SCOTUS Is Violating the 10th Amendment by Not Letting States Enact Gun Control
The Texas elementary school massacre that took place recently marked the beginning of the end. 213th mass shootingThe 2022 year, as documented by Gun Violence Archive. If mass shootings continue at their current pace, 2022 could be one of the most dangerous years in recorded history. Because of its legal doctrine regarding gun rights, which […]
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Poll Shows Confronting Corporate Greed Is Biden’s Best Anti-Inflation Message
With inflation running rampant The United States and the Biden Administration scrambling for a solution to what’s become a major political and economic crisis, new polling data and swing-state focus group results shared exclusively with Common Dreams One approach is especially effective: Challenging corporate greed The research firm GBAO conducted the recent survey on behalf […]
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Republican AGs to Speak at Event Funded by Arabella, Amazon, Facebook
Many GOP officials are joining a coalition of attorneys general with liberal sponsors, at a time when many Republicans are frustrated by what they consider a liberal tilt from one national group that represents state attorney generals. The annual meeting was held in Sun Valley (Idaho) on Monday and will continue through Thursday. One of […]
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Republican Witnesses Are Making a Damning Case Against Trump… 17 Months Late
Watching the long procession of pious Republican witnesses during Monday’s January 6 Committee hearing, I was abruptly flung back to Marc Antony’s famous line in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” Bury him they did, shovelful by shovelful, throughout a day’s testimony that was not notably marred by […]
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Garland Says DOJ Is Watching Jan. 6 Hearings, Could Decide on Charges Later
On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he and the Department of Justice (DOJ) were paying close attention to the public hearings being held by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack, indicating that the department may choose to prosecute people on charges related to the day’s events. But the attorney […]
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Lindsey Graham and Political Establishment in Fox Debate
In an Oxford-style debate Monday with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Bernie Sanders argued that progressive policy goals such as Medicare for All, Social Security expansion, and a higher minimum wage are “what the American people want” and blasted the political establishment — including his GOP colleague — for ignoring the most important crises facing […]
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Rudy Giuliani Was Drunk When He Urged Trump to Declare Victory, Aides Testify
The hour will feature highlights from the second public hearing by the House Select Committee on Investigating the January 6th Attack at the United States Capitol. Main witnesses were ex-President Donald Trump’s former inner circle, including campaign manager Bill Stepien, Attorney General William Barr, campaign adviser Jason Miller and his own daughter Ivanka Trump, who […]
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Democrats Introduce Bill to Slash $100 Billion From Pentagon Budget
The defense budget continues its decades-long tradition of being a hugely important part of the national budget. upward spiralDemocrats in the House are pushing for something new: Take billions from defense budget and redirect it to social spending. Representatives Barbara Lee (D–California), and Mark Pocan, (D–Wisconsin), will meet Monday. introduced a bill that would cut […]
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Most Americans Think Trump Bears Responsibility for Jan. 6 Violence
A new poll has revealed that most Americans believe former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, the day Congress certified President Joe Biden’s election victory over Trump. Trump gave an incendiary speech to a crowd of his loyalists that day as Congress met […]
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Trump’s Site Truth Social Has Been Banning Users Over Posts on Jan. 6 Hearings
Users on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, are reporting that they’ve been banned from the site over their commentaries relating to the January 6 select committee’s investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol building. Users had their accounts removed because they discussed the public hearings. Variety reported. The hearings […]
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