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      MPower Action Co-Founder Linda Sarsour Releases Statement on Andrew Yang's Comments on BDS

      Newswire Editor
      Jan 21, 2021

      In the wake of deeply offensive and dangerous comments made by Andrew Yang slandering BDS activists, Linda Sarsour, the Co-Founder of MPower Action, released the following statement:

      "Andrew Yang's outrageous libel of protesters peacefully opposing human rights violations is disqualifying. Yang's explicit smear of activists, and implicit insult of Palestinians, is something I'd have expected to hear from the Trump administration. It's the kind of malicious rhetoric that must be rejected regardless of political party or affiliation.

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      McConnell Vows to Be 'Firewall' Against Progress in Senate As Democrats Mull Eliminating Filibuster

      McConnell Vows to Be 'Firewall' Against Progress in Senate As Democrats Mull Eliminating Filibuster

      While lawmakers from both parties have used the tactic in the past, Democrats, hoping to flip the Senate, look to block GOP opposition in 2021.

      Lisa Newcomb
      Sep 15, 2020

      Hoping to allow for the passage of progressive legislation, advocacy groups renewed calls to end the filibuster this week as Republican lawmakers joined Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in warning against the idea.

      "This threat to permanently disfigure, to disfigure the Senate, has been the latest growing drumbeat in the modern Democratic Party's war against our governing institutions," McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor Monday.

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      'Democracy Has Prevailed': Federal Court Rules NY Primary Must Go Forward With Sanders, Yang, and Others on Ballot

      'Democracy Has Prevailed': Federal Court Rules NY Primary Must Go Forward With Sanders, Yang, and Others on Ballot

      "The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today confirmed what we knew: the state of New York acted illegally in trying to cancel the Democratic presidential primary."

      Jake Johnson
      May 19, 2020

      A federal court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the New York Board of Elections and ruled the state's Democratic presidential primary must take place on June 23 as scheduled, a decision that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders and Andrew Yang celebrated as a win for democracy.

      "We expect New York to work to make voting safe, rather than wasting taxpayer money trying to disenfranchise New York voters."
      --Faiz Shakir, campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders

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