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'Pressure Works': Senate Told to Act on Voting Rights Bills After Biden Backs Filibuster Exception
"Every senator should have to go on the record and decide whether to stand with the Jim Crow filibuster or our freedom to vote."
by Jessica Corbett
21 Million+ Going Hungry in US as Manchin Tanks Expanded Child Tax Credit
"This program is Social Security for our children, and Democrats must keep it going over the long-term," said Sen. Ron Wyden.
by Jake Johnson
800+ Faith Leaders Tell Biden, Dems Voting Rights Must Be 'Number One Priority' in 2022
"We cannot be clearer: You must act now to protect every American's freedom to vote without interference and with confidence that their ballot will be counted and honored."
by Brett Wilkins
Sanders Urges Biden to Demand DeJoy's Resignation Over Postal Service 'Sabotage'
"By any objective measure, Louis DeJoy, a top campaign contributor of Donald Trump, has been, by far and away, the worst postmaster general in the modern history of America."
by Jake Johnson
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A Look Back on a Not So Happy Year
A year of illness, death, mourning, and ever-increasing political chaos on a striking, if not unparalleled, scale threatens the American system as we've known it. Meanwhile, a new kind of weather threatens the world as we've known it.
by Tom Engelhardt
A $778 Billion Pentagon Budget Is Our Lump of Coal
As Congress passed a $778 billion war and military budget, about half of which will go to corporate contractors, they failed to pass the Build Back Better plan that costs less than a quarter of that annually, and would have delivered help to millions of people.
by Lindsay Koshgarian
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