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The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight.

Equity stakes, loophole closures, and protecting domestic industries might make sense in someone else’s hands. Not from a president with no strategy or plan.

People are hungry for truth telling, but truth telling has a smaller audience because it’s not within people’s realm of comfort or familiarity. That’s how the Right came to dominate, by continuously telling their story. They didn't water it down.

Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back.

Darwin opined that differences between humans and other animals were a matter of degree. New findings show that a wide variety of other species exhibit capabilities that were once thought to be exclusive to Homo sapiens.

Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.

These patients needed long-term care. Instead, the hospitals pushed for them to be deported.

Winning in November isn’t enough. A Mayor Mamdani will need a mass movement behind him to overcome an establishment that wants to crush him.

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