"Our democracy is at stake," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "The last thing we want to see is wonderful speeches and public-facing statements, but no actual legislative movement on voting rights."
"Children will die as a result," said U.K.-based group Save the Children.
"He has to come out, explicitly, unequivocally, for overturning the filibuster in order to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act."
"If this oppressive law takes effect, it will decimate abortion access in Texas—and that's exactly what it is designed to do."
The protests should be understood in the context of a brutal economic war waged by the United States against the island nation for more than 60 years.
We must make those who would once more seek to suppress our votes pay for the insult big time.
"The refusal to prosecute us just proves what we already knew: These critical infrastructure laws are unconstitutional. We have the right to resist and we will not be deterred."
One reporter described a new mailer, which falsely accuses Turner of opposing universal healthcare and a higher minimum wage, as "wildly dishonest."
A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams—and their heirs—to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.
An all-American path to war?
AP's findings run counter to the president's campaign vow to end oil and gas extraction on public lands.
If the filibuster can't be done away with or turned into a "Jimmy Stewart filibuster," then Congress has the obligation to Act on the "Nuclear Option."
"All of this will only grow more and more urgent and dangerous as the world grows hotter, countries in the Global South become more unstable, and more folks head north."
“Instead of funding non-polluting alternatives, it throws public money at expensive, unproven technologies that will allow the fossil fuel industry to continue poisoning frontline communities and trashing the planet."
These state legislators are doing something brave and necessary on behalf of all people in the United States. They are exiting, for now, so that their counterparts in Washington can regain their backbones.
"Every day Chancellor Merkel delays global action on Covid vaccines costs thousands of lives."
U.S. members of Congress are pushing the German leader to stop "putting industry IP monopolies as a priority over people."
"This isn't the transformative change that the scientific advisers on this treaty have called for. Human-induced loss of species needs to stop, and it needs to stop yesterday."
"Democrats in the U.S. Senate could learn a lot from these Texas Democrats—sometimes you have to pull out all the stops to protect democracy."