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Despite an impressive showing by Congressman Massa and activists on both sides, I walked away from this event convinced that the town halls are nothing more than sideshow theatre.

Our job -- liberals, progressives, union leaders, public health advocates, community groups, and even rock-and-roll performers -- is to challenge the lies and distortions put out there by the Fox News crowd.

What the mainstream media missed in their stories last week about Karl Rove's involvement in the firing of US Attorney David Iglesias is that the former Bush advisor was specifically targeting ACORN.

No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.

I received a mass email that exhorted the recipients to pray because of the disaster to befall on us if health care reform is passed. I went through every charge and answered it.

The Republican Party of Duval County, Florida wants you to know that just because they promoted a Tea Party event stating "Paid by Republican Party of Duval County," they are not responsible for the signs.

Bachmann has drawn a line in the sand, and will not fill out the Census, and no one really cares because who in America really wants to see government resources allocated to the Bachmann demographic, anyway?

You know, with each passing day, I grow worried that future generations will walk this earth completely unaware of the delicate and brilliant grasp of...

The sick and tired are going to halls of the well-insured and well-cared-for and telling them that now is the time to reform our health care system and provide quality, affordable health care to all Americans.

Next year, the 2010 Census will be sent to every American household, as required by the U.S. Constitution. The far right has issued dire warnings of t...

With millions more foreclosures staring us in the face, we have to act now to create sensible local solutions that will improve our communities, safeguard families, stabilize tax bases, and revive the economy.

The Biloxi City Council will vote June 16th on an ordinance, backed by the City's community development office, forcing FEMA trailers to be removed from residential zones by August 9th.

Memo to Rick Sanchez: Lincoln vs. Douglas was "a classic showdown." Frank vs. Bachmann was the rhetorical equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals. And your intro to the segment was an object lesson in unthinking equivalency. READ MORE Obama Calls for An Extreme Makeover of Our Culture: Are the Credit Card Companies Listening? In his masterful commencement speech at Notre Dame, President Obama decried those who "view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest and crass materialism." He should send a copy to the credit card companies, which, faced with customers choking on debt, respond by jacking up interest rates and tacking on penalties and fees. READ MORE WATCH: Arianna on The Situation Room Discussing Cheney's Speech and Pelosi's Predicament

If there were an adequate public health care plan, there's a good chance that Tamecka Pierce could manage her lupus without having to make the kinds of choices she's had to make to date.

Via Talking Points Memo comes this video of Barney Frank and Michele Bachmann going head-to-head over ACORN. Bachmann wants to deny ACORN federal fun...

RNC Chairman Michael Steele is teaming up with Rep. Michele Bachmann, asking Republicans for their help blocking public funding for ACORN, the progres...

In America, a family is losing its home every 13 seconds.

Sheriff Joe, who is famous for his reality show, tent-based jails, and large contingent of immigration enforcement officers, says he never intended to appear before McCain and other senators at Monday's hearing.

rpaio seemed not to know Al Sharpton, saying, "What is his name? Sharpton? He wants me to resign? Have I got news for him. He can stick that in his pipe and smoke it."

Reporting by Natasha Chen, Daniel Howes, Karen Kilpowicz, Pamela Mays McDonald, Linda R. Monk, Dorothy Noble, Elizabeth Ross, Jim Stevenson, Betty Ten...

Thousands of immigrant families are living in terror under Sheriff Arpaio's reign. We can't let his racist policing continue.