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Amid Report Dems Trying to "Rein In" Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman Responds With Fiery Comic Book Reference "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME." Read more |
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'The Right Thing to Do': Senate Dems Demand Back Pay for Furloughed Government Contractors "Contract workers and their families should not suffer the consequences of a shutdown that they did not cause." Read more |
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Grassroots Progressives Launch Campaign to Oust Corporate Democrat Who Votes With Trump 70% of the Time "Progressives have an opportunity to strategically primary the most vile Democrats in their ranks, and Henry Cuellar should top the list." Read more |
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Demand for Democratic Governors to Follow Suit After Trump-Backed DeSantis Moves to Ban Fracking in Florida "It is more important than ever that local and state leaders of both parties do all in their power to halt the fossil fuel extraction destroying our climate and poisoning our air and water." Read more |
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Slowly Catching Up to Developed World, Newsom's Plan for California Would Provide Longest Paid Family Leave in US "This is not some utopian proposal," said one expert, but "in the U.S. it would be a breakthrough." Read more |
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To Fund 'White Supremacist Vanity Project,' Trump Eyes Relief Funds Earmarked for Actual Disasters "Siphoning funding from real disasters to pay for a crisis manufactured by the president is wholly unacceptable and the American people won't fall for it." Read more |
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'New Party, Who Dis?': Ocasio-Cortez Takes No Guff From 'Irrelevant' Joe Lieberman The newly-elected congresswoman, the youngest ever elected, wasn't the only one to note the political unimportance of the ex-Democratic lawmaker turned corporate lobbyist Read more |
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No Mere 'Stunt': Experts Warn Trump Emergency Declaration Would Spark 'Constitutional Crisis' "The president is about to make unprecedented use of emergency powers given to the commander in chief for times of true national crisis in order to enact his political agenda." Read more |
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Hundreds of Federal Workers Resort to GoFundMe to Cover Expenses as Trump Shutdown Drags On "President Trump is taking paychecks away from thousands of American workers and throwing families into crisis every day he refuses to reopen the government." Read more |
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Mike Pompeo's Cairo Speech Denounced as Ahistorical 'Imperial Hogwash' "An arrogant tirade extolling the U.S. as a liberator not an occupier, a defender not an aggressor—a depiction that runs totally counter to the sordid U.S. history of invasions and occupations all over the world." Read more |
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For Second Time During Shutdown, Four Democrats Vote With GOP to Punish Boycotts of Israel "The recent spate of bills that seek to penalize Israel boycotts is a bipartisan problem." Read more |
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'Grow Up, Do Your Job, End This Shutdown': Federal Workers Hold Massive DC Rally Against Trump "Stop holding 800,000 federal employees and their families hostage!" Read more |
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After 17 'Shameful' Years of Guantanamo Prison, Rights Group Demand 'Stain' on Nation's History Be Shuttered "While the prison should have been relegated long ago as an appalling chapter in U.S. history, Guantánamo continues to operate 17 years later as a symbol of Islamophobia that embodies the fear-mongering and xenophobia that defines Trump's presidency." Read more |
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'As World Teeters on Brink of Climate Catastrophe,' 600+ Groups Demand Congress Back Visionary Green New Deal "We need action on climate that ends our dependence on dirty energy, puts power in the hands of communities, and provides good jobs." Read more |
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Confronting Pharma Greed That Is 'Literally Killing People,' Sanders and Khanna Unveil Bills to Lower Drug Prices "How many people need to die, how many people need to get unnecessarily sicker before Congress is prepared to take on the greed of the prescription drug industry?" Read more |
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Progressives Slam DCCC for Tapping Only Pro-Business Centrists for Leadership Roles—Ignoring Energy of Left-Wing Movement "The DCCC would do well to incorporate members from the Congressional Progressive Caucus in candidate recruitment efforts to ensure that we continue building on the gains we made in 2018 in future elections." Read more |
