“Experts say their dominance in the party poses a threat to the country’s democratic principles and jeopardizes the integrity of future votes,” Amy Gardner reports for The Washington Post.
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Translated excerpts of intercepted phone calls by Russian soldiers shed light on failure of Putin’s plans
“In phone calls to friends and relatives at home, Russian soldiers gave damning insider accounts of battlefield failures and civilian executions, excoriating their leaders just weeks into the campaign to take Kyiv.,” The New York Times reports.
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How one Atlanta bookstore is picking up the fight against book bans
“Atlanta Vintage Books is one of hundreds of independent bookstores across the country that have celebrated the freedom to read this week at a time when schools, universities and public libraries face what experts say are unprecedented attempts to ban or restrict reading materials,” NPR reports.
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Designed to Fail: The Legislature’s McCleary solution has collapsed
Robert Cruickshank of Washington’s Paramount Duty argues that the Legislature’s response to the McCleary education funding lawsuit fell far short of providing the ample funding for public schools that the Washington State Constitution requires.
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Migrants stranded in Martha’s Vineyard say they were lied to
“Migrants in the group said they’d agreed to fly to Massachusetts on the promise of jobs and assistance but didn’t realize they were bound for Martha’s Vineyard. No one on the island knew they were coming and, according to their attorneys, they’d been given falsified U.S. addresses by immigration officials, perhaps ensuring that they’d be deemed in the country illegally,” Miami Herald Political Reporter Bianca Padró Ocasio reports.
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Watch the unveiling of NPI’s initial August 2022 Bellevue housing research findings
Eastside For All’s Debbie Lacy, Complete Streets Bellevue’s Chris Randels, and the Housing Development Consortium’s Patience Malaba joined NPI’s Andrew Villeneuve on Monday, September 12th to unveil the initial findings of the August 2022 Bellevue housing poll commissioned by NPI and the Bellevue Housing Research Coalition.
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The idea that letting Trump walk will heal America is ridiculous
“The only way out is through. Fear of what Trump and his supports might do cannot and should not stand in the way of what we must do to secure the Constitution from all its enemies, foreign and domestic,” writes Jamelle Bouie.
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Oh, how the powerful wail and whine – The Washington Post
“No one stormed into Trump’s home unannounced with guns blazing, awakening him from a sound sleep and scaring him into paralysis,” Robin Givhan points out.
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Peak inflation? Why some prices are tumbling fast
“Crude oil, wheat and lumber are among commodities that have tumbled recently. Shipping rates on major trade routes are sinking from record highs. And used-car prices, which surged during the past two years, are showing early signs of tailing off,” The Globe and Mail reports.
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Jonathan Pie: Bye Bye Boris
Watch a British humorist react to the news that Boris Johnson is resigning as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Watch President Biden deliver remarks in response to the Supreme Court’s horrific Dobbs decision
“This fall, we must elect more senators and representatives who will codify a woman’s right to choose into federal law once again, elect more state leaders to protect this right at the local level,” the President said.
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Oil companies are making a windfall. Here’s why they keep closing refineries.
Refining oil is a dirty, dangerous business. Understandably, few private sector firms want to build, upgrade, or expand refineries at a time when the nation is trying to pivot to a renewable energy future.
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31 white supremacists tied to hate group charged with planning riot near Idaho Pride event
“Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said authorities received a tip about a ‘little army’ loading into a U-Haul truck Saturday afternoon. Police later arrested thirty-nine people who had masks, white supremacist insignia and shields,” The Washington Post reported.
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Watch the unveiling of NPI’s June 2022 assault weapons ban poll finding
With Attorney General Bob Ferguson, State Senator Manka Dhingra, State Representative Jamila Taylor, State Senator Patty Kuderer, and Emily Cantrell of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility.
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Chris Murphy confronts Republicans on gun safety inaction: “What are we doing?”
Senator Chris Murphy, who represents Newtown in the United States Senate along with Richard Blumenthal, delivered a speech on the floor of the Senate demanding that his Republican colleagues stop blocking gun safety bills from reaching the President’s desk.
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Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr calls for action and slams Mitch McConnell before NBA playoffs game
Watch and listen to Steve Kerr’s call to action for gun safety following the horrific slaughter of schoolchildren and teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
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For decades, Patty Murray has blocked Republican attempts to limit abortion
This Washington Post profile by Mike DeBonis delves into some of the behind-the-scenes work Patty Murray has done to protect reproductive rights at the federal level, with one Republican senator stating on the record: “She’s very effective.”
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The fall of Roe would also be an attack on religious liberty
“A ban on abortion in Missouri violates our freedom as Jews to control our bodies in a way that is consistent with our religious beliefs. As Jews, we understand religious persecution very well. Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion is also deeply troubling because it reveals his disturbing view of pregnant people as mere birthing vessels,” Stacy Newman and Dana Sandweiss write.
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Newly enacted Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act will subject judges and Supreme Court justices to new financial disclosure requirements
“The legislation was introduced after the Wall Street Journal reported in September that more than 130 federal judges had violated U.S. law and judicial ethics by overseeing court cases involving companies in which either they or members of their family owned stock,” Time’s Madeleine Carlisle explains.
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Abortion care has joined economic security as a top midterms issue, Monmouth finds
“The importance of abortion policy in the current midterms compared with four years ago has shifted the most among Democrats,” says the polling institute.
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Ray Luján: Don’t let Republicans off the hook for their obstruction
“I don’t think the attention should be taken off of those that are causing obstruction, especially those Republican members that were once on board with some of these policies,” the New Mexico senator said.
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