AMERICAN WAY JANUARY 2020
SPOTLIGHT
Activists Rally Across the Country to Call on Senate Republicans to Demand a Fair Impeachment Trial
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Across the country, PFAW members and activists joined rallies to demand that Senate Republicans support a fair impeachment trial by voting in favor of allowing new witnesses and evidence to be considered. As the senate impeachment trial continues, PFAW members and other advocates should continue putting pressure on Senate Republicans.
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THIS MONTH
Presidential Candidates Discuss Fair Courts at Democracy Reform Forum
After three years of Trump’s ongoing assault on our federal judiciary, the courts have become an especially salient issue in the 2020 presidential election. To hear more from candidates about this critical issue, PFAW and other progressive advocacy groups co-sponsored the “We the People 2020” forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Held just days before the 10-year mark of the devastating Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United, the forum gave candidates a platform to focus on the need for democracy reform to address the dominance of big money in politics, as well as the assault on voting rights and the connection of these democracy issues to fair courts.
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Ten Years Since Citizens United: The Growth of a Movement
Citizens United vs. FEC, handed down by the Supreme Court on January 21, 2010, has proven to be one of the most consequential decisions in our country’s recent history. A new report from PFAW takes a look at the harm the decision has had for our democracy, impact on progressive issues, and what strategies advocates are using to fight back.
And just next week, the House will hold a hearing for the first time ever on the Democracy For All constitutional amendment that would overturn cases like Citizens United and allow Congress and the states to put an end to the unchecked spending in our elections.
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2019 Victories in Virginia Underscore the Urgency of Winning in 2020
In a southern state once the home of the confederacy, Democrats now control the state legislature for the first time in decades. The victories enjoyed by progressives here have already resulted in the state's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and action on gun violence prevention, and have pending measures to address issues such as raising the minimum wage, strengthening voting rights, decriminalizing marijuana, and more.
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PFAW Senior Fellow Andrew Gillum: “We can’t let voter suppression win in 2020”
In a new op-ed in the Florida Sun Sentinel, former Tallahassee mayor and PFAW Senior Fellow Andrew Gillum outlines various ways that voter ID laws, voter purges and other voter suppression practices have been employed in key battleground states and urges progressives to take action to ensure that all voters have access to the ballot box.
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CONFIRMED JUDGES, CONFIRMED FEARS: THE DEVASTATING HARM ALREADY DONE BY CONFIRMED TRUMP FEDERAL JUDGES
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Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Vote to Allow Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Public Charge Rule to Move Forward
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Trump Judge’s Deciding Vote Allows Trump to Spend $3.6 Billion on Border Wall Despite Injunction
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Trump Judge Writes Majority Opinion Denying Cruel and Unusual Punishment Claim
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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Dershowitz Claim Proves the Need for Witnesses at Senate Impeachment Trial
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Presidential Candidates Call for Constitutional Amendment to Address Campaign Finance Reform at Iowa Forum
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Elliot Mincberg in The Hill: “January’s anniversaries show us why federal courts matter”
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The Blue Wave and a Day Full of Firsts at the Virginia Capitol
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A Decade After Citizens United, PFAW Joins Sen. Udall, Sen. Shaheen, Rep. Sarbanes, and Pro-Democracy Allies to Discuss Its Impact
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Not His First Cover-Up: Trump Impeachment Lawyer Kenneth Starr
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Not Her First Cover-Up: Trump Impeachment Defense Adviser Pam Bondi
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Trying to Find the Tea Party at its 10th Anniversary Rally
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Not His First Cover-Up: Trump Legal Team Lawyer Jay Sekulow
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Inside the Richmond Gun Rights Rally Where the Fringe Right Met Mainstream Conservatives
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Virulent Anti-Semite Rick Wiles Has Once Again Received White House Press Credentials
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God Told Hank Kunneman That Mike Pence Will Be President in 2024
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Kanye West Joins Dominionist Pro-Trump ‘Prophets’ for Stadium Prayer Rally
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With Pompeo Out of the Running, White Nationalists Dream of a Kansas Senator Kris Kobach
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RBG Is Cancer Free and Brenden Dilley Smells a Conspiracy
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Oregon Congressional Candidate Places Electoral Hopes on QAnon
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