Project 2025 and Donald Trump Want to Make Student Loans More Expensive
Republicans have been trying to abolish the Department of Education since it was created, and Donald Trump has embraced this position. Eliminating the Department of Education would drastically reduce resources for underserved communities, boosting inequality for generations. However, one of the less-reported facets of the Trump and Project 2025 agenda is the plan for decimating…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Abortion Policies Will Continue to Harm All Women
Donald Trump has failed women and families. Whether or not you believe that he, personally, doesn’t care about abortion — or is even pro-choice — his actions have created harm and suffering. And he is promising more of the same if he is reelected. Returning abortion to states is exactly what overturning Roe did, and…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s position on abortion is bonkers.
When Republicans are arguing about which government —state or federal — should control access to healthcare, they’ve lost the thread entirely. Kamala Harris calls state laws that limit or ban abortions “Trump abortion bans.” And she should. Trump said he would appoint justices that would overturn Roe. He picked justices from a list provided to…
Read MoreDonald Trump’s Long History of Ripping Off Small Businesses
Donald Trump claims to be a champion of forgotten Americans — the workers and small business owners who have been left behind in today’s economy. But the reality is that he’s made his fortune ripping off exactly the people he claims to want to protect. READ: Kamala Harris’ Top Ten Victories for Workers Donald Trump’s…
Read MoreWhat Democrats are Talking About When They Talk About Pregnancy Monitoring
Fact-checkers are piling on Tim Walz’s claim during the presidential debate that Project 2025 calls for the monitoring of pregnant women. Walz said that a future Trump administration would establish a new federal position — a national pregnancy coordinator — tasked with monitoring all pregnancies in conjunction with a pregnancy registry. While FactCheck.org and other…
Read MoreWhat is Project 2025?
Project 2025 is a 900-page policy plan created by the right-wing Heritage Foundation and over 140 former Trump staffers and MAGA allies. Project 2025 outlines concrete procedures for radically changing how government works, from eliminating popular departments to weaponizing federal agencies. The plan consolidates power into a strong executive who can use the power of…
Read MoreTrump Walked Away From a Deal to Lower Drug Prices Because the Industry Wouldn’t Send Gift Cards Before the Election to Boost His Standing Among Senior Voters
The Trump administration negotiated a deal with the pharmaceutical industry that would have “addressed out-of-pocket consumer costs and covered the majority of the Medicare copayments that seniors pay for prescription drugs.” This would have actually been a big win for America’s senior citizens. But then, the Trump administration added a bizarre demand that gave PhRMA,…
Read MoreSenator Warnock Has Sponsored or Co-Sponsored Nearly 500 Bills in the Senate
What has Senator Raphael Warnock done in the Senate? He’s sponsored or co-sponsored 499 bills during his 2-year term. Of those bills, he’s single-handedly sponsored 93 and cosponsored 406. In those 93 bills, we looked at a few examples of what Warnock has been fighting for: Rent Relief for Americans: S.4728 – Rent Relief Act…
Read MoreWhy the Keystone XL Pipeline Would Not Lower Your Gas Prices Now or in the Future
The surge in gas prices has caused a lot of speculations on the reason and many Republicans like to blame Biden for stopping the development of the last 25% of the Keystone Pipeline known as Keystone XL. In order to better understand why the Keystone XL Pipeline will not lower your gas prices now or…
Read MoreRon Johnson doesn’t think Wisconsinites deserve well-paying jobs
In February, Senator Johnson refused to support efforts to bring Oshkosh Defense to Wisconsin to manufacture the next generation of USPS service trucks. At the time, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, the UAW and the Wisconsin AFL-CIO were working together in an effort to convince Oshkosh to open their new manufacturing facility in Wisconsin. Had the…
Read MoreDemocrats Are Lowering Drug Costs
What’s behind the drive to raise the cost of drugs? Drugs Americans need to stay well and recover from illnesses, or to cope with permanent health issues, such as diabetes. The answer is: Special Interests. Special interest lobbyists in the Pharmaceutical industry. The Pharmaceutical industry spent $187 million on lobbying in 2022. The Pharmaceutical industry…
Read MoreJ.D. Vance’s Plan Would Close Down Manufacturing Plants in Ohio
Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance has called for the elimination of tax credits that are already creating jobs in his own state. Ford, General Motors and LG have already begun implementing plans that would create thousands of jobs in Ohio. Those plans are the direct result of Democratic legislation that requires domestic production of…
Read MoreLet’s save the economy from Republicans who want to cut jobs and put more money in the pockets of the largest corporations.
