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Serious observers of American politics have many doubts and questions, but most are sure of one thing. Congress is broken. Congress can’t pass a bill for aid to Ukraine in its wartime agony. That is so even though the bill would enrich and strengthen...
by dratler
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 11:36 AM PST
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Missouri Democratic state Rep. Ashley Aune has put forward a bill that would close an “archaic loophole ” in a law that prevents a judge from finalizing a divorce if the woman is pregnant. Aune ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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Action Alert for Washington State for today (1/30) by 3 pm Pacific time on Green Amendment (HJR4210) Through my contacts on the West Coast, I’ve gotten an alert for public input at a Washington State Environment and Energy Committee meeting. While I can’t participate (not a resident)I thought I’d pass it on for Washington State residents. Here’s the...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 12:42 PM PST
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Sorry for the brief hiatus, but between watching election returns, drinking cheap beer, and dodging that pesky coyote, the roadrunner has been busy. However, I was summoned by conscience to return to highlight an esoteric but revealing move made by a...
by Roadrunner65
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 11:47 PM PST
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Fort Lauderdale Judge Robin Rosenberg dismissed a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's 2024 presidential candidacy under the 14th Amendment. The lawsuit was roughly a week old, but the federal Judge dismissed it stating the litigant did not have standing...
by sepiasiren
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on Thu Aug 31, 2023 at 04:21 PM PDT
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Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio’s constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the fall statewide ballot, aiming to signal sweeping widespread support for an issue that still faces the...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 10:54 AM PDT
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Introduction In recent years, the debate over gun control legislation in the United States has intensified. As various proposals aim to address the alarming rates of gun violence, a disturbing trend has emerged—powerful interest groups using dark money...
by mwulfe
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on Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 11:07 AM PDT
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There is an election in the dog days of summer in Ohio. The radical regressive Republicans are hoping for low turnout so that they can get their way. The government is firmly in their control, but ...
by bilboteach
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on Wed Jul 05, 2023 at 03:30 AM PDT
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The Republican Party, especially under the leadership of The Man Who Lost an Election and Tried To Steal It, has had a somewhat rocky relationship with facts and truth. But they do seem to take ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Jul 15, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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I wrote a draft of this essay around 10 days ago, during the last spate of unnecessary shootings and mass killings. It took another mass shooting, this time in a Texas shopping mall, to get me to post it. Because people need to ask themselves whether...
by citixen
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on Sun May 07, 2023 at 11:22 AM PDT
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H.R.1 introduced 01/2021 and passed 03/2021 House - House Administration; Intelligence (Permanent Select); Judiciary; Oversight and Reform; Science, Space, and Technology; Education and Labor; Ways and Means; Financial Services; Ethics; Homeland...
by Rajwantee
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on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 10:05 AM PDT
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Ohio may be the first state in the nation to have a pro-abortion initiative on the ballot this year. Two pro-abortion groups, Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, announced a campaign Tuesday to get an...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Feb 22, 2023 at 12:46 PM PST
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— — Good to other states planning to speak out against the SCOTUS miscarriage of Justice. Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have amended the state’s constitution in order to ensure abortion was not considered a protected right. Four...
by jamess
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 05:41 PM PDT
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Help GOTV in Kansas. It is August 2 and it is election day.These very right wing GOP folks are banning abortions in many states which will harm many women. FIGHT BACK! Get back at these right wingers. For everyone on Daily Kos, please help out to get...
by clinical12
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on Tue Aug 02, 2022 at 08:43 AM PDT
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These very right wing GOP folks are banning abortions in many states which will harm many women. FIGHT BACK! Get back at these right wingers. Please help out to get pro choice people in Kansas to VOTE NO on August 2nd in Kansas to keep abortion safe...
by clinical12
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on Mon Aug 01, 2022 at 09:17 AM PDT
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Although few remember it as adults, almost all American high school students are taught about the supposedly wonderful “Connecticut Compromise” (also known as the “Great Compromise”) at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This travesty wasn’t a...
by Brad Kirk
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on Tue Jun 07, 2022 at 06:51 AM PDT
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“The gun lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have seen in my lifetime.” – Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren...
by RickElia
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on Sat Jun 04, 2022 at 01:55 PM PDT
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The Constitution needs an Amendment to eliminate filibusters. Article I, Section 5, 2nd Paragraph: Proposed amendment: "Each house may determine the Rules of its Proceedings" ............except no delay in the process for advancing proposed legislation...
by flatmotor
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on Wed Dec 01, 2021 at 08:50 PM PST
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Respect for others, being necessary for the prosperity of a free state, the autonomy and sovereignty of persons over the integrity, development and processes within their own bodies shall not be infringed.
by PiRierran
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on Mon Sep 06, 2021 at 04:38 PM PDT
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“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex” (Equal Rights Amendment). I have waited my whole life, 34 turns around this sun, for fair and equal rights and protection under...
by eadevi
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on Tue Feb 09, 2021 at 02:19 AM PST
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