In the Public Interest

The New York Times Is Diminishing Itself

By Ralph Nader December 28, 2022 Give the New York Times its due. Its teams of reporters produce more investigations of wrongdoing by entrenched vested interests than does the entire recess-rich, Tuesday-to-Thursday U.S. Congress with all its Committees and Subcommittees. The Times should promptly publish some of its exposes as small books. Their on-the-ground series…

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Helping These Groups Helps You and Reflects Your Generosity of Spirit

By Ralph Nader December 22, 2022 It is that time of year when generous people make donations to civic organizations that are the bedrock of our democratic society. Some are worthy charities. Others are advocates for change through advancing justice. Below are many nonprofit groups working for causes furthering environmental and consumer health and safety,…

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Democratic Party Fantasies About 2022 Midterms Pose Peril For 2024

December 19, 2022 By Ralph Nader The Democratic Party can’t cease congratulating itself about the mid-term elections results defying the pundit’s predictions of a red wave. (Newt Gingrich even predicted that Herschel Walker would win the Georgia senate race without a runoff.) This is a self-serving, self-destructive standard by which Democratic operatives measure their performance.…

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Vibrant, Galvanizing Book Recommendations for the Holidays

By Ralph Nader December 12, 2022 The following recent books invite the application of the aphorism, Readers Think, Thinkers Read. They also make good gifts for this Holiday season. 1. Fashionopolis: The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear by Dana Thomas (Dial Books, 2022). I learned much from this eyewitness story of the textile and…

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Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer Use the Lame-duck Session for the People

November 30, 2022 Dear Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, On July 23, 2022, twenty-four prominent civic advocates and leaders, many of whom you know, made a Zoom presentation for congressional candidates and staff about how to readily defeat the worst GOP – by numerous measures – in history. These presenters were brought…

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Winning Messages for Sen. Raphael Warnock

By Ralph Nader November 22, 2022 The Warnock/Walker Senatorial run-off election on December 6th seems to be “more of the same” campaigning and fundraising as occurred during the general election. “More of the same” with tens of millions of dollars spent on unimaginative TV ads is not smart if Warnock wants to win without a…

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Lessons for Democrats in 2024

By Ralph Nader November 18, 2022 Once again, the Congressional Democratic Party leaders are claiming a victory of sorts in an election where the Dems should have landslided the most corrupt, cruel and lying Republican Party in history. The Dems lost the House of Representatives and once again narrowly won the Senate, flipping only the…

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Midterm Elections Too Close: Dems Need to Fire Their Corporate-Conflicted Political Consultants

By Ralph Nader November 11, 2022 The mid-term congressional elections are over, but the counting in some very close races continues, which extends the time for determining the margins of control over the Senate and the House. What is known is that the Red Wave predicted by pollsters and trumpeted by the New York Times…

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Examining US – The Voters and Drop-Out Voters on November 8th

By Ralph Nader November 4, 2022 Voter grumbling, rage and cynicism is rampant heading into the mid-term elections on November 8th. Add the flattering, flummoxing and fooling of voters by many corporatist politicians to the mix and we have the makings of an election-day disaster. Set the above aside and reflect on the unused citizen…

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Final Stretch Campaign Advice for Tim Ryan, John Fetterman, Mandela Barnes, Beto O’Rourke, Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, Raphael Warnock, Patty Murray & Mike Franken

By Ralph Nader October 28, 2022 With less than two weeks to go before the November 8th congressional elections, the candidates in close races are frantically racing around their districts, dialing for campaign dollars and doing more of the same speechifying and repetitive political ads. “More of the same,” however, may not be enough. Candidates…

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