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Progressive Candidates must articulate their positions
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We are going to have a great show. We have two Progressive candidates running in Texas Congressional District 22.
Steve Brown worked in President Bill Clinton’s White House right out of college. He assisted Clinton in the passage of historic child care initiatives for working families including funding for Head Start, Early Learning Opportunities act and more. He is an advocate advocate for affordable health care. He fought funding cuts for Medicaid and CHIP, expanded access to higher education at Texas’ Tier 1 colleges and universities, established the state’s current coordinated stroke care system and helped to grow our region’s passenger rail system. In 2015, He built a successful clean energy development firm that originates utility-scale solar projects and retrofits commercial buildings with solar and energy efficiency improvements.
Sri Preston Kulkarni Sri Preston Kulkarni has been serving his family, community, and the country his entire life, Following college, Sri was commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer by Secretary of State Colin Powell and served his country for 14 years, with overseas tours in Iraq, Israel, Russia, Taiwan, and Jamaica. Sri speaks Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Hebrew, and Russian. He has spent his career using his skills and education to find common ground between groups in conflict, such as Arabs and Kurds or Israelis and Palestinians, and standing up for the truth, including combating the Russian government’s online misinformation campaign. Sri worked for Senator Kirstin Gillibrand in 2015.
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My Blog Posts Of The Week
- Are there ways living organisms can be used to fix pollution?
- Which companies and industry sectors stand to profit the most from global warming?
- Professor nails how tariffs are likely to cost Americans using the washing machine tariff history.
- Tariffs 101: This is how tariffs really work and how Trump is attempting to screw MAGA and us all
- CNN’s Jake Tapper allows Speaker Johnson to lie about the One Big Beautiful Bill to Americans.
- 60 Minutes Scott Pelley nails Trump in his NC Wake Forest University speech.
- AOC scolds Republicans for supporting the for-profit Medicare Advantage waste, fraud, and abuse.
- One Big Beautiful Bill will starve a large portion of Trump’s MAGA base.
- The King of Debt, Trump, will turn America into Argentina.
- Racist National GOP Machine Makes Its Pitch for Harris County
- China ‘deal’ sealed the reality that the American led order is over.
- What is mariculture and why are proponents so bullish on it as a solution to environmental challenges?
- What’s being done to get more minorities into green jobs?
- How big a role has corruption played in slowing the global fight to combat climate change
- Am I being exposed to harsh chemicals when I get a manicure or pedicure?
- How is air quality across the U.S. these days?
- Which U.S.-based Fortune 500 companies are turning their backs on previous climate commitments.
- What is “social housing” and how is it a climate solution?
- How have Trump’s budget cuts affected U.S. national parks
- This is why the Republicans fear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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