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This year's legislative-political and movement building conference had a totally different feel, and moved us a step closer to building our movement of 50 million activists who can bring about real progressive change. This year, CWA leaders and activists joined with partners from 42 organizations to strategize about how we move forward together on the issues we care about.

Last week on MSNBC, CWA President Larry Cohen talked with Ed Schultz about how our progressive movement is fighting back against fast track and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Watch the video.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens was exactly on target when he testified about the destructive effect of big money on our democracy and called for changes that will restrict the influence of big money and secret spending in our elections and our politics.

CWA stands with the UAW as the union drops its objections to the NLRB representation election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. Now the focus will shift to the congressional investigation into the third party anti-union campaign by elected officials, Grover Norquist and other outside groups.