Author: The Young Turks

Find Out How Left-Wing Group Betrayed Progressives (Common Cause)

Sign our petition here at: http://www.tytnetwork.com/change …or give Common Cause a call at 202-833-1200! Wolf-PAC’s mission, fighting to overhaul the US government to get money out of politics, isn’t easy. Having to fight so-called progressive groups on top of that doesn’t make things easier. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it...

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Trump’s Special Election Nightmare

30-year-old Jon Ossoff is the lone Democrat in a crowded field running to replace HHS Secretary Tom Price in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in suburban Atlanta. TYT contributor Ryan Grim reports on the April 18th runoff election which could reveal a new political realignment in the era of Trumpism. The Georgia-based Opinion Savvy has Ossoff at 40 percent of likely first-round voters, with Republican front-runner Karen Handel at 20 percent, and Trump-clone Bob Gray at 10...

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Elizabeth Warren Really Hates Trump’s SEC Chair Pick

TYT contributor Ryan Grim reports on Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) which oversees Wall. St. banking. Jay Clayton is a Wall Street lawyer who has specialized in helping the big banks circumvent the law, and maximize exploitation of taxpayer dollars. Grim recommends Adam Davidson’s article in The New Yorker exploring how Trump’s hotel dynasty helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Due to Trump’s apparent violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it makes sense that he would choose...

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