While lawmakers negotiate on Capitol Hill over the $700 billion-taxpayer bailout for banks and lenders on Wall Street, the foreclosure machine continues to crush homeowners caught in the mortgage crisis. Beyond the politics of Washington, one thing seems clear to many homeowners on the verge of foreclosure, there is no significant relief in sight from the government or Wall Street.

Day two of Live From Main Street and GRITtv’s special programming on voting in the United States. Registration deadlines loom and there are many obstacles. From reading tests to ID challenges, felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls the US is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.

"You have nothing to fear but fear itself." Hearing those words from Franklin Delano Roosevelt quoted again today, they rang true in a whole new way. The fear is out there. Of course it's there -- when the Dow Jones drops a spooky 777 points in a day -- that fear's inevitable -- and the hurt’s real enough -- in people's pensions and their pocket books.But bail-out supporter or not, there

As Ohio kicks off its “Golden Week,” where voters can both register to vote and put in their early votes all at once, Live From Main Street is launching a nationally broadcast investigation week and "virtual town hall" that will expose voter suppression tactics, feature voter protection organizing and connect citizens to voting experts.

Today on Live From Main Street here on Grit TV, we look at the various battles over the votes in key swing states, including Ohio. What are the tactics that some are using to challenge voter registration? Who is being targeted? And what is being done to ensure that every vote counts?

As protesters chanted “bailout people not banks,” and Fortune magazine declared a populist backlash against Wall Street, lawmakers reached a deal to move forward with the largest bailout in our nation’s history. Our roundtable takes a look at the protests on Wall Street and across the country last week, why most Americans aren't buying the bailout, and who stands to benefit from the legislation.

John McCain was an early supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, but in this presidential campaign McCain has changed his position to come down harder on the issue. Many political analysts say he did so to appease anti-immigration activists in key swing states-Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, and Nevada. But at an anti-immigration rally in Washington talk-radio hosts and activists said they wanted more promises of border enforcement from McCain before they

As protesters chanted “bailout people not banks,” lawmakers reached a deal to move forward with the largest bailout in our nation’s history. Today on GRITtv our roundtable takes a look at the protest on Wall Street last week, why most Americans aren't buying the bailout, and who stands to benefit from the legislation.

You Never Forget Your First Debate, but in case you do forget it, or like, never watched it in the first place, here are the undebatably top 10 best moments from Friday Night's debate. 1) Host Jim Lehrer tries to provoke a presidential man love/hate catfight: "talk to each other about it.

As the details of the biggest bailout in US history get diced and sliced by the mainstream media, it is essential to step back and remind ourselves who really benefits here. To start, let’s review the record of the architect of the Great Bailout – Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.