New bill calls for penalizing career federal workers for policy resistance

  A new bill in the House would penalize career federal employees who don’t follow directives from a presidential administration. The so-called STRAFE Act would require agencies to report any policy resistance from federal employees to the White House. The penalties for violations would be on par with the consequences for Hatch Act violations. Texas Republican August Pfluger, who introduced the bill, said it’s meant to combat what he described as employees’ “coordinated resistance” to policies during the former Trump administration. It’s the same phenomenon that former Trump officials have…

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Muslim American Support for Trump Is an Act of Self-Sabotage

Over the weekend, a group of Arab American and Muslim American leaders in Michigan appeared onstage at a Donald Trump rally and urged their communities to vote for him. The outreach might be working: A recent poll showed Trump with a narrow lead among Arab American voters. This is shocking, but hardly surprising. It’s shocking because Trump’s stated policies—on Palestine, on political freedom, and on the very presence of Muslims in America—are antithetical to so much of what most of these voters believe in. It’s unsurprising because we Arab and…

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‘It Is Freedom Over Communism,’ Trump Supporter Says at NC Rally 

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—“We’re running a campaign of solutions to save America, an America which they have virtually destroyed,” former President Donald Trump said of the Biden-Harris administration at a Wednesday afternoon rally here. To elect Vice President Kamala Harris as president “would be to gamble with the lives of millions and millions of people,” Trump said, adding that Harris “would get us into World War III because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”   The former president spoke at Rocky Mount Event Center, which holds about 4,000,…

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Watch MoveOn’s Livestream With Special Guests Shonda Rhimes and Ben and Jerry

Grab a pint—and watch last Sunday night’s “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Harris-Walz” livestream! Eat ice cream with Tom Colicchio, Shonda Rhimes, Ben and Jerry, and fellow MoveOn members! Here are a few highlights from the call:  “Scandal” and “Bridgerton” creator Shonda Rhimes shared that this country is supposed to be about joy, so she found her joy by eating Ben and Jerry’s special Kamala Harris Coconut Jubilee ice cream pint as soon as it arrived! Jeni Britton of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams told a story of…

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election lawsuits Voting 

Is there widespread voting fraud?

The answer is no. And decades of investigations by many, including two Republican administrations, have confirmed it. Claims of widespread voting fraud are decades old. During the Bush Jr. Administration, the Justice Department initiated a five-year crackdown on voter fraud, but only eighty-six people were convicted of any kind of election crime, despite hundreds of millions of votes being cast. No major efforts to skew national or statewide elections were found. According to election experts, the current claim that illegal immigrants are voting is meant to intimidate legitimate voters and…

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voters with disabilities Voting 

Barriers for 40.2 Million Voters with Disabilities

New laws to protect the 2024 presidential are creating barriers for Americans with disabilities, disability rights advocates have told CBS News and others. More than 20 states now restrict mail-in ballots. This includes limiting the kinds of assistance a voter can ask for which restrict the ability of caregivers to help prepare a ballot for the people they care for. Some laws threaten criminal charges for aides who help the disabled vote. Many new laws are the aftereffect of the 2020 elections when former President Donald Trump questioned the security…

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