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Sorry Democrats, the Green Party Came Up With the Green New Deal!

Sorry Democrats, the Green Party Came Up With the Green New Deal!

This week progressives nationwide are talking about a Green New Deal and, while mainstream media is saying that insurgent Democrats came up with this, we beg to differ! We applaud the efforts of Democrats for finally adopting what the Global Greens began to work on in in 2006 while noting that the delay of 12 years — Read on www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/29/sorry-democrats-the-green-party-came-up-…

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Republicans initial reaction in Kansas to Laura Kelly's win? Sing about her dying.

Republicans initial reaction in Kansas to Laura Kelly’s win? Sing about her dying.

While Laura Kelly was celebrating her win in Topeka, across the city a much darker storyline was taking place. While Laura Kelly called for civility in the Ramada, Kobach supporter, and machine-gun jeep owner Don Erbert had another message all about the death of the Democratic Governor Elect, as covered by the Topeka Capital-Journal:

The popular songs that blared throughout the first two hours…

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Conservative Writer Calls Out Huckabee Sanders Over Acosta Lie Here is something for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Right wing writer and wingnut apologist Ben Shapiro joins his lettered brethren to stick up for banned reporter Jim Acosta.

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Georgia Republican Brian Kemp using his public office to investigate political foes

Georgia Republican Brian Kemp using his public office to investigate political foes

Brian Kemp used his office as Georgia Secretary of State to go after Political Foes

Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp admitted Sunday that his office opened an investigation into his opponent Stacey Abrams’ party. The secretary of state’s office oversees elections, putting Kemp in charge of his own election — because he still hasn’t recused himself from the role.

The office is…

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Tree Of Life Rabbi Says ‘Hate Speech’ Fueled By Politicians Led To Synagogue Massacre

Tree Of Life Rabbi Says ‘Hate Speech’ Fueled By Politicians Led To Synagogue Massacre

People stage a protest against Trump near the scene of the deadly mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers delivered a poignant sermon on Saturday in which he blamed politicians for a rise in “hate speech” across the country — a troubling trend that he said led to the recent massacre at his synagogue in Pittsburgh, CNN reported.

Myers shared…

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Reminder: Republicans have been lying to you about protecting your health care for years

Reminder: Republicans have been lying to you about protecting your health care for years

Oh, yeah. Paul Ryan is a Liar

Here’s a blast from the Republicans’ lying past, courtesy Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt: they’ve been lying to America about their intent to protect people with pre-existing conditions for months and months:

https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan/status/859442620187193345

We looked at that assertion back in May 2017. This was Ryan in panic mode because one of his…

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Over the advice of everyone Trump went to Pittsburgh to rub salt into a wounded city

Over the advice of everyone Trump went to Pittsburgh to rub salt into a wounded city

People stage a protest against Trump near the scene of the deadly mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The mayor of Pittsburgh told Donald Trump to wait. Local religious leaders asked Trump to wait. Politicians in both parties begged Trump to wait. Tens of thousands of local residents told Trump not to come at all until he was ready to completely disown the white…

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Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’

Speaker Ryan: ‘You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order’

Speaker Paul Ryan repudiates Trump assertion that President can change Constitution

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday broke with President Donald Trump on whether an executive order could deny a constitutional guarantee of citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to non- citizen parents.

But despite Ryan’s stern rebuttal to the president, the idea of limiting birthright citizenship still has…

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Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution

Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution

Self-styled dictator, Donald Trump is trying to re-write the Constitution by Executive Order

President Trump is vowing to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to noncitizens, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution.

The action, which Trump previewed in a television clip broadcast Tuesday, would be…

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Former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue says Trump is not welcome in Pittsburgh

Former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue says Trump is not welcome in Pittsburgh

Former president of the Tree of Life Synagogue Lynette Lederman says President Trump is a “purveyor of hate speech” and is not welcome in Pittsburgh in the wake of a shooting that killed 11.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juopm0dTxUE%5B/embedyt%5D

  Source: CNN News 10/29/18

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'Trump's deporting your illegal cousins,' man tells Houston woman in racist rant captured on video FIL

‘Trump’s deporting your illegal cousins,’ man tells Houston woman in racist rant captured on video FIL

A Houston woman recorded a man’s racist rant directed at her as she headed to the polls to cast her vote Thursday.

With her 2-year-old daughter sitting in the backseat, Janet Sabriu recorded the passing driver in northwest Houston as he said, “That’s not how we drive in America. Trump’s deporting your illegal cousins today,” in video provided to Houston television station KHOU.

The driver also…

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Trump Official Did Undisclosed Work With Scandal-Plagued GOP Fundraiser

Trump Official Did Undisclosed Work With Scandal-Plagued GOP Fundraiser

Meetings arranged for Elliott Broidy, a major Trump fundraiser and former Republican National Committee official, should have triggered foreign agent registration, experts say.

A current State Department official helped a top fundraiser for Donald Trump arrange meetings with U.S. senators and Angolan officials in early 2017, according to emails obtained by ProPublica. Neither the official nor…

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Reports of Voter Intimidation at Polling Places in Texas Tempers are flaring during early voting in Dallas County, Texas, and reports of voter intimidation are on the rise.

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The Case of Voter Fraud is the Real Fraud

The Case of Voter Fraud is the Real Fraud

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who was placed in charge of President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, attends the first meeting of the commission at the White House in 2017. (Chri

In the end, the decision seemed inevitable. After a seven-day trial in Kansas City federal court in March, in which Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach needed to be tutored on basic trial procedure by…

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China and Russia Are Listening to Trump’s Phone Calls New York Times: “When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports indicate that Chinese spies are often listening — and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy.”

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Texas Trump Voter Tells MSNBC He's Supporting Beto O’Rourke Because the President’s Rallies Are ‘Absolutely Insane’ “I just don’t want people to vote based off of misinformation."

Texas Trump Voter Tells MSNBC He’s Supporting Beto O’Rourke Because the President’s Rallies Are ‘Absolutely Insane’ “I just don’t want people to vote based off of misinformation.”

Trump rallies too weird for supporters

A former Trump voter told MSNBC on Tuesday that he had decided to vote for Democratic Senate nominee Beto O’Rourke because President Donald Trump’s rhetoric had become “absolutely insane.”

Reporting from a polling place in Houston, Texas, MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard spoke to one “conservative” voter about how Trump’s rallies had influenced his vote.

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White Supremacist Congressman Blew $18,000 in Taxpayer Money on Refreshments at Private D.C. Club: Report

White Supremacist Congressman Blew $18,000 in Taxpayer Money on Refreshments at Private D.C. Club: Report

Republican Nazi Congressman Steve King

On Wednesday, The Intercept reported that Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the most overtly white nationalist member of Congress, has charged the taxpayers $18,000 over 14 years for food and drink at the Capitol Hill Club, a private restaurant reserved exclusively for Republican politicians and their guests:

The pricey membership club, located just across the street…

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