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August 19, 2025

Yesterday, the 51 Democratic Texas state representatives who left the state for Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts on August 3 to prevent Republican lawmakers from redistricting Texas to give five Democratic congressional seats to Republicans went back home.


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@altnps.bsky.social – Alt National Park Service 2025-08-19 18:43:00

Trump stripped 37 current and former national security officials of their security clearances, a group that included many who had focused on Russian activities and foreign interference in U.S. elections, according to the Office of the Director of Natio…


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Texas Democrat Forced to Sleep in Capitol After Refusing 24-Hour Police Escort

After weeks spent out-of-state in an effort to deny Texas Republicans a quorum for an extreme redistricting plan—designed at Donald Trump’s behest to give the GOP a five-seat advantage in the House of Representatives—the state’s Democrats are still refusing to back down. After the Democrats’ departure, Gov. Greg Abbott went as far as signing arrest […]


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@altnps.bsky.social – Alt National Park Service 2025-08-19 15:42:00

Eight House Democratic members will be forced back onto the floor tonight after publicly tearing up the Republican-mandated “permission slips” required to leave the chamber. They will remain there, held against their will.


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NY Prison Officials Refuse to Comply with Law Limiting Solitary Confinement

New York prison officials have continued to violate the HALT Act, which restricts the use of solitary confinement.


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“Defeatism Has No Place” in Liberation Struggles, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter Says 

For Black August, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France sets the record straight on her father’s revolutionary legacy.


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@altnps.bsky.social – Alt National Park Service 2025-08-19 13:30:00

It never ends. Last night three local Texas activists, along with a Democratic leader, gathered at the Texas Capitol to show support for Rep Nicole Collier. Collier who had refused to sign a GOP-mandated “permission slip” requiring a Department of Publ…


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