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New guidance says federal employees can’t use the word ‘resist’ or mention impeachment.
By Lisa Needham - November 30, 2018
Michigan Republicans are hoping to undermine the role of newly elected Attorney General Dana Nessel in the lame-duck session.
By Lisa Needham - November 30, 2018
It only took one day of the lame-duck session for Michigan Republicans to start gutting the state’s paid sick leave and minimum wage laws.
By Lisa Needham - November 29, 2018
While he was supposed to be cooperating with the special counsel’s investigation, Paul Manafort was using that time to feed information to Trump’s legal team.
By Lisa Needham - November 28, 2018
Michigan Republicans say employers need protection from the state’s sick leave law.
By Lisa Needham - November 28, 2018
With his cooperation deal collapsing and new revelations about visits to see Julian Assange of Wikileaks, Manafort is a source of constant consternation for Trump.
By Lisa Needham - November 27, 2018
If a big-money conservative donor gets his way during the lame-duck session, Michigan could create a two-tier police system — one for the rich, and one for everyone else.
By Lisa Needham - November 27, 2018
GOP legislators are looking to undermine a sick leave law during Michigan’s lame-duck legislative session, regardless of what voters want.
By Lisa Needham - November 26, 2018
In a shameful plot to avoid the will of the voters, Michigan Republicans passed a law raising the minimum wage just so they could gut it in the lame-duck session before a new Democratic governor takes over.
By Lisa Needham - November 21, 2018
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker released his financial disclosure form, and it shows a big paycheck from a dark money group and possible Hatch Act violations.
By Lisa Needham - November 21, 2018
At the behest of far-right fringe figures, Trump’s Department of Agriculture forced 4-H, the agriculturally-focused youth group, to rescind guidance that welcomed LGBT youth.
By Lisa Needham - November 20, 2018
Two attorneys who consider themselves progressive are shamefully hiding behind a respected progressive legal group to back a racist Trump judicial pick.
By Lisa Needham - May 21, 2018
Mick Mulvaney, the head of Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wants to reward payday lenders at the expense of veterans and low-income Americans.
By Lisa Needham - March 26, 2018
Anti-choice advocates think they’ve found the perfect Supreme Court case to help them push their dangerous and incorrect views about abortion. But they could be wildly wrong.
By Lisa Needham - March 20, 2018
An Illinois Republican is pre-emptively refusing to attend any sexual harassment training that the legislature might try to require, even though nearly 300 people who work in or with the legislature have made clear that sexual harassment and misogyny run rampant in the Illinois capitol. Steve Reick, who represents Illinois’ 63rd district, wants everyone to know […]
By Lisa Needham - November 02, 2017
Donald Trump is doing next to nothing to help Puerto Rico recover from the complete devastation of Hurricane Maria. That’s perfectly normal for him, given that he’s actually inflicted economic harm on the island well before this. Back in May, Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy, explaining it was so crushed by debt that it could […]
By Lisa Needham - September 26, 2017
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Donald Trump are kindred spirits. Deeply racist, deeply committed to stoking anti-immigrant fears, they are also both deeply lawless. That lawlessness stems from their absolute untouchability. Trump exhibited his own brand of lawlessness by pardoning Arpaio last Friday. Now Arpaio is doing the same by demanding that the court vacate his conviction, even […]
By Lisa Needham - August 29, 2017
Donald Trump and Mike Pence have hand-picked a group of hardcore evangelicals to participate in a Trump Cabinet Bible Study group. While it doesn’t appear that Trump himself attends the meetings, several other cabinet members do, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and Agriculture Secretary Sunny Perdue. The […]
By Lisa Needham - August 04, 2017
When Donald Trump signed an executive order in May establishing an election integrity commission, it certainly seemed like it would be a tool of voter suppression. And when he named Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence to the commission, it was clear that’s exactly what it is. Now, the commission has […]
By Lisa Needham - June 30, 2017