Republicans have a reputation for being pro-big business, and that is exactly what makes them worse for the American economy. In fact, Republican policies put profits over people, exacerbate inequality and make life harder for all but the richest Americans. The few policy positions outlined by Republicans hoping to take back congress would only continue…
Read MoreThe Inflation Reduction Act Lowers Medical Cost and Increases Energy Production
Democrats have taken action on inflation but the media seems to ignore it and focus on the horse race lies from the GOP. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is designed to make a historic down payment on deficit reduction. That fights inflation. It invests in domestic energy production and manufacturing. That fights inflation. It…
Read MoreRepublicans Will Help Oil Companies Keep Gas Prices High Until 2024. Here’s Why…
Right now, oil companies are pumping millions of dollars into the Republicans’ midterm campaigns. Meanwhile, Shell and other companies are reporting record-breaking profits and handing out billions of dollars in stock buybacks. In fact, big oil has already handed out checks for votes to GOP Congressman Ted Budd who is running for Senator for North…
Read More97% of Republicans Voted Against Your Right to Birth Control
The Right to Contraception Act is a short bill introduced in the House as H.R.8373 – Right to Contraception Act. The bill guarantees your right to contraception and family planning. That’s it. No provision of the bill relates to abortion or any procedures used to end a pregnancy and yet, all but 8 Republicans voted…
Read MoreFox Business Said The UK had a “Terrific Economic Plan” and Compared It to the GOP’s. UK’s Inflation Rate is Nearly 2% Higher than U.S.
The U.K’s inflation rate is now 2% higher than the U.S. after implementing a disastrous conservative economic agenda which Fox Business compared to the GOP’s plan. As of September, the U.K.’s inflation rate was 10.1% vs the U.S. which reported 8.2%. The inflation rate in the U.S. is down 0.9% since its high in July…
Read MoreDemocrats Helped Small Businesses Re-Open. Every Republican Voted No.
As family-owned businesses were getting back up and running, congress was working on legislation to offer them the support they needed. Democrats passed the American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes in the House or Senate. This package invested heavily in small businesses by offering the following grants: Small Business Support Voted Against by Every…
Read MoreWhen Your Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments Ended, Republicans Refused to Renew It
Democrats passed the Enhanced Child Tax Credit in 2021 in the American Rescue Plan. “The measure increased the child tax credit from $2,000 to $3,600 for qualifying children under 6 years old, and $3,000 for other children under 18 years old who qualify,” as reported by The Hill. In 2021, the program lifted 3.7 million…
Read MoreRepublicans promise to lower taxes on the largest corporations, and it will make inflation worse
The GOP is vowing to lower corporate taxes immediately if they retake Congress in November, another warning sign that Republican leadership will destabilize the economy and make inflation worse if they are allowed to take charge. Their vows to lower taxes on big businesses prove that Republicans have no understanding of the underlying causes of…
Read MoreBig Oil Has Paid Marco Rubio $250,000
Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio has received over $250,000 in donations from the oil and gas industries since he began his senior Senator seat in 2011. Oil companies are price gouging and making billions in profits this year. They are not using the record number of drilling permits granted to them by the Biden administration.…
Read MoreFact: Democrats Reduced the Federal Deficit by 50%
The U.S. Treasury released the deficit figures for the end of fiscal year 2022. “The federal deficit went up every single year in the Trump administration — every single year he was president,” President Biden said. “It went up before the pandemic. It went up during the pandemic. It went up every single year on…
Read MoreYou don’t have to choose between saving democracy and fighting inflation. Democrats will give you both.
The choice between combatting inflation and protecting democracy is false. The 2022 midterms are one of the most important elections of our lifetimes — democracy hangs in the balance. Almost 300 Republicans running for election this year are election deniers. Some of these candidates running for state-wide office will have the power to determine whether…
Read MoreTed Budd’s Votes Have Been Bought by Big-Pharma, Big Oil, and Special Interest Groups
Ted Budd took money from big pharma after voting to prevent lower drug prices. The cost of prescription drugs is a flashpoint for Americans needing medications but cannot afford them due to the ever-increasing prices. Congressman Ted Budd voted against H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019, which would…
Read MoreTed Budd Calls Violent January 6th Insurrection “just patriots standing up.”
On Todd Starnes’s radio show, Ted Budd said Americans should “take a real look at what happened on Jan. 6,” Budd said. “It was nothing. And it was just patriots standing up.” Fueled by the lies of Donald Trump, thousands stormed the U.S. Capital to overthrow the election after Biden won by over 10 million…
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