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GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down

July 27, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Millions more face poverty, suffering, and even death if the Heroes Act already passed in the House doesn’t become law.

Trump’s fascist political strategy

July 27, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.

House votes to toss statues of rebels from U.S. Capitol

July 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The Democratic-run U.S. House voted to eject statues of Confederate leaders, plus racist U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, from the U.S. Capitol, especially Statuary Hall.

AOC: ‘Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, a “fucking bitch'”

July 24, 2020 By John Wojcik

In a speech heard around the world, on the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez delivered a condemnation of sexism and the entire culture of which it is a part.

Iconoclash: Removing racist monuments doesn’t erase history

July 23, 2020 By Al Neal

For as quickly as empires rise and fall—and fall they will—so too fall their monuments, statues, artwork, and gods.