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Republicans prepare transphobic offensive for 2022 elections
November 5, 20212021 set a record for anti-transgender legislation—over 110 bills in 37 states. From Hawaii to Alaska, Texas to Maine, Republicans went on a full-court press to target trans people—especially trans female student athletes. With the midterms...
Read moreHouse Democrats push for votes on human needs and hard infrastructure bills
November 5, 2021Progressive Dems want the vote despite no promise of support for BBB from Senate Democratic “moderates” and vitriol from Republicans.
Read moreTrial of far-right poster boy, Kyle Rittenhouse, begins
November 5, 2021He crossed state lines from Illinois, murdering two and wounding a third who were protesting a Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, paralyzing him, but not killing him.
Read moreAustin voters reject Proposition A, which would have pumped up police budgets
November 4, 2021The measure was backed by local Republican Party officials posing as grassroots community leaders.
Read moreHouse vote on historic Build Back Better and infrastructure bills draws near
November 4, 2021As Dems manage to get family leave and lower prescription prices back into the human infrastructure measure, they face continued sniping from so-called “moderates.”
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