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Here we go. Over the Cliff Notes (name suggested last year by a clever follower on Twitter). The charge: Incitement of Insurrection. Spoiler: This is a slam dunk in the
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I have written before about being Jewish in America. There is no denying that I am white and that my life has known privilege because of my skin color. Even
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It’s one thing to shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue; it’s another thing entirely to slice and dice Republican donors. This realization is apparently lost on Donald Trump, who nevertheless faces
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Americans will forever regard both Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001, as dates, to quote FDR, that “will live in infamy.” Today, however, we the people are faced with
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The second impeachment of Donald Trump is about to begin. He has crossed the line once again with his fatal words that cost the lives of five people: two Capitol
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Dear Republican Party members, No, we will not be moving on. We reject your attempts to change the subject and calls for “unity” because we see them for what they
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Illinois turned the lights out on solar energy in December, when incentives that let small solar businesses flourish and that created thousands of well-paid green energy jobs, expired. Luckily, Governor
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Dear President-elect Biden, I am writing to you today to make a request that I believe will help bring healing and unity to our country. I am a former Trump
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The new graphic we introduced last week for Last Week in DemCast already feels dated. We believe — though please correct us if we are wrong — that an entire
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Well, 2021 didn’t start out as the quiet, calm year which we’d been hoping for and which we deserved. Instead, the ceremony where a joint session of Congress counts and
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2020. I hardly know where to begin. My beloved mom died this year, in September. She did not die of COVID, but since she lived in a different state than
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El nuevo año empieza, y como muchos anhelo desesperadamente la calma, el regreso a la “normalidad” que antes disfrutamos sin saberla valorar. Quiero ser positiva, cooperar con los que están
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It has been said that the only person that Vice President Mike Pence really listens to is his wife, Karen. Now might be the most important time for him to
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Who isn’t exhausted by the news coming from our nation’s capitol? Who isn’t saddened and angered by the riotous mobs — and those who emboldened and incited them? The insurrection
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The struggle to maintain a child’s innocence and curiosity is often at odds with a parent’s desire to raise informed, socially aware children. While the news channels were a constant
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"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." I was taught that bearing false witness is the sin. It is not originating false witness nor is it knowingly bearing
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Most questions I’ve received through my email have been about criminal consequences for Trump. Meanwhile, Articles of Impeachment are circulating.
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When Donald Trump was elected it changed my life. As I have said thousands of times since the election that brought us Donald Trump: I never slept on November 8,
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I’ve been reading a lot of commentary this morning on the outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia and the reasons behind it. Obviously turnout was key — way
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The Protect the Results coalition is a bipartisan coalition of more than 175 advocacy organizations including DemCast USA, grassroots groups, labor unions, and government watchdogs working together to prevent Donald Trump from
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UPDATED JAN. 6, 8:30 EDT As of this morning, around 150 Republicans are assaulting our democracy by planning to overturn the presidential election results. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect
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The new year started off with a bang as we now approach the January 6 certification of the states’ electoral tallies and find even more splintering among the Republicans over
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We have put 2020 behind us, but let’s take one last look back. Now if you’re thinking this is going to be a dreary look at everything that went wrong,
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If you missed it, the news that rocked social media today: First, the GOP leaders lie and say there was election fraud. Then GOP senators argue that the fact that
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My initial intention was to look back at 2020, but I really don’t want to spend any more time on a truly awful year. Of the 30 pieces I’ve published
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For most of 2020, President Trump downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic. He called it a hoax designed to attack his presidency, then it was the common cold so there was no
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This is how Trump doubles down on the portion of the electorate he believes will keep him relevant. If he controls the white Christian evangelical voters, he controls GOP candidates
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Georgia,Georgia, Georgia – while the outgoing President plays golf, ignores the raging pandemic and spends his Twitter time lying about being a loser, DemCast has been focusing on the Peach
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By Marshall Ward For years now, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Trumplicans have been displaying a “Bah! Humbug!” type of life. That expression was used by Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’
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A more anguished look on my wife’s face I have never seen in our 26 years together. As the tears welled in her eyes, I saw frustration, despair and deep,
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The runoff election for two Senate seats in Georgia is merely fifteen days away. If Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock win, the balance of the Senate will tip in
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Last week DemCast writers looked to the future, discussing changes needed to our inhumane immigration system and lessons we should learn from our past history of racism. We were part
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In 1988 while Bruce Willis was still enjoying his success from the blockbuster series “Moonlighting,” he also starred in the movie “Die Hard.” To this day, film critics and fans
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In what activists are calling a rare moment of accountability for Facebook, the social media giant announced plans to protect Georgia poll workers from threats of violence on their platform.
