What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.