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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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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."



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.


Attorney General William Barr speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a press conference about the 2020 census at the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chen Mengtong/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images)

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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2018 fracked gas well blowout in rural ohio

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.



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."



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."


Customs and Border Patrol agents at the Scripps-Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista, California with a child carrier.

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," writes Burger, "would eliminate the cost barrier that disproportionately affects communities of color with higher rates of no insurance or underinsurance." (Photo: National Nurses United)

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.


The result of this reckless and ruthless course is a country ever more divided. (Photo: Getty)

by Jesse Jackson
He has decided the presidency is above the law, as well as beyond the reach of Congress and courts.


Warren and Sanders know the system is rigged and that economic and political power must be reallocated from a corporate-Wall Street elite to the vast majority. (Photo: Screenshot)

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.


Cuba Delegation in Havana. (Photo:CODEPINK)

by Medea Benjamin
Trump’s policies are making life harder for Cuba’s 10 million people.


After he was hospitalized for a heart attack in October, pundits questioned whether Sanders should continue his campaign. Instead, Sanders has bounced back stronger than ever, according to two new polls.(Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

by Ilana Novick
It looks like the media might finally have to take Sanders seriously.


Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, speaks about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as the USMCA, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 10, 2019. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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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