In England in the 17th century, church and state were one and the same. The Puritans wanted to maintain this paradigm, but
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Last night I went to bed in America. This morning I woke up in Gilead. Gilead started in the mind of Margaret Atwood, an author who specializes in dystopian fiction. In her books The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, Atwood
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In the mid-1980s I became the president of the San Diego Coalition for Reproductive Choice (SDRC). I was in my early 30s and married. Abortion was not an issue that touched me
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Voter suppression by eviction A Supreme Court stacked with McConnell nominees overruled the CDC allowing landlords to evict thousands of families during a pandemic. Judicial activism now defines health policy. Republicans at
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Olympic Gold Medal for voter suppression goes to … If there were an Olympic contest for voter suppression, who would win? We have three contenders. The Republican Party creating new laws to
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Vulnerable incumbent Senator Marco Rubio was called out last week after being caught conducting campaign business in his official Senate office. Rubio participated in an interview whose “entire substance” was “directly relate[d] to
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#NotoriousRBG is a unique phenomenon in American history. Only the second woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, she led the way, beginning in the 1970s, in pursuing legal remedies for
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Follow DemLabs on our NEW social media! For The People and George Floyd Act featured in Editorial Cartoons For The People Act protects voting rights needed for common sense gun safety measures
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This is the final article in a five-part series educating the public about the benefits of passing the For the People Act. Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s
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Phone & Write for Democracy, Jahmal Cole to run in IL-01, SAFE-T Act signed, Tweet Out the Vote for Consolidated Elections, & Take Action for our Community.
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I’ve been getting a lot of requests to do an explainer on the filibuster, and this seems like a good time to get into it. When the Democrats won control of the
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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, you would
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