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Resistance is Everywhere

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Democrats tore into government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein abuse scandal on Tuesday – revealing new details of the scale of his international sex-trafficking ring, and warning Donald Trump not to grant a presidential pardon to the…

Dozens of people gathered on a sandy lot in front of the White House construction zone Tuesday evening, carrying posters peppered with monarch butterflies and unfurling massive banners reading “Set kids free.” The butterflies symbolized…

Resistance is working

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The anti-ICE resistance is working

By the time “Operation Metro Surge” hit Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, residents were primed to fight back. From houses and stores, in cars and on bicycles, people of every age, race and political stripe dogged ICE wherever it went. The…

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Her finding was based off a declaration filed earlier this month by Dottie Romo, IRS’ chief risk and control officer, which revealed that the IRS had provided DHS with information on 47,000 of the 1.28 million people that ICE requested —…

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The May Day Rally organized by Stand Up for Science is a call to action, a show of solidarity, and a rallying point for the scientists, public servants, health workers, labor organizers, and advocates on the front lines of the fight. The…

Washington — President Trump on Thursday said he is nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier to be the next U.S. surgeon general, replacing his nomination of Casey Means, whose bid had stalled in the Senate for months.  The president…

A nonprofit is suing the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum over the decision to resurface the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, and to paint the…

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The “Ball Without Billionaires” fashion show on May 4 flips the 2026 Met Gala theme—“Fashion is Art”—into a counter-declaration: “Labor is Art,” centering workers as models styled by emerging designers while reclaiming power and culture…

André is part of a group of “data rescuers” who have banded together during Trump’s second term. They have been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they are no longer available. Now known as the Data…

Attorney Paul Schwiep, who represents the groups, said the legal fight would continue even if the camp closed. “While it is welcome news that people will no longer be inhumanely confined at this facility, the damage caused by this reckless…

As of 1 April, the Department of Justice has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for failing to turn over full copies of their voter registration lists. The push has hit repeated roadblocks, including legal defeats in California,…

Under the rotunda in the Cannon building, veterans — young, old, some with visible disabilities and all wearing military jackets— held a flag-folding ceremony to honor the American troops who have died in the current conflict. They also…

The DC Bar accepts disciplinary complaints from any member of the public against any of its admitted attorneys. John G. Roberts Jr. is admitted to the DC Bar, and I am filing a complaint against him today, after this article goes live. The…

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On Monday, Fulton County’s lawyers moved to block the Justice Department’s request, arguing in a 27-page motion that the subpoena was intended “to target, harass, and punish the President’s perceived political opponents,” and could make…

DeepMind’s UK workers voted to unionize in April. One of the workers said they were particularly driven by reports that Google was close to reaching a deal with the defense department and pointed to the US’s “capricious Iran war” and the…

Ocasio-Cortez said that instead of aiming for higher office, “I get to wake up every day and say, ‘How am I going to meet the moment?’ “And conditions change radically all the time. So I make my response less to an attachment to some…

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U.S. law enforcement agencies increasingly deployed three crowd-control weapons in dangerous ways to crack down on immigration protests over the past year, according to a new visual investigation by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).

State-level voting rights acts were put forth in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. That is not unintentional, said Anneshia Hardy, executive director of Alabama Values, before the decision. “If section 2 gets weakened, you’re going to…

Resistance is protests

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Pro-democracy protest photos

Pro-democracy protesters showed up recently all over the country: Paramus, NJ ; Louisville/Superior CO; Enfield, NH; Englewood, FL; Randolph, MA; Bend, OR; Yorktown Hts., NY; Brewster, NY; Vancouver, WA; Borrego Springs, CA; Raleigh, NC;…

Resistance is in the courts

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Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics

Federal judges in one of the Trumpiest states in the country have suddenly become a firewall against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. District court judges in West Virginia describe rampant lawlessness by masked ICE agents…

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March on Washington - Aug 28 2026 - Defend the Vote

March on Washington Aug 28 2026 Defend the Vote

 

March on Washington - August 28: gather in Washington DC to Defend the Vote

Join this peaceful, nonpartisan, interfaith, and intergenerational gathering as we defend the right to vote and protect democracy. We are not gathering simply to remember history - we are gathering to make it.

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