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Health Care Is on the Ballot: Vote Like Your Life and Health Depend on It
If you or your loved ones got sick or injured tomorrow, could you afford to get necessary health care? Could you even find a hospital or specialist you need? Trump and his lock-step Republican enablers made the answer “no” for those questions. Make no mistake, our health care and our very lives are on the ballot.
Democracy Is on the Ballot: Vote Like Our Freedom, Safety, and Constitution Depend on It
When you make plans to vote in the midterms, consider this: Can all of us vote, speak, worship, seek healthcare, or engage in peaceful protests without facing intimidation or fearing retaliation? The answer is no. Not if the Trump-led extremists in the Republican Party have their way. Vote to change that!
The Environment Is on the Ballot: Vote Like Your Air, Your Water, and Our Planet Depend on It
Trump’s unhinged war on clean energy and the Republicans’ fanatical and stubborn support for massive resource-hungry data centers are already forcing us toward a dangerously radioactive and toxic future. Unless we vote out all Republicans.
Make A Plan to Vote: How, Where, When, and Why
Trump and his cultists are hoping to stop as many of us as they can from exercising our rights to vote. They’re counting on millions of voters to stay home. They’re working to make voters too confused, or force them give up in the face of registration purges, long lines, last-minute changes to polling places, and intimidation. This up to and including deploying ICE and other agents to bully people at polling places.
We have to turn out too many voters for them to stop. We must make the midterms a Blue Wave election that’s too big to rig. Together, we can do it! Here’s our plan.
PDA’s Positive Message Wins!
Trump and his allies pose an urgent threat to democracy, civil rights, peace, and the Constitution. Reminding the voters about Trump’s abuses is not enough impetus for Democrats to win the midterms decisively.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again
by Dan O'Neal for the PDA National TeamHiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again 81 years ago, August 6th, 1945, marked one of the darkest days in human history. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly destroying most of the city and killing some 140,000 people. Three days later, on August 9th, Nagasaki was bombed, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 Japanese civilians. This week, the devastations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are...
Progressive Democrats of America endorse Jarrett Keohokalole for the U.S. House of Representatives in Hawaii’s District 1
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 6, 2026 Progressive Democrats of America endorses Jarrett Keohokalole for Congress in Hawaii's 1st District Media Contact/Interviews: Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), Alan@PDAmerica.org, 818-749-9497 Washington, D.C. — Progressive Democrats of America issued a statement today, expressing its enthusiastic endorsement of Jarrett Keohokalole for the U.S. House of Representatives in Hawaii's District 1. PDA Executive Director...
COMMON SENSE 2026
By Alan Minsky, Executive Director, PDA COMMON SENSE 2026 Addressed to the INHABITANTS OF AMERICA On the following interesting Subjects: Thoughts on the present state ofAmerican affairs & the need tore-form the Democratic Party By ALAN MINSKY Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America Edited by Susan Seigel & Russell Freedman To which is added: Twenty-First Century Economic Bill of Rights & The Rural New Deal Progressive Democrats of America, July 4, 2026 No More...
Dems Oh Dems: Don’t Make Us Weary
Dems Oh Dems: Don’t Make Us Weary Fight Harder, Fight with Facts And for God’s Sake Fight for the People Who Elected You By Donna Smith I am a Democrat. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired (borrowing a quote). I amafraid. I am weary. The current political climate is not sustainable. Either Democrats willstand up and really fight on behalf of the people who elected them or the republic is lost.It truly is not more complicated than that. For all the months since the 2024...
Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Condemns Trump’s Illegal War on Iran, and Calls for the President’s Impeachment and Removal from Office
By Mike Hersh and Alan Minsky Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) condemns Donald Trump and the Trump Administration, as well as their enablers in Congress, the media, and elsewhere for launching and supporting a reckless, illegal, unprovoked, and unconstitutional war on Iran over the past 24 hours. Last June, Progressive Democrats of America issued a press release denouncing Trump’s bombing of Iran because it posed risks of “spiraling into a regional or even global conflict that could...