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After four long years of a chauvinistic, misogynistic, boorish man as president, I would like to think America is moving forward. I believed our voice was heard when Joe Biden
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By now, most Americans have learned how brutal and inhumane our immigration system is. From metal walls designed to burn anyone who touches them to children being taken from their
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As I watch images of violent white-supremacist mobs in the streets and armed Trumpites threatening to lynch election officials, I’m reminded of the lessons that we of the 1960s Freedom
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This past week the Supreme Court dispatched the biggest, most desperate and most cynical Trump lawsuit, and we all let out a sigh of relief. Texas had sued Pennsylvania, Michigan,
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Let me count the ways. The document is here. This is the lawsuit in which the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, is suing Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Michigan in the Supreme
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In the virtual classroom of 2020, students are not physically present. Instead, they appear on the screen as faces on a geometric grid, or simply as black boxes labeled with
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Dear anti-maskers: So sorry that some have called you selfish, as if clinging to the false freedom of masklessness is some simple breach of social norms. We all know that
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The philosopher John Rawls suggested a theory about what happens when people are asked to make decisions behind a veil of ignorance about themselves, meaning that they have no knowledge
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Well, we made it to December. President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are busy with the transition to sanity in government, while lame-duck Trump continues to have superspreader rallies and
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First, before we get to the Trump legal team’s epic fail, a few of you asked about ways to control the spread of disinformation. Here are two examples from my
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Some of Wall Street’s wealthiest people want to keep the U.S. Senate in Republican hands and they’re sending their money to Georgia to make it happen. Or, as The New
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Hi everyone! Today’s post can be found here: (tinyurl.com/Antiracist-events-Ventura). Keep calling/email Governor Newsom’s office to choose a Black woman to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate: Action and script here.
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Hopefully everyone reading this right now knows that both of the Georgia U.S. Senate races have progressed to runoff elections on January 5. But there’s a third race on that
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The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 paved the way for progressive policies in education. Education meant to close the gaps between rich and poor and between whites and
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Friends – Hundreds of millions of dollars are flooding into the two races that will determine who controls the U.S. Senate. Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff advanced to runoffs in Georgia,
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In the Georgia jungle primary to fill the last two years of the Senate seat vacated in 2019 by Republican Johnny Isakson, Reverend Raphael Warnock stands out amidst a crowded
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Although there are many very upset people, we have a president-elect, Joe Biden, who will become the 46th President of the United States of America on Jan. 20, 2021, like
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Ms. Murphy, Over the past few days, your paralyzed deference to fascism has threatened the sustenance of our American democracy. Time is now running out. Your continued failure to perform
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“I’m running for Georgia Public Service Commission, a job you probably never heard of and may not think is important. I’m here to tell you that it is important, especially
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I feel something I haven’t felt in four years. It’s called HOPE. I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off of my shoulders. My mood when I awake
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The election of Donald Trump in 2016 led to four years of resistance. From his first executive order of the Muslim ban, we have been resisting his inhumane policies, his
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As a Democrat and a feminist, it felt incredible to celebrate the victory of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the weekend after the election. My husband and I volunteered for
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Dear Governor Lee, I am writing to express support for the open letter from Tennessee’s health professionals and experts who have been calling for a statewide mask mandate for months.
