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The Biden Campaign Rips Trump For Calling For A Government Shutdown
The Biden-Harris campaign hammered Donald Trump for calling for a government shutdown that will harm millions of Americans.
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Kristen Welker Jeopardizes National Security With Disgraceful Trump Meet The Press Interview
Not only did new Meet The Press moderator Kristen Welker allow Trump to lie, but she also gave him the platform to jeopardize national security.
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Election Officials In 5 States Asked To Disqualify Trump
Letters have been sent to secretaries of state and election officials in five states asking them to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot.
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Debunking The Propaganda Ron DeSantis Is Using To Indoctrinate Florida School Kids
Governor Ron DeSantis is making it possible for Florida children to be indoctrinated by far right propaganda, which includes a cartoon video supposedly portraying abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass praising the Constitution and taking a dig at Black Lives Matter activism.
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Calls Grow For Trump To Be Banned From The Ballot After 1/6 Indictment
Voting rights groups are calling for secretaries of state to ban Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot after he was indicted by the 1/6 grand jury.
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Kamala Harris Crushes Ron DeSantis’s Slavery Debate Dreams
Vice President Kamala Harris rejected Gov. Ron DeSantis’s invitation to debate his pro-slavery educational curriculum in Florida.
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Houston Texas to Eliminate Librarians and Replace Libraries with ‘Discipline Centers’ in ‘Certain’ Neighborhoods
The Houston Independent School District will eliminate librarians and turn some libraries into discipline centers in certain neighborhoods, that just so happen to be predominantly low-income communities of color.
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Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Minimizes the Holocaust in order to Justify DeSantis’ Slavery Curriculum
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News is trying really hard to make Ron DeSantis’ ‘slavery was beneficial for the enslaved’ curriculum okay, so he pointed out what he sees as a benefit of the Holocaust.
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Biden Throws Down On Kevin McCarthy And Threatens To Veto House GOP Spending Bills
President Biden signaled that he would veto the House Republican-passed spending bills that were full of culture war issues if they made it to his desk.
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Biden Turns The Tables On Marjorie Taylor Greene For Unintentionally Endorsing Him
President Biden noted that 40 million people watched his video in which Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) endorsed him.
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President Biden Cleverly Uses a Marjorie Taylor Greene Rant in Ad
In one of her many rants, Ms. Greene rattled off the above list of President Biden’s alleged missteps, accusing him of making a public investment in social infrastructure that is finishing what FDR started.
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Democrats Are About To Spring A George Santos Trap On House Republicans
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) will introduce a privileged resolution that will force Republicans to vote on censuring Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
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Biden To Immediately Forgive $39 Billion In Student Loan Debt
The Department of Education has announced that the Biden administration will be immediately forgiving another $39 billion in student loan debt for 804,000 borrowers.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth Slams Tommy Tuberville For Holding The Troops Hostage
In a recent exchange at the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) boldly called out Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) for his months-long hold on military promotions, emphasizing the detrimental impact it has on our Marines and their families.
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Angry And Disgusted Biden Hammers Republican Hypocrites On Student Loan Relief
President Biden said that he was angry, and he let Republicans have it for filing lawsuits that ended with the overturn of his student loan debt relief program.
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Nevada Secretary Of State Asked To Ban Trump From The Ballot
Two pro-democracy groups have asked Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar to ban Trump from the ballot in the state due to inciting the 1/6 insurrection.
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Biden Rips The Heart Out Of Trump And Trickle Down Economics
During a speech in Chicago, President Biden trashed Trump and Republicans for pushing trickle down economics that only help the wealthy.
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Ron DeSantis Remade Florida Court with Help of Secretive Leonard Leo Panel
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has remade the Florida state supreme court from a liberal majority to a hard right conservative, with the help of a “secretive panel” led by Leonard Leo.
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Bernie Sanders Led Senate Committee To Vote On Most Historic Pro-Union And Worker Reforms In Modern US History
The Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chaired Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee is set to mark up a significant set of labor law reforms that are aimed at addressing the needs of the working class in America.
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Biden Vetoes GOP Led Bill Blocking Student Loan Relief
President Biden has vetoed the Republican-led resolution that would have killed his student loan debt relief plan.
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Top House Democrat Calls Out Republican Drama Queens For Getting Nothing In Debt Limit Deal
House Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) asked what all the drama was about after Republicans got nothing that they asked for in debt limit deal.
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Newt Gingrich Thinks Trump is Successful Because He Speaks at a 3rd Grade Level
Newt Gingrich praised Donald Trump for making the Republican Party the party of “working people” by speaking at a level 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade educations can understand.
