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Welcome to one of our weekly posts, Independent Action, where we let you know the important moves independent candidates and organizations made over the past week. This week we will be discussing Greg Orman, State Senator Bob Krist, and the Unrig the System Summit hosted by Represent.Us. Greg Orman was not quiet this week, but the light around him did dim slightly. However, Orman still managed to make some headlines during a somewhat slow week for his campaign. Governor Brownback’s resignation

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 found! Avoid the mayhem created by the texts between an FBI agent and his lover. The texts contained some damning information for the agent, which ended up getting him removed from Special Counsel Mueller’s team, but as of now that’s the most that’s come from them. Until something else surfaces

With the second annual Women's March taking place this past weekend, feminists nationwide came forward to resist the Trump administration's actions against women. However, one obvious change that would impact many women's lives for the better was often ignored: the move to a single-payer health care system. How Single-Payer Can Help Battered and Disadvantaged Women Imagine having a chronic or life-threatening illness. Now imagine that your health insurance coverage is dependent upon you stay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Z1YpMQiWA In a new edition of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, Dr. Ron Paul -- former Republican US representative and presidential candidate from Texas -- discusses an agreement between North and South Korea to march together under one flag for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Paul also discusses the fact that Vice President Mike Pence will be at the games -- mainly expressing concern for what this could mean for ongoing peace talks given Pence's "neo-c

Separation of church and state is an idea that comes up frequently in the dialog of American politics. More regularly, now that we have a president who is committed to the evangelical Christian cause in Donald Trump. In a nation founded on religious freedom, we practice this separation by respecting the rights of people who observe different religions. We ensure that people can practice whatever religion they choose, but we also establish boundaries. The Johnson Amendment is one of these bound

Read our centrist recap for the week below. We shine a light on the spin and useless stories from the Left and Right and detail what you should focus on, before people can pull wool over your eyes. What the partisans will focus on and you should avoid: * A tweet calling President Trump a “tool” and “pathetic loser” came from Anderson Cooper’s Twitter account last week. CNN at first claimed it was hacked, then stated it was actually the result of Cooper’s assistant’s phone (which had access to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHeX_2yEcw US Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took part in another CNN debate on tax reform Tuesday. This time, they were joined by Sens. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and Maria Cantwell (D- Washington). The debate was hosted by CNN personalities Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Scott and Cantwell got their time in the debate, but the focus seemed to be on the "headliners," Cruz and Sanders. Both senators have taken to the CNN debate stage multipl

Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and gather signatures. They now have until April 30 to gather and submit 365,880 valid signatures from registered voters in the first state to ever legalize medical marijuana under Proposition 215 in 1996. That ballot proposition, as well as Prop. 64 -- the 2016 voter initiative titled "The Adult Use o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52hu0ilm4E Video Credit: RT A widely circulated article by Fox News Tuesday reports that the U.S. Army, struggling to meet its recruitment quotas, will be lowering its standards for new recruits by lifting a previous ban on recruiting "people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military." The Army signed off on the new policy earlier this year because it is behind schedule to meet its target of recruiting 80,000 new

During a time of deep political dysfunction in the United States, it is easy to assume that American democracy has gone off the rails, perhaps for good. But if Americans can look past the slow-motion travesty unfolding in Washington, DC, they will find that it is still within their power to effect meaningful change. BERKELEY – It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under strain. A mere 20% of American