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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to support Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Georgia on December 5, 2020. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"What I need" one journalist said, "is for lawyers who specialize in little-used federal criminal statutes like Sedition to explain to me why a federal official openly seeking to conspire with another federal official to overthrow a democratically elected government isn't a crime."



"A Covid relief bill that doesn't include enhanced unemployment insurance benefits, workplace protections, paid sick leave, direct cash payments to individuals, national eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, and rental assistance fails to meet the scales and scope of the crisis we're facing," said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.). (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The next Covid-19 relief package must include stimulus checks," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "There is no good reason to exclude it."



DACA recipients and their supporters rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"It opens the door for more than a million immigrant youth who have been unfairly denied their chance to apply for DACA," said the director of the Justice Action Center.



Native American and allied people gather on the shore of Lake Superior on September 27, 2019 to protest the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition.



Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) arrives at the U.S. Capitol on October 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"Given the enormous economic desperation facing working families in this country today, I will not be able to support the recently announced Manchin-Romney Covid proposal unless it is significantly improved."



President Donald Trump makes a phone call as he golfs at Trump National Golf Club on November 26, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Small donors who give to Trump thinking they are financing an 'official election defense fund' are in fact helping pay down the Trump campaign's debt or funding his post-presidential political operation."



Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, moderates a discussion on February 12, 2018.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Everything toxic about the corporate Democratic Party is embodied in Neera Tanden."



Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, are seen in the Capitol after a meeting on Wednesday, November 18, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's very America for us to finally require paid sick leave and family leave during the pandemic only to let it lapse before the pandemic is over."



No war with Iran placard

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We cannot let anyone drag us into a new war."



A man walks on rubble of a building destroyed in airstrikes carried out by warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition hours after the U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths departed Sana'a on June 06, 2018. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"American involvement in this brutal catastrophe is shameful and must come to an end."


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