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Daily Kos amasses over 260,000 signatures in support of Deb Haaland for secretary of the interiorToday, Daily Kos delivered over 260,000 signatures in support of Rep. Deb Haaland as the Senate is about to begin hearings to confirm her as the new secretary of the Department of the Interior under the Biden-Harris administration. Haaland currently...
Voting Rights Roundup: Biden rescinds Trump order that tried to weaponize the census against LatinosLeading Off ● 2020 Census: Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aiming to undo Donald Trump's attempt to weaponize the census against Latinos and Democrats to undermine their political representation. Biden's order...
Movement to elect president by popular vote hits roadblocks after 2020 elections dealt key setbacksLast week, Democratic state Sen. Adam Ebbin withdrew a bill to add Virginia's 13 Electoral College votes to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact after Senate Democrats realized they did not have enough votes to pass the...
Trans women in sports and the myth of "male puberty"So there's a diary up about the two transphobic garbage bills currently being pushed in Montana. In the comments section of that diary several (cisgender) Kossacks are showing that they've been suckered by an old and pernicious lie told by TERFs and...
Voting Rights Roundup: Georgia Senate wins pave way for Democrats to pass historic election reformsLeading Off ● Congress: With victories in Georgia's Senate runoffs, congressional Democrats now have the opportunity to pass the most important set of voting and election reforms since the historic Voting Rights Act was adopted in 1965. These reforms...
Emergency managers and gerrymandering: How Republican attacks on democracy led to Flint water crisisIn 2012, Michigan voters re-elected Barack Obama by a wide nine-point margin of victory. The also re-elected Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow in a landslide, gave more votes to Democratic congressional candidates than Republicans, and voted for a...
Rudy Giuliani's star witness was ridiculous when testifying, now she's being ridiculously dangerousMellissa Carone’s testimony before the Michigan state house panel made her an instant meme across the nation and more than earned her a parody on Saturday Night Live that was, if anything, less bizarre than her actual statements. The aspiring...
In the COVID-19 economy, other countries have direct aid. The U.S. has food bank linesThe failures of the United States to respond to the coronavirus pandemic and its attendant economic challenges is well documented. More than that, millions of Americans are living those failures every day: The $600 in expanded unemployment...
Courts to Donald Trump: It's over. No, really, it's over. Do you need us to say it again?Donald Trump did not have to personally lift a finger on Tuesday to put together a truly impressive record of losing. The Nevada Supreme Court voted six to zero (with one recusal) to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of the Trump campaign’s...
Trump administration fully reinstates DACA program following federal judge's orderThe Trump administration has fully reinstated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in compliance with a federal judge’s ruling finding unlawfully appointed acting Department of Homeland Security Sec. Chad Wolf lacked legal...
2.4 million 'please vote' letters to Georgia are now in the mail. Daily Kos wrote 400,000+ of themIf you’re reading this, you know how high the stakes are in Georgia for the Jan. 5 runoff. And because the two Senate races will be decided by turnout, the real question is: Do enough Georgia Democrats know they need to come back and vote again?...
Dem senators add language to defense bill requiring federal officers ID themselves at protestsOne of the more chilling and underreported developments of the past four years has been the Trump administration’s employment of unidentified federal officers to threaten, intimidate, attack, and arrest lawful protesters. Often heavily armed, these...
Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewedIn a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month's election in New York's 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more...
Rep. Katie Porter wants to expose Moscow Mitch's corruption, so I'm gonna help herAll I’ll say is I’m glad Katie Porter is on our side. She’s fierce and unafraid, and her latest Twitter thread amply demonstrates that: Yertle the Fucking Unbelievable Disgrace won’t change, of course, until that gavel is ripped from his cold, dead...
Kristi Noem goes for triple world record in cherry-picking, finger-pointing, self-congratulationOn Tuesday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem slid onto the always open to friends of Trump Wall Street Journal editorial page. There Noem proceeded to lavish herself in just oodles of self-praise for the “balanced” approach to COVID-19 she has taken...