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Yesterday at a press conference, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had the audacity to say, “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” Perhaps he was being
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To all my friends and activists: I realize we are all excited over 45’s loss, but we cannot afford to linger on it nor allow ourselves to be distracted by
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Under the stewardship of President Barack Obama, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA or “Obamacare”) in March 2010. Until then, the United States had lagged behind
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Tomorrow, we get back to work. We have those two senate runoff races in Georgia, then lots of healing and repairing. Apologies to people who have sent me questions. It’s
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On November 7, 2020, we got confirmation that our efforts had succeeded — America voted, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be our next president and vice president. At
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The election results are unfolding exactly the way the experts told us they would. We knew that more Democrats voted by mail and that the count could take days. We
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AP and CNN have just called Wisconsin for Biden! DemCast is an advocacy-based 501(c)4 nonprofit. We have made the decision to build a media site free of outside influence. There are no
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The last four years are a blur. The Muslim ban. Kids in cages. Killing the individual mandate. Charlottesville. Extorting Ukraine. Firing Comey. The GOP Tax Scam. Record unemployment. 220,000 dead
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FDP Statement on Lara Trump’s Visit Today In response to Lara Trump’s visit to Florida today, FDP Chair Terrie Rizzo released the following statement: “Lara Trump is returning to South
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DemCast USA is proud to join with over 50 organizations in sending an open letter reminding the media that while President Trump may declare victory tomorrow night, it is up
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These last few months have felt like years. Sleep has been fleeting as we have tried to provide you with thoughtful and informative pieces created by a wonderful group of
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Four years ago, dreams of shattering glass ceilings by electing our first woman as president danced through so many of our heads. After Hillary Clinton received nearly three million more
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“I never, and when I say never, I mean never had any desire to get into politics. But I always voted. Even when there was only one issue on the
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Until early 2018, David Weissman was an online MAGA troll. A self-avowed one too. The kind you should just either report or block on Twitter. Engage with them and soon
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Biden won’t screw up testing and call scientists idiots.” Barack Obama It’s now four days before the 2020 presidential election finally comes to a close. In a year when the
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Been hearing the president make claims about the economy “he” created and that a Biden presidency would somehow destroy it? It’s time to examine those claims. Before COVID-19 caused shutdowns
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In response to Eric Trump’s appearances in Ohio today, Ohio Democratic Party Chair David Pepper released the following statement: “Ohioans need competent leadership, not more Trump campaign photo ops. Even
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In these last weeks before November 3, the media is constantly speculating on how people are voting. We see a parade of polls. I’ve seen advice saying we should act
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This is Haylie Grammer’s story. She has given us her blessing to share it. Please share and remember Haylie and her baby when you vote. I recently saw an article
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I hope so, because I already did. I did so knowing there are priests — especially here in the U.S. — who will say I have violated the doctrine of
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Hi everyone! It’s Wednesday, and there’s a lot to do. But first, a word from our president. Mark Oct. 27th, 2020, on your calendar as the day the pandemic was
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In this, the last week before the mother of all elections, Trump’s worst nightmare just came true: the combined force of uber-committed suburban women campaigning to oust Trump plus Michael
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As we reach the last stage of the 2020 election, I feel hopeful. I see people caring about others. Democrats pitching in when needed most. Republicans sick of what has
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“If values matter, if we’re trying to teach our kids to do the right thing, we need to #CancelCasada like his own Republican caucus did.” The Holler’s Jusitn Kanew helps WILLIAMSON
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On Sunday morning, October 25, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows appeared on the State of the Union and told Jake Tapper, “We’re not going to control the pandemic.
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Racist symbols of the Confederacy are more likely to fall when native Georgians speak calmly and directly against them. Such is the case with Rep. Gregg Kennard, Democrat running for
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Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) just can’t help himself when it comes to deceased Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Rather than push any positives of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in
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I have to say, there was a lot of chatter during the primary about Joe Biden’s age linked with his mental acuity and sharpness. Let’s be honest, he’s of advanced
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8 Days Until Election Day MONDAY CALL TIME: Winning with Women Phone Bank with Broadway for Biden 7:00 PM ET Who’s ready for a female VP?! Join Broadway For Biden,
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By Karen R. Sanderson October 24, 2020 Dear Gov. Burgum, More than 440 families in North Dakota have lost loved ones because of your Republican-led politicizing of the covid response.
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Dear Friends, Every single thing we do is strategic. If you’re like me, you want to invest time, energy, and money in ways that you know are going to make a difference. I
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Savannah Guthrie recently called out Trump’s retweet of the latest conspiracy theory on national TV: Biden plotted to take out the bin Laden Navy SEALs hit squad. (FYI: They are
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When it comes to soliciting your votes, all politicians have a story to tell. But never has a politician’s origin story sounded so much like my own as South Carolina’s
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Was there a winner in the 2020 Debates? Was it the American people? We have been living in the midst of evil for five years. For all of us with
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I know it’s trite to say, but it has been a very long four years. I went to my first protest within days of the election of the current White
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Volunteer OpportunitiesOctober 23, 2020 We need to insure a Blue Wave! Please don’t sit around and wonder if the polls are right–make a personal decision to ensure our candidates are
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The PA Dems are looking for attorneys to help field calls on Election Day in the Virtual Boiler Room. Sign up and find more information hereIf you wish to volunteer in
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The laugh was insidious. It wasn’t a full-throated laugh of joy or the guffaw you give when you’ve heard a really good joke. It was more like the “heh, heh,
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Sri Preston Kulkarni may have been blessed with good fortune, but his success can also be attributed to a lot of hard work.
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Over the past four years, Mokah Johnson has discovered that individuals are able to have greater influence on policies at the local level than at the state and national levels.
