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Five Things Your Tax Dollars Could Fund Instead of an Illegal Iran War
While Americans are struggling to afford basic necessities, the Trump Administration is pouring billions of dollars into an illegal war in Iran.
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Emergency Managers and Their Destruction of Democracy
An explanation of who Emergency Managers are, what they do, and how they are problematic
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Senators Playing Loose with Constitutional Rights
Their zeal to protect Americans from domestic terrorists, or perhaps to score political points for seeming to provide protection, is leading some members of Congress to toss aside constitutional rights.
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How to move a political system that seems incapable of change
“There is no use speaking truth to power” the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Legacy Project told a group of activists and college students in Washington last week.
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Internet Voting: It seems too good to be true, and it is
In less than one generation, the internet has become as central to American life as the automobile, the telephone and the television. We spend time with friends online, we shop online, we even file our taxes and manage our banking online. Why not vote online?
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Triumphs and Challenges for Early Voting
You’re a US citizen, you’re 18 years old or older, you’re registered and ready to vote. But what if November comes around and you have work or class on Election Day? What if you can’t wait hours in the long lines you’ve found at your precinct in the past?
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Murphy’s filibuster a win against big money
The national debate over gun control took center stage at the US Senate last week when Senator Chris Murphy, D-CT, and allies staged a 15-hour filibuster to force action on gun control legislation. The talk-a-thon ended only when the Senate agreed to hold votes on legislation banning gun sales to individuals on the government’s terrorist watch list and on expanding background checks.
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Isang Malaking Panalo Para sa mga Botante sa Kansas
Mahigit sa 18,000 Kansan na ang mga aplikasyon sa pagpaparehistro ng botante ay naipit sa limbo ay dapat na irehistro upang bumoto sa oras para sa halalan sa Nobyembre.
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Historic Win for Net Neutrality
In a historic win for the fight to protect online free speech and digital organizing, a federal appeals court upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules this morning. The rules protect consumers by requiring internet service providers to treat all online traffic equally, keeping the web accessible to all.
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Together we are not powerless; no situation is hopeless
I grew up in Orlando. It was extremely upsetting to wake up to the news yesterday. When your friends, one by one, have to report on social media that they are safe… somehow it doesn’t feel safe at all.
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Tweet Video @POTUS: Oras na para Pumirma, Pumalakpak sa Citizens United
Ang bawat Amerikano ay may karapatang malaman na ang mga kumpanyang nakikipagnegosyo sa ating pamahalaan ay hindi naglalaro ng sistema sa pamamagitan ng paggastos ng malaking halaga ng pera sa pulitika upang tulungan silang makakuha ng malalaking kontrata ng gobyerno.
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8 Justices is not Enough
Americans depend on the Supreme Court to address the most important and most complicated questions about our laws, and the justices have plenty of those on their calendar this term, with cases ranging from voting rights to abortion to campaign finance.
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Gerrymander Gazette – Hunyo 3, 2016
Ang paghihiganti ng mga mambabatas sa Arizona at New Jersey, isang imbitasyon na magdemanda sa North Carolina, at mahusay na pag-unlad sa reporma sa Illinois at Virginia ay nilinaw na hindi ito magiging isang tahimik na tag-araw sa harap ng muling distrito. Tingnan natin kung ano ang hitsura ng mga bagay.
