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April 19, 2022 at 6:06 PM

Fox News owner bankrolls Republican super PAC

Rupert Murdoch is the bazillionaire owner of Fox News — the world’s leading propaganda outlet for right-wing extremism and the cult of Donald Trump. We just found out that Murdoch wrote a check for $2,000,000 to the super PAC controlled by allies of Senator Mitch McConnell. That wasn’t even t…

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April 18, 2022 at 6:06 PM

do not let Elon Musk buy Twitter

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter. Musk — the electric car tycoon who infamously predicted “probably close to zero new cases” of COVID-19 in the U.S. by the end of April 2020 — is somehow the richest person on the planet, with an estimated net worth of $268.8 billion.* Although it’s clear that M…

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April 15, 2022 at 6:11 PM

make Donald Trump Jr. testify under oath

Last week, CNN broke the news that on November 5, 2020 — before the presidential election had even been called — Donald Trump Jr. messaged his father’s chief of staff outlining various ways the Trump Gang could subvert democracy to keep Donald Trump in power. “We have operational control.” “T…

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April 14, 2022 at 8:21 PM

cancel student debt

President Biden has extended the pause on student loan payments until August 31. Public Citizen is calling on the president to take the next step and cancel up to $50,000 of student debt per borrower. Canceling student debt would help close the racial wealth gap and would be a boon to our fra…

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April 13, 2022 at 6:39 PM

investigate Jared Kushner

The New York Times reported Monday that Jared Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law — got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia for a private equity fund he formed shortly after the Trump Gang left office. Let’s connect the dots: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince (and de facto ruler) is Mohammed bin Salman. …

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April 12, 2022 at 7:19 PM

Trump's son-in-law got billions from Saudi Arabia

The New York Times reported yesterday that Jared Kushner — Donald Trump’s son-in-law — got $2 billion from Saudi Arabia for a private equity fund he formed shortly after the Trump Gang left office. Let’s connect the dots: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince (and de facto ruler) is Mohammed bin Salman…

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April 10, 2022 at 7:26 PM

his son must testify

On Friday, CNN broke the news that on November 5, 2020 — before the presidential election had even been called — Donald Trump Jr. messaged his father’s chief of staff outlining various ways the Trump Gang could subvert democracy to keep Donald Trump in power. “We have operational control.” “T…

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April 6, 2022 at 6:30 PM

Ivanka Trump's testimony

Ivanka Trump appeared yesterday before the January 6 committee in Congress. The committee hasn’t revealed what Ivanka did (or didn’t) say. Perhaps she shed some light on what Donald Trump said when she reportedly pleaded with him to call off the insurrection? We’ll all just have to wait to fi…

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April 5, 2022 at 7:58 PM

13 times more than Russia spends

Our country’s military budget for this year is a staggering $782 billion. President Biden is asking for $813 billion — an additional $31 billion — for next year. And Republicans (along with some Democrats) in Congress are pressing for even more than that. Many politicians are citing Russia’…

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April 4, 2022 at 4:17 PM

sheer greed

Asthma. COVID-19. Diabetes. Hepatitis C. HIV. Prostate cancer. Millions of Americans who suffer from these conditions (and others) can’t afford the medicine they need. Why? Because of sheer greed on the part of pharmaceutical companies. For the 20 top-selling drugs, Big Pharma m…

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April 3, 2022 at 6:58 PM

fighting Big Pharma

Asthma. COVID-19. Diabetes. Hepatitis C. HIV. Prostate cancer. Millions of Americans who suffer from these conditions (and others) can’t afford the medicine they need. Why? Because of sheer greed on the part of pharmaceutical companies. For the 20 top-selling drugs, Big Pharma m…

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April 1, 2022 at 7:43 PM

what happened to the “arsenal of vaccines”?

We all want the pandemic to be over. But the pandemic won’t end anywhere until it ends everywhere. Which means that vaccinating the world is not just a humanitarian imperative but in the national self-interest. President Biden has asked Congress for $5 billion to address global Covid needs …

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March 31, 2022 at 5:33 PM

Trump's gap

On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that there is a gap of 7 hours and 37 minutes in White House phone logs for January 6, 2021. So, according to official White House records, Donald Trump neither made nor received a single phone call between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. — even as a violent mo…

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March 30, 2022 at 7:49 PM

we don't even need Deep Throat this time

Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that there is a gap of 7 hours and 37 minutes in White House phone logs for January 6, 2021. So, according to official White House records, Donald Trump neither made nor received a single phone call between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. — even as a violent mob…

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March 29, 2022 at 6:20 PM

"the illegality of the plan was obvious"

As The New York Times reports: “A federal judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald J. Trump and a lawyer who had advised him on how to overturn the 2020 election most likely had committed felonies, including obstructing the work of Congress and conspiring to defraud the United States.…

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March 23, 2022 at 5:09 PM

what do you want to happen?

