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by Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...
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by Phillip Powell | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats are pushing President Joe Biden to break with decades of US military aid policy toward Israel as the war in Gaza continues and Congress is poised to vote on additional military aid to Israel. On Sunday, the United States Senate...
by Phillip Powell | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- In June, Congress and President Joe Biden lifted from 49 to 55 the age through which low-income adults must work to qualify for grocery subsidies. Will congressional Republicans use the 2024 U.S. Farm Bill to raise that age higher? “I don’t...
by Phillip Powell | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON– While the Senate negotiates President Biden’s supplemental national security package, Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday drew red lines that could make the package harder to pass. Progressives are increasingly...
by Phillip Powell | Nov 16, 2023 | Politics, Topics
Video by Andrew Fang FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Sitting beneath a red, white, and blue banner with “Fredericksburg Democrats” printed across the top, volunteer Donna Blalock watched her nearly-eleven-year-old granddaughter run around the parking lot at Walker-Grant Middle...
