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![From the Grassroots to the Ballot Box: How Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum Won In Florida](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/S1_Gillum-400x300.jpg)
How Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum Won With Grassroots Activism
Phillip Agnew and Charlene Carruthers discuss their work with Gillum.
![Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer shake hands after Shumer delivered a speech at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center on February 12, 2018, in Louisville, Kentucky.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-917374622sch-400x300.jpg)
Chuck Schumer Cuts Deal With Mitch McConnell to Fast-Track Trump Judges
Progressive commentators have concluded that Schumer is not fit to lead the party and has to go.
![An employee arranges potted cannabis mother plants inside the greenhouse facility](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-948004138m-400x300.jpg)
Trump’s Marijuana Task Force Ordered to Ignore Data That Show Positive Impacts
New documents reveal that the Trump administration plans on waging a fierce war against marijuana.
![Trump supporters rally on July 5, 2018, in Great Falls, Montana. Trump's unexpected political success has led two powerful think tanks to discuss repositioning themselves in response to the rapid growth of both right-wing and left-wing populism on both sides of the Atlantic.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-992379562tr-400x300.jpg)
Centrist Think Tanks Ponder Populism’s Rise, but Hesitate to Change
Despite rising populism, two leading think tanks in DC remain attached to the economic and military establishment.
![The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has long advised the Department of Energy on safety problems at high-risk facilities around the country, like the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, pictured above. A new federal order, however, could limit the board’s oversight.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-53180550n-400x300.jpg)
Nuclear Safety Board Slams Energy Department Plan to Weaken Oversight
A new Department of Energy order is a violation of the US Atomic Energy Act.
![Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and Sen. Claire McCaskill talk with reporters as they arrive at the US Capitol on November 20, 2013 via way of the senate subway.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-450818309d-400x300.jpg)
Democratic Women Candidates Benefit From Surge in Donations From Female Donors
An analysis of Federal Election Commission data shows female candidates tend to benefit most from female donors.
![Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein attend the Religious Liberty Summit at the Department of Justice on July 30, 2018, in Washington, DC.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1007869124l-400x300.jpg)
Firing Sessions Won’t Save Trump, or His Kids, From the Law
The Trump family’s legal woes go far beyond the Mueller investigation.
![Right-wing demonstrators light flares on August 27, 2018, in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, following the death of a 35-year-old German national who died in a hospital after a "dispute between several people of different nationalities," according to the police.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1024609694-400x300.jpg)
Anti-Immigrant Rampage in Germany Shows Expansion of Right-Wing Violence
A right-wing mob of 6,000 tore through Chemnitz, attacking immigrants and giving Hitler salutes.
![Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum addresses the crowd of educators as Democrats running for the US Senate, Florida governor and attorney general for the state of Florida attended an educational rally on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at the Betty Anderson Recreation Center in Miami Gardens, Florida.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-1019604138-400x300.jpg)
In Historic Upset, Progressive Andrew Gillum Wins Florida Nomination
Gillum rode grassroots enthusiasm for his Medicare-for-All platform to victory in the gubernatorial primary.
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Republicans Prepare for Worst-Case Scenario After Midterms
Republicans fear a wide range of investigations in a Democratic Congress. But impeachment? Probably not.