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Judge Halts Deportation, Threatens Sessions With Contempt Judge halts deportation of mother and daughter, threatens to hold Sessions in contempt. WaPo: "A federal judge in Washington halted a deportation in progress Thursday and threatened to hold Attorney General...
How to Turn Back a Giant
What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place. Residents of Lancaster County, Penn. were thrilled to learn this lesson with their recent victory against Geo Group, a giant of the private...
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GOP NY Rep. Collins Arrested For Corruption GOP Rep. Chris Collins charged with securities fraud. Politico: "Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), the first member of Congress to back President Donald Trump before the 2016 election, was indicted Wednesday by federal...
Pohutsky's Win Gives Voice To Michigan's Real Voters
Voters in Michigan’s 19th district will have an alternative to the career politicians they are used to seeing on ballot in November. Microbiologist Laurie Pohutsky won the Democratic nomination in the Tuesday primary election. She was one of 5 aspiring state...
Measures of Heat in Tuesday’s Primaries
Voters turned out in primary elections across Ohio, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington on Tuesday. Any conclusions drawn from primaries three months out from a midterm vote are written in the wind. That does not stop the press from naming “winners and losers,”...
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MO Blocks Right-To-Work Law Missouri blocks right-to-work law. NPR: "Voters in Missouri have overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature that would have banned compulsory union fees — a resounding victory for...
New York's Religious Schools Reveal Hazards of "School Choice"
On a recent trip to New York City, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited two schools—not the public schools her agency is charged with overseeing, but two Orthodox Jewish yeshivas. Photo credit: Shutterstock / cc DeVos used the opportunity to advocate for...
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Five States Head To Polls GOP Fears Ohio upset; Trump And Ocasio-Cortez back challengers. NPR: "A critical House special election on Tuesday could provide some of the biggest clues yet about how much trouble Republicans could be in this November. In Ohio, the last...
Hometowns Rise Up To Support Separated Families
All across America, residents of rural communities and small towns are stepping up to stand in solidarity with immigrant families and refuse the intimidation and fear the Trump administration wants to use to keep them apart. “It’s really concerning that in America, we...
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Federal Judge Orders WH To Restart DACA Federal judge orders Trump sdministration to restart DACA in full. NYM: "A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully restart the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the fourth district court ruling...
