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Building state-level progressivism.   In continuing our effort to examine power at the state and local level, we look at two case studies: The state senates in Colorado and Kansas, and how progressive agendas were devised and executed in each.  Jessie Ulibarri  Former Colorado state senator Jessie Ulibarri talks about building progressive power in statehouses. Anthony Hensley Then-Kansas state senate minority leader Anthony Hensley tells us about a bipartisan effort to roll back a statewide tax cut from five years prior.  Jim Hightower   Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs   In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.”   Now, though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms, for masses of job cuts are coming for employees in the higher echelons of the corporate structure. Don’t look now, but an unanticipated result of the ongoing pandemic is that it has given cover for CEOs to speed up the adoption of highl