by MCDC | Dec 9, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Issues, News, Social Security
Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Republican Chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee of Ways and Means, Chairman Sam Johnson, introduced legislation late yesterday that would inflict deep cuts in Social...
by MCDC | Dec 9, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, News
The NPS, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit” for many of Washington DC’s most famous political locations for days and weeks before, during and after the inauguration on 20 January. Large swaths of the...
by MCDC | Dec 8, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, News
“Steve Cohen and I made a follow up to Aftermath, for all of the people who voted for Trump who told me they were good people.” Tess Rafferty Since I’ve posted the video Aftermath: 2016, I have been told that good people voted for Trump. I have been...
by MCDC | Dec 7, 2016 | 2016 General Election, News, Opinion
UPDATE: Republicans threatening to shut down government to ram through Trump’s defense secretary nomination View at Medium.com In 1903 the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party broke into two competing factions, as often happens with such movements. This...
by MCDC | Dec 6, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Issues, Racism, Virginia
Anti-Muslim rhetoric currently receives widespread media coverage. In the face of a massive refugee crisis and growing instability across the Middle East and North Africa, the public discourse often eschews nuanced distinctions about extremism and misappropriation of...
by MCDC | Dec 3, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Environment, News
It’s not just misleading to tweet about bad science. It’s dangerous. The collapse in Arctic ice formations is already putting major cities in the crosshairs of sea level rise, and leaders in the federal government need to act. Unfortunately, Lamar Smith (R-TX), an...
