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WATCH: MoveOn’s Rahna Epting Expands into Digital News Media

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Watch Interviews with The Majority Report with Sam Seder HERE, Keith Edwards HERE, and Jack Cocchiarella HERE Email press@moveon.org for interview inquiries  WASHINGTON – MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting recently joined political commentator and YouTube hosts Keith Edwards and Jack Cocchiarella, and The Majority Report with Sam Seder.  In these conversations, Epting discusses how voters and MoveOn’s millions of members are demonstrating their outrage over President Trump and Republicans’ move to cut essential programs, increase costs and give billionaires tax breaks while giving unelected billionaire Elon Musk carte blanche to run our…

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Bad News for Trump’s Legislative Agenda

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The success of President-Elect Donald Trump’s legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly failed on their very first vote. Mike Johnson won reelection as House speaker by the narrowest of margins this afternoon, and only after two Republican holdouts changed their votes at the last minute. Johnson won on the first ballot with exactly the 218 votes he needed to secure the required majority. The effort he expended to keep the speaker’s gavel portends a tough slog for Trump, who endorsed Johnson’s bid.…

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Congress has a 3-month CR, but it’s not all good news for contractors

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Now that the three-month continuing resolution looks like what we’re going to get, contractors wonder whether that’s good news or bad news. Relative to a lapse in appropriations, it’s probably good news, but delayed regular appropriations still have consequences. Federal sales and marketing consultant Larry Allen joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss more. Interview transcript:  Tom Temin Now that the three month continuing resolution looks like what we’re going to get, contractors wonder whether that’s good news or bad news. Relative to a lapse in appropriations, it’s…

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NEWS: Explosive Reporting on Cornel West’s Corrupt, MAGA-Aided Ballot Access to Help Trump

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today MoveOn Political Action condemns Cornel West’s corrupt ballot access program and collusion with Trump allies to undermine voters and Vice President Harris in key swing states. The Associated Press released a damning story showing that West’s team had fraudulently included the names of unknowing people on its Arizona slate of electors. When contacted, West elector Denisha Mitchell claimed she never agreed to be a West elector, and she didn’t even know what that was – proving a deep level of coordination between the West campaign and Trump’s…

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Court Threatens First Amendment Rights of Tennessee News Website After Publication of Nashville School Shooting Documents

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The editor-in-chief and publisher of the Tennessee Star was ordered to appear in court last week and threatened with charges of contempt after his news website reported on an anonymously leaked collection of documents authored by Nashville mass shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale. Michael Patrick Leahy was joined by his attorneys in court on Monday for a “show-cause hearing,” where the journalist was asked by Chancery Court Judge I’Ashea Myles to demonstrate why his outlet’s reporting does not subject him to contempt proceedings and sanctions. On March 27, 2023, Hale (born…

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ICYMI: New York Times and NBC News Report Skyrocketing Demand for MoveOn’s “Trump is a Felon” Stickers

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As reported last night in The New York Times and on NBC News, MoveOn Political Action has taken orders for more than 50,000 “Trump is a Felon” stickers and counting—a request rate of ten times more than what the group’s membership has made in recent years. In just the first 10 minutes after the former president was found guilty on all 34 counts, more than 10,000 stickers were ordered. Less than three hours later, demand had surpassed 25,000 orders.  The extremely high demand underscores that the Democratic…

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