We are living in fraught and perilous times. The war in Ukraine is dominating the news. Here at home, neo-fascist forces are on the rise — carrying out political violence and threatening the disintegration of our democracy. The COVID-19 pandemic, despite our desire to put it behind us, is n…

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March 22, 2022 at 6:27 PM

this affects almost everyone

Workers and consumers are closing in on a major victory against runaway corporate power. Last Thursday, the U.S House of Representatives passed a bill — the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act — that would ban forced arbitration in employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil rights di…

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March 21, 2022 at 6:03 PM

close to a *major* victory for workers and consumers

Workers and consumers are closing in on a major victory against runaway corporate power. Last Thursday, the U.S House of Representatives passed a bill — the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act — that would ban forced arbitration in employment, consumer, antitrust, and civil rights di…

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March 19, 2022 at 6:16 PM

will you be one of them?

Support Public Citizen Who’s ready to take their support of Public Citizen to the next level? We’re seeing a dip in the online donations that power the work you and Public Citizen do together to hold Big Business and Uncle Sam accountable. So I’m looking for 20 people to join our popular Month…

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March 17, 2022 at 5:40 PM

Amazon may have lied to Congress

A congressional committee has accused corporate giant Amazon of lying under oath about ways it blocks competition. Here’s some of what the House Judiciary Committee said in a letter last week to Attorney General Merrick Garland: We write to alert the Department of Justice to potentially crimi…

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March 16, 2022 at 7:38 PM

no more monopolies

Today begins a new era in the fight against corporate monopolies. That’s thanks to a bill — the Prohibiting Anticompetitive Mergers Act of 2022 — introduced in Congress by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Mondaire Jones. The legislation would confront the danger of acute corporate concentration…

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March 15, 2022 at 7:17 PM

they are exploiting the Ukraine crisis

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP combined made $71 billion in *profits* last year. With increased global economic activity, the international price of oil jumped even as these companies’ costs remained the same — meaning outrageous profits for companies that are racing us toward climate cata…

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March 14, 2022 at 10:15 PM

don't let Big Oil profit from Ukraine

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, and BP combined made $71 billion in *profits* last year. With increased global economic activity, the international price of oil jumped even as these companies’ costs remained the same — meaning outrageous profits for companies that are racing us toward climate cata…

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March 11, 2022 at 8:18 PM

you might not want to read this if you live in Florida

Darkness is descending on the Sunshine State. Imagine it’s election season. You’re heading out to put your ballot in a drop box, and you swing by your parents’ house to pick up their ballots so they don’t have to drive. Or maybe you volunteered to take ballots from folks in your church to t…

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March 9, 2022 at 10:04 PM

Congress making major mistake that could endanger millions of lives

Congress is about to vote on a major spending bill. The bill includes emergency funding for Ukraine and much-needed help for working families here in America. It was also *supposed* to include $5 billion in funding to continue fighting COVID-19 around the world — which of course is both the r…

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March 8, 2022 at 7:39 PM

the Pentagon keeps getting more and more

The Pentagon got a staggering $778 billion this year. And now President Biden is getting pressure to throw even more money at the military-industrial complex in his next budget. Public Citizen and 85 other organizations — including American Friends Service Committee, Greenpeace USA, Indivisib…

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March 7, 2022 at 8:07 PM

tell DOJ to investigate Trump

Conspiracy. Fraud. Obstruction. The bipartisan January 6 committee says it now has enough evidence to conclude that Donald Trump (and others) might have criminally conspired to commit fraud and obstruction in carrying out their attempted coup d’etat. But no matter how much evidence it uncover…

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March 6, 2022 at 10:03 PM

cynical and cruel

The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, did something last week that calls his human decency into question. Abbott decreed that widely accepted medical treatments for transgender youth — known as gender-affirming care — will now be classified as “child abuse” in Texas. He also threaten…

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March 5, 2022 at 7:15 PM

is this governor just plain evil?

The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, did something last week that calls his human decency into question. Abbott decreed that widely accepted medical treatments for transgender youth — known as gender-affirming care — will now be classified as “child abuse” in Texas. He also threaten…

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March 4, 2022 at 7:06 PM

when will Donald Trump face criminal charges for January 6?

Conspiracy. Fraud. Obstruction. The bipartisan January 6 committee says it now has enough evidence to conclude that Donald Trump (and others) might have criminally conspired to commit fraud and obstruction in carrying out their attempted coup d’etat. But no matter how much evidence it uncover…

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February 28, 2022 at 11:24 PM

at moments like this

Support Public Citizen Earlier today, I emailed to let you know that we are in danger of coming up short in the online fundraising that powers the work you and Public Citizen do together. I noted that at moments like this, we sometimes run into a situation where so many people assume enough othe…

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February 28, 2022 at 8:18 PM

not sure if you saw

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February 28, 2022 at 5:29 PM

we need to look behind the curtain

Support Public Citizen Not sure if you saw the emails I sent you over the weekend. I wanted to give you a “peek behind the curtain” you might not get from other nonprofit organizations. Every year, we find ourselves facing a shortfall at the end of February. And it’s not just that February i…

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February 27, 2022 at 8:31 PM

did it take you by surprise?

