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Louisiana is one of the states, mostly Southern, where energy companies use eminent domain to take property for oil and gas infrastructure. Typically the seizures are in rural and poor areas where political support for the oil industry is strong.

As Senators Warren and Sanders have made the ever-widening income inequality centerpieces of their election campaigns, a host of plutocrats have gone public with their anger at all this billionaire-bashing, and others are running for the White House.

How did the traditional middle class incubate so much hatred towards the people, leading them to embrace racialized fascism centered on the Indian as the enemy? The answer is the rejection of equality and the fundamentals of a substantial democracy.

If voters overcome the tricks and traps designed to make voting difficult and vote in large numbers in 2020, fundamental democratic reform is teed up to move.

When considered altogether, according to MACPAC's report, their Medicaid programs will be more than $1 billion short.

There is a history of presidential criminals and whistleblowers. Nixon declared that the chief My Lai perpetrator was “probably a good soldier ... getting a bum rap.” He ordered a secret task force to undermine press stories of the massacre.

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Nunes warns his Democratic colleagues that “the American people won’t be fooled by your relentless account of things that actually happened.”

Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.

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