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Working Families Party: The Most Influential Third Party in the U.S.?
In February 2015, Edwin Gomes became the first candidate running solely on the Working Families Party (WFP) line to win a seat in a state legislature. Gomes beat out four other candidates in a special ...
26 May, 2015
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#StandWithRand: POTUS Candidate Filibusters to End NSA Spying
Kentucky U.S. Senator Rand Paul announced on his Facebook page and Twitter account that he has taken the Senate floor to begin his filibuster of renewing the PATRIOT Act, specifically provisions in Se ...
20 May, 2015
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Events and Issues Don't Define History... People Do
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian, David McCullough, is perhaps best known for his biographies of John Adams and Harry Truman. His most recent book, The Wright Brothers, is his thir ...
20 May, 2015
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Religious Freedom Laws and The Media's Role in Manufacturing Rage
A pizzeria in Walkerton, Indiana is getting national attention after a local news station asked its operators if they would extend their services for a same-sex wedding. It was clear that proprietors ...
01 Apr, 2015
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Washington State Boycotts Indiana over 'Religious Freedom' Law
On Monday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee banned the use of state money to travel to Indiana. The move, which followed similar actions by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, i ...
31 Mar, 2015
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New Group Wants Non-Major Party Candidates in POTUS Debates -- To An Extent
It is nearly impossible for candidates outside the major parties to qualify for a presidential debate. The Commission on Presidential Debates, founded by the Republican and Democratic parties in 1988, ...
18 Mar, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Capital Punishment
Last week, the Utah House reignited the capital punishment controversy by approving a measure to bring back the firing squad as a legal form of execution in response to growing court challenges o ...
20 Feb, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Benjamin Church, Edward Snowden, and Defining Treason
Without a doubt, almost every American knows the name Benedict Arnold. Arnold was the worst form of traitor: one who does the damage, then flees without taking responsibility for their actions.But ano ...
04 Feb, 2015
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Looking to the Founders: Our First President
Ready to have everything you ever learned in school about the nation's first president thrown out the window?It wasn't George Washington.While George Washington was our first president under the Const ...
23 Jan, 2015
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8 States Where Party Registration Lags Behind Independent Registration
Independent voters are the fastest growing voting bloc in the U.S. The number of people who self-identify as neither Republican nor Democrat has been on a steady incline since 2008. In the last two ye ...
19 Jan, 2015
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