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Dem Congressman: No "SHUSH" Fund; Franken Must Face the Music
US Rep. Scott Peters (D-California) serves California's 52nd Congressional District, which is located in San Diego and the surrounding region.Peters currently serves on the House Energy and Commerce C...
Constitutional Scholar on Harassment Scandals: Congress Has Made Chumps Out of The Public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iofHr8-z9mk&t=23sAmerican attorney and constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley appeared on Fox News recently to discuss the sexual harassment scandal surrounding Dem...
As Trump Escalates Bombings Abroad, Where Is The Anti-War Left?
President Trump has radically increased the number of U.S. airstrikes overseas.That should trouble America's voices on the antiwar left and non-interventionist right. Especially since this increase fo...
Oops! GOP Leaders Admit New Plan Doesn't Cut Taxes for All
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), one of the "Big Six" responsible for crafting the GOP's comprehensive tax reform bill admitted to the New York Times Friday that the tax refor...
Here's How to Defeat the 4 Biggest Threats to Democracy
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 ...
How Rand Paul's Absence Could Change Everything in the Senate
If any U.S. senator ever deserved the term "maverick" it might actually be Rand Paul, not his colleague from Arizona. Another term that indisputably applies to the Tea Party Republican is "leader."Mos...
Disrupt Politics: The Partisan Duopoly is Protecting Putin -- And Endangering Us
Shortly after the Second World War, a Republican legislator sought to temper criticism of a Democratic president. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Arthur Vandenberg declared that we should ...
How Seattle Is Leading the Fight Against Corrupt Politics
The experiment to save American democracy is happening, right now. And if you’re an American desperate to see a solution to the corrupt status quo, you should be paying attention.In late 2015, the peo...
Political Party Control is Protected By Courts, Funded By Your Taxes
One of the most interesting and important legal fights going on right now centers around the scope of the First Amendment rights of political parties. In a variety of contexts, the parties have assert...
Obamacare Premiums Set To Skyrocket After Judge's Ruling
Eighteen attorneys general were anticipating this day in court. The day they believed a judge would strike down the Trump administration's order denying payment of Obamacare subsidies.The payments fro...