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New bill calls for penalizing career federal workers for policy resistance

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  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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Calls for Biden’s Withdrawal Are a Sign of a Healthy Democratic Party

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The reaction to last night’s presidential debate showed that America’s two major political parties are not remotely the same. One has transformed into a cult of personality that continues to intensify its unwavering support for a presumptive nominee who is a convicted felon and habitual liar—a man who incited a violent mob to try to overturn an election, and whom courts have found liable for sexual assault and banned from doing business in New York. The other is in full-blown panic mode, considering whether an incumbent president should drop out…

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MoveOn Calls on Georgia Court of Appeals to Stop Delays in Trump Trials

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MoveOn runs full-page ad in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution WASHINGTON, D.C. – MoveOn Political Action is calling on the Georgia Court of Appeals to stop delaying the criminal case against former President Donald Trump for his interference in Georgia’s 2020 election. On behalf of Donald Trump and his allies, the appeals court set a tentative date of October 4 for oral arguments to consider whether Judge Fani Willis is disqualified from prosecuting the election interference case, preventing the beginning of the trial. His strategy is likely to delay as long as…

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Former senior officials join rising calls for an alternative to Schedule F

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A group of former senior officials is making a new and near last-ditch call to action aiming to prevent the possible resurrection of the controversial Schedule F executive order from the Trump administration. The five former national security officials, who sent a letter to congressional committee leaders Thursday, are approaching the years-long Schedule F debate with what has been a steadily growing angle: They proposed a middle-ground answer to the question of federal workforce accountability. Along with warning of what they said would be a dangerous return of Schedule F,…

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MoveOn Calls on Kennedy Jr. to Fire Jan 6 Insurrectionist and Return MAGA Money

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, NBC News reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hired a right-wing influencer who was at the Capitol during the deadly insurrection. The news follows previous reporting that this latest hire also believes January 6 was a “Democrat misdirection.”  In response to Kennedy Jr. running a shadow MAGA campaign, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne release the following statement:  “Why is an insurrectionist on the Kennedy Jr.’s campaign payroll? MoveOn is still waiting for Kennedy Jr. to denounce and publicly call on all of his…

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