by MCDC | Jul 4, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Gun Reform, Issues, Minimum Wage, News, Video
In an interview with Fox News Sunday yesterday, McConnell told host Chris Wallace that a new Supreme Court justice must have the approval of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress explains the two right-wing organizations that McConnell...
by MCDC | Jun 27, 2016 | Action Alerts, Equal Rights, News, Racism
Transcript: “Now, this award, this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country. The activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to...
by MCDC | Jun 23, 2016 | Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Gun Reform, News
At the height of the civil rights movement, before he could even dream of becoming a congressman from Georgia, Lewis trekked cross-country as one of the original 13 Freedom Riders. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In Alabama, he...
by MCDC | Jun 22, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Rights, Voter Rights
Three years ago this week — on June 25, 2013 — the U.S. Supreme Court in its Shelby County v. Holder decision gutted the Voting Rights Act (VRA), a civil rights law signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 to ban racial discrimination in voting. Within minutes of...
by MCDC | Jun 21, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Gun Reform, News
Following the worst mass shooting in modern American history, 56 senators blocked critical gun safety measures that would have kept guns out of the hands of people on the terror watch list. #Republicans won’t allow guns at their own National Convention in...
by MCDC | Jun 20, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Events, Immigration Reform, Virginia
“Yesterday, I was incredibly honored and proud to be elected as the first Iranian and Muslim-American from Virginia to serve on the Democratic National Committee! I can’t begin to express how humbled and thankful I am for the support I received not only...