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Kellyanne Conway Reportedly Laundered Money From Leonard Leo To Ginni Thomas
A new report reveals that Ginni Thomas was paid tens of thousands of dollars by Leonard Leo, but the money was routed through Kellyanne Conway’s consulting company with no mention of Thomas.
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Clarence Thomas Corruption Gets Even Worse As GOP Donor Paid Private School Tuition
Justice Clarence Thomas accepted private school tuition payments for his grandnephew from GOP donor Harlan Crow.
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Chuck Schumer Pushes to End Conservative Judge Shopping in North Texas
Chuck Schumer urged reform, pointing out that “litigants can now effectively choose which judge will hear their cases, undermining free and fair trials.”
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Joe Biden Devastates MAGA Republicans In Budget Speech
While unveiling his budget in Philadelphia, PA, President Biden said that MAGA Republicans don’t want to help working families and refuse to raise taxes on the wealthy.
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Bernie Sanders To Subpoena Starbucks CEO In Labor Law Violations Investigation
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz declined to testify in the HELP committee’s investigation of corporate labor law violations so Chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders has scheduled a subpoena vote.
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Merrick Garland Isn’t Playing Jim Jordan’s Games
Attorney General Merrick Garland appears to have little interest in feeding Jim Jordan’s school board protests conspiracy theories.
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Former Trump Budget Director Is Advising House Republicans To Gut Medicaid
Trump is out of office, but his budget director is advising House Republicans to use the debt ceiling to gut vital programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
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Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan Helped Raphael Warnock Win Reelection
There are some who have mocked Biden’s student debt relief plan, but new research shows that the plan helped Sen. Raphael Warnock win the Georgia runoff election.
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A Criminal Investigation Has Been Opened Into George Santos
A Republican District Attorney has opened a criminal investigation into GOP Congressman-Elect George Santos (R-NY).
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Calls Grow For George Santos’s Lawyer To Be Referred As An Accomplice To Fraud
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) suggested that George Santos’s lawyer be referred to the NY State Bar Association for making false statements and being an accomplice to fraud. Who is Joseph Murray, @Santos4Congress’ lawyer? And why shouldn’t he be referred to the NY Bar (@NYSBA) for this false statement on behalf of Santos? Murray said the…
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Rep. Ted Lieu Calls For House Expulsion Vote On George Santos
After Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) admitted to lying to voters about his educational and professional resume, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) called for an expulsion vote if Santos is seated in the House.
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Rudy Giuliani Could Even Lose His Honorary Law Degree
Rudy Giuliani has already had his license to practice law suspended, but now Syracuse University is looking at revoking his honorary law degree.
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NAACP Calls On Twitter Advertisers To Pull Ads As Trump Account Restored
The NAACP called all advertisers to pause their campaigns on Twitter to ensure that they are not “still funding Twitter†after Musk restored account access to Donald Trump,
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Lara Trump Is Threatening Ron DeSantis
That is a threat because Trump has plenty of “mess” and “raw” stuff that can be thrown at him. It would get ugly.
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Former GOP Congressman Destroys The Republican Freedom Lie
Former GOP Rep. David Jolly discussed why the Republican narrative of freedom is false.
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Kari Lake Promises To Arrest FBI Agents Over Policy That Doesn’t Exist
Kari Lake is tapping into the Qanon conspiracy ecosystem, the favorite habitat of the rabid MAGA vote.
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Clarence Thomas Admitted Affirmative Action Helped Him Yet He Seeks to Kill It
Clarence Thomas was so angry about being seen as someone who benefited unfairly from affirmative action that he began to hate the mechanism that saved him, and to seek – out of what seems like emotional pathology – to deny anyone else the same helping hand.
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Two More Big Name Republicans Urge Ohio to Pick Tim Ryan Over JD Vance
On Wednesday morning, two more big name Republicans, David L. Hobson and John M. Bridgeland, came forward to endorse Democrat Tim Ryan in his race for the U.S. Senate.
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Rachel Maddow Schools The Media On How To Handle Trump And MAGA
Rachel Maddow showed up on Alex Wagner Tonight where she delivered an insightful lesson on how the press should handle Trump and MAGA.
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Parents Alarmed as Florida Asks Female Student Athletes to Report Their Menstrual History
Republicans’ abortion bans are raising alarm for the parents of female student athletes in Florida, who are asked to report their menstrual history to play sports. Because a third party has access to that info and all of the forms are subject to subpoena, parents and doctors are raising the alarm.
