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How Democrats Plan to Battle the GOP’s Redistricting Power Grab

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For years, Republicans have sought to consolidate power at the state and federal level by controlling the redistricting process through which congressional boundaries are drawn. In places such as Wisconsin and Ohio, they have crafted cartoonishly distorted districts that have literally drawn Democrats out of power. But the longstanding battle between Republicans and Democrats over […]

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The Massive Grand Canyon Fire Is Burning Out of Control

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A wildfire that has closed the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park raged out of control over the weekend and is now the largest currently burning in the country. The Dragon Bravo fire has burned more than […]

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Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.

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United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the Gaza Strip, home to roughly 2 million Palestinians. One of the few organizations still on the ground trying to feed Palestinians at risk of famine is the Gaza Soup Kitchen. Abe Ajrami is one of the Gaza Soup […]

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The Nation’s Landmark Voting Rights Law Just Turned 60. It May Not Survive Trump.

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On July 24, US Rep. Sylvia Garcia, a Latina Democrat from Houston, traveled to Austin to testify before the Texas House against the mid-decade congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump that was designed to give Republicans five new seats in the US House. Garcia said Republicans were motivated not just by political expediency, but […]

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The Knock-Down, Drag-‘Em-Out Texas Redistricting Showdown Heats Up

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An old-fashioned Western showdown is happening in Texas right now.  On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state over the weekend to stop Texas Republicans from carrying out Trump’s orders to redraw the state’s maps. And Texas governor Greg Abbott who is very, very upset about it all. As of this writing, […]

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The Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights As We Know It

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of August. Better yet, in place of clarity, reference some pages in another document, so that people have to track that down and read it in order to […]

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Trump Will Restore a Confederate Monument in the Nation’s Capital

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Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of the nation’s most notorious oppressors. On Monday, the latest chapter of this quest unfolded: The National Park Service (NPS) announced that officials will restore and reinstall a Washington, DC, statue of a Confederate […]

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He Fled Boko Haram and Helped Build an Award-Winning Restaurant. Now He’s Facing Deportation.

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It was Father’s Day, and Suya Joint, a celebrated West African restaurant in Boston, was slammed. Normally, Cecelia Lizotte, the restaurant’s owner and chef, would call her brother, Paul Dama, if she were in a pinch. Lizotte and Dama balanced each other out: Lizotte was the chatty boss who wore chunky jewelry and bright colors, […]

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Far-Right Militias Adored the Constitution. Then Came Trump.

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For the past 30 years, former Graham County, Arizona, sheriff Richard Mack has been railing against federal overreach and warning of encroaching governmental tyranny. As an antidote to this threat to freedom and liberty, Mack, who hasn’t actually been a sheriff since 1997, founded the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in 2011. Its mission […]

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The Conservative Nature Lovers Trying to Nudge Trump in the Right Direction

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, the Bureau of Land Management quietly announced plans to trade away 2 million acres of public land along Alaska’s Dalton Highway. The immense stretch of boreal forest totters into tundra, an area almost three times the size of Rhode […]

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Brazil’s Key MAGA Ally Linked to Massive Fraud Scheme Involving Jailed Chinese Billionaire

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This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Agência Pública.  On July 16, Paulo Figueiredo, a Brazilian right-wing influencer and grandson of a former military dictator, stood in front of the White House. At his side was Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian ex-president who is on trial for an alleged coup […]

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Dems Are in Their “Revenge Gerrymander” Era and This Zellennial Candidate Is Here for It

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Should Democrats be revenge gerrymandering?  “Hell yeah,” says Texas congressional candidate, Isaiah Martin. On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats fled the state to try to block an effort by state Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map and flips five districts from blue to red. Some Democrats are now looking for blue states to return […]

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