Texas border shame. Why Medicare Advantage must die. Gen Z #NN23 attendee gives me hope.
A shameful Governor Abbott and his cabal take cruelty to another level. Here is why Medicare Advantage must die. Gen Zs like Ali Thome gives me hope.
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Topics covered on the show today.
Ali Thome, an activist & Netroots Nation 2023 Townhall Deputy Mayor, tells us why she remains politically engaged: Ali Thome, a child we watch grow up in Netroots Nation yearly from adolescent to young woman, explains her journey in the Progressive movement. And her parents, who have always been dedicated to the cause, played an important part in it. I enjoyed this interview more than most because it was about seeing the next generation remaining engaged. [More]
Alex Lawson, Social Security Works' Exec. Dir justly destroys the fraudulent Medicare Advantage: Alex Lawson visited Politics Done Right at Netroots Nation 2023 #NN23 in Chicago, where he justifiably exposed Medicare Advantage for the fraud that it is. [More]
Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say: WASHINGTON — Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.” The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande. [More]
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