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The Fight to Save The USPS Has Only Just Begun

Public Citizen’s Submitted Ethics Complaint Regarding COVID-19 Lobbying

Get Corporate Money Out of Politics

How Corporate Lobbyists Use the Executive Branch to Halt Progress

It’s Time to Cut the Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund People, Not Military Contractors

Don’t Let Big Tech Write Our Digital Privacy Laws

Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public

Amazon’s Pandemic Price Gouging Shows Need for New Federal Law

Fight Pharma Greed

Win Medicare for All

Report: Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2017-2019

Statement: FDA Must Reject Tanezumab as a Treatment for Osteoarthritis Due to Unacceptable Dangers, Little to No Benefit

Biden Administration Reverses Trump’s Self-Defeating Blockage of Temporary COVID-19 Waiver of WTO Intellectual Property Barriers

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In Wake of Stunning New Revelations of Unprecedented FDA-Biogen Collaboration on Alzheimer’s Disease Drug, Senior FDA Officials Must Go, HHS IG Must Investigate

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Public Citizen Calls for Urgent Support of WHO Vaccine Tech Transfer Hub

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