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Trump’s Texas Gerrymander Is Supercharging a New War on Democracy

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Donald Trump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterms became crystal clear on Wednesday, as Texas Republicans introduced a new congressional redistricting map that would give their party five new seats in the US House, making it much more difficult for Democrats to retake the chamber next November. The map is designed to give Republicans control […]

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GOP Missouri Governor Repeals Paid Sick Leave Measure Voters Passed in Landslide

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Advocates called the move, which also restricts minimum wage increases, “a slap in the face to workers.”

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“That’s Why America Is Great”: New York City Protesters Push Back With Love and Defiance

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Many thousands of protesters jammed the streets around Manhattan’s Bryant Park on Saturday afternoon, defying the drizzle and chanting “No ICE! No KKK! No fascist USA!” before spilling into an enormous march down Fifth Avenue. New York City’s “No Kings” gathering trumpeted one message above all: Solidarity with immigrants, in the form of a fierce […]

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The Trump Administration Is Already Ignoring the Supreme Court

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On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize immigrants and deport them to foreign prisons. In an unsigned opinion, seven of the court’s nine justices reaffirmed that immigrants needed a reasonable amount of time to challenge their deportations. […]

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Trump Is Weaponizing the Justice Department to Advance His Voter Suppression Plans

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Donald Trump has made false claims about voter fraud central to his political identity and issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order in March. Now he’s weaponizing the Justice Department to advance his voter suppression agenda. On Tuesday, in its first major voting-related lawsuit, the Trump Justice Department sued the state of North Carolina over its […]

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Wells Fargo Wants to Privatize USPS. We Should Dismantle the Mega Bank Instead.

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Why would a mega bank with one of the worst reputations in a scandal-ridden industry take over a popular institution?

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North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails

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Six months after the November election, Republican state supreme court candidate Jefferson Griffin finally conceded to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs on Wednesday after his unprecedented effort to throw out thousands of votes and overturn Riggs’ win was rejected by a federal court. Two recounts affirmed Riggs’ 734-vote margin of victory after the election, but Griffin, […]

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Why Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting”

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On a sunny afternoon in early February, two dozen Democratic representatives, clutching smartphones and talking points, converged on the Treasury Department’s public entrance in downtown Washington, DC. For weeks, a strike force from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, loosely vetted and barely old enough to vote, had swarmed federal buildings with a mandate to […]

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A Massive Power Grab Could Help North Carolina Republicans Steal an Election

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Two weeks after the November 2024 election, the Republican-controlled legislature in North Carolina convened a lame-duck session for the ostensible purpose of passing a hurricane relief bill. But, with no public notice, they snuck provisions into the bill stripping power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor and attorney general and drastically changing how elections were administered. Most […]

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Polls Show Most Voters View Trump’s First 100 Days as “Chaotic” and “Scary”

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Trump broke his own record of having the lowest presidential approval rating within his first 100 days of office.

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