It’s darn hard to find an area where we and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agree. But there is at least one. Ryan says he is a big fan of the band Rage Against the Machine. Who knew Ryan—the Ayn Rand disciple and worshipper of unfettered corporate power—could find common ground with Rage, which has made a career out of singing and fighting for progressive causes and against corporate greed?

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Hannah MFaull from the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition sends us this. Tom Morello of “Rage Against the Machine,” singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, Tim McIlrath of the punk rock band “Rise Against,” international touring hip-hop artist Brother Ali and Mike McColgan, the original lead singer of “Dropkick Murphys” and the lead singer of the “Street Dogs,” are all hitting the stage in Madison to turn out the vote in a Wisconsin recall election that’s too close to call.

Tom Morello, aka the Nightwatchman, is on tour through early September, including a Sept. 2 stop at the legendary Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Va., outside of Washington, D.C. Click here for other “Justice 11 Tour” dates.

Tom Morello’s gone from a rabble-rousing underground high school journalist to a rabble-rousing guitar hero and guerilla folk singer. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist—and more recently as the Nightwatchman—has long been active in progressive politics, from fighting against racism, torture, war and sweatshops to fighting for immigrant and workers’ rights.