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Newswire article Wednesday, April 14, 2021 Response to Biden's Continuation of Trump's UAE Arms Deal The State Department has confirmed that President Biden will move ahead with Trump’s $23 billion arms sales, which includes F-35s and advanced weaponry, to the United Arab Emirates. Demand Progress joined 29 organizations last November in opposing Trump’s announced arms sale. The following... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Progressives Call for Strong Antitrust Picks to DOJ, FTC As reported this morning by Politico , almost 30 groups sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for strong antitrust leaders to fill key roles at the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. This comes in the wake of recently leaked FTC files... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Dozens of Groups Urge Congress to Pass a War Powers Resolution in Response to Biden Admin’s Unauthorized Strike in Syria Today, dozens of organizations sent a letter to Congress demanding that it immediately introduce and advance a War Powers Resolution in response to the Biden Administration’s bombing of targets in Syria on February 25, which lacked authorization from Congress. The letter explains that the Biden... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 15, 2021 Former Sen. Udall and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Support Lawsuit to Reveal Details of Government’s Secret Mass Surveillance Former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) and former House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) are supporting a lawsuit by Demand Progress Education Fund (DPEF) and the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) filed against the Department of Justice in the U.S. District... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, March 11, 2021 Groups Call on Biden to Appoint a Champ to the FCC to Reinstate Net Neutrality and Get People Internet Access As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, affordable and reliable Internet access has never been more important. Many people are still working from home, children are still learning online, and people looking for information about where and when to get a vaccine often require the Internet. But nearly 80... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, February 26, 2021 Joint Statement on US Airstrike in Syria Yesterday, the US carried out air strikes against a site in Syria reportedly used by two Iranian-backed militias. The following statement may be attributed to Cavan Kharrazian, Progressive Foreign Policy Campaigner at Demand Progress: "Congress has authorized neither these strikes in Syria nor... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, February 04, 2021 Statement on Announced End of US Support for Saudi Military Offensive in Yemen Today, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced that the Biden administration would end US support for the Saudi/UAE-led war in Yemen. The following statement may be attributed to David Segal, executive director and co-founder of Demand Progress: "This is a key step toward improving the... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, January 15, 2021 What Senators Need to Ask Avril Haines at Her Confirmation Hearing Today Avril Haines, President-elect Biden's designee to be the Director of National Intelligence, will appear before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) at noon today for her confirmation hearing. As has been reported in the Daily Beast and elsewhere, Haines has a history of positions and... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, December 16, 2020 New Report: Americans Oppose Having Corporate Insiders Run Biden Administration This morning, Demand Progress released a new report “Americans Want a Progressive Biden Administration” demonstrating broad, cross-party support for keeping corporate insiders outside the administration. Notably, the polling shows that 56 percent of Americans don’t want Biden to appoint corporate... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, December 09, 2020 Case Against Facebook Heightens Need For Independent Executive Branch Today the Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 state attorneys general filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. This follows the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Google, which was filed in October. The following may be attributed to David Segal, Executive Director of Demand Progress,... Read more |