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'You Still Have Time to Contact Your Senators': Pressure to Block Anti-Boycott Bill Mounts as McConnell Aims for Thursday Vote "Two federal judges have already found state laws that attempt to punish companies or individuals for boycotting Israel unconstitutional... Of course they are unconstitutional. They are also racist, aimed at keeping brown Palestinians down." Read more |
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'Shock Doctrine' Author Naomi Klein Worries 'What Next?' If Trump Succeeds in Inventing a 'National Emergency' "What further roll back of rights... become possible under the banner of 'emergency?'" asks author and activist. "What is to stop him from declaring emergencies again and again if this works?" Read more |
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Victory for Free Speech and Animal Welfare as Federal Judge Strikes Down Iowa 'Ag-Gag' Law "A huge win for free speech and a free press, and a major—and richly deserved—defeat for the pervasively corrupt agricultural industry, that has tried to use their control over governments to criminalize the exposure of their heinous practices." Read more |
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'So Frustrating': Pelosi Accused of Shutting Bold Progressives Out of Powerful Committees The House Speaker's list of assignments does not include any of the progressive lawmakers advocacy groups recommended for key committee slots Read more |
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Trump Nomination of Wheeler Ensures EPA Will Continue to Put 'Profits of Polluters' Over Human Health and Planet "I'm sure corporate board rooms will celebrate this nomination. But for anyone who drinks water, breathes air, or cares about wildlife, this will be nothing but awful." Read more |
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Trump Thinks Federal Workers Can 'Just Ask Their Father for More Money,' Says Pelosi. 'But They Can't.' In latest 'temper tantrum,' added Chuck Schumer, president simply walked out of shutdown negotiation meeting Read more |
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Leaving Legacy of 'World-Altering Work' for Women, 'Godmother of Title IX' Bernice Sandler Dies at 90 "Every woman who has gone to college, gotten a law degree or a medical degree, was able to take shop instead of home-ec, or went to a military academy really owes her a huge debt." Read more |
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'It's a Crisis Alright': Report Details Serious Public Health and Safety Risks of Trump Shutdown "Corporate lawbreakers are going unpunished, safety inspections are being postponed, discrimination charges are going uninvestigated, polluters are not being held in check, financial fraudsters are not being policed." Read more |
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First-Ever Indigenous Peoples March Will Fight Against Injustices Faced Across the Globe "Many Indigenous people are victims of voter suppression, divided families by walls and borders, an environmental holocaust, sex and human trafficking, and police/military brutality." Read more |
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30,000 LA Teachers 'Strike Ready' as District Refuses to Spend $1.86 Billion Reserve on Better Pay, Smaller Class Sizes "We want an agreement that works for our kids—that gets to a place where we're not dealing with 50 kids in a classroom." Read more |
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Voted Down on Tuesday Night, McConnell Raises Alarm by Forcing Second Vote on 'Unconstitutional' Anti-Boycott Bill "When was the last time the Senate voted twice in less than 24 hours to consider the same bill? They're doing it right now on S.1, a bill to authorize $38 billion in weapons for Israel and encourage states to deny contracts to people who support boycotts for Palestinian rights." Read more |
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Demanding Trump and McConnell #StopTheShutdown, Dozens of Unions to Rally for Struggling Federal Workers Protest plans come as concerns mount about impacts of the ongoing government shutdown, including on food stamps and Medicare Read more |
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'5-Star Award for Idiocy' as Trump Threatens to Cut Off FEMA Funds to California in Wake of Deadliest-Ever Wildfire Season "The state owns three percent of the forests in California," wrote Sen. Jeff Merkley in response. "No matter how many people with rakes they deploy, forests are going to burn because of longer, hotter summers due to climate chaos." Read more |
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Highlighting Systematic 'Violation of International Human Rights', Ocasio-Cortez Shreds Trump Address "The president should not be asking for more money to an agency that has systematically violated human rights." Read more |
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Despite Nationwide Effort to Insulate Deputy AG From Trump, Rosenstein Reportedly Has Exit Plan "Let's hope this means Rosenstein believes that Mueller’s work is largely done and can no longer be derailed." Read more |
