Click:sheds are When Rep. Ilhan Omar arrived in her home district in Minnesota Thursday night, she was greeted with a rather different chant than the one President Donald Trump’s supporters shouted during a rally in North Carolina 24 hours earlier. “Welcome home, Ilhan!” Omar’s constituents chanted as the Minnesota Democrat and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)…
Read more‘Wake up, dudes’ — gender gap confounds GOP women
Republican men and women are deeply divided over how to confront the results of a brutal midterm election that decimated the ranks of female GOP lawmakers in the House. Most House Republicans have so far shown little appetite for performing an autopsy on the 2018 election cycle and publicly identifying the root of their tough…
Read moreFive Democrats who could be dark horses in 2020
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination is a wide-open contest with no clear front-runner for the first time in years. While former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police…
Read moreSanders meeting with former female campaign staffers about sexism, harassment claims
Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.) will meet this week with women who said they dealt with sexual harassment and sexism while working on his 2016 presidential campaign,…
Read moreOn First Anniversary of Kavanaugh Nomination, Groups Demand Democrats Follow Through on Promise to Probe Perjury and Assault Accusations
Progressive and women’s rights groups on Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court by demanding Congress open an investigation into the judge’s conduct during his confirmation hearings—as Democrats promised they would last fall. July 9, 2018 marked the beginning of months-long protests against Kavanaugh, as advocacy groups organized…
Read moreAmid 'Existential Threat' and With Women's Freedom at Stake, CNN Slammed for Pushing Climate and Reproductive Rights to Back Burner
Voters and advocacy organizations alike expressed dismay Wednesday after the second round of Democratic primary debates kicked off with CNN asking few questions about two key issues Americans say they care about most in the 2020 election—the climate and women’s rights. Over the course of more than two hours, the network’s debate moderators asked only…
Read more'A Bullhorn to His White Nationalist Base': Progressive Jews Hit Back After Trump's Anti-Semitic Smear
Progressive Jews accused President Donald Trump of blaring “straightforward anti-Semitism” after he said from the Oval Office on Tuesday that Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party are either ignorant or disloyal. The smear—which sparked widespread outrage and the trending hashtag #DisloyaltoTrump—came after Trump once again baselessly accused Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan…
Read moreLeaked Draft of Trump Executive Order to 'Censor the Internet' Denounced as Dangerous, Unconstitutional Edict
Civil liberties groups are warning of a major threat to online freedoms and First Amendment rights if a leaked draft of a Trump administration edict—dubbed by critics as a “Censor the Internet” executive order that would give powerful federal agencies far-reaching powers to pick and choose which kind of Internet material is and is not…
Read more'Not Enough': Critics Say Walmart Must Go Beyond Corporate PR and Half-Measures on Guns
Gun control groups on Tuesday praised Walmart after the company announced it would no longer sell certain firearm ammunition and would reduce its gun sales, but the applause came with the awareness that small steps by corporations won’t stop gun violence and that lawmakers must take action to stop the epidemic. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made the announcement the company will…
Read moreSchultz adviser slams Trump for 'childish games,' says top priority is to defeat him
An adviser to Howard Schultz on Tuesday slammed President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE over a tweet Trump sent this week attacking the former Starbucks…
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