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Why New Hampshire Outcome is Bad for the TPP
Thom plus logo  Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump won big last night, but the real loser wasn't the Republican establishment or Hillary Clinton: it was the Trans-Pacific Partnership and everything it represents.

At this point, it's almost a clich� to draw comparisons between the Trump and Sanders campaigns.

They're both headed up but "outsiders" who "tell it like it is" and appeal to everyday Americans with "populist rhetoric" and "angry" language -- you know the drill.

But even if that kind of talk is clich�, it's not entirely wrong.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are tapping into something very, very real.

Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are sick and tired of being gamed by the system, they're sick and tired of being promised one thing and given the other, and they're sick and tired of a political establishment that could care less about them and what they want.

And what they want is a country that works for them again.

Obviously, when it comes to Donald Trump supporters, racism plays a big role in the how and why they want this country to work for them again.

I mean, you don't cast your vote for a guy who wants to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. without at least somewhat agreeing with him.

But racism isn't the only reason people support Donald Trump.

You know all that bragging he does about "winning" and "beating" China and Japan? It's all about trade, sometimes explicitly so, as it was in his closing remarks at Saturday's Republican debate.

Fixing our broken trade system is probably the most important key to Trump's message, and it's key to his support among working Americans in New Hampshire and beyond.

It's also the link between him and Bernie Sanders.

As a true progressive, Bernie Sanders wants to repeal every single one of the so-called free trade deals we've entered into over the past 40 years and return to the sensible trade policies that worked so well for the first two centuries of this country's existence.

He doesn't talk about "beating" anyone, but he wants more or less the same thing as what Trump at least says he wants: a trade policy that looks after the interests of Americans, not multinational corporations.

Trade actually isn't the only issue on which Sanders and Trump have overlapping messages. Both of them have also talk a lot about the corruption of our campaign finance system.

Read more here.

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Hour One: Here's Why Bernie Will Be President...
Article: "Stop Bernie-Splaining to Black Voters" by Charles M. Blow.
Article: "Cost of living" by Wikipedia.
Event: 20 Feb 2016: "Nevada Democratic Caucus".
Article: "Bill Clinton Goes on the Attack" by Ron Fournier.
Article: "Brock: Time for Bernie's 'purity bubble' to be burst" by Gabriel Debenedetti.
Article: "Clinton's Hill supporters ready to hit Sanders after New Hampshire" by Ted Barrett and Deirdre Walsh.
Article: "?Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote" by Michelle Alexander.
Transcript: "Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 39 (Wednesday, April 13, 1994)" (incl. Bernie Sanders on crime Bill).
Article: "$600 million bill to help Flint faces tough road in Congress" by Ted Barrett and Deirdre Walsh.
Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.
Article: "?Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote" by Michelle Alexander.
Article: "Toyota, Moving Northward" by Paul Krugman, July 25, 2005.

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Article: "Full Biography" by Mark Pocan.
Article: "The People's Budget: A Raise For America" by Congressional Progressive Caucus.
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Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.
Article: "Tax inversion" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Superdelegate" by Wikipedia.
Article: "State Industrial Hemp Legislation" by Vote Hemp.

Hour Three: The Case Against Charter Schools
- Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH, 13th District)  Twitter
Article: "Sebring lead levels: Lawmakers question Ohio EPA's actions" by Sarah Jorgensen and Kristina Sgueglia.
 
Article: "National Defense Education Act" by Wikipedia.
Article: "G.I. Bill" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944) by Wikipedia.
Article: "75 Reasons Not to Fear Socialism" by Jerry Nelson.
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