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News & Views | 12/17/19
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'History Is Watching Us': 600+ Rallies Planned Nationwide on Trump Impeachment Eve
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Those marching in the streets will send a clear message to Congress:
Voters are watching, and we will remember who shows more loyalty to
Donald Trump and the Republican Party than to the Constitution and their
oath of office."
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Top Dem Accused of Putting Private Equity Before Sick and Poor by Killing Effort to End 'Devastating' Surprise Medical Bills
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
One critic said Rep. Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, is "actively helping private equity-owned
doctor groups rip off and destroy the lives of people at their most
vulnerable."
Citing 'Clear and Present Danger' to US Constitution, 750+ Historians Join Call for House to Impeach Trump
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
Arguing that President Donald Trump's abuse of his position as the most
powerful leader in the U.S. is "precisely what the Framers had in mind"
when they asserted Congress should have the right to impeach a
president, more than 750 historians released an open letter Tuesday,
demanding the U.S. House vote for impeachment.
William Barr 'Must Be Removed': Letter Urges Congress to Impeach Attorney General for Repeatedly Violating Oath of Office
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"The Attorney General," says president of Common Cause, "has repeatedly
proven unwilling to put the interests of the nation before those of the
man who appointed him and he must be removed from office before he does
more harm to the nation."
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This So-Called Bridge Fuel 'Leads to Hell': Blowout at ExxonMobil Fracking Site Among Nation's Worst-Ever Methane Leaks
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by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The revelation Monday that a blowout last year at an Ohio natural gas
well owned by an ExxonMobil subsidiary was one of the country's
largest-ever leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane provoked
impassioned calls for a rapid, just transition to 100% renewable energy
nationwide.
'Stop This Illegal Purge': Outrage as Georgia GOP Removes More Than 300,000 Voters From Rolls
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Warning of 2020 impact, one critic said Georgia could remain a red state
solely "due to the GOP purposefully denying people the right to vote."
Sanders Calls Out 'Deficit Hawks' in Both Parties Who Support $738 Billion Pentagon Budget But Claim US Can't Afford Medicare for All
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"When it comes to giving the Pentagon $738 billion—even more money than
it requested—there is a deafening silence within Congress and the ruling
elites about what our nation can and cannot afford."
Outraged Response Forces US Border Patrol to Allow 19-Year-Old Mother to Stay With Sick Newborn
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"If this is what happens when a group of attorneys and reporters are
looking, imagine what happens when they are not."
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Medicare for All Will Boost the Fight for Racial Justice in Health Care
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by Deborah Burger
Transformation of our health care system to a more humane model based on
health care as a human right, not profits and ability to pay would
sharply reduce systemic and institutional racial disparities.
Trump Is Leading a Revolution That Is Destroying America
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by Jesse Jackson
He has decided the presidency is above the law, as well as beyond the
reach of Congress and courts.
America’s Next President: Warren Sanders
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by Robert Reich
If the backers of both Sanders and Warren eventually come together
behind one of them, they'll have the votes to take the White House, and
even flip the Senate.
Five Years After Obama’s Cuba Opening, Cubans Are Reeling From the "Trump Effect"
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by Medea Benjamin
Trump's policies are making life harder for Cuba's 10 million people.
Media Taking Notice as Sanders Surges in New Polls
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by Ilana Novick
It looks like the media might finally have to take Sanders seriously.
Trump’s North America Trade Deal Is Poised to Worsen Climate Change—But Dems Don’t Seem To Mind
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by Rachel M. Cohen
"We cannot simultaneously claim to fight climate change on one hand and
enact climate-denying trade deals on the other."
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Newswire...
Failure by Congress to Support Tax Credits for Clean Energy and EVs is Unacceptable
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Democrats' Drilling Bill Insufficient to Meeting Climate Challenge
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Leaders Announce Opposition to FY20 Minibus Funding DHS and DOD
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Northeast States Take Critical Step to Tackling Climate Change, Modernizing Transportation
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NIAC Commends Reps. Grijalva, Omar and Lee for Calling on Trump Administration to Protect Humanitarian Trade with Iran
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