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Trump's Withdrawal Plans Are a Mess, But Poll Shows Americans Ready to Bring Troops Home Even if the administration finds a way to meet public demands for Afghanistan and Syria, new research shows the U.S. is still fighting the so-called War on Terror in 80 nations across six continents Read more |
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Corporate Media Condemned for Handing Trump Megaphone to Spout Racist 'Stream of Lies' "Trump just launched his 2020 re-election campaign with, essentially, the same speech he used at Trump Tower in 2015, when he first ranted about Mexican rapists and murderers. And the media paid for it." Read more |
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'Trump Is the National Crisis': Primetime Address Denounced as 'Bigoted, Childish Con Job' on American People "Enough. Trump must drop his ignorant and ridiculous demands for a border wall and get our federal workers back to work—with pay." Read more |
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Sworn in With Hand on Children's Favorite "Too Many Moose," Arizona's New Head of Public Schools Vows to Put Students and Teachers First "I'm done saying, 'Imagine if.' I am here to say, 'Let's get to work.'" Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Rebukes Trump for Stoking 'Fear and Hatred' With Lie-Soaked National Address "Instead of trying to bring us together as a people, he is trying to divide us up. And, in the process, divert our attention away from the real crises facing the working families of this nation." Read more |
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Rashida Tlaib: The Senate’s Anti-BDS Bill Is an Unconstitutional Attack on Free Speech "I cannot imagine our country not having the right to economic boycott." Read more |
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'Scary': Warming of Oceans Is Equivalent to 1.5 Atomic Bombs Every Second Over Past 150 Years "And that's just the average. It's now equivalent to roughly three to six atomic bombs per second." Read more |
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Democrats Don't Just Support Medicare for All, 84% in New Poll Want Party Leaders to Make It 'Extremely Important Priority' "Are you listening?" party Leaders asked as new Politico/Harvard survey shows more than 8 in 10 Democrats think covering everyone "through taxpayer-fund national plan" should be urgent pursued Read more |
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'Huge Step in Right Direction' as de Blasio Unveils Guaranteed Healthcare Plan for All NYC Residents One progressive organizer said the bold plan "clears a path toward statewide single-payer" in New York Read more |
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'Historic Moment': After Ballot Measure Victory Repeals Jim Crow Law, Voting Rights Restored for 1.4M Ex-Felons in Florida Despite fears of delays stoked by the incoming Republican governor, "the single-biggest enfranchisement of voting rights since passage of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution" took effect Tuesday Read more |
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Trump's Disregard of Climate Threat Seen as US Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 "In case there was still any doubt that we need a #GreenNewDeal," declares Sunrise Movement in response to new figures Read more |
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'Shameful Day for Canada': First Nations Encampment Violently Raided, Land Protectors Arrested "Is this a normal way to respond to Indigenous people who are peacefully protecting their drinking water from fracking pipelines?" Read more |
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Networks Accused of 'Capitulating' to Deceitful President as #BoycottTrumpsAddress Surges "Trump's primetime stunt is a campaign dog-whistle to his base, not a legitimate policy speech about a genuine crisis. Shame on every TV station that airs it." Read more |
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From Dismal Worker Treatment to Soaring Housing Costs, Seattle Lawmakers Warn New York About What Happens When Amazon Comes to Town "New York City should learn something from Seattle. Amazon's record of mistreating workers, preying on small businesses, and attacking progressive reforms should concern us all. New Yorkers deserve better." Read more |
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Celebrating Cyntoia Brown's Clemency, Rights Advocates Vow to Continue Fighting for Human Trafficking Survivors Behind Bars "This victory belongs to Cyntoia Brown and to the Tennessee human trafficking activists, especially black women, who refused to concede injustice and instead organized to create change." Read more |
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By Wide, Bipartisan Majority, New Poll Affirms Key Progressive Demand: Congress Should Act to Lessen Crushing Student Debt New poll comes on heels of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) saying that students are "shouldering a trillion and a half dollars in student loan debt and it's crushing an entire generation." Read more |
