
Repression, terror, fear: The government wants to silence the opposition
We didn’t know it then, but what happened five years ago in Charlottesville, Va., was a foretaste of what was to come.

We didn’t know it then, but what happened five years ago in Charlottesville, Va., was a foretaste of what was to come.

A year after his last embarrassing appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Sixth District Congressman Ben Cline was back again on Saturday with another awful speech.

Yesli Vega, the Republican congressional nominee in the Seventh District, was caught on tape saying “abortion is not going to be an option” in states with conservative governors.

Ancient giant sequoias in California, once considered impervious to flames, are again under threat from wildfires, this time in the Yosemite National Park.

Democrats have drawn even with Republicans in polling ahead of the 2022 midterms, and Jennifer Lewis, the Democratic congressional nominee in the Sixth District in Virginia, is feeling the energy.
Voters in Kansas, which went for Donald Trump by 15 points in the 2020 election, overwhelmingly rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed the state legislature to ban abortion.
The Sierra Club Virginia chapter released their annual legislative scorecard, and not surprisingly, Republican legislators received a failing grade when it comes to energy policies, climate solutions, voting rights and environmental justice.

Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling allowed existing DACA recipients to apply for two-year renewals while the court case moves through appeals, but it prohibits approval of any new applications.

You may find this shocking, but a little over a decade ago I spent a weekend learning how to shoot a handgun — under the auspices of the NRA. I wound up earning myself an NRA “personal protection in the home” certificate.

The Reproductive Freedom For All Act would codify women’s rights to abortion and protect contraception access.
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