Oh, SNAP! Welfare for large corporate agribusiness, but not food for the working poor (Updated)

Bloomberg News recently reported Trump’s $28 Billion Trade War Bailout Is Overpaying Farmers: President Donald Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade war with China has cost them. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s calculations overshot the impact of the trade conflict on American soybean prices, according to six … Read more

AG William ‘Coverup’ Barr may be on an island by himself with his ‘spying’ conspiracy theories

Last week, selected leaks to the media from the report of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz destroyed multiple GOP talking points about 2016, including Trump’s claim that the FBI spied on his campaign: The New York Times reported that the soon-to-be-released report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General regarding the FBI’s counterintelligence operation (code-named Crossfire … Read more

House Speaker Pelosi makes it official: draft the Articles of Impeachment

Press Release of Pelosi Remarks Announcing House of Representatives Moving Forward with Articles of Impeachment: Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks announcing that the House of Representatives will move forward with drafting articles of impeachment.  Below are the Speaker’s remarks as delivered: Speaker Pelosi.  Good morning. Let us begin where our Founders began … Read more

ALEC: Destroying Democracy State by State

Like an undiagnosed cancer, the organization ALEC secretly writes anti-worker, anti-consumer and voter suppression “model” legislation in state capitols nationwide, including Arizona. It is funded by major corporations that bribe state legislators with luxury vacations, free travel, and gaudy dinners — and then hand them ready-to-file, regressive legislation. In fact, ALEC — the American Legislative … Read more