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Rahm Emanuel’s Medicare for All Stance Is a Clear and Present Danger for Democrats

October 5, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

Rahm Emanuel’s Medicare for All Stance Is a Clear and Present Danger for Democrats

Rahm Emanuel’s Medicare for All defeatism risks draining Democratic momentum. The party must confront insurance industry power and fight for healthcare as a human right.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Corporate Democrats, corporate power, Democratic Party, Economic Justice, Federal Employee Health Benefits, Health Insurance Industry, Healthcare as a Human Right, Healthcare Costs, healthcare justice, healthcare reform, Medicare For All, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, public option, Rahm Emanuel, single-payer healthcare, Universal Healthcare

The Billionaire Genius Myth: Who Really Creates the Technology We Use?

October 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

The Billionaire Genius Myth: Who Really Creates the Technology We Use?

Tech billionaires collect the glory while workers create the value. Explore the programmers, public research, and mining labor behind the billionaire-genius myth.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Big Tech, Bill Gates, capitalism, child labor, cobalt mining, Computer History, corporate power, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Elon Musk, innovation, Labor Exploitation, MS-DOS, Open Source, Politics Done Right, public investment, Public Research, Tech Billionaires, Tim Paterson, workers rights, World Wide Web

Billionaires Must Pay Back: Workers Built the Wealth They Claim

October 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

Billionaires Must Pay Back: Workers Built the Wealth They Claim

Workers and taxpayers helped build billionaire fortunes. A progressive wealth tax can reclaim that public investment and fund healthcare, housing, and opportunity.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: billionaires, Brendan Boyle, capital gains, corporate power, Economic Justice, Elizabeth Warren, Financial Transaction Tax, middle class, Politics Done Right, Pramila Jayapal, Progressive Politics, Property Taxes, public investment, Tax Fairness, tax the rich, Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act, Unearned Income, Unrealized Gains, wealth inequality, Wealth Tax, working class

Beshear Rejects the Democratic Civil War: Make Room for DSA and Working-Class Politics

August 29, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Beshear Rejects the Democratic Civil War: Make Room for DSA and Working-Class Politics

DSA victories are forcing a Democratic reckoning. Andy Beshear offers the smarter answer: welcome the left, debate policy, and unite around the economic pain families face.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 midterms, Abdul El-Sayed, Andy Beshear, Angie Nixon, Big Tent Democrats, corporate power, Democratic Establishment, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, Donald Trump, DSA, Economic Populism, Healthcare', labor unions, MAGA, Medicare For All, money in politics, Political Commentary, Progressive Democrats, Progressive Politics, Progressives, working class, Working Families

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

August 25, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Cut Social Security? No—Tax the Rich: Ruhle Segment Exposes the Real Debt Problem

Stephanie Ruhle’s economic discussion reveals the choice Washington hides: cut Social Security and Medicare—or demand more from those who benefited most from tax cuts.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 midterms, affordability crisis, Angie Nixon, corporate power, cost of living, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Eddie Glaude, Grassroots Organizing, Grassroots Politics, Healthcare Affordability, inflation, John Kasich, Medicare For All, Political Establishment, populism, Progressive Democrats, progressive movement, Progressive Politics, working class, Working Families

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

August 25, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Eddie Glaude and John Kasich Expose Why DSA’s Working-Class Message Is Winning

John Kasich explains why DSA candidates are winning: affordability, energetic volunteers and bold ideas. Eddie Glaude shows why tired socialist scare tactics increasingly fail.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 midterms, affordability crisis, Angie Nixon, corporate power, cost of living, Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Eddie Glaude, Grassroots Organizing, Grassroots Politics, Healthcare Affordability, inflation, John Kasich, Medicare For All, Political Establishment, populism, Progressive Democrats, progressive movement, Progressive Politics, working class, Working Families

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

August 18, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

Elect Democrats to stop MAGA, but don’t surrender progressive accountability. Jeffries’ rejection of Medicare-for-All raises a serious question about who should lead the House.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 Midterm Elections, Corporate Democrats, corporate power, Data for Progress, Democratic Establishment, Democratic Leadership, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Economic Populism, Hakeem Jeffries, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Independents, MAGA, Medicare For All, Medicare for All 2026, political accountability, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Democrats, Progressive Politics, Reuters Ipsos, single-payer healthcare, Speaker of the House, Universal Healthcare, working class

Trump, Paxton, The Founders, And America’s Long Excuse For Powerful Men

July 7, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Trump, Paxton, The Founders, And America’s Long Excuse For Powerful Men

Stop assuming corruption defeats MAGA. America’s history shows powerful men, from slaveholding founders to corporate-backed authoritarianism, get a pass unless people organize for accountability.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: abolitionists, Accountability, American Exceptionalism, American history, authoritarianism, corporate power, Corporate Welfare, democracy, Democratic Socialism, Donald Trump, Founding Fathers, Healthcare', hiroshima, Inequality, Ken Paxton, MAGA, Medicare For All, morality in politics, nagasaki, nuclear weapons, Patients, political hypocrisy, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, public good, public ownership, Republican corruption, Sally Hemings, selective accountability, slavery, social justice, socialism, texas politics, Thomas Jefferson, workers

Burgum Refuses To Condemn Patriot Front While Red-Baiting Democratic Socialists

July 5, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Burgum Refuses To Condemn Patriot Front While Red-Baiting Democratic Socialists

Doug Burgum dodged Dana Bash’s direct question on white nationalists in D.C., then smeared democratic socialists with tired communist fearmongering.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: abolitionists, Accountability, American Exceptionalism, American history, authoritarianism, corporate power, Corporate Welfare, democracy, Democratic Socialism, Donald Trump, Founding Fathers, Healthcare', hiroshima, Inequality, Ken Paxton, MAGA, Medicare For All, morality in politics, nagasaki, nuclear weapons, Patients, political hypocrisy, Politics Done Right, Progressive Politics, public good, public ownership, Republican corruption, Sally Hemings, selective accountability, slavery, social justice, socialism, texas politics, Thomas Jefferson, workers

Musk’s SpaceX IPO Exposes the Billionaire Parasite Economy Threatening Workers

May 25, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Musk’s SpaceX IPO could enrich insiders while workers’ retirement savings absorb the risk in another billionaire-controlled Wall Street scheme.

Musk’s SpaceX IPO could enrich insiders while workers’ retirement savings absorb the risk in another billionaire-controlled Wall Street scheme.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 401k risk, billionaire economy, billionaire parasite, corporate governance, corporate greed, corporate power, dual class shares, Elon Musk, Engineers, forced arbitration, Musk trillionaire, NASA, Oligarchy, pension funds, Politics Done Right, public science, public subsidies, retirement savings, SEC, shareholder rights, SpaceX IPO, SpaceX valuation, taxpayer funded innovation, Tesla, Texas corporate law, Wall Street, wealth inequality, workers

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