Bait and switch, voter suppression: It’s the Trump-DeSantis anti-democracy way
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Frank Luntz was an infamous Republican operative, arguably the most skilled focus group designer for the right in our political history.
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The political sunset of Emmett Hanger is an unfortunate end of an era
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The pending retirement of State Sen. Emmett Hanger spells the end of the line for the Mountain Valley wing of the Virginia Republican Party, which traced its roots to the beginning of the Civil War.
Gun safety groups call on Corporate America to cease donations to Tennessee GOP
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A coalition of gun safety groups are calling on Corporate America to cease donations to the political campaigns of Tennessee state lawmakers who voted last week to expel Justin Jones and Justin Pearson for demanding that the General Assembly take action to prevent gun deaths.
Republicans expel the Black two of the Tennessee Three: A political lynching
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The Tennessee House of Representatives, dominated by a Republican supermajority, voted yesterday to expel two Black Democratic legislators who had participated in a peaceful public demonstration on behalf of gun control.
Virginia needs to cancel its football season opener in openly racist Tennessee
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Virginia is scheduled to play its football season opener in Tennessee, where the House of Representatives just voted to expel two Black members for protesting gun violence in the wake of the murders of six in a Nashville school last month.
University of Maryland study reveals two-thirds support $15 federal minimum wage
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Two-thirds of voters in a University of Maryland study favor a $15 federal minimum wage in the United States.
Youngkin’s PAC, aiming at influence in 2023 state elections, raised $2.75M in first quarter
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s PAC raised $2.75 million in the first quarter of 2023, an impressive haul considering the PAC could only raise money for 30 days in the quarter with the General Assembly in session.
Profits of Doom: Military contractors rob us daily, with help from Republicans
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It’s Budget Season in DC, and the swamp is in full bloom. Republicans refuse to offer a budget. Why is that? After all, they are demanding that Biden and his Democrats promise to make major cuts because Republicans are so-o-o-o-o concerned about the debt ceiling, even though they are largely responsible for much of the…
Virginia congresswoman and 23 colleagues push for protection of SNAP benefits
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More than 34 million Americans are food insecure, including 9 million children, which makes SNAP a vital federal program.
The right’s assault on the word ‘woke’ is, of course, dog-whistle racism
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The amazing thing about the anti-woke crusade of the right is how fragile and linguistically cautious it is, compared to the way things were in the “good old days,” whose passing the anti-wokers so deeply lament.
