Tag: Democrats
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Republicans are losing on abortion. They’re losing elections, from the midterms to red state ballot measures. They’re losing public opinion: 78% of Americans believe abortion should be a decision left to a woman and her doctor, with support for reproductive rights the highest it’s ever been. Given all this losing, how is it possible that…
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According to two Biden advisers, the White House staff members who have been involved in rolling out the campaign are Ms. O’Malley Dillon, Mr. Zients, Anita Dunn, Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/biden-aides.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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BY MARK JOSEPH STERN Consider a crime that’s currently spiking in the District: carjacking. Under the current code, the maximum sentence for armed carjacking is 40 years. That’s the same penalty as second-degree murder, and more than double the penalty for second-degree sexual assault…. No one—not even the most violent and incorrigible offenders—is sentenced to…
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“The right to vote, the right to vote, to have your vote counted, is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything’s possible. Without it, without that right, nothing is possible.” SELMA, Ala. — President Biden told a crowd gathered to commemorate the 58th anniversary of a brutal police attack on Black protesters that…
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“We hear a lot of talk about threats to our democracy, but what is more of a threat to a democracy than voter suppression and the refusal to fully protect the 15th amendment and the 14th amendment’s guarantee of equal protection?” Bishop William J. Barber, II
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“Biden Bows to Republicans [who tried to overthrow the government to invalidate *his* election] on Blocking D.C. Crime Law, Avoiding Veto Fight” The move blindsided members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who were holding a news conference in Baltimore about their agenda for the 118th Congress when it broke. “This is news to me, and…
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ATLANTA — Without Black voters, there would have been no President Jimmy Carter. In 1976, African Americans catapulted the underdog Democrat to the White House with 83 percent support. Four years later, they stuck by him, delivering nearly identical numbers even as many white voters abandoned him in favor of his victorious Republican challenger, Ronald…
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Kevin McCarthy kept his word. I want to be perfectly clear: This political stunt is a personal one — the result of years of xenophobic, Islamophobic, and racist attacks that started the moment I was elected. The far-right have spent millions of dollars in campaign ads against our movement stoking fear and division, and a…
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