If there is any upside to the U.S. presidential election, it could be that progressive causes around the country are reporting an “unprecedented” surge in donations, the Guardian wrote on Sunday. In the wake of the election that vindicated Donald Trump’s racist, sexist, and xenophobic campaign, many Americans are turning their despair into action, supporting
Amid the uproar over the Republican Party’s attempt to cripple the Office of Congressional Ethics, a little-noticed rule change was passed that guts an essential element of government oversight. The rules package included a sentence that read: “Records created, generated, or received by the congressional office of a Member…are exclusively the personal property of the
The Women’s March on Washington set off at 10am EST Saturday in Washington, D.C. Responding to the frightening rhetoric of the past election, the marchers are demonstrating a show of solidarity “in numbers too great to ignore,” the organizers write, to fight for human rights and inclusive communities. #WomensMarch Tweets Hundreds of thousands have signed up
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Fears over what the United States’ expansive War on Terror looks like with President Donald Trump at the helm were confirmed this week after a hastily-approved, dangerous ground assault resulted in the deaths of one U.S soldier and dozens of Yemeni civilians, including women and children. Quoting unnamed U.S. military officials, Reuters reported Wednesday that
Ignoring the vast majority of Americans who say they want President Donald Trump to release his taxes, GOP lawmakers who have the power to obtain the records on Tuesday blocked an effort to do so. Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously against using an obscure law which leans on the
Should the Trump administration’s plan to slash 14 percent from the national housing budget come to fruition, people will indeed be “dying on the street,” the head of national advocacy group warned on Thursday, borrowing President Donald Trump’s own words. Late Wednesday, the Washington Post published an analysis of the draft budget for fiscal year
An Alabama woman has accused Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore of groping her in 1991, when he was a married man, Alabama news outlet AL.com reported on Wednesday. Tina Johnson, who would have been 28 at the time, told the news outlet that Moore grabbed her backside as she exited his office after she signed custody paperwork. “He didn’t pinch it;
A pro-Trump outside group aligned with Breitbart News chairman Stephen Bannon will make a six-figure ad buy for Republican candidate Roy Moore as the tight Alabama Senate race heads into the final stretch. The Great America Alliance (GAA) — an anti-establishment group that works closely with Bannon — will invest $150,000 in television, radio and
Democrat Doug Jones leads GOP candidate Roy Moore by 10 points in the Alabama Senate race, according to a Fox News poll released Monday. Fifty percent of voters surveyed say they prefer Jones, compared to 40 percent for Moore, who has been plagued by accusations of sexual misconduct. A similar poll taken last month had Jones leading Moore by