Support Public Citizen It happens every February. Here’s the situation: We typically see an uptick in online donations on the 30th and 31st of each month. But of course there is no 30th or 31st of February. So with another February winding down, we’re facing a drop-off in donations and a s…

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February 26, 2022 at 4:27 PM

it's happening *again*

Support Public Citizen It happens every February. Here’s the situation: We typically see an uptick in online donations on the 30th and 31st of each month. But of course there is no 30th or 31st of February. So with another February winding down, we’re facing a drop-off in donations and a s…

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February 23, 2022 at 9:10 PM

Big Pharma’s price gouging is out of control

$101,087,677,294. That’s how much the U.S. spent on the top 20 prescription drugs in 2020. But while Big Pharma is making a killing for their shareholders and executives, almost one in three Americans are rationing their prescriptions because they can’t afford them. How can Big Pharma make …

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February 22, 2022 at 9:26 PM

using public office for personal gain

Sometimes the corruption is almost mundane. Like when members of Congress buy and sell stocks based on insider information they get before it becomes public. Like when they don’t disclose large stock trades in clear violation of congressional rules (that Public Citizen helped put in place, by…

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February 21, 2022 at 10:44 PM

the IRS could make it easier

Americans waste billions of hours and billions of dollars filing their taxes. Even though, for people with relatively basic taxes, the IRS has all the information it needs to pre-fill forms and do the math. The IRS has the authority — under a 1998 law passed by a Republican-majority Congress …

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February 19, 2022 at 7:06 PM

cowards

We saw a shameful display of political petulance this week. Every single Republican on the Senate Banking Committee chose *not* to show up for a vote on President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve. As a reminder, the Federal Reserve (a.k.a. “the Fed”) is our nation’s central bank. It wa…

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February 16, 2022 at 7:23 PM

a shameful display of political petulance

We saw a shameful display of political petulance yesterday. Every single Republican on the Senate Banking Committee chose *not* to show up for a vote on President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve. As a reminder, the Federal Reserve (a.k.a. “the Fed”) is our nation’s central bank. It wa…

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February 15, 2022 at 8:57 PM

do not let Rudy Giuliani weasel out

Rudy Giuliani was supposed to testify last week to the congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. But Giuliani postponed his appearance. Giuliani, of course, is the former New York City mayor who became Donald Trump’s personal attorney and was part of the “elite strike …

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February 14, 2022 at 8:28 PM

reform the Postal Service

Last week, the House of Representatives passed — by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 342 to 92 — a critical piece of legislation called the Postal Service Reform Act. But this landmark bill won’t become law if it stalls out in the Senate. Add your name to our petition urging the Senate to…

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February 12, 2022 at 7:27 PM

we can rescue the United States Postal Service

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives passed — by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote of 342 to 92 — a critical piece of legislation called the Postal Service Reform Act. But this landmark bill won’t become law if it stalls out in the Senate. Add your name to our petition urging the S…

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February 11, 2022 at 8:18 PM

soup to nuts

Marjorie Taylor Greene is very disturbed. Greene is a QAnon believer and Trump adherent who was elected to Congress in 2020 from the state of Georgia. Yesterday, she went on One America News* and said this: “Now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress.” Greene…

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February 9, 2022 at 7:25 PM

what is Ivanka Trump hiding?

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka was in the Oval Office with him multiple times on January 6, 2021. There may even have been moments when Ivanka was the *only* other person in the room with her father. It is long past time for Ivanka Trump to tell the American people what she witnessed as her f…

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February 8, 2022 at 7:30 PM

Republican Party calls January 6 'legitimate'

“Legitimate political discourse.” As of this past Friday, the official position of the Republican Party is that what happened on January 6, 2021, was just “legitimate political discourse.” Let’s recap: Donald Trump flat-out lied that the election was “stolen” from him. Fox “News” and its …

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February 7, 2022 at 8:25 PM

did Kyrsten Sinema forget?

The numbers are in. Over the last three months of 2021, Senator Kyrsten Sinema raked in $1.6 million in campaign contributions. It’s the most she’s raised in any quarter since she became a senator three years ago. And she’s not even up for reelection until 2024. Here’s the thing: Only a …

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February 6, 2022 at 3:33 PM

to every Republican in Congress

“Legitimate political discourse.” As of this past Friday, the official position of the Republican Party is that what happened on January 6, 2021, was just “legitimate political discourse.” Let’s recap: Donald Trump flat-out lied that the election was “stolen” from him. Fox “News” and its …

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February 5, 2022 at 8:23 PM

January 6 was just 'legitimate political discourse'

“Legitimate political discourse.” As of yesterday, the official position of the Republican Party is that what happened on January 6, 2021, was just “legitimate political discourse.” Let’s recap: Donald Trump flat-out lied that the election was “stolen” from him. Fox “News” and its ilk — a…

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February 4, 2022 at 7:25 PM

who does Senator Kyrsten Sinema work for?

The numbers are in. Over the last three months of 2021, Senator Kyrsten Sinema raked in $1.6 million in campaign contributions. It’s the most she’s raised in any quarter since she became a senator three years ago. And she’s not even up for reelection until 2024. Here’s the thing: Only a …

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