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Meet the Rep. With TheDGT.org Mon. July 21st at Noon: Arizona House Assistant Democratic Leader Nancy Gutierrez Blasts Supreme Court for Giving Know Nothing Trump Carte Blanche to Gut The Department of Education

July 18, 2025July 15, 2025 by David Gordon

UPDATE: Meet Rep. Gutierrez with TheDGT.org on Monday July 21 on Zoom at Noon. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8CpPwlmuRnOOgResdlHyAA In a press statement following the United States Supreme Court Shadow Docket ruling, without explanation, that would allow the Know Nothing Science and History denying Anti Public Education Trump MAGA-Project 2025-Fascist Regime to continue its war on knowledge … Read more

Convicted Trump VP contender Byron Donalds says life was Better for Black Americans During Jim Crow

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 by David Gordon

MAGA surrogates for the Traitor-Convicted 34 times over Donald ‘I killed Roe v Wade’ and ‘I want to be Dictator for a Day’ Trump are the gift that keeps on giving for future Biden/Harris and Lincoln Project Ads. This time, the gift giver is Florida House Representative and African American Byron Donalds, who in a … Read more

Progress on the Second War on Poverty: The Biden/Harris Administration Increases Benefits to the SNAP (Food Stamp) Program

August 21, 2021 by David Gordon

When the history of the Biden/Harris Administration is written, it should be noted that the President and Vice President launched the sequel to Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty programs from the 1960s. Already, the expansion of the Child Tax Credit that was enacted as part of the American Rescue Plan has helped to reduce child … Read more

Senate Democrats to Use Reconciliation to Pass $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan

July 14, 2021July 13, 2021 by David Gordon

In a move that could potentially rewrite the American Social Contract, the Democrats in the United States Senate appear to have agreed on pursuing a $3.5 trillion budget package through the reconciliation process. If all Democrats support this dollar figure, the bill contents, and the revenue sources to pay for it, Vice President Kamala Harris … Read more

Defund the Police? Balancing ‘Social Control’ & ‘Social Investment’ (video)

August 27, 2020July 1, 2020 by Pamela Powers Hannley

What does “defund the police” mean to you? Following the tragic and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos Ingram Lopez and others at the hands of law enforcement officers, there have been calls to “defund the police.” Often the same people who say “defund the police” also add “that doesn’t mean … Read more

Richard, are you the CD7 No Labels candidate listed on the Az SOS website?

Although Adelita’s win in the September 23 special general election is a foregone conclusion (the only suspense is whether she…

The Republicans finally got their wish on this. I think it was about 20-25 years ago that I was sitting…