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What We Achieved Together in 2022

December 24, 2022 Together, Achieved, 20220 comment

What a year! With you and fellow MoveOn members, we were able to successfully prevent a MAGA Republican “red wave” and win essential elections while passing game-changing legislation—all in a political environment shaped by dark money, disinformation, and right-wing structural advantages. While it was a challenging year on many fronts, it was also one marked by historic achievements—many of which millions of MoveOn members helped make happen with our people-powered, grassroots work. We prevented a red wave, expanded the Democratic Senate majority, and elected governors and secretaries of state who…

Zelenskyy eyeing trip to Washington as Pentagon plays down Belarus threat

December 20, 2022 Belarus, Zelenskyy, down, Washington, trip, Pentagon, Threat, plays, eyeing0 comment

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is traveling to Washington perhaps as soon as Wednesday for talks with Biden administration officials and an address to Congress on the state of the 10-month war with Russia, according to multiple news reports. The Washington Times stories: White House

Omnibus silently endorses 4.6% pay raise for federal employees in 2023

December 20, 2022 Omnibus, silently, 4.6%, endorses, raise, federal, employees, 20230 comment

For federal employees, the most significant part of the $ 1.7 trillion omnibus spending package that Congress unveiled this week may not be contained in the text of the legislation itself, but rather found in what’s not said. The 4,155-page bill, which House and Senate lawmakers released in the early morning hours of Dec. 20, doesn’t make any reference to the 4.6% across-the-board federal pay raise, in effect silently endorsing the Biden administration’s proposal for 2023. The bill additionally supports a 4.6% pay raise for military members in 2023. But…

Iowans Knew This Day Would Come

December 20, 2022 would, come, This, Iowans, knew0 comment

My father was a registered independent for most of my childhood because he resented having to choose. But choosing was not hard for my mother. She was an MSNBC devotee, a liberal Pennsylvania transplant who took her adopted role as an Iowa Democrat seriously. She wanted me to take politics seriously, too. Which is why, on a freezing January night in 2000, Mom zipped up our coats, buckled 7-year-old me into our white Toyota Previa, and drove us along five miles of gravel to the nearest town: Danville, population 919.…

Why Many Conservatives Won’t Be With Their Children or Grandchildren This Christmas

December 20, 2022 Their, won't, many, This, Conservatives, Christmas, children, grandchildren0 comment

There are probably hundreds of thousands of men and women who, because of political differences, maintain minimal or no contact with their parents and, even more cruelly, do not allow their parents to have any contact with their children—their parents’ grandchildren. Probably an unprecedented number of Americans with grown children will be alone this Christmas because their children will neither visit them nor invite them for the holiday dinner. In some rare instances of horrific parental behavior, this may be excusable, but when the reason is politics, it is inexcusable.…

White House claimed 1 million new jobs in second quarter. Feds say that number’s off by 1 million.

December 16, 2022 Jobs, Numbers, House, Million, second, White, Feds, Quarter, Claimed0 comment

The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate. The Washington Times stories: White House