Category: National

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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After Trump audio interview with Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith

The power of the president is typically kept in check by other branches of government and historical political norms, but the past four years have revealed alarming fissures in the system. In the book, “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency,” law professors Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith argue that the presidency of Donald Trump has revealed …

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BIDEN – HARRIS!!!

BIDEN WINS

Is the U.S. Headed Toward a Short British-Style Election?- NY Times Mar. 29, 2020

Party conventions are in jeopardy, campaigning is on hold and local candidates are playing the role of good Samaritan instead of traditional politician. From the White House to the county courthouse, the coronavirus pandemic has drastically upended the 2020 elections. Many Democratic leaders now doubt their national party convention will take place as planned in …

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2020 Election: What Are the Most Important Issues to You?

2020 Election: What Are the Most Important Issues to You?

The President Has Not Been Exonerated- In addition to demanding the release of the Mueller report, Congress must examine actions by William Barr that call into question the AG’s objectivity. By John NicholsTwitter

  https://www.thenation.com/article/mueller-barr-exoneration-trump-nadler/ Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by the president and those around him was summed up by House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin. “I don’t want to read the Cliff notes version of Macbeth,” observed Raskin. “I want to read Macbeth itself.” …

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