Democratic lawmakers, including more than 100 state legislators, rallied Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol to urge the Senate to delay its summer recess until passing the For the People Act. The Washington Post reports, Democratic lawmakers rally in D.C. to demand the passage of voting rights legislation: The state lawmakers at Tuesday’s rally traveled from … Read more
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said she may yet jump back into politics, teasing the possibility of a Senate run in 2022 against incumbent Lisa Murkowski, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reports. Said Palin: “If God wants me to do it I will.”
Saturday was the fourth and final day of the Poor Peoples Campaign’s Georgetown-to-Austin Moral March For Democracy. Hundreds of marchers made their way to Austin, TX, on Saturday as thousands more joined them at a protest for voting rights. At Saturday’s rally, country music legend Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing “vote … Read more
Above: Rep Joyce Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was arrested on July 15 at the Hart Senate Office Building while protesting in favor of voting rights legislation. Update to Senate Democrats Drafting A Revised Voting Rights Bill Under Intensifying Public Pressure. The Huffington Post reports, Texas Lawmakers Sound The Alarm: Senate Dems Lack Urgency … Read more
Told ya so! The Gang of Twenty’s fictitious “bipartisan” infrastructure bill appears to be falling apart today after Republican negotiators had promised they would have the bill ready by Monday. There was never any good faith in these negotiations, despite what Joe Biden would like to believe, it was always Mitch McConnell’s rope-a-dope strategy to … Read more