News
“Upper Bucks United and our broader community are in a state of shock. The videos and firsthand accounts emerging from the Quakertown student walkout depict deeply disturbing scenes that no child should ever have to witness,” said Laura Foster, co-founder of Upper Bucks United.
Zeke Hernandez spoke about his book "The Truth about Immigration: Why Successful Countries Welcome Newcomers."
State lawmakers approved a measure last week to have state agencies examine the history, scope and continuing impacts of forced and coerced sterilization by the Indian Health Service and other providers.
Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, worked at an Amazon warehouse and liked to play video games and hang out with friends.
“No one has seen the ordinance this bill would end up producing,” warned Food & Water Watch’s Ginny Marcille-Kerslake.
Opinion
As we have seen too often in Harrisburg, a vision is not a policy, and a proposal is not progress until it is signed into law, writes Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania Executive Director Molly Parzen.
Jackson changed the rules of politics by offering an alternative to the top-down, big money-driven hegemony of the Democratic establishment: grassroots-funded, solidaric, genuinely populist.
Anyone can read the criteria for antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder in the DSM and see that Donald Trump meets almost all antisocial and narcissistic criteria, writes military veteran and retired mental health professional Steve Nolan.
Newtown's Gary Goldman takes on the national nightmare we find ourselves in thanks in part because of our national embarrassment of a president.
For years, MAGA has attacked immigrants and minority groups in the name of “protecting women and children.” It turns out the real abusers are the wealthy and powerful.
Education
“Upper Bucks United and our broader community are in a state of shock. The videos and firsthand accounts emerging from the Quakertown student walkout depict deeply disturbing scenes that no child should ever have to witness,” said Laura Foster, co-founder of Upper Bucks United.
The Trump administration's campaign to end diversity programs in higher education put the The PhD Project, one of many nonprofits that helps underrepresented groups gain access to higher education, in its crosshairs.
Speaking to multiple generations of students provides unique insight into the ways in which Black students continue to experience racial harm and trauma in Philly public schools.
This legislation came together the way good policy should — by listening first.
Controversial MAGA influencer Scott Presler, a "QAnon conspiracy promoter" who previously worked for an "anti-Muslim hate group," is circulating news of the 20-minute planned student event on social media in an attempt to generate outrage.
Elections
The status quo isn't going to cut it nationally or locally in the 2026 midterm elections, writes Kyle Esposito, Democratic committeeperson in East Rockhill Township.
The truth is that the people who most often assail the Democratic Party’s endorsement process are usually those who support candidates who do not have the votes to win it, writes Santarsiero, chair of the Bucks County Democratic Committee.
Sarah Baik believes it's time to put the small "d" democratic back in the big "D" Democratic primaries.
“The SAVE America Act would create sweeping new ‘show your papers’ residency and voter ID requirements that could block hundreds of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians from participating in our democracy,” said Amy Widestrom, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania.
Proponents point out that this could reduce administrative burdens and allow counties to check results more quickly.
The former Bensalem Township council member and chief of staff for state Rep. Tina Davis wants to unseat Republican incumbent K.C. Tomlinson in Bucks County’s House District 18.
Recent Votes:
- H.Res. 1067: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6856) to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation if the Government of the Russian Federation refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine, violates any s February 17, 2026Introduced: Sponsor: Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA1] This resolution was referred to the House Committee on Rules which will consider it before sending it to the House floor for consideration.
- H.Res. 1067: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 6856) to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation if the Government of the Russian Federation refuses to negotiate a peace agreement with Ukraine, violates any s February 17, 2026Bill Text: This resolution's text is now available. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick [R-PA1] is the sponsor of this resolution.
- H.R. 2189: Law-Enforcement Innovate to De-Escalate Act February 12, 2026Vote: Passed 233/185 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Nay
- S. 1383: Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act February 11, 2026Vote: Passed 218/213 Rep. Fitzpatrick [R-PA1]: Yea In February 2026, this bill was passed by the Senate with an amendment which sent the bill back to the House. (It is not headed to the President next as our status text says.)