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In response to Donald Trump’s rallies in Pensacola and The Villages on Friday, Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo released the following statement: “The last thing Floridians need is for Donald Trump
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In the midst of a pandemic, a proven public health expert will bring the necessary knowledge to Congress so lawmakers can craft legislation to solve the crisis. By electing Kate
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Can a Democratic candidate, with a strong gun-sense platform and an even stronger history as a women’s choice champion, win a Congressional seat in a state like Texas, from a
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Hi, everyone. It’s Tuesday, and we have work to do today and tomorrow. We are running out of time to manuveur on Amy Coney Barrett. Indivisible East Bay has put
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Women of accomplishment have turned out in record numbers running as Democratic candidates in Georgia. The extraordinary achievements of Sarah Beeson, candidate for State Senate District 56, put her at
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Back in August, five months into the pandemic, I attended a Zoom event organized by Vote Mama with several rock star women politicians — Katie Porter, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Buffy Wicks
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Ever since the Kansas Republican party formed in 1859, it has dominated the state’s politics. After joining the Union 3 years later, Kansas sent 29 Republicans, 2 Populists, and only
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Smart, strong, caring, pragmatic — these words all aptly describe IA-02 candidate Rita Hart. Her background is uniquely suited to serving IA-02, a district in the southeast portion of the
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“Always stand up if you see an injustice in your community, whether it’s something that directly impacts your life or not.” — Cindy Axne Cindy Axne’s parents raised her and
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Connie Di Cicco knows Georgia: from the soil on the seven acres where she grew up in Roswell, to the political buzz under Georgia’s Capitol Gold Dome. She’s even familiar
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Locked in a critical race with Joni Ernst to be Iowa’s senator, Theresa Greenfield is the reason voters are turning to a Democratic candidate. She has plans to “to get jobs done.”
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou “Have you
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The GOP and Donald J. Trump have severely underestimated the depth of our fury. I’m no election expert, but this is what I see in the long lines waiting to
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Since taking office, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Congress’s first Ecuadorian American and South American immigrant, has protected and upheld the values of fairness and hard work that helped her succeed in America.
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Trump has written the final act of the 2020 Campaign Realty Show, and the central plot point goes like this: “This election was a shambles! A disaster!” People make fun
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If a non-partisan political strategist were to design the perfect candidate for California’s 25th U.S. House district, they’d probably come up with someone who looks a whole lot like Christy
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Last Sunday, I watched from my living room window as two people installed a surprisingly large campaign sign in my front yard. I had ordered it from my local Democratic
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Brought to you by — Publisher’s Note — Good morning! We’re only a few weeks away from Election Day, and one day away from early voting starting in Kentucky.
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With the death of hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the convening of the Supreme Court’s new term, many voters are focused on the Supreme Court. However, each year Americans file
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Friends – As early and absentee voting ramps up in key battleground states, ABC News reports that we’re seeing an “absolute shattering” of records and expectations – especially in Democratic strongholds. It
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Over 200,000 Americans have paid with their lives for the sins of Trump and his corrupt enablers. I will never understand why the people who betray us expect us to
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This August, as I watched Louis DeJoy testify at the Congressional Oversight Committee hearings about changes he brought to the US Postal Service, a part of me wanted to give
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A blue wave is coming to Texas and Mary Jennings “MJ” Hegar is at the its front. This Air Force veteran, Purple Heart winner, author, and mom wants to bring
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Trump supporters, I want to tell you that this year I will vote for Joe Biden. I know a lot of you are good people. You care about one another,
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Dear Youth of America, Only 43% of the American population between the ages of 18–29 voted in the last presidential election. This year, if only around 60% of your age
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The next president will face many crucial issues: climate change, gun violence, the coronavirus pandemic, and systemic racism in America, to name a few. But in order for that administration
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There’s something really cool happening right now in rural Michigan, which is a key swing state in the Electoral College battle for the presidency between Biden/Harris and the Orange Menace.
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Trump has COVID, and the Trump-FOX-GOP has an existential problem. The strongman myth requires a strongman. COVID was supposed to cull the weak, who would die willingly to save the
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DemCast USA has signed on to a letter to Congress, from over thirty diverse organizations, urging strong support for the Protecting Our Democracy Act, H.R. 8363. The Act currently has
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The Preface Project—an “aha” moment! A simple, yet brilliant expansion of the mentor teaching model that has this speech-language pathologist and learning specialist excited and thoroughly impressed! What was J.T.
