This Presidency is nothing but a grift operation, and while so many Michiganders wonder where the jobs or the lower costs he promised are, Trump has already made $1B off of his second term.
The only way forward is to relentlessly go after this corruption and ensure no public official uses their office or position to enrich themselves.
The same court that torched Roe, handed the President a get-out-of-jail-free card, and took a chainsaw to the Voting Rights Act, just decided that a billionaire who’s legally capped at giving $7,000 to Mike Rogers’ campaign can now give the party $132,900 to spend directly on Mike Rogers anyway. They’re calling it, “free speech.” The Supreme Court has turned into Donald Trump’s law firm at this point. Stop pretending it’s neutral. Expand the court.
My name is Josh Turek. I’m a 2x Paralympic gold medalist, a state representative from Council Bluffs, and I’m running to be Iowa’s next United States Senator.
I believe health care is a human right, public money belongs in public schools, and Washington should work for working people, not billionaires.
Help me Push for Change: https://t.co/FSpJUdrkLt
It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy.
This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.
It was struck down 6-3 decision, although only 5-4 on the Constitutional question. Four justices would have rewritten the Constitution's plain text and ignored centuries of precedent on the scope of birthright citizenship. Thankfully, they were the minority.
This is shameful. We can’t allow Washington to turn back the clock on protections that help disabled Americans live with the freedom and dignity they deserve.
GOP MYTH: Medicaid cuts won't close your rural hospitals.
FACT: In @SarahforIowa's community, THREE clinics are already closed or slated to close because of Republicans' devastating policies.
Sarah won't play games with your health care.
Zach Lahn sitting down for an interview with the alt-right news outlet largely responsible for mainstreaming white nationalism in the United States instead of holding public events as he campaigns for governor certainly reinforces everything I've been saying about him.
This awful episode is an example of character assassination, a longtime authoritarian tactic, along with "going after the target's family." The goal is to cause such psychological distress that they will stop opposing the government or defending democracy.
Baseless accusations of sex crimes and domestic abuse are among the most common categories of character assassinations, and are frequently used in Russia to harass and sometimes imprison people who displease the government.
If a Democrat said something equivalent to "libtards", it would be an endless controversy. This won't even be a one-day story. There are different rules for Republicans and Democrats.
This ruling is fundamentally wrong.
Here in Iowa, we have a cancer crisis that is taking away our loved ones. And yet, Washington has chosen YET AGAIN to protect the companies poisoning Iowans with their cancer-causing chemicals, instead of protecting us.
Washington is broken. And I’m running to fix it. We don't have time to wait.
Iowa's GOP nominee for governor is married to Charles Koch's former daughter-in-law and has had an off-and-on-relationship with his native state. Reported with crackerjack ag reporter @PatThomas1318. https://t.co/Qn5NK80VJh
In 2018, I flipped a seat Republicans had won by 20 points, becoming the youngest Black woman to serve in Congress.
Since then, I've passed 19 pieces of legislation – under the Trump and Biden administrations.
That's what next-generation leadership looks like in Congress.