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Watch Lara Trump Sends Her Son Out In Florida Storm To Build Character
Lara Trump took her son out, in just a t-shirt, to ride his powered car toy in the rain. This is, apparently, a “character building exercise.”
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Kevin McCarthy’s House GOP Agenda Rollout Goes Disastrously Off The Rails
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy rolled out his agenda in Pittsburgh where things went off the rails during guest comments.
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Opinion: The Dangerous Distortion of “Fairness†in the Student Loan Forgiveness Debate
Biden’s plan is an effort to create fairness and equity when it comes to access to higher education.
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With A Stroke Of His Pen, Biden Cancels $20,000 In Student Loan Debt
President Biden extended the repayment freeze, expanded loan forgiveness, and canceled $10,000-$20,000 in student loan debt for those making under $125,000.
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Oz Runs Away And Calls The Cops When Women Ask About Abortion
Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz ran away from women asking about abortion, and his campaign called the police on them.
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After Kansas Shocker Biden To Sign Major Executive Order Protecting Access To Reproductive Healthcare
The timing may be a coincidence, but on the day after pro-choice Americans got a big victory in deep-red Kansas, President Biden will sign an important executive order.
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Problems Abound As Trump Appointed Judge Refuses DOJ’s Terrorism Statute for 1/6 Defendant And Sentences Him To Just 7+ Years
Judge Dabney Friedrich declined to allow the DOJ enhanced sentencing under the terrorism statute for January 6th defendant Guy Reffitt, 49 of Wylie, Texas who was affiliated with the Texas Three Percenters, and sentenced him to seven plus years in prison.
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Biden Just Caused A Big Problem For Ron DeSantis
In response to Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law going into effect, the Biden White House encouraged parents and students to file discrimination and civil rights complaints with the federal government.
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It’s Time To Stop The Out Of Control Supreme Court Majority
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it clear that their recent decisions on guns, abortion, and climate change are the beginning and they must be stopped.
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Opinion: Chicago Sky Celebrate 50 years of Women’s Equality Under Title IX as Alito, SCOTUS Do the Opposite
While the celebration of Title IX was certainly planned ahead of the release of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision nonetheless colored the discussion of the important legislation that advanced women on the basketball court, among other social arenas.,
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Great News In Georgia For Democrats As Raphael Warnock Leads Herschel Walker By 10 Points
A new poll shows Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) leading his Republican challenger Herschel Walker 54%-44% in the Georgia US Senate race.
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Opinion: Media’s Inflation Coverage Obscures Promise of Biden’s Policies to Promote Real Economic Democracy
Media coverage blinds us to the fact that Biden’s Build Back Better plan contained the very policies that promise to move the U.S. economy in a more democratic direction and to address in fundamental ways economic inequality and the high costs of living Americans face.
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Trump Furiously Issues Long, Tedious, Whiny Response To 1/6 Hearing
Donald Trump put out an exhausting and whiny statement in response to the Congressional hearings. It is especially hard to take, given the revelations already made.
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Conservative Catholic Group Launches “Hide the Pride” Program
An anti-LGBTQ group with sufficient awareness of public relations has come up with a plan that obviates the need for an old-fashioned book burning and all the baggage that comes with it.
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Betsy DeVos Admits She Supported Using The 25th Amendment On Trump
Betsy DeVos admitted that she supported using the 25th Amendment on Trump, and when Pence said no, she resigned.
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Texas-Sized Uproar: Abbott Proposes ‘In-Person’ Intruder ‘Audits’ of Schools to Check Procedures
Gov. Greg Abbott wants to take the “drills” next level and make them “audits,” meaning the state wants to send a real intruder (One working for the state) into schools, randomly, to “audit the response.”
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Opinion: Advocating For Student Loan Forgiveness, AOC Highlights Key Obstacle To American Progress And Democracy
She expands the debate beyond student loan forgiveness to give us a broader lesson in civics and reality.
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Opinion: Student Loan Forgiveness Is A Key Step In Promoting A Democratic Culture Of Mutual Aid
Forgiving student loans is an opportunity for the nation to create policy rooted in a recognition of the importance of investing in one another.
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Opinion: Want to Stop Inflation? Fighting for Global Democracy is the Answer
If we want to end inflation, we have to recognize how this dynamic is bound up in assaults on democracy around the globe and at home.
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Trump Commands the Pennsylvania GOP to ‘Stop Finding Votes,’ And Asks If Primary Is ‘RIGGED’
But one should frame that Trump “truth” – because that quote is truly Trump, through and through, initially hilarious, underlyingly telling and dangerous.
