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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
- Where does Pope Leo stand on climate change.
- Is the prevalence of processed foods an environmental threat?
- What’s the latest in tidal energy?
- What is Pollinator Month all about and how can I participate?
- Can lava flows be harnessed into structures we could live and work in?
- Someone suggested I look into “community solar” but I don’t get how that works.
- How has the human footprint on Earth changed over time?
- How do oil and gas companies foil efforts by climate activists?
- Fmr. Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) has some good advice for Democrats after the Big Beautiful Bill passed.
- Economist Larry Summers: Big Beautiful Bill will kill over 100,000 people.
- Kentucky Gov. explains Big Beautiful Bill’s exploitation & slams Republican governor’s dereliction.
- Texas politicians’ incompetence & Trump’s policies exposed by Texas flood mass deaths.
- CNN Host allowed a Trump official to lie by omission and misinformation about Big Beautiful Bill.
- Big Beautiful Bill uses tax credits for rich people to fund religious schools and vouchers.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls out Republicans as spineless followers of Trump.
- I called my GOP Congressman, Dan Crenshaw. The staff’s answers imply they’re instructed to lie us.
- AOC did not mince her words as she explained why the Big Beautiful Bill is a deal with the devil.
- Are you depressed and ready to check out of our politics? Please hear this!
- Watch Sen. Chris Murphy urge Democrats to wise up and get behind Zohran Mamdani.
- GOP Sen. Thom Tillis slammed GOP & Trump for lying about cutting Medicaid in a rabid floor speech.
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