MoveOn: Senate Democrats Must Reject Any Funding Bill That Greenlights More ICE Cruelty

WASHINGTON – In response to House Republicans, with the help of a handful of Democrats, voting to approve annual funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without instituting any guardrails for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement: “Americans want health care and lower costs, not masked ICE agents kidnapping kids from playgrounds and schools. The House just failed their latest test to hold Trump and his dangerous ICE street gang accountable for killing innocent people like Renee Nicole Good and…

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Colorado’s First-in-the-Nation Bill to Decriminalize Prostitution Would Increase Human Trafficking, Critics Claim

Colorado Democrats have filed a bill that could make it the first state to decriminalize prostitution, and critics warn that the bill would make the Centennial State the “Wild West” for purchasing sex and lead to an increase in human trafficking. “We have a billion-dollar budget shortfall here in Colorado, and so there’s a lot of talk about budget and affordability and cost of living,” Jarvis Caldwell, the Republican minority leader in the state House of Representatives, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. “This isn’t the Republicans’ idea…

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MoveOn: Senate Must Reject Despicable Antivoter Bill

WASHINGTON – In response to House Republicans and Rep. Cuellar voting to approve the SAVE America Act, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Britt Jacovich released the following statement: “With their popularity tanking, President Trump and Republicans are pushing outrageous lies about immigrants and our election systems to enact the most extreme barriers to voting in modern history. This is another desperate power grab to retain power at any cost.  “Demanding Americans cough up original copies of birth certificates or passports to vote is an obvious attempt to silence nearly half the…

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Tim Tebow Should Have Pulled Strings to Keep Debbie Wasserman Schultz off Anti-Child Porn Bill He’s Endorsing

For years, Tim Tebow has been working with state and federal officials to raise awareness to help get laws passed to end human trafficking and child pornography. It’s a cause that is super commendable–for sure. And he’s on the verge of success. Just last month, legislation meant to strengthen investigations of sexually abusive images of children, called the Renewed Hope Act of 2026, that Tebow has collaborated on with Republican Florida Rep. Laurel Lee, was reintroduced and voted out of the Judiciary Committee and is now slated for a floor…

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House passes bill to extend health care subsidies in defiance of GOP leaders

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House passed legislation Thursday that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act as 17 renegade GOP lawmakers joined every Democrat in support. The tally, 230-196, signified growing political concern over Americans’ health care costs. Forcing the issue to a vote came about after a handful of Republicans signed on to a so-called “discharge petition” to unlock debate, bypassing objections from House Speaker Mike Johnson. The bill now goes to the…

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Lawmakers to finalize NDAA by week’s end, bring the bill to the floor in early December

House and Senate negotiators are racing to finalize the 2026 defense policy bill by the end of the week, with all House and Senate Armed Services Committee disputes resolved and only a few Senate jurisdictional details still holding the legislation’s advancement to the House floor in early December. “I think what they’re doing is, there’s been a couple of pencils-down time frames, but it sounds like it’ll be done by the end of the week. That’s what the focus is. Get it done by the end of the week, and…

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