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'Tremendous Defeat' for Trump's DOJ as Judge Rules in Favor of Philadelphia's Sanctuary City Status

Young Voters Likely to Continue Post-Parkland Mobilization in Voting Booth, Registration Records Show

Julia Conley, staff writer

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Young people represented a significantly large share of newly-registered voters in several key states in the weeks following the Parkland shooting

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'Labor Delivered This Win': Democrat Conor Lamb Prevails in District Trump Won by 20

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Pennsylvania's election results "demonstrate that when Democrats run on...

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In Latest Progressive Reform, Philadelphia DA Ends Cash Bail for Many Non-Violent Offenses

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Pre-trial incarceration has catastrophic impacts on families and communities...

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Activist Ejected From Meeting With Lawmaker After Asking How Much Money He's Getting From Koch Brothers

Trump 'Blatantly Backs Gerrymandering' in Call for GOP to Fight New PA Maps

GOP Push Impeachment of State Court Justices to Defend Gerrymandering

Supreme Court Blocks Pennsylvania GOP's Attempt to Restore Gerrymandered Map for 2018

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Smacks Down GOP Gerrymandered Congressional Map

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Penn.)

New STABLE GENIUS Act Would Mandate Mental Fitness Exams for Presidential Candidates

Standing with Bernie Sanders at a Protect Working Families rally in Dayton, Ohio.

Bernie Sanders Takes His "Protecting Working Families" Tour On the Road

Anti-Fracking Protest Shuts Down Traffic at Energy Companies' Offices

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Children Sue Trump Admin for 'Reckless and Deliberate Indifference' to Climate Threat

Michael Moore predicted a Trump win in 2016, and is warning that despite low approval ratings, the president could win a second term in 2020.

Warning Against Complacency, Michael Moore Says Trump Could Win Again in 2020

Vigil at open-air chapel

To Block Pipeline, Nuns in Court to Defend Cornfield Chapel

PA Teachers Lead Fight Against "Reckless" Bill Allowing Guns in Schools

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Food & Water Watch

Unprecedented New Report Details Sweeping Environmental Injustice of Pennsylvania’s Ongoing Fossil Fuel Buildout

Food & Water Watch

Mark Ruffalo and Fracking-Harmed Residents Demand Help from Gov. Wolf with New Health Impacts Campaign

Common Cause

Common Cause Pennsylvania Announces Democracy Works Summit 2018 May 21st & 22nd Focusing on Upcoming Census & Fight to End Gerrymandering

Common Cause

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Pennsylvania Supreme Court Congressional Redistricting

Common Cause

In PA Common Cause Wants Equitable, Fair, Transparent Maps

Common Cause

Effort to Impeach Pennsylvania Supreme Court Over Congressional Districts Ruling is Disgraceful

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Karen Feridun

Justice Mocked in Pennsylvania

Negin Owliaei

Lancaster Shows How to Say No to Geo Group

Tony Norman

They All Call to Ask, ‘What Do Black People Want?’

Ryan Cooper

Can Democrats Think Strategically About Trump Country?

Charles P. Pierce

Conor Lamb's Victory Matters, and Paul Ryan Should Be Scared

Eliza Newlin Carney

How Long Will Gerrymandered GOP Congressional Maps Stand?

Steven Singer

Calling Total Bullshit on Allowing Guns in Schools

David Schwenk

March on Harrisburg: What Democracy Is All About

Rebecca Solnit

The US Election Recount Is a Long Shot – But the Alternative Is Catastrophe

Emma Pike

As DNC Delegates Gather in the ‘Birthplace of Democracy’, Local Communities Fight for their Right to Breathe

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