Refusing to accept Republican lawmakers’ brazen power grab, hundreds of North Carolinians flooded the halls of the General Assembly building in Raleigh Thursday evening to shame the officials as they passed a series of measures aimed at stripping power from Governor-elect Roy Cooper. Tweets about #RespectOurVote OR #ncga OR #ncpol Twenty people, including one journalist,…

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a rule curbing methane emissions on public lands, delivering a win, say environmental groups, to big oil and cronies of President Donald Trump. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulation, finalized under the Obama administration in November, limited methane venting, flaring, and leaks from fossil…

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) engaged in a heated exchange with a voter on Tuesday, telling the woman she won’t run for office to address her concerns because it’s “too hard.” According to video uploaded by a reporter for The New York Times, Christie spoke with a woman who asked the governor why he…

Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore said Friday that he is refusing to debate his Democratic opponent Doug Jones because of Jones’s stance on transgender rights. In an interview with Sean Hannity on iHeartRadio, Moore said that Jones’s “very liberal” stance on transgender issues was behind the decision to skip a debate. “We’ve refused to…

In the wake of the North Carolina Republican Party’s anti-democratic grab for power and refusal to repeal the anti-LGBTQ HB2 earlier this month, calls are mounting for an economic boycott of the state. “The fact that many other injustices have been added to [the] outrage [of HB2] and pushed forward in the final week of 2016…

Adding her name to the growing list of lawmakers who are boycotting Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan.20, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) on Thursday issued a strongly-worded statement outlining her decision not to “celebrate” the swearing-in of the president-elect. Pointing to Trump’s comments about women, Muslims, Mexican immigrants, and others that she said have “normaliz[ed] bigotry”…

Days into the Trump administration, over 10,000 people showed up at senators’ district offices nationwide to demand the U.S. Senate reject President Donald Trump’s “Swamp Cabinet of billionaires, racists, and climate-change deniers,” as the organizers put it in a statement. “[Trump’s] actions out of the gate against women, working people, and the planet demonstrate that…

Riding on the coattails of far-right victories in the U.S. and U.K., France’s Marine Le Pen officially launched her bid for president on Sunday with a speech and manifesto full of populist talking points and anti-immigrant fervor. “The impossible has suddenly become possible…Other countries have shown us the way,” the head of the Front National…

House Republicans on Tuesday shielded President Donald Trump from disclosure of his potential business conflicts, ethical violations, and ties to Russia by voting down Democratic N.Y. Rep. Jerry Nadler’s resolution of inquiry that would have required the Department of Justice to release to Congress documents relating to those matters. It was defeated 18-16 along party…

Saturday, April 1, 2017 With confirmation of Trump’s far-right nominee to the US Supreme Court hanging in the balance, local and targeted #PeoplesFilibuster actions are taking place nationwide on Saturday (4/1) in order to pressure senators to #StopGorsuch In the wake of Trump’s destructive “executive order on climate” signed this week and as the climate…