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2020 Election

361 Voter Suppression Laws Coming. Thanks to GOP!

Sheila MarkinApril 16, 2021April 17, 2021

New Voter Suppression Laws Are Designed to Decrease Votes of Democrats The Brennan Center reports that there are currently 361 voter suppression laws wending their way through 47 state legislatures...

Why Are Republicans Stuck on Trump?

Sheila MarkinApril 14, 2021

The Party of No Republicans cannot move on. They are stuck. They are stuck in the past and stuck on Trump. They cannot move forward to meet the needs of...

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Should Billionaires Be Able to Buy Elections?

Sheila MarkinApril 8, 2021April 10, 2021

America is so divided these days you might think there is nothing that both ends of the political spectrum could possibly agree about. But there is at least one idea...

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How Racism Damages Our Democracy

Sheila MarkinApril 2, 2021April 3, 2021

The Aftereffects of the Big Lie Trump used the Big Lie to try to stay in office as president. It didn't work for him, but it is having continued damaging...

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Will Lawsuits Get Fox to Tell the Truth?

Sheila MarkinMarch 30, 2021March 30, 2021

Does Truth Matter? Do Lies Have Consequences? When Trump was president, telling the truth was not upheld as the standard--HIS lies did not have consequences. Trump was able to get...

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Gun Rights v Right to Life

Sheila MarkinMarch 26, 2021March 27, 2021

On Monday, a shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, left 10 people dead, including one police officer. Last week, shootings at three Atlanta-area spas left eight people dead. Those mass...

2021

How to Fix the Filibuster

Sheila MarkinMarch 22, 2021March 22, 2021

WASHINGTON - Democrats have unified control of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade, an opportunity the party wants to use to enact an ambitious agenda...

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Why are Republicans Lying, Cheating Haters?

Sheila MarkinMarch 19, 2021March 20, 2021

In an interview Thursday on “The Joe Pags Show,” a conservative news radio show, [Ron]Johnson [Wisconsin Representative] said he “never felt threatened” by the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol...

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Biden Brings Hope to America

Sheila MarkinMarch 12, 2021March 12, 2021

Last night Joe Biden delivered his first prime time speech from the White House after signing the 1.9 trillion dollar pandemic relief bill. As I listened to him for 24...