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“Nonprofit Killer” Bill Favors Corporations, Not People
For-profit industries have enjoyed ever-growing impunity to advocate for whatever they want, no matter how destructive.
A Trump Inauguration Event Is Charging $100K for Donors to “Pray” With Him
Trump's inauguration committee is on pace to raise more funds than any other president's committee in history.
Johnson’s Dim Speakership Chances Could Imperil Trump’s Certification on Jan. 6
Mike Johnson can only afford two defections from GOP lawmakers this week to ensure he retains the speakership.
Jimmy Carter, Who Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in Palestine, Dead at 100
"It’s a terrible human rights persecution that far transcends what any outsider would imagine,” said Carter in 2007.
Elon Musk Op-Ed in German Newspaper Prompts Editor to Resign in Protest
The party that Musk is backing is vehemently anti-immigration, and regularly downplays the atrocities of Nazism.
Republicans Plan to Revive Legislative Attacks on Voting Rights
A key GOP lawmaker said the party would push to resurrect the ACE Act and the SAVE Act under a GOP trifecta.
At Least 37 US Lawmakers Traded Up to $113 Million in Arms Stocks This Year
Eight of these lawmakers even simultaneously held positions on the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
From Big Pharma to Wall Street, Corporate Giants Bankroll Trump’s Inauguration
Uber, Amazon and Ford are reportedly among the companies that have pledged to give $1 million to the 2025 inauguration.
What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term
We can mobilize mutual aid to feed and shelter people all the time, not just after major environmental disasters.
Trump’s Debt Ceiling Power Play Is a Prelude to the Congressional Chaos to Come
Ahead of the House speaker election, Mike Johnson is stuck between Trump and the hard right of the House.