IRS Demands Smack of Big Brother
According to surveys, 81% of Americans support voter ID requirements. Yet President Joe Biden recently condemned state election integrity laws that strengthen voter ID protections and ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls as “Jim Crow 2.0.” This supposed “threat to our democracy” is so grave that Biden equated those who support the laws with […]
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GOP Lawmakers Call for Extending Child Tax Credit to Unborn Babies
Republicans in Congress are introducing legislation aimed at recognizing the humanity of an unborn child by allowing pregnant mothers to claim tax credits on their unborn babies, The Daily Signal has learned. Friday’s introduction was made by Senator Steve Daines of Montana, Rep. Jason Smith from Montana, and Rep. Doug Lamborn from Colorado. Child Tax Credit […]
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Tax Cuts and Voter Suppression Laws Are Working Together to Lock in Plutocracy
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. This year is different. These state legislative battles have been a top-tier national story in recent months. It is rightly so. The battling at the state level — on a tidal wave of proposed new voter-suppression laws — could well […]
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Fascism’s “Legal Phase” Has Begun. Threats of White Vigilante Violence Are Real.
When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. We are now in a state known as free-fall. This is the culmination of a state level crisis. legislative and enforcement landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or […]
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Trans Workers Face a Significant Wage Gap, Poll Finds
Original publication by The 19th. According to a study, transgender people and gender-nonconforming persons are among the lowest-paid LGBTQ+ people who work full-time in the United States. snapshot pollby the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Based on responses from approximately 6,800 LGBTQ+ workers last year, the HRC found that trans people and nonbinary gender-nonconforming individuals earn […]
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Climate Groups Celebrate as Judge Blocks Biden’s Oil Lease Sale in Gulf
A federal judge late Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s massive oil and gas lease saleEnvironmentalists in the Gulf of Mexico have won a significant victory as they fight to prevent the Interior Department transferring public lands and water to the fossil fuel industry. His 68-page report decision (pdf), Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District […]
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US-Backed Drug War Fuels Murders of Journalists in Mexico
We travel to Tijuana in Mexico, where a wave a murdered journalists has raised international concern and prompted nationwide protests. The three most recently murdered are José Luis Gamboa Arenas, Alfonso Margarito Martínez Esquivel and Lourdes Maldonado López. We speak with Jan-Albert Hootsen, Mexico correspondent at the Committee to Protect Journalists, who attended López’s funeral […]
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Biden Polls Poorly Against “Generic” Republican, But Beats Trump, DeSantis
Polling over the past several months has shown that President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dropped significantly since he first entered office — but at least for the time being, he is still polling ahead of all potential Republican challengers in the 2024 race. A Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted from January 22-23 shows Biden losing […]
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The Supreme Court Just Allowed the Executions of Two Disabled Black Men
In what activists warn could be the first in a spike of executions this year, Matthew Reeves and Donald Anthony Grant were killed via lethal injection by the states of Alabama and Oklahoma respectively on Thursday, just one month before a constitutional challenge to Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol goes to trial. The Supreme Court denied […]
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Over 80 Democrats Say It’s Time for Biden to Cancel $50,000 of Student Debt
Over 80 Democrats demanded President Joe Biden cancel student debt and release an Education Department memo indicating his legal authority to do so. This effort was led by Rep. AyannaPressley (D.Massachusetts), Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusets, and Chuck Schumer (D.New York). In a letter to President the lawmakers wrote that Biden should immediately cancel up to […]
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