Time to Wake Up 308: 40 Years After Chafee’s Warning
this phase out. No surprise: the scientists were right, and the phaseout of CFCs worked. CFCs stay
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Pressley Delivers Floor Speech Honoring the Life and Legacy of Andrew Joseph Jr.
police officers, violate their legal and constitutionally secured rights. A transcript of Congresswoman Pressley’s floor speech … hold law enforcement accountable when they violate our rights. Our collective fight for justice was strengthened
Time to Wake Up 307: The Mischief Continues
funded Republicans with its destruction of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais . Callais is the culmination … years-long “judicial project to destroy the Voting Rights Act,” to quote Justice Kagan. Discarding decades of precedent
The Scheme #37: The Scheme Meets Time to Wake Up
this is on its way. It is coming right now. I am just going to continue … damage, by all this pollution, usually have a right to bring a lawsuit. And sure enough, lawsuits
WATCH: On House Floor, Pressley Delivers Speech Honoring Outgoing District Director and Longtime Dedicated Aide Eric White
took on for working families, for workers’ rights, for fairness and justice. And between his two parents—given
WATCH: On House Floor, Pressley Delivers Speech Honoring Outgoing District Director and Longtime Dedicated Aide Eric White
took on for working families, for workers’ rights, for fairness and justice. And between his two parents—given
Clyburn Delivers Floor Remarks Honoring The Late Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.
passing of one of the most quintessential civil rights leaders – Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. Our relationship began … Orangeburg Seven.” The Greenville Eight ultimately won the right to have access to that library. Today, the Greenville
Time to Wake Up 305: Lyin’ Lee Zeldin
across America, on both the left and the right, are waking up to the danger of Lyin
As Trump Tries to Take Over U.S. Elections, Reed Delivers Speech Opposing Anti-Voter SAVE Act
register and then to exercise their fundamental right to vote. Reed says the anti-voter SAVE … designed to protect voting rights, but to undermine them. Passing it would erode election integrity; suppress votes; place
Trump/Russia, Trump/Epstein, Epstein/Russia
parrot anti-Western talking points pushed by right-wing groups that Putin has long funded and used … have the chance to see what’s right in front of your face. Sources https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-complained-that-barrs-letter-did-not-capture-context-of-trump-probe/2019/04/30/d3c8fdb6-6b7b-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html
Time to Wake Up #304: Global Economic Loss as Climate Danger Looms
that is what is happening in insurance markets right now, as homeowners along the gulf coast in Florida … percent richer by 2050–from getting climate right. And they suggest that lower-income countries would enjoy
The Scheme #36: A MAGA Smear Campaign
only after he had asserted his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and was given immunity from prosecution … call the flying monkeys of the far right—‘‘Fly, my pretties. Go harass that judge. Go harass that
Time to Wake Up 303: Recapping COP30
Chair Powell. He is on my sheet right here: “In 10 or 15 years, there are going … very much what we are headed for right now. What happens at 3 degrees? Here is what
Klobuchar Delivers Floor Remarks Ahead of Senate Passage of the Bipartisan Canada Tariff Resolution
Canada. If you want to make changes right for dairy or other things, do it in the review … heard from their soybean farmers. What is happening right now is one of my farmers called
Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For
other circumstances claims to be all about States’ rights, States’ ability to self govern, and cooperative federalism.’’ Thanks … face budget cuts, lost protections, and industrial projects right at their borders. Trump’s corrupt Interior
ICYMI: Holding Letter from Michigander About Insurance Increases, Slotkin Delivers Speech on Protecting Health Care
political thing, instead of what’s right
Time to Wake Up 301: A Dangerous Precipice
understanding it (thank you, Upton Sinclair). Well, right away, the Republican Party came to depend on that fossil
U.S. Senator Tina Smith Delivers Floor Speech Remembering Annunciation School Shooting Victims, Pushes for Congress to Pass Gun Safety Legislation
seems to be moving in the right direction. She was hurt while she was shielding her little buddy … somehow off the table. If the right to own these guns matters more than children’s right
Time to Wake Up 300: Wake Up and Fight
bless the scientists. They got it right. Even the Exxon scientists got it right. And then that … were the capture of the Supreme Court by right-wing billionaires, the influx into our elections of floods
Time to Wake Up 299: How Empty and Worthless is the Power of Kings
because it’s not clear what number is right, we’ll use a number we know is wrong
Senator Whitehouse Remembers Rhode Island’s Late Senate President Dominick Ruggerio
DiLuglio, a Rhode Island classic in his own right. Donny went on to spend many years with Laborers
ICYMI: Slotkin delivers remarks on her Economic War Plan at the Center for American Progress
blame. That anger, that suspicion among Americans — that right there is what I mean when
Time to Wake Up 298: 10th Our Ocean Conference
government by this political operation is right now complete. Neither house of Congress will do anything right
Scheme 35: The Real Weaponization of the Justice System
spending, both with a time limit and the right of Congress to override, and the time limit … were awarded in April 2024, giving recipients legal rights to the funds. And then they were distributed
Time to Wake Up 297: A Dagger in EPA’s Bipartisan Mission
Good Neighbor Rule” and give states the right to foul the air in downwind states like Rhode Island … climate consequences – because politicians failed to get this right. The political system failed because the American political process