U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) led 28 U.S. senators in a letter to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, urging him to reinstate resources that protect LGBTQ people from housing discrimination. These resources, designed to help housing providers comply
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New administration’s official site offers ‘America First Energy Plan’ which boasts ‘direct obstacle to a livable future’ by promoting fracking and coal — by Andrea Germanos, staff writer at CommonDreams Soon after Donald Trump took his oath as the 45th President of the
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Call: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Phone: 202-224-3542 Call: Sen. Dean Heller Phone: 202-224-6244 Senator Jeff Sessions is a dangerous man. First he built a career on opposing civil rights. Now he’s mere days away from becoming America’s next Attorney General. Sessions is
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A single court seat can change the landscape of our liberties — and this election could determine four. — by Mary Frances Berry When 95-year-old Rosanell Eaton first registered to vote in the Jim Crow South, she was forced to pass a
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Reading about state forfeiture laws that allow cops to seize money from citizens who have not broken any laws is infuriating as it is. But watching it done on dash cam is absolutely enraging. Especially when Humboldt County deputy Lee Dove gives a driver
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Please make a call to Representative Mark Amodei and ask him to say he would support a discharge petition that would allow an up-or-down vote on a meaningful immigration reform bill with a viable pathway to citizenship for millions of aspiring Americans.
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Congress must act to correct the Supreme Court’s many wrongs. — by Julian Bond The racial picture in America has improved remarkably in my lifetime, so much so that a black man has been elected and re-elected President of the United States
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Reblogged from WebInvestigatorKK: The Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 17 that has been ignored by most media outlets, despite its devastating effect on one of the most fundamental rights protected by the Constitution. In a 5-4 ruling, the justices
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In a post at Think Progress last Friday, we once again learn that the REPUBLIBAN’s culture war against the LGBT community is still raging — By Ian Millhiser on May 17, 2013 at 1:30 pm Carolyn Compton is in a three year-old relationship with
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BANKING When Bankers Rule the World David Korten, Op-Ed: “The tell-all defection of Greg Smith, a former Goldman Sachs executive, provided an insider’s view of the moral corruption of the Wall Street banks that control of much of America’s economy and politics. Smith
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