My fender bender showed me there are still good people around
My recent fender bender is a story I needed to relate especially in these times when it seems we are all at each other’s throats.
Battleground Texas
Another Day, Another Poll: Ipsos – Beto O’Rourke leads Ted Cruz by 2%
Ted Cruz was likely very happy last night. He is not so happy this afternoon as Beto O’Rourke in a new poll is ahead. Both polls are likely wrong.
Entertainment
Aretha Franklin, you will be missed but you left us this (VIDEO)
Aretha Franklin is dead but she lives on in the manner most of us knew her. And as such, she lives on and will live on forever.
Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Travel Host and Author, Is Dead at 61 – The New York Times
Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef extraordinaire committed suicide in Paris. He will be missed for both his cooking and his insight.
Egberto On TV
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Egberto Mentioned In Media
GOP Debate A Hateful Waste Of Time Without Solutions
CNN producer note iReporter Egberto Willies, a software engineer from Kingwood, Texas, says it’s clear from tonight’s GOP debate that the Republican candidates are not interested in offering solutions but only want to criticize the President. He also referred to what he thought was a "key point" in the debate: Mitt Romney pointed out that […]
Readers sound off: Military code and McChrystal – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs
iReporters Cliff Olney, Melissa Fazli, Egberto Willies shared their views on the military code and how McChrystal did or didn’t act in accordance with it. An interesting conversation developed on CNN.com about First Amendment rights versus the military code of conduct following Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s resignation. Comments on a story about McChrystal’s resignation have […]
Egberto’s Published Articles
Is Net Neutrality Really Necessary? You’re Damn Right!
by Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss (Originally Published at Common Dreams) Three weeks after Christmas, the American judiciary gave telecommunications corporations a huge present. On January 14 a federal appeals court decided to weaken the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Internet Neutrality policy by striking down the rules it adopted in 2010 to regulate Internet service […]
Egberto Willies: Wendy Davis’ life story provides empathy necessary to be governor – Kingwood Observer
It seems like I chose just about the right time to write an article on Wendy Davis. She finds herself under attack not only by the entire Right Wing establishment, but from the traditional media as well. She happens to be the story to balance the myriad of bad acts by Republicans. There is a […]