President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on a global scale and plunging the country toward autocracy at a faster rate than autocratic leaders of other countries in the 21st century, the latest report by an international democracy watchdog finds. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Sweden’s Gothenburg…
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Former schoolteacher Theo Henderson had been unhoused for six years when he launched the “We the Unhoused” podcast in 2019 from a park in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. Henderson became unhoused in 2013 when he was evicted after losing his job and falling into medical debt due to spiraling costs related to his diabetes. When he began documenting his experiences and those of his unhoused neighbors…
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TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican is once again looking for a path to stop abortion, with a new proposal to change the state constitution to say life begins at conception. Sen. Mike Thompson, a Shawnee Republican, introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 1623 on behalf of Doug Johnson, calling it an “equal rights amendment.” The same language is used in Senate calendar listings…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans have tried multiple avenues to pass their keystone elections bill. They reintroduced it in the House under a new name, mounted online pressure campaigns on congressional leadership and threatened to tank other legislation. Though the SAVE America Act (formerly the SAVE Act) cleared the House in February, the Senate has avoided taking it up for a vote. Now…
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Leaked chats from a Republican group at a Florida college contain hundreds of uses of the n-word and frequent references to Nazi Germany, new reporting from The Miami Herald has revealed. The group chat was started by Miami-Dade Republican Party Secretary Abel Carvajal last fall to promote Republican-aligned events at Florida International University (FIU). But within just a few weeks…
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A Republican senator joined Capitol Police as they violently ejected an anti-war protester and U.S. Marine veteran from an Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, appearing to break his arm as the group tried to wrestle him out of the chamber. Video of the incident shows Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, rushing over to help police as they try to tug and push the protester…
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