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As Canadian Police Target Pipeline Protesters on First Nations Territory, Solidarity Actions Planned Across North America " The land defenders holding the front lines have no intention of allowing Wet'suwet'en sovereignty to be violated." Read more |
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'Time to Play Hardball': Progressives Pressure Senate Democrats to Stonewall All Bills That Don't End Trump Shutdown "Every day this senseless and manufactured crisis drags on, real families with very real bills are harmed and millions are denied the vital services we deserve." Read more |
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As Critics Struggle to Portray 70% Tax Rate for Rich as Unrealistic, Dems Get Behind Idea Ahead of 2020 Election Julián Castro said unequivocally on Sunday that he supports "folks at the top paying [their] fair share" Read more |
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After Promising More Jobs From Trump Tax Cuts, Report Shows AT&T Has 'Done Just the Opposite' by Slashing Over 10,000 Jobs in 2018 "AT&T is breaking its promise to workers, customers, and communities across the country." Read more |
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Supreme Court Blocks ExxonMobil's Effort to Conceal Decades of Documents in Probe of Oil Giant's Climate Deception The high court's ruling means the company must hand over records to the Massachusetts attorney general for her ongoing investigation Read more |
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With Nationwide Tour Targeting Untapped Youth Power, Sunrise Movement Aims to 'Make Green New Deal an Inevitability' "Young people across the country, in red states, blue states, and purple states, are excited about what a Green New Deal could mean for their communities." Read more |
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Speaking Up for Oft-Ignored Workers, Rep. Ayanna Pressley Demands Back-Pay for Federal Contractors Harmed by Trump Shutdown "I stand in solidarity with the hard-working mothers and fathers who had to hold off on purchasing gifts over the holidays in order to pay their rent and keep the lights on." Read more |
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With Mueller Report Expected Soon, Trump Team May Claim Executive Privilege to Block Public Release While critics called such a move "absurd," they also warned it could tie up the special counsel's report in court for months or even years Read more |
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'Let's Get Our Priorities Right': Outrage as Bipartisan Group of Senators Pushes Bill to Punish Boycotts of Israel Amid Shutdown "It's absurd that the first bill during the shutdown is legislation which punishes Americans who exercise their constitutional right to engage in political activity," declared Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Read more |
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Democrats, Says Ocasio-Cortez, Have Compromised Away "Too Much of Who We're Supposed to Be" "It's just about what we choose to compromise," says New York congresswoman Read more |
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Denouncing Focus on Violence, Women March in France to Reclaim Anti-Austerity Message of 'Yellow Vest' Movement "All the media ever reports is the violence, and we are forgetting the root of the problem," said one demonstrator Read more |
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Bold Progressive Agenda AND Serious Talk of Impeachment: Democrats 'Must Do Both,' Says Rep. Rashida Tlaib "We must do both because we cannot normalize this President's actions. As we fight his backward policies, history is depending on us to right this ship and foster accountability for rampant law breaking and attacks on democratic norms." Read more |
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With Shutdown Talks at Standstill, Trump Declares: "I May Declare National Emergency" to Build Wall President repeats a threat that legal experts argue he has no constitutional (or moral) authority to execute Read more |
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Ocasio-Cortez's "Not At All Outlandish" Proposal for 70% Tax Rate on Uber-Wealthy Could Raise $720 Billion Over Decade "So even as [Republicans] dunk on AOC as stupid or ignorant," argues Paul Krugman, "she's talking sense based on reputable economic research, while the whole GOP is talking nonsense from charlatans and cranks." Read more |
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Legal Scholars to Trump: No, You Cannot Declare Emergency to Build Wall That Public Doesn't Want and Isn't Needed "The American constitution does not contemplate such presidential unilateralism." Read more |
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Gillibrand Defends Voting Record Following Report NY Senator Feeling Out Wall Street Support for 2020 Run "The Democratic Party," writes one critic, "needs a clean break from corporate money and influence if it's ever going to govern well, win back the trust of voters, or truly represent the working class." Read more |
