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Trump and his MAGA allies, including Andy Biggs (AZ), Mo Brooks (AL), Matt Gaetz (FL), Louie Gohmert (TX), and Scott Perry (PA) and other Republican members of Congress, planned, promoted, and paid for a criminal conspiracy to overturn an election they knew...

Donald Trump is currently facing arrest and prosecution in New York, Georgia, and federally for a litany of crimes that include illegal hush money, subverting the 2020 election, and inciting a deadly insurrection. Donald Trump has already made it clear...

For too long, the wealthy have used and abused our tax code to avoid paying their fair share–while the government has allowed them to get away with it. Due to a decades-long defunding of the I.R.S. fueled by Republican attacks, only 2% of millionaires'...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for a “national divorce” between red and blue states. This isn’t the first time Greene has called for another civil war. Her rhetoric is dangerous, to say the least. Even worse, Greene is a member of the House...

The Biden Administration has just directed the Department of Interior to approve a huge oil drilling project on Alaskan federal lands. The oil giant leading this work, ConocoPhillips, calls it the Willow Project, but many of us call it the Willow Climate...

The fundamental principle of democracy is that every vote should carry the same weight, and the candidate with the most votes should be the winner. But in two of the past six presidential elections (2000 and 2016), the candidate who won the most votes...

President Biden took office promising to end cruel Trump-era policies like family separation and detention. After bringing an end to family detention in 2021, the Biden administration is now reportedly considering reviving the practice of detaining...

Fox News is not a legitimate organization in any way, shape, or form. But every time Democrats appear on the network to answer bad-faith, loaded questions, they acknowledge its credibility as a news organization to the audience. We've always known that...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to be president in 2024 and has done all he can to inherit, capitalize on, and politicize Donald Trump’s platform. He is viewed as a more palatable Donald Trump, when in fact, DeSantis simply used Trump as a stepping stone...

Overall approval of our U.S. Supreme Court is extremely low. Justices’ failure to avoid conflicts of interest and inability to investigate themselves further undermines public trust in the Court at a time when its legitimacy is already a matter of...

Climate change is the single greatest threat to humanity, and things are not getting any better. The IPCC, the scientific body that advises the United Nations, released a report with grim warnings: governments across the globe must address and enact urgent...

The 2017 Trump Tax Scam created huge incentives for corporations to export jobs and profits overseas. For example, it made the tax rate on offshore profits half the rate on domestic profits. As a result, American multinational corporations have reported...

A bipartisan effort to pass the DREAM Act of 2023 is underway in Congress. The DREAM Act would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, and who meet certain work or education requirements, to obtain lawful permanent residence. The...

For decades, the U.S. Senate has followed an archaic custom to consider federal judicial nominees: blue slips. Under this practice, both U.S. senators in the home state with a judicial opening must return a piece of paper (the literal blue slip) giving...

For too long, the United States has been engaged in wars that have no end in sight. In 1991, the United States Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War. Then in...

Donald Trump has announced he will run for president in 2024. The same Trump who tried to illegally overthrow the 2020 election and incited a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol in order to prevent the certification of that election and stay in power. That is...

Social Security is one of the most popular and successful government programs in the history of our country because it works. Before it was created in 1935, about half of our nation’s seniors were living in poverty. Today, the senior poverty rate is 10.3...

On the heels of the January 6 insurrection, corporations like AT&T, Home Depot, and Walgreens pledged to suspend donations to the Sedition Caucus – the 147 GOP members of Congress who objected to the certification of the 2020 presidential election and...

In 2018, Congress rolled back parts of the Dodd-Frank law that protects consumers from banks gambling with our money. For example, they loosened bank regulations by raising the “too big to fail” threshold from $50 billion in assets to $250 billion. This...

The size of the House of Representatives has not grown since 1912, and Congress froze the number of members at 435. Meanwhile, the U.S. population has nearly quadrupled. That means your member of Congress represents a lot more people, which makes it...

President Biden continues to pick exceptional judicial nominees, with dozens of nominations having advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now, if we want to continue to take our courts back after Trump’s extremist overhaul of the bench and ensure...

In the weeks following the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas lawmakers moved quickly to nearly $50 million to fund bullet-resistant shields for police. After the inaction of cowardly police, lawmakers' primary solution–if their budget is to be...

After 16 months, three confirmation hearings, more than 1 million letters in support, and a dishonest multi-million dollar smear campaign financed by Comcast, Gigi Sohn, President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has withdrawn...

As the U.S. plans to relinquish its role as the predominant purchaser of the COVID-19 vaccine to the commercial sector, vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer have announced plans to hike the price of the vaccine by over 400%. The decision would increase...

During the 2022 midterms, the GOP showed their hand. Candidates ran on platforms of theatrical and baseless impeachment threats and a flood of “investigations” – all of which will ONLY serve to waste resources, time, and lots of taxpayer money. Now that...

