Texas Hands Over Its Entire Voter Registration List to the Trump Administration

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country. The Justice Department last fall began asking all 50 states for their voter rolls — massive lists containing significant…
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Oil Companies Are Key Partners in Trump’s Imperial Plans for Latin America

For months, U.S. President Donald Trump proclaimed that his pressure campaign against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, backed by dozens of illegal killings through drone strikes, was about fighting drugs and cartels. But at his press conference after the U.S. abduction of Maduro, Trump couldn’t stop talking about oil. “We’re gonna take back the oil,” Trump brazenly said.
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Trump Is Betting MAGA Fans Will Relish an Expanded War on Drugs

When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stepped foot in a Manhattan courtroom on January 5, he entered the proceedings of the highest-profile case in the “war on drugs” to date. The indictment came after years of threats toward Maduro from the U.S., including a dramatic U.S. military buildup over the past five months and a string of extrajudicial killings by sinking dozens of small boats…
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Trump’s Greenland Plan Would Trample Indigenous Rights, “Militarize the Arctic”

Following the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the Trump administration has renewed its campaign to take over Greenland, which has been controlled by Denmark for more than 300 years. The White House says it’s considering “a range of options,” including the use of military force. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that if the U.S. were to attack Greenland, it would spell the end of NATO.
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3 Hospitals Under Investigation for Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Youth

Three children’s hospitals are under federal investigation for providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, as the Trump administration continues to use all the levers it can to block such care. Health and Human Services (HHS) General Counsel Mike Stuart has referred three children’s hospitals to the agency’s inspector general’s office: Seattle Children’s Hospital…
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Amid ICE Raids We Continue to Organize — That’s How We Refuse to Disappear

As the Trump administration expands immigration police surges across the country, what has stood out has been the acts of resistance. Communities and organizations have put together rapid response hotlines, protested outside hotels sheltering federal agents, and carried whistles to warn their neighbors when immigration police are nearby. That resistance has kept me alive and has been so necessary.
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