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May 13, 2020 12:40 pm | By 52560, 74735Facing Down Bigotry — and a Pandemic
This post originally appeared on OtherWords.org. Against harassment and bigotry, Asian-American officials are finding ways to care for their communities through this crisis. A random pedestrian spit on a 26-year-old woman on her way to the gym in her San…
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April 21, 2020 9:40 am | By 73273Elliot Mincberg: Republicans Must Join Democrats When It Comes to COVID-19 Oversight
In a new op-ed in The Hill, PFAW Senior Fellow Elliot Mincberg emphasizes the importance of independent oversight of the Trump administration actions amid the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for Republicans and Democrats to work together to ensure that relief funds…
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April 20, 2020 5:30 pm | By 28178Trumpublicans vs. Voting Rights: An Existential Threat to Constitutional Self-Government
This post originally appeared on Medium. Voting rights, which should be sacred in a democratic society, took another devastating hit on April 6, with the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative and right-wing justices denying thousands of Wisconsin voters the ability to…
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April 14, 2020 12:39 pm | By 73273Diallo Brooks: Fighting for Safe, Fair and Equitable Access to the Ballot
In a new op-ed in Essence, PFAW Senior Director of Outreach and Public Engagement Diallo Brooks addresses voting rights amid the coronavirus pandemic, and stresses the need for safe and fair access to the polls during our elections. The coronavirus pandemic…
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April 1, 2020 4:35 pm | By 42850Don’t Let Church-State Separation Be a Victim of the Coronavirus
This post first appeared on Medium. You know the old saying, “The devil’s in the details,” right? Well, in the case of that big coronavirus legislation that just moved through Congress, the devil’s dressed up like a Trump-supporting megachurch preacher looking…
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March 17, 2020 4:42 pm | By 73273Diallo Brooks: How To Support Vulnerable Communities Amid The Coronavirus Crisis
In a new op-ed posted on Blavity, PFAW Senior Director of Outreach and Public Engagement Diallo Brooks addresses the coronavirus pandemic and how it's impacting people's lives -- outside of the health care realm -- every day. While everything works…
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February 24, 2020 3:23 pm | By 73680Gordon: A Disgraced Senate and President Have No Business Confirming Judges
In a new op-ed featured in The Hill, PFAW Senior Fellow Paul Gordon ties the Republican Senate’s role in Trump’s sham impeachment cover-up to their role in confirming Trump’s dangerous judicial nominees. By doing so, these senators are further enabling…
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February 14, 2020 3:49 pm | By 73680Mincberg: Joni Ernst’s Judicial Votes Threaten Iowans’ Health and Safety
In a new op-ed in the Iowa Cedar Rapids Gazette, PFAW senior fellow Elliot Mincberg and Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic demonstrate Senator Joni Ernst’s complicity in endangering Iowans’ health and safety through the votes she has taken on Trump…
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February 11, 2020 1:51 pm | By 73680Andrew Gillum: “We can’t afford a voting rights foe on the 11th circuit”
In a new op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times, Andrew Gillum explains his opposition to Andrew Brasher, Trump’s judicial nominee for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Gillum points to Brasher’s bad track record on voting rights as Alabama’s solicitor…
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February 5, 2020 4:30 pm | By 28183Impeachment Is Over, But Don’t Despair
The Senate failed to do their job — but ordinary citizens can’t fail to do ours. This post originally appeared on OtherWords.org. Hours before the House of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for using the power of his office to sabotage…
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Op-EdJanuary 31, 2020 11:10 am | By 62609
Paul Gordon in Newsweek: Republican Party Has Become “Cult of Personality” for Trump
In a new op-ed in Newsweek, PFAW Senior Legislative Counsel Paul Gordon responded to Alan Dershowitz’s disturbing defense of the president and emphasized that Trump must be held accountable for his abuses of power during today’s Senate impeachment trial. Gordon…
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January 28, 2020 3:45 pm | By 73680Andrew Gillum: “We can’t let voter suppression win in 2020”
With the clock already ticking fast toward the 2020 elections, voter participation and voter suppression are a key focus for progressives. Make no mistake -- these anti-democratic voter suppression tactics are designed by the GOP to suppress the votes of…
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January 28, 2020 11:00 am | By 73680Elliot Mincberg in The Hill: “January’s anniversaries show us why federal courts matter”
In a new op-ed featured in The Hill, PFAW Senior Fellow Elliot Mincberg reflects on three back-to-back days in January – MLK Day and the anniversaries of Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Citizens United v. FEC – and…
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November 27, 2019 6:01 pm | By 62609Rio Tazewell in The Hill: The Push to Impeach Trump “Calls for Mass Action”
Since the beginning of his term, Trump has separated thousands of immigrant children, stuffed the courts with narrow-minded elitists, funneled money from public coffers and foreign countries for his own financial gain, and destroyed our reputation and global alliances. And…
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November 7, 2019 10:58 am | By 60862Hate Must Not Win in Virginia’s Elections
This post originally appeared on Medium. In a few days on Nov. 5, we voters in Virginia will go to the polls in statewide legislative elections whose results will be widely read as foreshadowing for the presidential race in 2020.…
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November 7, 2019 10:15 am | By 28186More Trump Judges on the Federal Bench: A Cause for Alarm, Not Celebration
This post originally appeared on Medium. On November 6, President Trump celebrated the confirmation of his federal judicial nominees as a “milestone” during a press event at the White House. Since he took office, Trump has appointed 43 ultra-conservative judges…
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October 30, 2019 9:51 am | By 72284Alec Baldwin in USA Today: “Virginia deserves the attention of all of us”
In a new op-ed in USA Today, actor and People For the American Way board member Alec Baldwin discussed the importance of the upcoming 2019 Virginia state legislative election and emphasized why turning Virginia blue by electing progressive Democratic candidates…
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October 4, 2019 2:57 pm | By 72284Kathleen Turner: One Year After Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation, “We Must Demand More”
This Sunday, October 6, marks the one year anniversary since Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in to the Supreme Court. During Kavanaugh’s confirmation process, multiple women came forward with sexual misconduct charges against Kavanaugh. During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into…
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September 27, 2019 11:32 am | By 51279Trump, the Ukraine Call, and the Far-Right Conspiracy Theories That Got Us Here
Following the release of a jaw-dropping whistleblower complaint recounting the efforts of various people in the Trump administration, including President Trump himself, to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 elections, one thing is clear: the American people have every right…
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August 7, 2019 3:57 pm | By 62609White Supremacist Terrorism and the History of Anti-Latino Racism in Texas
This post originally appeared on Medium. Before he opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas on August 3 and killed 22 people in a hate-fueled massacre, the gunman posted a screed online that reportedly stated his motive: “This…