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North Carolina’s ‘bathroom bill’ should be flushed
By Ann Telnaes The North Carolina legislature passes and Gov. Pat McCrory signs a bill which require transgender people to use bathrooms according to the sex on their birth certificates rather than what they identify with.
#DemocracyAwakens
A first-of-its-kind gathering in our nation’s capital is putting We the People back in charge of OUR democracy. Democracy Awakening — organized by Public Citizen, the NAACP, the Communications Workers of America, Greenpeace USA, People For the American Way, the...
Race, Politics, and Redistricting in the South
On March 21, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wittman v. Personhuballah about whether Virginia’s 3rd Congressional District, as drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The disputed map was...
PERSPECTIVE: Judge Garland deserves a hearing
By Mike McClary The president of the United States has performed his Constitutional duty, under Article II, Section 2, to nominate a replacement, Judge Merrick Garland, to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Now, it is the duty of the president to appoint Judge...
If your ideas hurt people, it doesn’t matter what you call them
Paul Ryan's penance has not been matched by a broader effort to change the substance beneath the words. Ryan has long been the intellectual torchbearer of a public policy that would immediately hurt the same people he has decided to stop calling “takers.” For years,...
Recipe for a Trump Phenomenon
By Ann Telnaes
This is how the GOP will steal 2016
https://youtu.be/yfJeuk9Qizw North Carolina’s controversial voter identification law was used for the first time in the March 1 primary, and registered voters are experiencing the consequences of the voter suppression measure. About 218,000 North Carolinians, roughly...
BREAKING: CUCCINELLI WITHDRAWS
https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/1029154103827007
#KeepKenOUT of the Virginia Supreme Court
This afternoon, the Virginia Senate Courts committee put forward Ken Cuccinelli’s name to serve a 12 year term on the Virginia Supreme Court. Yes, THAT Ken Cuccinelli. We’ve got 18 hours to stop this. Can you write your Delegate and Senator now and tell them under no...
Jane for Congress!
https://www.facebook.com/janeforcongress/photos/a.510004502492642.1073741830.506175889542170/564315313728227/?type=3&theater