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Although a registered independent, Dr. Al Gross won the open primaries to become the Democratic Senate nominee in Alaska. His campaign was once considered to be a long shot, but
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“You’re not born to hate; you’re taught to hate.” –Devin Pandy It Happened One Night One night in late November 2019, Devin Pandy was watching the impeachment hearings and was
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Author’s Note: While working on this piece on Thursday night, news broke that President Trump and his wife had tested positive for coronavirus. This unexpected turn of events calls into
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The good news is we’ve arrived. The bad news is we’ve arrived. Finally—finally!—mainstream news media are using the words “climate change” in their stories about raging fires, floods, hurricanes, droughts,
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48 hours later are you all as mystified as I am? That was an American Presidential debate we all watched. A debate in the year 2020, one of the saddest
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At a recent rally, President Donald Trump told attendees in Minnesota that they had “good genes.” He said it several times, wink wink, nod nod, and the crowd roared. It
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Ever since Ronald Reagan, I could be faithfully counted on to vote for the GOP presidential nominee. That was until Donald Trump was nominated in 2016. My loyalty to the
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First-time candidate for Georgia State Senate runs to counter what Governor Kemp has wrought.
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When the Wall of Moms joined the Black Lives Matter protests this summer in my home city of Portland, Oregon, to demand police reform, they became part of a history
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“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way :that will lead others to join you.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg To classify Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a
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“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” These words, written at the base of the Statue of Liberty, are also the foundation of the
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One of my followers on Twitter suggested that Trump supporters don’t understand that he poses a danger to democracy. I disagree. There may be a few Trump supporters who don’t
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Trump and his Flying Monkeys are branding average Americans as radical left-wing extremists. Therefore, I must state what I stand for: I stand for the principle that all people are
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The apocalyptic revelation that Bob Woodward had tapes of Donald Trump confessing that he lied to America about the coronavirus rocked the nation. Surely, the story of a president deceiving the country
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Trump isn’t promising a peaceful transition, because in his mind if he loses it means the election was rigged. The people booing him outside the Capitol might disagree. Senate Republicans
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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways
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Turn PA Blue volunteers are fighting back, making over ONE MILLION calls to voters this year. Sign up to phone bank on weekdays to flip the PA House, or weekends to flip
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McConnell is not interested in rule of law. Rule of law at its most basic means the laws are clear, publicized, and stable, and applied evenly. Democracy requires rule of
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Last night, GOP Senator Mitt Romney – widely considered a swing vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee – issued a statement calling Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer
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Her win shocked the Tennessee political landscape — the Associated Press described it as “an astonishing upset victory over the Democratic establishment’s choice.” Can her success carry her over to
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I know there is animosity between us because I left MAGA and ended my support for Trump. The journey I chose wasn’t an easy one but I felt it was the
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A story from a dear friend of mine who just weathered Hurricane Sally in Florida. Good news . . . while I was outside doing cleanup I actually changed a
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The Most Important Election of Our Lives Has Begun … North Carolina was the first out the gate, sending out mail-in ballots beginning on September 4. Twenty-eight states will follow
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An open letter to Progressives, Social Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Greens, middle-of-the-roaders and conservative Dems Imagine for a moment that we’re the victim of a serious vehicle collision. We’re the passenger,
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Masks. By now, you probably have a full wardrobe of them in different styles and shapes. But back in the early days of the pandemic, the news coming from our
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But it is a lie. It is not the face of a happy people I see when I look at our nation. I see frustration and long pent up anger
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Joe Biden said this earlier this evening, “Tonight our nation mourns an American hero, a giant of legal doctrine, and a relentless voice in the pursuit of that highest American
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Ever since Joe Biden locked up the Democratic Party’s nomination in April, various Bernie Sanders surrogates and supporters have been vocal in their attitudes towards the former vice president. Supporters
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A little intimidation will not stop me and it will not stop those who are fighting back against the hatred and division that is tearing this country apart.
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Trump must think that he can persuade enough people who actually care about the environment and climate crisis to think that he cares too. That they’ll buy into the idea
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Hi everyone! Eugenics USA: OK, it’s Wednesday in Trumperica, where we just learned that female immigrants held in an ICE detention center are undergoing sterilization procedures without their consent. And
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But, still, I vote. And because I do, my action will be revolutionary. Look, a revolution can start with one person or it can start with a million, but this
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We’ve all been reeling in horror from the story in The Atlantic alleging that President Donald Trump has made several brutal, disparaging statements about military personnel, including those who have
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According to a brand-new Department of Homeland Security report, white supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States. Let’s talk about Representative Michael McCaul’s deep history of downplaying
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On November 27, 2018, Mike Espy was defeated by Cindy Hyde-Smith in a special election for the Senate in Mississippi. While it was a decisive defeat with Cindy Hyde-Smith up
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