Arkansas is the 25th state admitted to the United States.
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By Jessica Huseman, Votebeat This article was originally published by Votebeat , a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. After President Donald ...
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Introduction to a grift (aka #LecternGate) Sarah Huckabee Sanders bought a podium last year. Now she is in hot water. A long-delayed legislative report on her shady purchase of an overpriced piece of furniture will drop next week. Odds favor the report...
by TheCriticalMind
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The race is on to save half a million kids from the ideological extremism of the richest family in the United States. In December, a coalition of education and civil rights activists first submitted the text for a proposed constitutional amendment that...
by Blue Tuesday
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The Great Plains is the huge area in the central portion of the North American continent which stretches from the Canadian provinces in the north, almost to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, from the ...
by Ojibwa
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With both parties' presidential nomination contests all but decided, the nation's downballot primary season starts with a bang Tuesday. Five states—including the two largest—pick their candidates for state and federal offices in elections that will...
by Jeff Singer
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 01:27 PM PST
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Supreme Court gives Trump a huge gift by hearing his immunity case The far-right court might as well have put a bow on this. Watch GOP congressman get absolutely stumped trying to defend his Biden lies This is how you respond to a barrage of easily...
by Jen Hayden
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The Republican Party might have changed a lot between Ronald Reagan railing against “ Mr. Gorbachev ” and Donald Trump being a starry-eyed fanboy of Vladimir Putin , but some things never change.
by Mark Sumner
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I’ve been subscribing to Talking Points Memo for some time now, but lately I’ve really begun to appreciate the work Josh Marshall and his crew are doing. It’s even more valuable as the mainstream media increasingly fails to do its job and pushes faulty...
by xaxnar
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Guest: Chris Geidner of Law Dork Also: Did Trump TV network unlawfully obtain and distribute voting machine company passwords after 2020? If, by now, you don't realize that Republicans are attacking both democracy and the rule of law itself in this...
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Sen. Tom Cotton Repeatedly Asks Singaporean CEO If He's A Chinese Communist, because if you keep asking, maybe he’ll say “yes”. It’s not a bar, Tom. The lips can say no and the eyes say the same thing. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) repeatedly implied at a...
by annieli
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Campaigns to protect abortion rights in Nevada and Arkansas both got welcome news Tuesday when they finally got the green light to collect signatures to place proposed amendments before voters. ...
by Jeff Singer
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 01:21 PM PST
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Florida is hot on the heels of other red states in the race to erase labor protections for children. The Republican-sponsored bill to allow kids as young as 16 to work full-time jobs cleared another hurdle Tuesday, when it passed the state’s House...
by Joan McCarter
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After multiple attempts, the group Arkansans for Limited Government has come up with language that passed muster with the R Secretary of State, allowing a proposed Constitutional Amendment that allows expanded abortion rights up until 18 weeks to start...
by trimguy
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Taylor Swift is driving voter registration, and conservatives are terrified These folks really need to calm down. Appeals court rejects Trump bid to lift gag order that bars attacks on witnesses The biggest loser suffers another blow. Trump's secret...
by Jen Hayden
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At age 41, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders may be the youngest governor in the United States, but she ranks among the GOP governors who support the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country. So it was good to see Sanders’ hypocrisy about...
by Charles Jay
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Revisionist History Runs Riot because to the GOP and Tom ‘Future Guy’ Cotton, Trump is a necessary Evil like Bleach-Light-Covid-Camera-Television. As if Confederate soldiers weren’t fighting to achieve a separate and independent country based on what...
by annieli
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Republicans, particularly elected Republicans, pretend to care about many things. They pretend to care about the border. They pretend to care about crime. They pretend to care about “woke” teachers and professors in our public schools and universities,...
by Dartagnan
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Libbi Urban’s co-workers broke into applause at the union hall last year when they learned that their new contract with Cleveland-Cliffs not only increased wages by a whopping 20 percent but provided greater work-life balance and even enabled them to...
by David McCall
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Kyle Downour, unit chair for United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1-346, threw himself into consoling fellow union members after a fire and explosion killed two co-workers at the BP-Husky refinery in Oregon, Ohio, last year. But Downour, overwhelmed and...
by David McCall
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You can read more great Ukraine coverage by both staff and community members here . The list of reasons why�assisting Ukraine is good for the United States is a long one. There’s the immense ...
by Mark Sumner
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