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Expanding Access: How States Are Protecting Voting Rights

April 26, 2025 by staff

Map of U.S. states showing their rankings in ease of voting

Luisana Rodriguez reports on the many states advancing voting rights acts despite the stand-off on federal bills to protect against vote suppression schemes.

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4th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling in Garcia v. Noem

April 18, 2025 by staff

prison cell bars

A panel of judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit unanimously rejected the Trump regime’s plea to stay a lower court order to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador where men abducted from the U.S. are being held in subhuman conditions. The Court’s ruling was unusually concise and clear to non-lawyers, […]

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Speak Out Now on Voter Suppression Bill HR 22

April 10, 2025 by staff

Protesters hold huge red stop signs that say "stop voter suppression"

Donald Trump signed a broad anti-voter executive order (EO) in March, but its impact was mostly symbolic, since presidents cannot make such law unilaterally. EOs merely tell federal officials how POTUS would like to see existing law applied. But this week, Congress is voting on a horrific voter suppression bill, HR 22, that Trump would […]

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Trump’s “Tariffs” Are Not Economic Tools. They’re Weapons for Domestic Oppression

April 3, 2025 by staff

Trump’s “Tariffs” Are Not Economic Tools, but Tools of Oppression

Editor’s note: The following thoughts are compiled from an April 3 BlueSky thread by Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut). Though we prefer the plain language of nationwide sales tax to repeating Trump’s preferred label of tariffs, Murphy beautifully summarizes the proper way to understand and frame Trump’s new sales taxes–the largest tax increase in at least […]

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Resignation Letter of Hagan Scotten in Response to Pam Bondi’s Attempt to Dismiss Charges Against Eric Adams

February 17, 2025 by staff

The letter below is written by Hagan Scotten, an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Scotten, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote to Emil Bove, acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General to quit in protest over Pam Bondi’s order to dismiss New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ bribery case. His letter came […]

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Elon Musk Targets Federal Civil Servants, Inciting Threats of Violence Against Them*

November 23, 2024 by staff

By Jim Carlton and Rebecca Ballhaus, Wall Street Journal, Nov 23, 2024  *Wall Street Journal’s original title: Federal Workers Feel Ire of Musk’s Followers — New efficiency czar targets employees by name on X, sparking pushback  As co-director of President-elect Donald Trump’s nascent Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has wasted no time posting to […]

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