Trump Is Reviving a Tar Sands Oil Pipeline With the Help of Wyoming Tycoons

On the first day of his presidency back in 2021, Joe Biden revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have brought oil from Canada’s tar sands into the U.S. The decision to kill Keystone XL was perhaps Biden’s clearest gift to the environmental movement. But now, five years later, a family of Wyoming oil tycoons is bringing the Keystone concept back from the dead — and…
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New Extremist “Freedom Caucuses” Are Pushing State Governments Right Across US

The ultra-right State Freedom Caucus Network (SFCN) now has at least 15 state affiliates, with new caucuses announced last month in Minnesota and West Virginia. The first action taken by the Minnesota Freedom Caucus was to file articles of impeachment against two state Democratic officeholders, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Governor Tim Walz. “Minnesota Republicans could have filed…
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Official Says 11 States Open to Stopping Residents From Voting at DOJ’s Request

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major role in election administration…
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