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Organizers Brace for Resurrection of ‘Zombie’ Abortion Laws
Now, after the fall of Roe, Project 2025 plans to revive the zombie Comstock Act and make it workable.
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October 20, 2024
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Opinion
Letters: Lock Trump Up?, A Hurricane of MAGA Lies and Cruelty, Protect Reproductive Rights This Election, Busting Myths on Immigration, and More
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
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October 15, 2024
Opinion
Letters: Senator Casey Wiped the Debate Floor with McCormick, Why Trump Is Not Fit for Office, Kamala Harris’ Sensible Proposals, and More
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
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October 7, 2024
Opinion
Letters: Trump’s Affinity for Authoritarians, JD Vance a Horrible Pick, Senator Casey Will Protect Social Security and Medicare, Bucks County Is a Must-Win Battleground, and More
Bucks County Beacon readers sound off.
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October 1, 2024
News
In Storms Like Hurricane Helene, Flooded Industrial Sites and Toxic Chemical Releases Are a Silent and Growing Threat
In disasters like these, the industrial damage can unfold over days, and residents may not hear about releases of toxic chemicals into water or the air until days or weeks later, if they find out at all.
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October 1, 2024
Opinion
OPINION: Pennsylvania Needs to Properly Fund Its Transportation System
A lack of reliable public transportation would have a devastating effect in all 67 counties of the commonwealth.
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September 30, 2024
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For Haitians, Trump’s Attacks — and the Hate Before and After It — Are Nothing New
Long before the debate, Trump disparaged Black immigrants. In 2017, he reportedly said that Nigerians lived in “huts” and Haitians “all have AIDS.” The following year, he labeled Haiti, African nations, and El Salvador “shithole countries.”
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September 24, 2024
Opinion
Health Care Under Kamala Harris Versus Donald Trump
A public health historian sizes up their records on medicare, the Affordable Care Act, public health infrastructure, and more.
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September 18, 2024
News
The Christian Right’s Playbook to Elect Donald Trump in November
And how voters can use the tools of democracy to counter their plans.
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September 16, 2024
Active Clubs Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier
August 29, 2025
These groups are a new and harder-to-detect form of white supremacist organizing that merges extremist ideology with fitness and combat sports culture.
Could Pennsylvania’s Budget Impasse End Up in Court?
August 28, 2025
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
