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Supreme Court Rules in PA Gerrymandering Case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRqyYokJ97cVideo Source: CBS NewsThe Supreme Court turned down a request by Republican state lawmakers Monday to prevent Pennsylvania’s new congressional map from being ...
20 Mar, 2018
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2 min read
OPINION: American Democracy Is Dead!
Americans have to admit that our democracy -- the great experiment -- is dead. Our government does not look or function as our Founding Fathers intended. In fact, it has failed in the fundamental pu ...
05 Mar, 2018
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4 min read
Election Reformers: Let History Guide You. Lessons of How Slavery Formed our Two Political Parties
For me, history, the study of it and the making of it, has been an essential part of life.Growing up in the underground of the poor black community, reading became my salvation, and reading ...
22 Feb, 2018
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6 min read
PA’s Gerrymandering Case: What’s Going On and What’s Next?
Gerrymandering might be the issue of our time.You know that sinking feeling you get after every single election where you just can’t understand how one party won so many seats? Gerrymandering is ...
21 Feb, 2018
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4 min read
Black Voting Rights Leader: BOTH Parties Guilty of Voter Suppression
I am a physician and a black woman who grew up poor and came of age in the 1970’s. I‘ve spent 25 years practicing medicine, mainly in Harlem, and I care deeply about the state of our country, about th ...
16 Feb, 2018
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3 min read
Pressure Builds for Pennsylvania Politicians to Fix Their Gerrymandered Maps
The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Republican leaders in the Pennsylvania legislature to overrule a decision by the state Supreme Court to strike down the state's congressional map on ...
06 Feb, 2018
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1 min read
3 News Stories With More Impact Than Texts Between Lovers
Read about what really matters from the news last week. We provide you the least-biased news about current events so you can go about your day informed, not brainwashed.What to avoid: The texts were ...
29 Jan, 2018
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2 min read
Penn. Court: Partisan Maps "Clearly, Plainly, Palpably" Violate State Constitution
In an order issued on Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that the district lines “clearly, plainly and palpably” violate the state Constitution and gave the Republican legislature until Febr ...
23 Jan, 2018
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Reports: Penn. Justices Appear Open to Striking Down Gerrymandered Map
On January 17, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania v Commonwealth, a partisan gerrymandering case challenging congressional redistricting in Pennsylvania. ...
18 Jan, 2018
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1 min read
A New Countdown: Midterm Money Is Rolling In
The countdown to 2018 has finished and Washington has snapped its head in the direction of another countdown: the mid-term elections in November.In just eleven months, the balance of power can be easi ...
02 Jan, 2018
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5 min read