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Poll Notes "Trump Effect" as American Desire to Leave US Permanently Surges "While Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency focused on the number of people who want to get into the U.S., since he took office, record numbers of Americans have wanted to get out." Read more |
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'I Can Do It If I Want': Trump Threatens to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall "Declaring a national emergency to build the wall would be an abuse of emergency powers." Read more |
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With 800,000 Public Employees Facing Pay Freeze and Shutdown, Pence and Other Top Trump Officials to Get $10K Raise "This administration's corruption and hypocrisy are remarkable." Read more |
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In Bid to 'Get Big Money Out of Politics,' House Lawmakers Introduce Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United "From gun violence to healthcare costs to climate change, the issues Americans care about have been held hostage by wealthy special interests. No more." Read more |
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Bernie Sanders Reminds Liz Cheney of Iraq War Lies After Daughter of Bush VP Attacks So-Called 'Fraud of Socialism' "Really? I wasn't aware that it was 'socialism' that lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq." Read more |
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Bolsonaro Unveils Mass Privatization Plan for Brazil While Slashing Taxes for Rich and Wages for Poor "The far right everywhere exploit popular discontent for the benefit of the one percent, and Brazil's is no different." Read more |
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An Example for Mistreated 'Workers Across the Globe,' Spanish Amazon Employees on Strike "This is the richest company in the world and they want to keep profiting by taking away workers' rights" Read more |
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'Wait Till GOP Find Out Congresswomen Dance Too,' Says Ocasio-Cortez After right-wing attack of college era 'Breakfast Club' video backfires and goes viral, newly-seated Democrat lets world know she's still got a couple moves Read more |
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'Call Me a Radical': Ocasio-Cortez Suggests 70% Tax Rate for Ultra Rich to Help Pay for Green New Deal Pushing back against skeptics of taxing the wealthy to pay for efforts to avert climate catastrophe, she says, "I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country." Read more |
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Slamming Joe Lieberman for Joining Chinese Telecom Giant, Warren Calls for 'Lifetime Ban' on Members of Congress Becoming Lobbyists "Corruption in Washington isn't about a single president or political party. It runs deep. We should call it out—and we should pass my sweeping anti-corruption reforms." Read more |
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'Quietly and Unnoticed,' Trump Administration Won't Cooperate with UN Investigators on Human Rights Violations in US "Great news for Saudi Arabia, China, North Korea, Syria...If the U.S. doesn't have to answer for the suffering it inflicts on its own people, why should they?" Read more |
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Nurses Union Demands All 2020 Candidates Establish Strong Sexual Harassment, Pay Equity Policies "Sexual harassment can never be treated as business as usual or swept under the rug. Apologies alone are not enough." Read more |
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'No-Brainer for Anyone Who Actually Cares About American Democracy': House Democrats' HR 1 Praised as Real Plan to Drain the Swamp "It's time to unrig our broken political system. Our political leaders have been most responsive to the interests of their wealthy donors for too long while the needs of normal Americans go unaddressed." Read more |
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Shunning Corporate Donors and Pledging People-Powered Campaign, Warren Shuttering Fundraising PAC "This is a moment for all of the Democratic nominees to come into the race to say, 'In a Democratic primary we are going to link arms and we're going to say grassroots funding. No to the billionaires." Read more |
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'Trump Is Guilty': Along With Democratic Control of House Comes Renewed Push to Impeach President "Every day, Donald Trump shows that leaving the White House would be good for our country," says Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) Read more |
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Accused of Lying to His Own Agency's Investigators, Departure Doesn't Save Zinke From DOJ Probe "Someone should let Zinke know that resigning doesn't save you from prison." Read more |
