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House Passes The Dream and Promise Act
March 18, 2021
The House continues its breakneck pace of passing substantive legislation while the dysfunctional Senate is still bogged down with confirmation hearings for President Biden’s cabinet and department nominees. It will take reforming or killing the Senate filibuster to clear the backlog of legislation the House has sent over to the Senate. The Hill reports, House … Read more
A Moral Test Of Our Democracy: Senate Tees Up Filibuster Reform With S. 1, The For The People Act Next Week
March 18, 2021
The House has already passed H.R. 1, The For The People Act, now the Senate is preparing to move on its version of the bill, S. 1, The For the People Act, next week. To do so means having to directly confront the anti-democratic Jim Crow era filibuster rule, which the “Grim Reaper” of the … Read more
Accused Coup Plotter Andy Biggs Refuses to Honor Those that Stopped the Coup
March 18, 2021
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There should be some part of the Arizona Democratic brain trust that wishes someone like Republican State Party Chairperson Kelli Ward or Congressional District Five Representative Andy Biggs gets the 2022 Republican Senate Nomination against Senator Mark Kelly. Either one of them would be a statewide posterboard for all that has gone wrong with the … Read more
The Radical White Christian Nationalist Movement And Abortion Politics
March 18, 2021
Samuel Perry noted about the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection in Washington, D.C. on January 6, The Capitol siege recalls past acts of Christian nationalist violence (excerpt): [The] blending of Christian imagery with Trump flags put Christian nationalism, the often militarized fusing of Christianity and American white identity, on display during one of America’s darkest days. As someone … Read more
The New Executive Director of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has some Explaining to Do
March 18, 2021
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$63,000 for part-time work at one event at the end of a political campaign. Can I apply for a job like that and not report it too? Brian Schmitt, the new Executive Director of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission after winning a three to two vote on Tuesday, has some explaining to do. The Republican … Read more
Puerto Rico, DC: A Red and Blue Pair of New States
March 18, 2021
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President Biden strongly supports statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, which is part of the Democratic Party platform. Even conservative Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott endorse Puerto Rican statehood, conceding to the state’s Latino voters. Republicans in other states don’t perceive Puerto Rico as a Republican-leaning state, as its constituency is non-white. … Read more
Go to Hell Moscow Mitch
March 18, 2021
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When the history of the death of the Republican Party is written, people like Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Rush Limbaugh, Rubert Murdoch, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump will take up voluminous space. So will Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell. Since occupying a position in Republican Senate leadership, his three … Read more
VIDEO: ‘Rebel Constable’ Randall Helps Tenants Facing Eviction
March 18, 2021
[fusion_youtube id=”Wo0fdKcmzcY” alignment=”” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” css_id=””][/fusion_youtube] By A.J. Flick Even before the pandemic, there was a quiet revolution brewing among some Pima County constables, particularly how eviction notices are handled, which inspired former hydrologist Kristen Randall to run for constable. Constable Bennett Bernal led the revolution of “rebel constables.” “He told … Read more
