Stephen Miller’s New Recusals

When Paramount CEO David Ellison wanted to throw a Washington dinner party last month “honoring the Trump White House,” he got a helping hand from Katie Miller, the MAGA podcaster and onetime White House strategist. She sent follow-up invites to top Trump aides to encourage attendance for the “intimate gathering” at the U.S. Institute of Peace ahead of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25. The party turned a traditional celebration of the CBS News White House team into a high-profile corporate flex. Ellison, who is seeking federal approval…

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FBI Raids Show Extent of Trump Administration’s Obvious and Ominous Desperation

Nearly 30k+ sign petition to investigate FBI Director Kash Patel WASHINGTON– In response to reports today that the FBI is pursuing a politically motivated shakedown to obtain the sources a reporter used in reporting on FBI Director Kash Patel’s ethical violations and has raided the office of Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, who led the effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps in response to the desperate power grabs of Trump and Republicans to choose their voters ahead of the midterm elections, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Joel Payne released…

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White House gives unprecedented look at systems that prevent deleting messages, documents

The White House pulled back the cover on its methods for preserving presidential records this week, telling a federal judge that it has systems in place to prevent deletion of electronic documents, emails, chats and text messages created on their official devices. The Washington Times stories: White House

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I Remember America Before the Measles Vaccine

Lately, I’ve come to notice that the strangest and most terrible pieces of my childhood are roaring back. I was born in 1933, and much of what I remember as a little girl was defined by either the war or what we called, simply, sickness. I myself was blessed with exceptionally good health, but my friends, family, and community were regularly struck with childhood diseases. Neighborhoods were frozen in fear when maladies suddenly erupted: pool closures during polio epidemics, quarantines when mumps or measles raged. I remember one particularly galling…

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What is Organizing? A Beginner’s Guide to Building People Power

Introduction to Organizing Are you the one to gather the friends for a movie night? A birthday dinner? Or even a volunteering event? That’s organizing. If you enjoy getting your friends, families, or coworkers together and you feel impassioned to make a difference in your community, we will walk you through how to use those skills to become a leader and activist within your community.  What is organizing?  Grassroots organizing is connecting people to a shared goal and strategy to build collective power. Power isn’t inherently good or bad—it’s simply…

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