The Right Is Now Weaponizing Recall Elections at Every Level of Government
Recent efforts to recall voters have been made. firmly entrenchedIn the political playbooks for the right.In 2017, Nevada saw three senators from the state of Nevada be recalled by Republicans.Colorado had 10 Democratic state legislators in 2017. are now facing recall efforts. Progressive legislators, governors, municipal officials and others across the country are refusing to […]
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Abortion Restrictions Could Prompt an Avalanche of Attacks on Bodily Autonomy
The current fight for abortion rights is more than a domestic battle over state’s rights and individual decision making. This battle fits within the larger context of self determination and human rights. The protections derived from the landmark cases could be eroded or eliminated. Roe v. WadeAnd Casey vs. Planned Parenthood This will have devastating […]
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Gender-Affirming Health Care Saved My Life. Everyone Should Have Access to It.
I have been awakened almost every day of 2021 to reports of gratuitous attacks on transbodies. From the slew of anti-trans bills that dominated state legislatures, to almost daily reports of how each year outpaces the last in reported murders of trans people, to J.K. Rowling’s latest hurtful ruminations on the existence of trans people […]
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There Will Never Be Climate Justice If African Activists Keep Being Ignored
We travel to Kampala (Uganda) to meet Vanessa Nakate, climate activist, on the occasion her first book was published. A Bigger Picture: The Fight to Bring a new African Voice to the Climate Crisis. In an extended interview, she describes the challenges of being a young Ugandan woman from a continent that contributes less than […]
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Investigation Finds At Least 48 Members of Congress Have Violated STOCK Act
Minimum 48 members of Congress and 182 top Capitol Hill staffersRecently released legislation states that they have violated a law to increase transparency and prevent conflicts between interests in stock trading in Washington. Insider investigation found. According to the Insider According to the report, members from both major parties have infringed on the STOCK Act. […]
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ALEC Is Pushing a Bill That Punishes Banks for Divesting From Fossil Fuels
A Big Oil-funded lobbying group has attacked financial firms that are withdrawing their money from fossil fuel companies. This is as climate change accelerates, and environmental disasters continue to multiply around the globe. Center for Media and Democracyhe has learned. This month at the annual States and Nation Policy SummitOf the right-wing American Legislative Exchange […]
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Amazon Slammed for Putting Profits Over Safety After 6 Die in Warehouse Collapse
Amazon was accused of putting corporate profits above safety in the aftermath of the partial collapse of a St. Louis-area warehouse caused by a tornado that left at least six dead. “Time and time again Amazon puts its bottom line above the lives of its employees,” saidStuart Appelbaum, president, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, […]
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Nation’s Largest Electricity Retailer Has Allegedly Financed Straw Candidates
Frank Artiles, a former Republican Florida State Representative with strong financial ties the utility industry, was elected back in March. arrested on suspicion of orchestrating an election fraud scheme that helped oust one of Florida’s most prominent climate advocates, former state Sen. José Javier Rodríguez, a Democrat. According to investigators, Artiles reportedly paid an auto […]
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Sunrise Movement Says Call Tornado Devastation What It Is: “A Climate Disaster”
As emergency personnel and residents looked through the devastation caused by the tornado system that decimated six U.S. States over the weekend, the Sunrise Movement of youth emerged. implored policymakers to “call it what it is: a climate disaster” — and act accordingly. “People’s homes have been demolished, 40,000 people are without power, and there […]
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Trump Dismisses Jan. 6 Inquiry, Says His Words That Day Were “Extremely Calming”
An interview that aired in Fox News last Friday, former President Donald Trump alleged that the speech he gave directly before the January 6 Capitol attack had a “calming” effect on his loyalists — despite the fact that they forced their way past barricades and into the building a little more than an hour after […]
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