Category: National

The Biden/Harris Record

The Republican party can only snipe at this current administration hat is successfully getting America back on track for an amazing future! When President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, our country faced unprecedented crises – a raging pandemic, economic crisis, climate crisis, and racial injustice. The President and Vice President ran for office …

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Current US Senate leadership and Officers 2023

Listed below are the current leadership and officers for the 117th Congress. Constitutionally Mandated Officers About the Offices of the Vice President and President Pro Tempore   Vice President Harris, Kamala D. President Pro Tempore Leahy, Patrick J. (D-VT) Political Party Leaders About Leadership Positions Democratic Leadership Democratic Leader Chairman of the Conference Schumer, Charles E. (D-NY) Majority Whip …

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Top House Democrat says ‘mainstream’ Republicans are fighting against MAGA to defend democracy

Found -in THE HILL by Brad Dress – 09/04/22 10:15 AM ET Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said “mainstream” Republicans are pushing back against the MAGA wing of the GOP to defend democracy, adding that “leading conservative voices” are largely in agreement with Democrats in condemning the attack on the U.S. Capitol and …

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‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections

  Placing operatives as poll workers and building a “hotline” to friendly attorneys are among the strategies to be deployed in Michigan and other swing states. By HEIDI PRZYBYLA 06/01/2022 06:30 AM EDT Heidi Przybyla is a Washington D.C. journalist. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758   Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look …

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America’s gun violence problem by the numbers Gun violence-related deaths rose to nearly 21,000 last year, excluding suicide.

See: https://abcnews.go.com/US/americas-gun-violence-problem-numbers/story?id=85136358 Video byCaterina Andreano ByNadine El-bawab June 07, 2022, 5:04 AM

How Democrats can win in 2022 and beyond

BY DAN HELMER, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 11/12/21 01:00 PM EST  454 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL Election Day was a tough night for Democrats across the country. In Virginia, we lost all statewide races and a Democratic majority in the House of Delegates. In reliably blue New …

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The QAnon playbook: Republicans make school board meetings the new battleground

anti-vaxxers off the cliff

GOP takes a page from QAnon: Using concern for kids to push authoritarianism By AMANDA MARCOTTE PUBLISHED OCTOBER 14, 2021 1:08PM (EDT) n the Donald Trump era, GOP politics are mainly about trolling. So it’s no surprise that Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel manifested this week as an in-flesh version of an egg avatar tweeting memes about DEMON-crats and the …

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Powerful U.S. Labor Leader Richard Trumka Dies

From NPR Updated August 5, 20212:12 PM ET  BENJAMIN SWASEY Twitter AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is seen in 2019. The powerful labor leader has died. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Richard Trumka, the longtime head of the powerful AFL-CIO union and a close ally of Democratic Party leaders, has died. He was 72. President Biden called Trumka …

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FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan (or what the Republicans don’t want to succeed!)

from https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan To search this site, enter a search ter Briefing Room FACT SHEET: The American Jobs Plan March 31, 2021 • Statements and Releases While the American Rescue Plan is changing the course of the pandemic and delivering relief for working families, this is no time to build back to the way things were. …

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Fact Sheet: President Biden’s New Executive Actions Deliver Economic Relief for American Families and Businesses Amid the COVID-19 Crises

The current government administration will: Address the growing hunger crisis facing 29 million Americans — and as many as 12 million children – by asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to consider expanding and extending federal nutrition assistance programs. Ensure equitable and effective delivery of direct payments — by asking the Treasury Department to consider …

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