We'll be updating this liveblog all day with information from the ground in Wisconsin as the grassroots works to recall the Republicans and stop the war on working families that Scott Walker and his allies up for election today started.

More updates, plus pictures from the ground, are available...

Minutes ago, the FCC passed new rules -- written by corporations -- that will end Net Neutrality. For the first time in history, the U.S. government approved corporate censorship of the Internet, putting the future of online free speech at risk. Unbelievably, the person leading the charge was Obama appointee...

When President Obama was campaigning for his job, he didn't mince wordson the importance of the free and open Internet.

Here's a video of him saying, "I am a strong supporter of Net Neutrality," and, "As President I'm going to make sure that is the principle that...

If you're leading the party in power -- controlling both the House, the Senate, and the presidency -- and your country is facing the most serious economic crisis in a generation, you have two options. You can either fix the problems, or you can make clear to the American people...

Press reports are circulating that the Democratic Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Henry Waxman from California, is preparing to introduce legislation that would -- if press reports are to be believed -- give the Internet over to corporate control and kill free speech online.

Reportedly, the...

The fact that the insurance industry and AHIP is behind the health care attack ads from the Chamber of Commerce is something we (and others) have suspected for months now. It's finally been proven by Peter Stone at the National Journal:

Just as dealings with the Obama...

Last month, history was made. The House passed a health care bill that gave the American people what they want.

In poll after poll, people want to have the choice of a public option, to keep their health care benefits untaxed, and to have affordable health care. The House...

Right now, ten Senators - five progressives and five conservative Democrats - are locked in a room looking for a deal on the health care bill. One Senator is standing in the way: Joe Lieberman.

Those Senators negotiating should not be held down by Joe Lieberman's outrageous ideas about health...

President Obama has made his decision. 30,000 more of our young men and women will be sent to fight and potentially die in Afghanistan.

If I could give the President my thoughts, I'd thank him for his thoughtful process. I'm glad people who were arguing against sending more troops -...

I believe that Republicans are poised to cement their complete opposition to everything Obama and reap a huge political win by twisting their political principles to oppose further escalation of troops in Afghanistan. Unless, of course, Obama can be convinced not to send more troops.

Obama's decision about whether to...

Yesterday in Chicago, a message was delivered: Insurance company greed kills jobs, and we're not going to take it anymore.

Eight small business owners from around the country met at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown...

Harry Reid stood up for America today.

He put a public health insurance option in the Senate bill, the merged version of the two health care bills passed out of committee that will now go to the Senate floor for debate, amendments, and passage.

This is a huge victory....

Yesterday, Majority Leader Harry Reid testified in support of a bill championed by Senator Leahy to repeal the anti-trust exemption health insurance companies currently enjoy. The bill has received a ton of support:

Leahy's bill would repeal the exemption established in the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act for any companies...

Olympia Snowe's trigger is a plan to kill the public health insurance option. Not kill it as in make it weaker, but kill it as in make absolutely sure it will never, ever come into existence.

Senator Snowe's trigger is literally a catch-22, defined by Wikipedia as "a set...

To borrow a phrase from Ezra Klein, here's a simple, easy to understand chart of how health care would work if health care reform is passed. It's really not that hard to understand, and it's certainly much more specific than the Republican plan.

For your consideration (click for...

Those that want a trigger for the public health insurance option are saying, "Let's give the insurance industry one more chance to clean up its act." We've been there and done that, fifteen years ago.

That was the same argument the insurance industry made in 1994 and we've seen what...

Today, the Health Care for America Now coalition is having a national call-in day. Our message? The House of Representatives needs to pass reform now, before they go home for vacation.

Can you join us? Call toll free, 1-877-264-HCAN to be connected with your representative. Or click here to...

The Blue Dog negotiating list for health reform has been floating around for days now. Here's the list:

--Effectively bend the cost curve
-- Realign incentives to reward high quality, efficient health care; include value-based purchasing, value index, innovation center for Medicare and Medicaid, and other delivery system reforms
--Increase...

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley gets a pretty sweet deal as Senator on health care. He pays $356.59 per month, and the most he pays when visiting a doctor or hospital is $300. Compare that to your average Iowan family,...

As the health reform fight moves forward, the issues people are talking about change. While it once seemed like our biggest battle was over whether we are going to get a strong public health insurance option as part of reform, that question has now joined a host of others in...