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Cruz rose to fame as a right-wing fighter, but he hopes to highlight his unsung accomplishments as he faces Rep. Colin Allred. BY � Matthew Choi , The Texas Tribune Heading into the heat of his ...
by Texas Tribune
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 05:55 AM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 01:24 PM PST
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About nine months after cutting a deal with the devils of his political party to become speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy was ousted from that position. The loudest ember ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Oct 03, 2023 at 03:42 PM PDT
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Back on September 1, 2023 The NY Times editorial board used one of their headlines to do some implied false equivalence by omission. Partisan Politics Put a Huge Win for Public Health at Risk To make a long editorial short, it was all about how the...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 05:46 AM PDT
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7/19/2023 — Wall Street Journal Two U.S. Senators who very likely don't agree on much else cosponsored a bill that would ban members of the federal executive branch and lawmakers from owning stock in individual companies, as new polling shows broad...
by TobiasMook
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 05:37 AM PDT
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The climate crisis demands a left-right consensus that transcends politics.
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Deep-red Texas bakes � under a heat dome. True-blue ...
by Capital and Main
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 06:29 AM PDT
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Introduction Democrats have fallen sharply downwards, backwards, on the farm bill, similar to, and related to, their increasing failures on the rural vote. It’s become so bad that there’s really nothing Democrats can do. They must support another of...
by Iowa Farm Activist
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 09:23 AM PST
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A Superfund site in New Jersey may now be the largest such solar farm of its kind thanks to CEP Renewables giving it a new life—one that’s capable of generating 25.6 megawatts (MW) of power. Those panels have the ability to power thousands of homes on...
by April Siese
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on Fri Dec 02, 2022 at 12:25 PM PST
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In the 2008 election, after 140 years of being out of power, the Tennessee GOP won a majority of house seats in the Tennessee State House of Representatives, taking 50 out of 99 districts. However, shortly after the new year when the 2009 legislative...
by bhouston79
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on Mon Nov 14, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Shatter the Silence FCPS Applauds TBI and PTSD Law Enforcement Training Act, Calling It “Crucial” To Believing Survivors and Removing Predators from the Streets.
On August 16, President Biden ...
by Shatter the Silence Fairfax County Public Schools
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on Wed Aug 31, 2022 at 01:15 PM PDT
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President Biden’s compassion was on full display at the signing of the PACT act. It was beautiful to watch. As I was reading the comments, I kept expecting attacks from the ugly authoritarian white supremacist white grievance bigot party members and I...
by Dem
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on Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 11:16 AM PDT
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President Biden was derided here for his naivete in saying that he believed that he could get some bipartisan legislation passed. He has been derided here “as the weakest” president in forever, but he got some strong legislation passed with only our...
by Dem
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on Sat Aug 06, 2022 at 04:33 AM PDT
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Senators strike bipartisan gun deal, heralding potential breakthrough A bipartisan group of Senate negotiators is set to announce Sunday that it reached a tentative agreement on legislation that would pair modest new gun restrictions with significant...
by Dan K
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on Sun Jun 12, 2022 at 08:45 AM PDT
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Here are some of the bits and pieces that have been floated in the Media about the so called bipartisan gun control talks going on in the U.S. Senate. Keep in mind that Sahil Kapoor and others on MSNBC are saying that any potential gun control bill...
by Merlin196357
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on Sun Jun 05, 2022 at 04:01 PM PDT
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Senate “majority leader” Schumer has deferred to another “bipartisan” group of senators to meet on wasting more time on crafting a gun control bill that will not pass the U.S. Senate. This is another episode in the Lucy and Charlie Brown Football...
by Merlin196357
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on Thu May 26, 2022 at 03:58 PM PDT
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From the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper — www.chieftain.com/…, comes the following: Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder Gilbert “Bo” Ortiz joined a bipartisan group of clerks from across the state in Denver on Sunday to call on critics who have claimed that...
by ColoTim
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 04:25 PM PDT
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I’m not much of an expert on most political matters but I do have a question about this EARN IT act. From what little I’ve read of it, it seems like a very bad law that would do a lot to undermine this nice Internet thing we’ve got. For my purposes as...
by Paul Rogers
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on Tue Feb 15, 2022 at 04:51 AM PST
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We all see the self interest, double dealing, and corruption on every level. Which party of corporate shills and pentagon vassals shall we vote for? In both parties, the corruption and their self-delusions seem too endemic for mere voters to overcome,...
by altruist51
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on Wed Feb 02, 2022 at 07:49 AM PST
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Time for progressives to push for the end of the joke that is the so called ‘bipartisan’ hard infrastructure bill. This so called victory is full of concessions to Republicans who won’t lift a finger to lift the debt limit they ran up the bill on, nor...
by EagleOfFreedom
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on Thu Sep 30, 2021 at 06:33 AM PDT
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Manchin is trying to tell progressives in the US House of Representatives that he won’t vote for a reconciliation bill that is over $1.5 trillion over ten years. That would only be $200 Billion ($50B from the bipartisan bill and $150B from the...
by Dem
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on Thu Sep 09, 2021 at 09:01 PM PDT
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