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ICE Funding Vote Shows How Out of Touch Republicans Are

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WASHINGTON – In response to Republicans approving a budget reconciliation bill to give the Department of Homeland Security $ 70 billion more in funding, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement: “In the same week that Speaker Mike Johnson promised to cut Social Security and Medicare if Republicans stay in power, his caucus showed us just how little they care about working people.   “While millions of Americans are stretching their paychecks and skipping doctor’s visits, Republicans decided that what mattered most was taking another $…

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Louisiana Primary Postponement Shows Republicans Colluding in Broad Daylight to Try to Rig the Election

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WASHINGTON– In response to Louisiana Republicans moving to postpone the state primary elections to redraw maps in light of yesterday’s Supreme Court of the United States’ decision on Louisiana v. Callais striking down a landmark provision of the Voting Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in voting maps, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Joel Payne released the following statement: “Republicans are colluding in broad daylight to try to rig the election and silence Black voters. The MAGA court made their decision to gut voting rights just in the nick of time for…

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Virginia Victory Shows That We Will Not Let the GOP Change the Rules to Avoid Accountability

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VIRGINIA – In response to Virginians overwhelmingly voting to redraw the state’s congressional map, MoveOn Political Action Chief Communications Officer Joel Payne released the following statement. “Once again, the people have blunted President Trump and Republicans’ unprecedented power grab to pick their voters in the midterms. Virginians went to the ballot box to stop Republican efforts to avoid accountability for their failed policies. This should put Republicans on notice that if they want to continue to escalate this fight about mid-decade redistricting, the grassroots is ready to show up and…

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On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way

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Mississippi leads the nation. That’s not a typographical error. And it’s not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is. Mississippi has the lowest or nearly the lowest income levels of any state. It’s been lagging in population growth over the last decade and in the longer term. Mississippi topped the 2-million mark in 1930, and it got within 18,000 of the 3-million mark…

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DOGE shows the receipts to rebuff its Democratic opponents

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The Department of Government Efficiency recently blew the whistle on the federal government’s plans to spend taxpayer dollars on male circumcisions in Mozambique, housing illegal immigrants in New York hotels, and grants to environmental activists promising “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” The Washington Times stories: White House

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Interactive Calculator Shows How Cutting Carbon Emissions Would Barely Budge Temperatures

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Ever since the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, curbing climate change has been a fundamental component of his energy policy agenda. During the spring, for example, the Biden administration issued a power plant rule­­, imposing strict emissions reductions regarding the use of fossil-fuel power plants. There have been many other rules proposed as well, including regulating cars, stoves, dishwashers, water heaters, and even microwaves. All of these rules are predicated on concerns about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global temperatures and climate change. If greenhouse gas emissions drive…

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