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Connor Grant | April 1, 2021
How much is enough? President Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure is apparently “not enough” for the progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as she believes “we can do $10 trillion.”  During an appearance on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show Ocasio-Cortez said that while she is positively surprised by Joe Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” plan, she believes even more money is needed in…
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Connor Grant | March 31, 2021
After an unfortunate 2020 NFL season in which fans were largely unable to attend games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league is now looking to ditch the cardboard cutouts they used to fill their empty stadiums for full fan capacity in the coming season.  “All of us in the NFL want to see every one of our fans back,”  NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, according to NBC’s ProFootballTalk. “…
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Connor Grant | March 31, 2021
President Biden is expected to roll out his new $2 trillion infrastructure bill, called the “American Jobs Plan,” on Wednesday, as the president looks to direct even more federal spending toward transportation - including electric school buses - and building upgrades. The massive plan, part of his “Build Back Better” agenda, would mark the second multi-trillion-dollar legislative push of Biden’s…
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Connor Grant | March 30, 2021
On Sunday, during an appearance on Spectrum News 1’s “In Focus SoCal,” Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) asserted her belief that police are “led to believe that their greatest challenge and their greatest chore is to keep black people in their place,” which “stems from slavery when whites were absolutely in charge, and they absolutely controlled the lives of people and their families.”…
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Connor Grant | March 29, 2021
New documents leaked to Axios reveal the disturbing projected totals of migrants expected to cross the border in the coming months, with officials within the Biden administration predicting the surge to increase from 16,000 unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border in the month of March to potentially 26,000 per month by September. The projected September total would represent a more…
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Connor Grant | March 26, 2021
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took to Twitter this week to expose a disturbing encounter he and other senators had with human smugglers at the Southwest U.S. border amid the ongoing migrant crisis. The GOP Senate delegation, led by Cruz, joined patrol agents on the border on Thursday to tour the border and get a first-hand account of what agents are dealing with as thousands of illegal aliens continue to…
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Connor Grant | March 26, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Friday, saying the news outlet perpetuated false claims that the voting machine company rigged the 2020 presidential election, arguing that “Fox endorsed, repeated, and broadcast a series of false but devastating lies about Dominion." Not only does the lawsuit state Fox made false claims, it alleges that Fox knew…
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Connor Grant | March 25, 2021
MSNBC host and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton told Politico in an interview that Sent. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) and Krysten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are “in effect, supporting racism” if they do not join progressive efforts to end the modern day filibuster - as Democrats look to push partisan election reform legislation through the Senate known as S.1.   “The pressure that we are going to put on…
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Connor Grant | March 25, 2021
The city of Oakland, California plans to implement a program that will provide 600 black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) families with $500 a month for 18 months to spend “in any way families want.”  The program, which is called Oakland Resilient Families, aims to close a wealth gap between low income minority families and the rest of the Oakland community.  "We believe that…
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Connor Grant | March 24, 2021
In a rather surprising move, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) expressed a seemingly level-headed opinion on former President Donald Trump's ban from Twitter to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein on Tuesday, saying “I don’t feel comfortable with that” despite his belief that Trump is a “bad-news guy.” Trump was originally banned from Twitter, alongside other social media platforms, following the…