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Big Labor pumped $530 million of workers' dues into mostly Democratic Party groups and liberal causes over a four-year period - with dismal results, according to a new analysis. Despite the unions' massive cash infusion into Democratic causes, GOPer Donald Trump still won the union-heavy Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio in his presidential bid against Dem candidate Hillary Clinton.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the highly controversial $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline project, the subject of months of protest by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which contends the project would affect its drinking water supply and destroy its sacred sites. In a statement Sunday, the Corps of Engineers said it would be undertaking an environmental impact study to look at possible alternative routes for the project.
Democrat Darren Soto to lean on 'lengthy and unique experience' in minority party as he enters GOP-led U.S. Co Election night was bittersweet for state Sen. Darren Soto, a Democrat who made history as the first Puerto Rican elected to represent Florida in Congress , even as Republican Donald Trump won the state and the presidency. After a decade of toiling in a Republican-controlled state Legislature, Soto will face a familiar uphill climb to pass legislation in Washington, D.C, where the GOP holds both chambers of Congress.
The real story with Ellison is that, as with so many religious-nationalist Muslims in the West, his views dovetail much more logically with the extreme Right. In mid-November Minnesota congressman Keith Ellison announced he would run for chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
Democrats need to rebuild the political "blue wall" of traditionally Democratic upper Midwest and Great Lakes states that Republican Donald Trump captured with an appeal to white, working-class voters. Hillary Clinton's failure to hold key blocs of these voters helped seal Trump's stunning electoral victory and leaves Democrats with a gaping, perhaps long-term, hole in the party's national battle front.
Do students love a flag aflame? At Hampshire College, in western Massachusetts, a student burned a flag to express opposition to the president-elect. At American University, in our nation's capital, flags were burned as students unleashed obscenity-laced chants against the United States.
One-hundred and thirty-four House Democrats collectively lost their minds last week. That is how many of Nancy PelosiA s colleagues it took to vote her back into power despite having lost her third consecutive chance at winning back the majority from the Republicans.
Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential race and Democratic failures further down the ballot have the party searching for a way forward. Democrats are clear-eyed about the size of the hole they're in.
Have you heard the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote? Unless you live under a rock you likely have stumbled across a barista or aspiring novelist mumbling something about how the Electoral College is unfair and undemocratic and how electors should follow "the will of the people" and vote for Hillary on Dec. 19. Because "democracy!" or something. What too many of these uneducated and unshowered drum circlers don't know, or don't care to know, is the popular vote is a meaningless unit of measure.
Housing of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may well be patting herself on the back this past week. In the process, she should be looking over her shoulder.
President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "USA Thank You" tour event on Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati. President-elect Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a "USA Thank You" tour event on Dec. 1, 2016, in Cincinnati.
For a brief time this week, Alvin Crockett posted an angry handwritten letter to a political critic on the Trump campaign sign he put outside his scooter shop in Key West, Fla. President Barack Obama's Fayetteville, N.C. rally for Hillary Clinton grew rowdy when an elderly Trump supporter started protesting during the president's speech.
Media mogul Haim Saban, who was among Hillary Clinton's largest campaign donors, made clear Friday that he doesn't want to see Rep. Keith Ellison as the next chair of the Democratic National Committee. "He is clearly an anti-Semite, anti-Israel individual," Saban lashed out at Ellison, warning Democrats that choosing the Minnesota congressman, who is the first Muslim elected to Congress, would be "a disaster for the relationship between the Jewish community and the Democratic Party."
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: Congressional negotiators on Wednesday approved an initiative to track and combat foreign propaganda amid growing concerns that Russian efforts to spread "fake news" and disinformation threaten U.S. national security. The measure, part of the National Defense Authorization Act approved by a conference committee, calls on the State Department to lead government-wide efforts to identify propaganda and counter its effects.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration 's approval of a new international airline over objections from organized labor and Republican ally Rep. Frank LoBiondo means new flights from Newark Airport. Norwegian Air International received final Transportation Department approval Friday.
At least nine people are killed and another dozen missing after devastating fire breaks out on the second floor of a 100-person late-night 'Rave Cave' event inside an Oakland warehouse China lodges formal complaint over Trump's historic phone call with Taiwan's president and 'urges relevant parties to handle issues carefully' Anthony Weiner is 'so broke he can't afford sexting rehab any longer so his parents have taken out a mortgage on their home to pay for the $25k program' New York man who lost his eyesight 20 years ago has regained nearly all of it - and doctors can't explain why Heartbreaking scenes as 100,000 Chapecoense fans arrive to see their players' coffins brought back following Colombian air crash tragedy Colombian authorities say the pilot of tragic crash plane LIED about where he was taking off from as the first of the footballers' bodies are brought back to Brazil Tearful ... (more)
At least nine people are killed and another dozen missing after devastating fire breaks out on the second floor of a 100-person late-night 'Rave Cave' event inside an Oakland warehouse China lodges formal complaint over Trump's historic phone call with Taiwan's president and 'urges relevant parties to handle issues carefully' Anthony Weiner is 'so broke he can't afford sexting rehab any longer so his parents have taken out a mortgage on their home to pay for the $25k program' New York man who lost his eyesight 20 years ago has regained nearly all of it - and doctors can't explain why Heartbreaking scenes as 100,000 Chapecoense fans arrive to see their players' coffins brought back following Colombian air crash tragedy Colombian authorities say the pilot of tragic crash plane LIED about where he was taking off from as the first of the footballers' bodies are brought back to Brazil Tearful ... (more)
Revered by his troops as a "warrior monk" with a knack for hard-edged quips, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis led troops in Afghanistan in 2001, won laurels for leadership in one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War and most recently headed US Central Command, perhaps the military's most complicated and challenging post.
Dozens of British musicians including producer Mark Ronson have signed an open letter to US President Barack Obama comparing the treatment of protesters at a controversial oil pipeline in North Dakota with "the same inhumane methods used during World War Two". Led by singer-songwriter Kate Nash, around 160 names from the world of music wrote the letter to President Obama and the Department of Justice.