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Since Donald Trump’s election, his opposition party hasn’t acted much like one. The same cannot be said of Bernie Sanders, who hit the road this weekend in red states in an effort to stoke pushback to Trump’s slash-and-burn plutocratic governance.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

Answers to key questions.

"We expect every Republican who voted for the budget resolution to hold a town hall during recess on what parts of Medicaid and SNAP they want to cut," said the national director of the Working Families Party.

The political upstart, who tried to blend right-wing nationalism and left-wing socialism, failed to make a mark in Germany's election.

"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations," they wrote. "However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments."

Liberal lawmakers need a real message on this issue because the one they have now is nonexistent at best—and a mirror of the right’s cruel ideology at its worst.

As I witness the resurgence of white supremacy under Trump, I remember the segregation and Jim Crow of my youth.

“It’s not enough for us to sit by on the sidelines,” says Dr. Michael Osterholm