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Candidates Must Commit to Immediate US Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Sgt. 1st Class Lance Amsden, platoon sergeant for the 1st Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, watches as CH-47 Chinook Helicopters circle above during a dust storm at Forward Operating Base Kushamond, Afghanistan, July 17, during preparation for an air-assault …
Recidivism – A Big Problem with Few Solutions
For those that don’t know, recidivism is when a former criminal offender commits an additional crime and returns to incarceration. That said, even though it’s easy to define recidivism, figuring out its cause is a much bigger problem. This is one of the most difficult questions to answer because recidivism …
What is a Platform? What is Bernie Sanders’?
DailyClout breaks down what the various candidates for President say that they will do. What does having a “platform” matter? What saves policy and accountability from being gibberish? Watch our video series for insight into the 2020 election! https://youtu.be/HOqdmP3ULXg https://youtu.be/-R4ROBVY97o https://youtu.be/ufbm_DAqst8 https://youtu.be/oG1e7Oe9t9c
Pennsylvania Member of Congress Tracking Report
This is a 100% volunteer effort brought to you by a handful of progressive Democrats and Independents who share a vision of an informed electorate and a desire to make the process of getting legislative news easier! We want to offer thanks to the Pennsylvania Together and Pennsylvania Statewide Indivisible …
BULLETIN BOARD: Walk with the NYC Veterans Alliance in the footsteps of Revolutionary War troops!
August is our birthday month, and we’re inviting veterans, family members, and civilian allies to a special event honoring NYC’s military heritage since 1776. Join us Sunday, August 25th for the Battle of Brooklyn Ruck March for Veterans & Families! REGISTER HERE Walk in the footsteps of Continental soldiers in the …
OPINION: If Left Unchecked, Trump Will Obliterate the Right to Asylum
Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has effectuated 600 unilateral changes in immigration policy, more than any president in recent memory. Pursuant to its “zero tolerance policy,” the administration arrested undocumented immigrants who crossed the border, took thousands of their children away, put them in cages and then lost track of them, in violation of the Constitution’s Due Process Clause …
MESSAGE from Shahid Buttar for Congress: US Congress is Under Attack
A racist president enabled by a callous Speaker is attacking the voices in U.S. Congress who best represent our values. This is what Washington Post Global Opinions editor Karen Attiah had to say: You are responding in a big way to these attacks – last week was our biggest fundraising …
The Week In Congress: 2020 Census, Saudi Arabia Relations, and The Wall
Published July 10, 2019 First up: Does adding a citizenship question to the US census create a constitutional problem? The Trump administration has been trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form for months now, even though it was blocked by the Supreme Court. A problem with …
MESSAGE from Shahid Buttar for Congress: “Pelosi says, ‘Do not tweet’”
DailyClout Readers, Our fight is with Trump and his criminal administration, as well as its GOP enablers in the House and Senate. Sadly, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the present Democratic Party leadership stand with them—and against the American people and our principles—on too many issues. Speaker Pelosi refuses to impeach, …
MESSAGE from Nancy Goroff for Congress: “As a scientist, I believe in facts”
I’m excited to officially announce that I’m running for Congress in New York’s 1st District. As an educator, scientist, and mother who’s built my life in Suffolk County, I can’t stay on the sidelines when D.C. politicians like our current representative, Lee Zeldin, push an agenda that hurts the place …
MESSAGE from Shahid Buttar for Congress: Who Speaks For You?
For many years in the San Francisco Bay Area—even now—you would see bumper stickers declaring “Barbara Lee Speaks for Me.” It’s one of the most enduring political memes, and for good reason. Representative Lee in 2001 was the only member of Congress—House or Senate—to oppose the military authorization that gave …
Kamala Harris Has a Distinguished Career of Serving Injustice
Kamala Harris is rising in the polls after dramatically confronting Joe Biden during the Democratic primary debate about his opposition to federally mandated busing for desegregation. The following week, however, Harris backed away from saying that busing should always be federally mandated, calling it just one “tool that is in the toolbox” …
The Week In Congress: Border Assistance Bill, where are the BILLIONS really going?
Published June 30, 2019 A bipartisan bill designed to help kids detained at the border sounds cheer-worthy, right? But the real numbers are staggering and there are middlemen involved. Who else might be benefiting from the BILLIONS redirected to kids in this crisis? Watch this video to find out! <iframe src=’https://billcam.dailyclout.io/bills/OPcUNCTe4H/widget’ width=’770′ …
BULLETIN BOARD: Maloney Introduces Bill to Honor Harriet Tubman
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), sponsor of H.R. 1980, the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act, today introduced the Honoring Harriet Tubman Act, bipartisan legislation to place a statue of Harriet Tubman in the U.S. Capitol. “Harriet Tubman dedicated her entire life to fighting for freedom and the disenfranchised. …
Calling Trump’s Rationale “Contrived,” Supreme Court Halts Citizenship Question
In a surprise decision, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the four liberal members of the Supreme Court — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — halted the Trump administration’s plans, at least temporarily, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Court thought …
The Week In Congress: Arms Deals, Iran, and Reparations
Published June 25, 2019 First up, we cover a number joint resolutions the Senate passed in response to President Trump’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Next, we unpack the Senate’s disapproval of applying the Authority to Use Military Force (AUMF) against Iran, which could have an extreme impact on the middle …
OPINION: I fact checked Naomi Wolf’s new book on gay rights – the mockery she has faced for one error disguises the real outrage we should feel
For a month, critics have attacked Naomi Wolf’s new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, which explores how 19th-century UK laws persecuted homosexuality around the world and fuelled the gay rights movement. A BBC radio host pointed out on 21 May that the phrase “death recorded” did …
The Week In Congress: Dreamers, Declaring War, and Reuniting Korean-American Families
Published June 4, 2019 Here’s a video recap of the happenings in Congress last week (May 27-31, 2019). First up, two bills, The American Promise Act of 2019 and The Dream Act of 2019 introduced by Rep. Velasquez (D-NY) and Rep. Roybal-Allard (D-CA) respectively, were designed to carve a path to …
Bernie Sanders Proposes New Economic Bill of Rights
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a full-throated defense of democratic socialism in his June 12 speech at George Washington University. Sanders quoted FDR’s 1944 State of the Unionaddress: “We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.” Sanders, like FDR, proposed an …
Trump’s New Travel Restrictions Harm Both US and Cuban People
Escalating his policy to economically strangle Cuba, Donald Trump has imposed new restrictions on travel to Cuba by U.S. persons. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) will no longer allow the popular “people-to-people” educational travel and they will deny licenses to cruise ships, the most common way people visit Cuba. “While this further …