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Eric Swalwell Goes Off And Slams GOP Government Mandated Pregnancies
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) laid it out during a House hearing where he accused Republicans of trying to enforce government-mandated pregnancies.
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Barack And Michelle Obama Announce $100 Million Scholarship As Melania Trump Whines About Vogue
While Melania Trump complains on Fox News about never getting on the cover of Vogue, Barack and Michelle Obama announced a new $100 million scholarship for college students.
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Texas Considers Challenging 1982 SCOTUS Decision Forcing States to Educate Illegal Immigrant Children
Purely by chance, certainly, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday that Texas would consider challenging the 1982 Supreme Court decision that requires the states to educate illegal immigrant children within its jurisdiction
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Adam Schiff Says Trump Nominees Lied So SCOTUS Must Be Expanded
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Trump’s SCOTUS nominees lied to the Senate, so the Supreme Court must be expanded.
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Greg Abbott: Texas Could Challenge SCOTUS Ruling That States Must Educate All, Including the Undocumented
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) announced that his administration could challenge a Supreme Court ruling that states must provide education to all, including undocumented immigrants.
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Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade Offers Two Reasons Opinion May Have Been Leaked by Conservatives, Not Presumed Liberals
The Court is going to have enough trouble justifying its own legitimacy, reversing two of its most important rulings in history (Row and Casey). Now it also has to deal with obvious political infighting leading to another unprecedented move.
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Opinion: Overturning Roe Leads Us Right Back To Brett Kavanaugh
It turns out that the people most emotionally deluded were those defending Brett Kavanaugh and the deceptively rigged confirmation hearing
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Tyranny In Tennessee As GOP House Speaker Cuts Democrats’ Mics And Refuses To Allow Them To Speak
The Republican Speaker of the House in Tennessee cut the microphones of Democrats and refused to allow them to speak on an education reform bill.
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Biden Dramatically Shifts Away From The Wrongs Of Trump With Use Of Pardon Powers
President Biden issued pardons and commutations for 78 people who were non-violent offenders. Trump used his pardon power to help his friends and allies.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Goes Full Nixon With ‘I Do Not Recall’ Defense
You could be forgiven if watching Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) testimony on Friday reminded you of another sweating Republican from long ago. No, not the orange president. The president who actually faced consequences for breaking the law.
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Hypocrite Mitch McConnell Tells People With Student Loans To Pay Up
Mitch McConnell blew up the national debt with tax cuts for the rich but tells student borrowers they have to pay their debts.
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Opinion: Amazon, Starbucks, and Other U.S. Workers Fight the Putins at Home, While Ukraine’s Fight for Democracy Rages On
We need to recognize the role of labor and collective organizing in achieving democracy.
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Every Single House Judiciary Committee Republican Votes Against Bill To Fight Domestic Terrorism
Even after the 1/6 attack, every single Republican on the House Judiciary Committee voted against enhancing the government’s ability to fight domestic terrorism.
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Opinion: Putin Shows Us Where GOP’s Hateful Rule Will Take Us If We Don’t Defend LGBTQ Rights
We must recognize the authoritarian threat directly and clearly, and highlight the continuities between Putin’s anti-LGBTQ politics and those in Republican America.
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Conservative Group Urges GOP to Oppose Spending Package, Which Would Cause a Government Shutdown
The conservative advocacy group Heritage Action, the sister organization of the Heritage Foundation, has urged Republican lawmakers to oppose a $1.5 trillion government spending bill, saying that to approve it would fund progressive priorities it is staunchly against.
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More Than 500 Florida Students Walk Out to Protest “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
More than 500 students at Winter Park High School in Orange County, Florida walked out in protest of the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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Manchin’s Latest Move on “Build Back Better Bill” Frustrates Democrats
Democrats have expressed frustration with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) following his latest move on the “Build Back Better” bill.
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Tim Kaine Introduces Bill to Help People with Long-COVID, Describes Own Symptoms Two Years After Testing Positive
Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.), joined by fellow Democratic Senators Ed Markey (Mass.) and Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), has introduced the CARE for Long COVID Act, legislation to help Americans living with long-COVID symptoms long after first testing positive
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The Republican Response To The SOTU Was Laughably, Horrendously, Bad
Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) gave one of the worst responses to the State Of The Union in history.
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Bloomberg Warns Democrats Are in for “Wipeout” in November If They Do Not Change Course
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg cautioned Democrats that they are in for a “wipeout” in November’s midterm elections if the party does not change course. “Coming from America’s most liberal city, those results should translate into a 7 to 8 on the Richter scale, because the three main factors that drove the recall…
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Opinion: Media’s Amnesic Biden-Blaming Abets Authoritarian Movement
This amnesia threatens to push Americans back to the authoritarianism we so narrowly escaped–by a hair!–in the 2020 election.
