Author: Damian Hendricks

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the ongoing assault on voting rights being carried out by Republicans, in preparation for the 2014 midterm...

Earlier this year, the GOP made the disastrous decision to declare a war on half the population, and that was their war on women. The GOP honestly believed that women were longing for the days when a man would tell them how to live, what to do with their bodies, and how to vote. But the Republicans didn’t seem to realize that American women weren’t looking to return to the gender roles of the 1930’s, and the votes this year showed that women were fed up with the GOP. Mike Papantonio talks about the female voter revolt against the...

On election night, Karl Rove through a legendary temper tantrum over the results of Ohio, and he refused, along with the Romney campaign, to concede the state to Obama. And Romney came close to winning the state, and likely would have won it had it not been for massive get out the vote efforts by groups like the Amalgamated Transit Union, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with ATU president Larry Hanley about how unions helped deliver the state of Ohio for the president, and what the unions are hoping to see from a second term Obama...

Last week, Progressives across the country were put into positions of power in Washington, sending a message to conservatives that their reign of terror was over. Mike Papantonio spoke with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and part owner of The Nation Magazine, about what Obama can do with his progressive surge to overcome the obstruction of the right wing. A Progressive...

Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the suicides taking place by people facing foreclosure, and why Obama has allowed an anti-government, anti-consumer bureaucrat named Edward DeMarco to run the housing authority that could ease the country’s...