Bell has vowed action to promote affordable housing construction, protect reproductive rights at the federal level, expand access to health care and curb gun violence. Both are expected to be reliable Democratic votes while representing their heavily blue districts. ...
“We live in Florida, where we wear suffragette white because they can take away our rights to vote tomorrow,” Castellana said.People are seen on the convention floor during the last night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 22, 2024. | Francis Ch...
The Iraq War was 20 years ago. Repeal outdated war powers!Pass the PRO Act to protect workers' rights! Pass the People Over Pentagon Act The US military budget is currently $858 billion, more than China, Russia, and the next seven countries combined! Yet, we are told there isn’t money...
On the third night of class, I began by asking the students to journal on these questions: What do you think of the new syllabus and grade menu? Do you feel your needs were met? Will you feel comfortable at a future date exercising your "protest rights" if some aspect of the syllabus...
Warren just kind of kept on truckin’ — she continued to charm with stories of her middle-class background (including a formative chapter of her life spent here in Houston) and continued to emphasize her campaign thesis that the system is rigged toward moneyed interests. She did not take ...
This is because individuals with rights that are respected – the right to assemble, to speak freely, to vote in free elections – want to have governance free of corruption, a media free to inform the public of the actions and positions of competing political actors, and to have confidence...
aThe surprise victory of the Democratic candidate in NY-26’s special election yesterday teaches a curious lesson: Seniors who rose up against Obamacare’s Medicare cuts at town-hall meetings in the summer of 2009 appear to have risen up against Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan in the spring of ...
And to stop doing the things that don't. From my part, that's what I have done in 15 years of experiences in there and as the governor, we restored voting rights to 52,000 people, we decriminalized possession of small amounts of americ-- of marijuana. I repealed the death penalty...
Beyond civil rights and criminal justice, fairness is the common ground for what must be the central platform of the Democratic Party: addressing poor and middle-class people’s central economic concerns in the five crucial areas of education, housing, health, employment, and retirement. ...