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Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, an affiliate of National People?s Action and a strong CWA partner, were keeping track of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as he was making the rounds among Republican political activists in Des Moines.

North Carolina is continuing its assault on everyday Americans with the nation?s harshest attack yet on the voting rights of its citizens. This extreme assault was made possible by the U.S. Supreme Court?s decision last month that eliminated the protections of the Voting Rights Act for millions of Americans.

Rod Nordland of the New York Times won top honors in the 2012 TNG-CWA Heywood Broun Award for his series, ?Kabul?s Killing Freezes.? Nordland?s series focused on the deaths of the youngest refugees sent to the camps in Afghanistan because their home areas were so hazardous; some children survived only a matter of days without a warming fire, a blanket or a jacket.

Are we ready for the next Citizens United? Can our democracy, and Americans? faith in government, take another body blow from the Supreme Court?