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New Polling Shows House Democrats Who Won't Back Green New Deal Could Be Ousted by Progressives in 2020 "Just how popular is the #GreenNewDeal? So popular that opposing it opens Democrats up to serious primary challenges." Read more |
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Bernie Isn't Running (Yet), But the Sanders Network Is Alive, Kicking, and Organizing for 2020 With nationwide House Parties planned for this month and a reinvigorated and vast network of supporters, the grassroots movement agitating for a 2020 run by Sanders is not idly waiting Read more |
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'A Giant Step' Toward Humane Healthcare as Democrats Announce First-Ever Hearings on Medicare for All "This will ensure that Medicare for All is part of the 2020 Democratic presidential platforms," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who will sponsor the House Medicare for All bill Read more |
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Raising 'All Manner of Conflict of Interest Questions,' the Only National Park Site Reopening Amid Shutdown Is in Trump Hotel "The corruption and disgrace of this government are without bottom." Read more |
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As Trump Applauds Brazil's New Fascist President, Bolsonaro Wastes No Time Attacking Environment and Marginalized Brazilians Two days into his term, Bolsonaro has already unveiled orders infringing on the rights of indigenous and LGBTQ Brazilians Read more |
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Veteran NBC Reporter Rips Pro-War Posture of Corporate Media in Scathing Resignation Letter "That a network insider has blown the whistle on how all this works, and how MSNBC and NBC have become Ground Zero for these political pathologies of militarism and servitude to security state agencies, while not surprising, is nonetheless momentous." Read more |
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'They Failed Us Once Again': House Democrats Denounced for Dashing Hopes of Green New Deal "This committee is weaker than the first Climate Select Committee from a decade ago, and it does not get us meaningfully closer to solving the climate crisis or fixing our broken economy." Read more |
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After Netflix Pulls Episode at Saudi Request, Comic Hasan Minhaj Urges Donations for Suffering Yemen While Saudi Arabia attempts to ban content critical of its crown prince, "Let's not forget that the world's largest humanitarian crisis is happening in Yemen right now." Read more |
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With Deadline Looming, Groups Urge Public to Speak Out Against DeVos' Plan to Steamroll Rights for Sexual Assault Survivors "If you support protections for survivors, submit a comment now" Read more |
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'Ajit Pai Won't Be Laughing Long,' Say Internet Defenders, After FCC Chair Applauds Death of Net Neutrality "The internet freedom movement is stronger than it's ever been as we head into 2019. We'll keep fighting in the states, in the courts, and in Congress." Read more |
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Historic Moment for Equality in India as Millions Link Arms to Form 400-Mile "Women's Wall" Massive event preceded history-making day when two women defied protesters to enter Hindu temple Read more |
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From 'Depleted' Food Stores to Understaffed Health Clinics, Native Americans 'Among Hardest Hit' by Trump Shutdown "The longer the D.C. stalemate lasts, the more dire their situation becomes." Read more |
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Inspired by Yellow Vests in France, Germany's Left-Wing 'Get Up' Movement Vows to Take to the Streets in 2019 Fighting for secure jobs and wage equality, the 170,000-member organization "will be visible on the street and in the public eye in 2019" Read more |
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Applause as Warren Shows Support for Green New Deal—the Plan 'Every Serious Presidential Contender Should Embrace' "If your 2020 platform doesn't include a Green New Deal, are you really running for President?" asked Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) Read more |
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'Stop This Fiscal Madness': Dems Urged to Vote Down 'Brainless Republican Idea' as Pelosi Plows Ahead With Pay-Go "This is a terrible move from Pelosi and Democratic Party leadership and a slap in the face for movements demanding justice and prosperity for all—not just a privileged few." Read more |
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'Cruel and Inhumane': Trump Border Patrol Hits Women, Children, and Journalists in Mexico With Tear Gas "The Trump administration is defying international law and orchestrating a crisis by deliberately turning asylum-seekers away from ports of entry, endangering families who see no choice but to take desperate measures in their search for protection." Read more |
