Month: September 2020

The resistance is taking many forms this weekend, with some constituents showing up to lawmakers’ town hall events to demand accountability and others taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration and its draconian policies.  Nearly 1,700 people marched in Dallas on Saturday, demonstrating solidarity with refugees and immigrants impacted by President Donald Trump’s…

A Texas lawmaker on Friday took a legislative jab at the state’s anti-choice laws, filing satirical legislation that would slap a fine on men for masturbating and make those who want a vasectomy, colonoscopy, or a Viagra prescription undergo “a medically-unnecessary digital rectal exam.” Proposed by state Rep. Jessica Farrar (D), HB 4260 (pdf) or…

Most Americans don’t want Elmo to get fired. They also don’t want enormous funding cuts to medical research, after-school and summer programs, new road and transit projects, climate change research, and a program to help low income people heat their homes. Those cuts—and many more—comprise the “morally obscene” budget put together by the Trump administration,…

President Donald Trump has remained silent about his relationship with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, refusing to denounce the right-wing radio show host who has used his popular platform InfoWars to push the theory that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newton, Conn., was a vast government plot to enact stricter gun control laws.…

PORTLAND, Maine—Speaking to an overflow crowd at the kick-off of their eight-city nationwide tour, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez, and local leaders on Monday night credited the activated grassroots movement that has risen up against President Donald Trump as showing the path forward and vowed to fight alongside the working…

Advocates of the single-payer healthcare proposal which has been steadily advancing through the California legislature were voicing outrage and disappointment on Saturday after Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Democrat, announced he was pulling the bill from further consideration this year. “If the great state of California has the courage to take on the greed of…

Election day is here in Alabama, where Republican Roy Moore and Democrat Doug Jones are competing in a special election that has captivated national attention and costed an estimated $40 million. Moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice, has been dogged by a series of molestation and sexual assault allegations, dramatically tightening the race for the deep-red…

A spokeswoman for Roy MooreRoy Stewart MooreSessions goes after Tuberville’s coaching record in challenging him to debate The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip Sessions fires back at Trump over recusal: ‘I did my duty & you’re damn fortunate I did” MORE, the loser in Alabama’s Senate special election earlier this month, warned state…

Representing the communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis, activists are forming a “red line” in front of the U.S. Capitol building on Friday, vowing to stand firm “against the corporations and politicians driving the extractive economy” and their increasing assaults on people and planet. “We draw a red line through the militarization of…

Poking fun at what many saw as an insufficient attempt by President Donald Trump to placate calls for the release of his tax returns, observers have gleefully responded to Trump’s attorneys’ claim that his tax returns show no income from Russia sources “with few exceptions” by pointing out other major shortcomings of his presidency. In…