On February 9, seven members of Congress began the process to expel George Santos. "George Santos has lied about the horrific Pulse shooting against the LGBTQ+ community, 9/11, the Holocaust, his career, his name, and is now being given access to...

The Atlanta Police Foundation has plans–backed by $60 million in corporate funding and $30 million in taxpayer money–to build an enormous police training facility over the city's Weelaunee Forest. Activists and forest defenders are calling the plan "Cop...

Banning assault weapons saves lives. The 1994 federal assault weapons ban, which lasted until 2004, reduced the risk of a person in the U.S. dying from a mass shooting by 70%. Both the number of deaths and the number of annual incidents decreased...

In the wake of the January 6 insurrection, many corporations pledged to stop donations to the Sedition Caucus — the 147 Republican members of Congress who voted not to certify the 2020 election and helped fuel the lies that led to the attack. However,...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has blocked the College Board from testing a pilot of the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum in the state, claiming the program “lacked educational value.” Other states like Oklahoma, Missouri, and Nebraska...

The only thing we know for certain when it comes to George Santos is that he is an unrepentant liar and grifter. However, no one gets to Congress on their own—especially an unknown like Santos. Enter House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik. ...

Once again, Republicans have forced the United States to hit its borrowing limit. The Treasury Department is now taking extraordinary measures to avert a financial crisis, all the while hoping that Congress can pass legislation that will raise the debt...

Taxation without representation was wrong in 1776 and it is wrong today. The people of D.C. pay the highest federal taxes per capita, but have no voting representation in Congress. Becoming a state ends this injustice.   D.C. residents bear all the...

The GOP has proposed a radical plan to remake the tax code. Their plan abolished the IRS and replaces every federal tax with a national 30 percent sales tax on everything we buy, from groceries to cars, homes, and healthcare. Their regressive plan shifts...

During President Biden’s State of the Union address, he highlighted the need for immigration reform. A day later, the administration stated in a court filing their plan to resurrect the Trump-era asylum transit ban, and the intention to rush through the...

If anyone were to doubt how presidents shape our federal courts for generations to come, they need only look to Texas. Trump appointee Matthew Kacsmaryk, District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, is poised to revoke the FDA’s approval of...

Republicans don't want low taxes—except for the rich. The rest of us can take a hike. And now, the new GOP House majority has proposed a radical plan to remake the tax code, which guarantees that all but the wealthiest Americans will pay much more in...

The most extreme House Republicans are now threatening fiscal calamity by holding up the debt limit. They want disastrous cuts as a condition for allowing the government to pay its existing obligations. And Speaker Kevin McCarthy is too weak to stand up to...

It’s a new year, but the ultra-conservative Supreme Court is up to its same unethical tricks. In the span of just a few days, we learned that the investigation into the leak of the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were detained and forcefully removed from their homes...

On January 26, Reps. Barbara Lee, Ayanna Pressley, Diana DeGette, and Jan Schakowsky reintroduced the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act in the 118th Congress. The EACH Act is the first piece of abortion access legislation...

Tyre Nichols deserves to be alive, but because of a pretextual traffic stop, he is no longer here with us today. During a pretext stop, officers pull motorists over because of minor traffic violations such as no seatbelt, blown tail light or an expired...

President Biden has re-nominated leading public activist Gigi Sohn to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fill a Democratic seat vacant since January 2021. Sohn is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and...

Republican George Santos was elected to Congress in November – but George Santos is a pathological liar who does not belong in the United States Congress. The more the public learns about the real George Santos, the more bizarre the story gets. From...

The Biden administration helped expand access to medication abortion with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalizing a rule to make the pills more readily available in pharmacies. This is very important as about half of the country could...

At the beginning of 2023, every judicial nominee who was not confirmed during the previous year was sent back to the White House to begin the renomination process. President Biden has already started sending nominations to the Senate. If we want to...

Georgia’s runoff elections are rooted in racism and segregation. Once so-called “white-only primary” elections were outlawed in 1946, voter registration among Black voters in the South boomed. After losing his reelection race, Georgia State Rep. Denmark...

Big Oil companies used the war in Ukraine and inflation as pretext to raise gasoline prices and gouge customers. Big Oil raked in billions in record profits while everyday Americans struggled to gas up their vehicles. President Biden has spoken out...

In 2019 and 2020, House Democrats quickly passed the For the People Act – a sweeping set of reforms that would expand access to the ballot for everyone, especially people of color and disabled and elderly folks, diminish the influence of dirty money in our...

Every single vote should count the same, no matter where you live. The person who earns the most votes should win an election. For far too long, the Electoral College has silenced millions of Americans’ voices with its “winner-take-all” mechanism and its...