The process of re-drawing district lines to give an advantage to one party over another is called “gerrymandering”. Here’s how it works. (Daron Taylor/The Washington Post) Read more here: How to steal an election: a visual guide
President Trump’s discriminatory executive order on immigration and refugees goes against our deepest values as Americans. Disturbing new reports continue to raise questions about President Trump’s ties to Russia, both during the campaign and since his election. Republicans are rushing to repeal
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Rep Adam Schiff: Trump “knew weeks ago” Flynn had misled about Russian contact—”and the president was OK with that.” pic.twitter.com/60lOtP37au — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 19, 2017
U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) called on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General John Roth to conduct an investigation into whether President Trump has violated the Domestic
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Assembly Bill 159 will be heard by the Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Mining committee Tuesday February 21st at 1:30pm. Click here if you can attend the hearing. Here is a digest of the bill: Section 1 of this bill prohibits any person
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Today, Republicans in Congress have voted to have Scott Pruitt demolish the Environmental Protection Agency and the protections it provides for the PEOPLE of our nation. Scott Pruitt has made it clear he wants to dismantle the EPA, and now Trump and
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— Author Unknown Several of my friends on the right side of the spectrum have said that we should “work together” with the president and the Republican majority because they won the election and Trump is now “everyone’s president.” This is my
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Eleven Senators have formally written to AG Sessions requesting him to immediately appoint an independent Special Counsel to investigate collusion with the Russian government by General Flynn and other Trump campaign, transition, and Administrative officials. Tammy Baldwin Richard Blumenthal Cory Booker Sherrod Brown Thomas Carper
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Nevada State Senate Majority Leader Aaron D. Ford and State Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson released the following statement on U.S. Senator Dean Heller’s vote to confirm Jeff Sessions: “We are disheartened and thoroughly disappointed that Senator Dean Heller voted to confirm Jeff
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— by Peter Dreier Dear So-Called President Trump: I was among the roughly five million Americans who took to the streets in cities across the country a few weeks ago in opposition to your outrageous policies regarding women, Muslims, school children, immigrants,
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