When trying to explain the importance of the Equality Act, Kierra Johnson, director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, only had to think as far as her next trip. “It’s just two and a half hours,” she says from her home in Washington D.C. to visit her mom in Texas. …
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In making the case against former president Donald Trump, House impeachment manager Del. Stacey Plaskett shared compelling, previously unaired footage and law enforcement communications from the day of the Capitol attack that showed lawmakers coming terrifyingly close to encountering the riotous mob. As footage from social media and Capitol security …
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Editor’s note: This interview was conducted in January, several weeks before Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote, in a since-deleted tweet, that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s threat to punish herself and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib for their criticism of Israel was “all about the Benjamins baby.” Omar publicly apologized for the …
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The massacre a little over a week ago that left 26 dead and another 20 injured at a church in a sleepy Texas town has rekindled the debate about the nation’s gun laws at the Capitol. Unlike in the aftermaths of other recent mass shootings, over the last week a …
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