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Meet the top House recipients of oil and gas money – E&E News

Most are Republicans. Two serve in leadership positions. And many have seats on House committees that wield outsize influence on energy and climate policy.
— Read on www.eenews.net/articles/meet-the-top-house-recipients-of-oil-and-gas-money/

Jan 26 2023

Democrat Katie Hobbs elected Arizona governor defeating Kari Lake

It was an incredibly tight race between Hobbs, the current Secretary of State in Arizona, and Lake who spent 22 years at a local Fox affiliate and was backed by former President Donald Trump.
— Read on www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1134151957/hobbs-lake-arizona-midterm-election-results-governor

Nov 15 2022

White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research – ExtremeTech

The White House has moved to close a loophole that enabled journals to keep publicly funded research behind a paywall. …
— Read on www.extremetech.com/extreme/339162-white-house-bans-paywalls-on-taxpayer-funded-research

Sep 01 2022

SEN. JOE MANCHIN AND HIS WIFE DIRECTED MILLIONS TO THE WILDLIFE AREA SURROUNDING VACATION CONDO

While upending climate legislation, Manchin directed over $15 million in federal funding to protected wetlands where the couple owns property.
— Read on theintercept.com/2022/07/18/joe-gayle-manchin-condo-climate-canaan-valley/

Jul 19 2022

Democrats Need to Stand Up for Themselves

Humans are drawn to narratives, but too many politicians struggle to use storytelling to find common ground.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/democrats-storytelling-connecting-with-voters/629681/

Apr 28 2022

Coal Plant Won’t Pay Its Rent, but Can Pay Joe Manchin

A power plant that buys coal waste from a Manchin-owned company is 10 years behind on rent.
— Read on gizmodo.com/coal-plant-wont-pay-its-rent-but-can-pay-joe-manchin-1848548520

Feb 16 2022

How Manchin used politics to protect his family coal company

Selling scrap coal has earned Sen. Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel from laws and regulations that threaten his family’s business.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/manchin-family-coal-company-00003218

Feb 08 2022

Rights For All Americans, Que Novelle — The Biden administration is paying survivor’s benefits to victims of anti-gay discrimination.

Most would-be beneficiaries don’t even know they’re eligible.
— Read on slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/social-security-survivors-benefits-biden-marriage.html

Feb 02 2022

Texas Dems print, distribute 500k voter registration cards

Texas once again made headlines as we learned that the State of Texas will only be providing very limited numbers of voter registration applications to the public, blaming paper shortages.
— Read on defendernetwork.com/news/local-state/texas-dems-launch-program-to-print-distribute-500k-voter-registration-/

Jan 31 2022

Democrats Should Run on a Bold Anti-corruption Agenda

Being anti-corruption is a winning message.
— Read on newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61e85c9b199fdd00213c9ec8/democrats-should-run-on-a-bold-anti-corruption-agenda/

Jan 20 2022

Dem On Paper Only — Corporate donations flowed into Joe Manchin’s PAC ahead of final “No” on BBB

Money from Goldman Sachs, Blue Shield and Lockheed poured into Manchin’s coffers as he worked to scuttle BBB
— Read on www.salon.com/2021/12/23/corporate-donations-flowed-into-joe-manchins-pac-ahead-of-final-no-on-bbb_partner/

Dec 23 2021

Tl;dr, Because He’s A Toxic Corporate Puppet — Joe Manchin worries Biden’s social spending agenda costs too much, so why did he just vote for an infrastructure law that costs more?

Manchin says he’s worried about the deficit, but just voted for something more expensive than Build Back Better, the CBO says. He has no excuses left.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/joe-manchin-build-back-better-expensive-infrastructure-pricier-deficit-cbo-2021-11

Nov 20 2021

One Of The Dem’s GOP Grifters — Sinema’s raking in cash from MLMs. They want to kill her party’s labor bill.

The Arizona senator is one of just a few lawmakers that multilevel marketing businesses —often derided as pyramid schemes — are giving to.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2021/11/05/kyrsten-sinema-multi-level-marketing-labor-519661

Nov 05 2021November 5, 2021

Democrats’ Betrayals Are Jeopardizing American Democracy

History is screaming at Democrats to both rescue the economy and save democracy from a meltdown. They’re doing the opposite
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/democrats-fdr-new-deal-financial-crisis-1248615/

Oct 27 2021

Virginia Democrats sue USPS over delayed delivery of election-related material

The Virginia Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the US Postal Service on Friday, alleging local branches failed to deliver and process election-related material ahead of its high stakes gubernatorial race, thereby “threatening to disenfranchise thousands of Virginia voters.”
— Read on edition.cnn.com/2021/10/23/politics/virginia-democrats-postal-service-election-related-material-delays/

Oct 23 2021

Biden’s clean electricity program is likely to be scrapped because of opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin, who has made millions off the fossil-fuel industry, reports say

The program, which would reward power companies that transition to renewable energy, could be removed from a bill because of Manchin.
— Read on www.businessinsider.com/manchin-threatens-biden-clean-electricity-program-millions-fossil-fuel-industry-2021-10

Oct 16 2021

Winemaking and marathon running: what Kyrsten Sinema does instead of her job

Sinema is one of two Democrat holdouts against passing Biden’s Build Back Better agenda – but hasn’t made public why. Here’s what she is public about
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/16/kyrsten-sinema-senate-biden-build-back-better

Oct 16 2021

Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing.
— Read on apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-lifestyle-business-environment-1d8b5a0ff3814f78c5e8bc97c37fc32e

Oct 08 2021

No Scare Quotes Needed — Kyrsten Sinema Has Made Herself Into ‘a Shame to Democrats’

Maybe there’s a principle other than mindless bipartisanship, but it’s awfully hard to find.

— Read on www.thedailybeast.com/kyrsten-sinema-has-made-herself-into-a-shame-to-democrats

Oct 07 2021

You have to understand Senator Sinema has more important things to do than being a Senator

twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1444083095150284800

Oct 02 2021

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