California will play an outsized role in Democratic efforts to recapture the House in November. And the man accountable for delivering a blue wave in the Golden State — and across the West — is Rep. Ted Lieu, a rising star in the Democratic party. In a strategic shift for …
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The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has capped the most brutal partisan judicial campaign in American history. For 40 years, movement conservatives plotted tirelessly and spent untold millions to install a solid hard-right majority on the court. Checked by the four appointments made by Bill Clinton and …
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It started as a typical April morning in Caledonia, Wisconsin – 40 degrees, partly cloudy, rain in the forecast. Randy Bryce rolled out of bed and flicked on his TV. “I was getting ready to go in the bathroom and take a shower and then I saw the caption: ‘Insiders …
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We know that America has executed innocent men. Carlos DeLuna was innocent of murder when he was put to death by lethal injection in 1989. Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent of murder when he was given a lethal-drug cocktail in 2004. Both men were executed in the Huntsville Unit of …
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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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