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Econ Inequality Tearing Country Apart: Gates’s Account for Over HALF of Billionaire Charitable Giving
We are approaching a situation where perhaps 1,000 people on the planet set the global agenda for over nine billion.
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Opinion: Right-Wing Week In Review Reveals GOP Politics Of Racism Toward African Americans
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
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Chasten Buttigeig Slams Florida Measure That Would Ban Discussions About Sexual Orientation and Gender in Classrooms
Chasten Buttigieg criticized a Florida bill that would ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender in classrooms, telling CNN’s John Berman that the measure is “essentially pushing kids back into the closet.” Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill was passed in the House Education and Employment Committee late last week. The bill, colloquially known as the…
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Biden Gives The Media A Massive Reality Check During News Conference
President Biden delivered a reality check to mainstream media as they asked him if he should scale down his priorities.
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Opinion: Why Labor Organization Should Be The Focus In The Fight For Democracy
We need to tell the story of unionization and collective action at least as much as we tell the story of resignation.
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‘Florida Is an Autocracy’ Says Former Gov. Ron DeSantis Official
Flipowski, a former member of the Judicial Nominating Commission (a more important job than it sounds), says that Florida, right now, is an autocratic state.
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Opinion: Liz Cheney’s End Game Is To Make Republican Authoritarianism Palatable
Liz Cheney does not oppose the authoritarianism and anti-democratic impulses of the Republican Party.
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Opinion: Manchin’s Betrayal Typifies Long-Standing Conservative Misinformation Campaign Against American Worker
The ongoing public negotiation among Manchin, Biden, and progressive Democrats has made clear that Manchin has been trafficking the same old stale misinformation fiscal conservatives have been peddling for ages.
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House Democrats Delivered For The American People With 12 Important Bills Signed Into Law In 2021
Beyond the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the American Rescue Plan, House Democrats passed 10 more major pieces of legislation that became law.
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Thanks to Joe Manchin, Schumer Announces That “Build Back Better” Plan Will Not Pass This Year
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that talks between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) will continue, hurting plans to pass the “Build Back Better” plan before the holiday recess. Schumer did not offer a timeline in his remarks on the Senate floor. “The president requested more time to continue his…
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Biden Reverses Trump’s Virtually Whites Only Diplomacy And Nominates Michelle Kwan And Caroline Kennedy To Be Ambassadors
The White House announced that President Biden has nominated Michelle Kwan to be ambassador to Belize and Caroline Kennedy to be ambassador to Australia. The White House announced in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA: Caroline Kennedy, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Commonwealth of Australia  Caroline Kennedy served as U.S. Ambassador to…
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DeSantis Pushes Falsehoods, Announces “Stop Woke Act” to Stop Schools From Teaching Critical Race Theory
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican today announced the “Stop Woke Act,” legislation intended to stop schools from teaching critical race theory, a body of legal and academic scholarship that aims to examine how racism and disparate racial outcomes have shaped public policy via often implicit social and institutional dynamics. “Today, we are taking a…
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The Obstructionist Joe Manchin: Dems Say He Won’t Allow Vote on Spending and Climate Plan Before Christmas
Democrats say that Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) has made clear he won’t allow a vote on the Biden administration’s spending and climate plan before Christmas. They say that they have the support of 49 senators but lack Manchin and they need a unified caucus in order to pass the legislation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck…
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Civil Rights Groups Urge Schumer to Pass Social Spending and Climate Bill As Is
A coalition of civil rights groups, including the NAACP and National Urban League, has urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to pass the Democrats’ social spending and climate bill as is and has spoken out against amendments that would weaken the child tax credit. “Now that the House has passed the Build Back Better…
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Falls Apart When Jake Tapper Calls Out His Failed Culture Of Life
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves quickly changed his tune when CNN’s Jake Tapper called out his failed culture of life.
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President Biden Pays A Moving Tribute To Patriot And Hero Bob Dole
President Biden paid tribute to his long-time friend, and patriot the late Sen. Bob Dole.
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ND School Superintendent Rails Against Critical Race Theory, Says Schools Should Teach “Christian Heritage”
A North Dakota school district superintendent claimed in an email that calls to address racial injustice are a “political ideology” and called for a “Christ centered Republic.” The email was sent to a North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders-run listserv by Starkweather Public School District Superintendent Larry Volk, who said it is “time to move…
