Month: September 2020

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel rallied a group of door-knockers in Arlington on Monday, seeking to give her troops a shot in the arm as they canvased Northern Virginia ahead of Tuesday’s pivotal gubernatorial election.  The chairwoman briefly addressed the mix of paid staff and volunteers at the party’s local field office before heading out to…

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is considering a 2018 Senate run in Utah and is looking to pose a challenge to President Trump from Congress’s upper chamber, according to a report from Politico. Romney, who is the former governor of Massachusetts and ran for president in 2008 and 2012, has reportedly met with Utah’s…

A majority of American voters say Alabama GOP candidate Roy Moore should be expelled from the Senate if he wins Tuesday’s special election, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. It’s the second poll out Tuesday with such a result, finding a nearly identical amount of support for the Senate expelling Moore compared to a Politico–Morning Consult poll released earlier…

Leading Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate on Wednesday urged their colleagues to help mobilize a national stand against Republican threats to “vital and necessary health programs.” Authored by incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who will serve on the Senate Democratic…

On the same day that former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state nominee, was dodging questions about the ongoing ExxonKnew investigation, a Massachusetts court on Wednesday ordered the oil company to hand over decades of documents regarding what it knew about climate change. The ruling (pdf), handed down by Massachusetts Superior…

Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) has been confirmed as CIA director, after 14 Democrats fell in line with almost all Senate Republicans Monday night. Pompeo, who has hinted that he is open to reauthorizing torture and mass surveillance, will lead the intelligence agency under President Donald Trump. The Democrats who voted to confirm Pompeo were John…

Speaking to members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) delivered a searing critique by telling her fellow Democrats that the party should not let themselves “off the hook” when it comes to explaining horrific reality of President Donald J. Trump. In order to defeat Trump and take on the Republicans,…

The grand opening of a Trump Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Tuesday was met with loud demonstrations and shunned by city officials in protest of the Trump administration’s harsh anti-immigration stance. Click Here: camisetas de futbol baratas “None of us will be [at the opening],” Kerry Jang, a city council member, told the Washington…

A group of Colorado teenagers scored a “huge” victory against the state’s fracking industry on Thursday when a three-judge panel ruled that the health of citizens and environment takes precedence over oil and gas interests. The decision, handed down by the Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, requires that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation…

The Alabama Republican Party is shrugging off pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote GOP senator to try to reverse requirement that Pentagon remove Confederate names from bases No, ‘blue states’ do not bail out ‘red states’ MORE (R-Ky.) to disqualify Roy Moore as its…