Beto O’Rourke Officially Announces Run to Unseat Gov. Greg Abbott
Democrat Beto O’Rourke has officially launchedHis campaign for Texas governor, challenging Gov. Greg Abbott at a time when the extremist governor has been leading an extreme right-wing charge in Texas to suppress marginalized groups and reduce rights. O’Rourke is a Leading Democratic candidateIn the race to be the state that is undergoing quick population growthMany […]
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Florida’s DeSantis Takes Aim at America’s ‘Ruling Class’
ORLANDO, Fla.—President Joe Biden and the “entrenched political class” are ruining America with the help of a corrupt and partisan corporate media, says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who promised to lead the fight against the current regime. In a 40-minute speech Thursday to about 800 conservative supporters of The Heritage Foundation and its grassroots partner, Heritage Action for America, the Florida governor tackled a range of issues […]
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Left-Leaning Commission Calls on the Biden Administration to Develop a Strategy to Counter ‘Disinformation’
A commission made up of mostly left-leaning figures recommended Monday that the White House counter the spread of disinformation and “dangerous conspiracy theories online.” The Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder has released a number recommendations Monday, which included calling upon the Biden administration to have an “apolitical team” develop a national strategy to tackle the issue. […]
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Manchin Lashes Out Against Biden’s Pro-Union Electric Vehicle Tax Credit
Advocates for both workers’ rights and climate policy are condemning Sen. Joe Manchin’s latest statements opposing provisions in the Build Back Better Act, the $1.75 trillion social spending and climate action package that has already been substantially weakened due largely to the right-wing Democrat’s objections to numerous anti-poverty and environmental measures. Manchin’s most recent oppositionis […]
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Merrick Garland and the January 6 House Committee Are Suddenly Very Busy
Like an Ent of the woodlands hauling its trunked legs from the rooty firmness of the soil, Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department finally bestirred itself on Friday and rose against the castled walls of the previous presidential administration. After weeks of deafening silence, Garland brought two charges of contempt against Steve Bannon (ex-Trump adviser), […]
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Steve Bannon Surrenders to FBI, But Maintains He’s “Taking Down” Biden
Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Donald Trump on politics, surrendered to the FBIMonday morning, after being charged by the Department of Justice with contempt of Congress last week. Bannon — who served as a political adviser to Trump during his first year as presidentWho? took part in strategy sessions with Trump’s campaign team in […]
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House Democrats Plan to Pass $1.75 Trillion Reconciliation Bill This Week
House Democrats want to pass the reconciliation legislation before Congress goes into recess for the Thanksgiving holiday, as President Joe Biden will sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill into Law on Monday. Democrats in the House feel like they’re on the verge ofAfter plans to tie the infrastructure and reconciliation bills to one another fell apart, […]
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Big Pharma, GOP Plot to Use Senate Parliamentarian to Stop Drug Price Reforms
The pharmaceutical industry and its allies in the Republican Party are reportedly teaming up to craft challenges to congressional Democrats’ drug price reform plan in the hopes of convincing the Senate parliamentarian — an unelected functionary — to help tank the proposal. Earlier in the month, Democrats struck an agreement. dealOn a scaled back plan […]
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Glasgow Pact Denounced for Betraying the Global Poor Hurt Most by Climate Crisis
Over 190 countries signed the Glasgow Climate Pact at the U.N. summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday. This calls for governments to return next January in Egypt with stronger plans for reducing their emissions and encourages wealthy nations to give more money to vulnerable countries in South Asia. It urges countries to reduce their use […]
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Homer Plessy, of Plessy v. Ferguson, Receives Posthumous Pardon From State Board
On Friday, the Louisiana Board of Pardons voted to clear the record of Homer Plessy, a Black man who defied a segregationist state law in the 1890s that resulted in the “separate but equal” Supreme Court ruling. In June 1892, Plessy was elected to the Board of Trustees. a Louisiana civil rights group called the […]
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