The Washington Post reports, Senate votes to advance bipartisan gun deal, breaking 30-year logjam: The Senate advanced a bill [Republicans didn’t filibuster] Tuesday night that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements, putting the legislation on course to be passed … Read more
So the Arizona Republic did one of those useless speculation pieces, The Gaggle: How will state lawmakers react after tragic school shooting in Texas? Ooh! Ooh! I know! The AP reports, Arizona Senate Democrats force vote on gun background checks: Minority Democrats in the Arizona Senate used a procedural move Tuesday to force a vote … Read more
Matt Grodsky is the Vice President, Director of Public Affairs at Matters of State Strategies, he previously served as the Director of Communications for the Arizona Democratic Party from 2019 to 2021. He is the author of Righteous Might: How Democrats Turned Arizona Blue And How You Can Flip Your Battleground State In the … Read more
Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr in an impassioned plea for congressional action said it best, America is being held hostage by 50 Republican Senators and the archaic Senate filibuster rule. He can add two Vichy Democrat appeasers of the enemies of democracy, Sens. “Manchinema”, who also value the Senate filibuster rule over the lives … Read more
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 saw more gun deaths in the US than any year in over two decades, showing even a pandemic couldn’t stop the violence. The Washington Post reports 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades. So far, 2021 is worse. Gun violence is the uniquely American epidemic within the global … Read more