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"Five million Texans are without power tonight and temperatures are below freezing. People will most certainly die tonight because of it. But Gov. Abbott had time to go on Sean Hannity to blame the Green New Deal."

I think Democrats made a wise judgment. And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy shows why.

Just 76,518 votes were the difference between Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the White House.

“Tell all of your normie friends to get their asses onto Telegram,” wrote Proud Boys: Uncensored, a channel linked to the far-right, neo-fascist Proud Boys. “And exchange phone numbers with your tribe, if you haven’t already.”

"I think it very well may be the case that reluctant senators change their mind and vote to convict," prosecution aides said.

"It says so much about how utterly rigged the system is that it takes a team of lawyers to figure out some hail-mary-pass way to raise the minimum wage."

Removing Greene from her committee assignments was just a first step.

The economic carnage from Trump’s incompetent and malicious response to the coronavirus has been concentrated in poor and minority neighborhoods.

"This would save over $250 billion, which should be repurposed to help Americans who have lost income due to the pandemic and its economic fallout."

Congress could use an arcane section of the 14th Amendment to hold Trump accountable for Capitol attack

President Biden inherited a disaster: Not enough doses, not enough equipment, and no distribution network.

"Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing."

All that Stands between What People Want and What Congress Delivers Is an Absurd Rule that Assures Minority Rule

Sen. Josh Hawley continues to complain to very large audiences about being 'canceled' for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

"McConnell is already abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response."

A raging virus, a struggling economy and a fast-growing mountain of debt.

"Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?" said one progressive organizer. "I don't see a way they can do both."

The administration unveiled a discriminatory new rule change amid fallout from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building.

"Will there be any accountability for these recent billionaire enablers of Donald Trump, who saw what damage he caused and still stood by him?"