No matter who wins the election, Christian nationalism is growing within the United States, and this has global repercussions. We ignore it at our peril.
The 19th has pulled together what we know about where Harris stands on key issues, based on what she’s done while vice president and what she’s said during her run.
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A conversation with Death Penalty Action Co-founder and Executive Director Abe Bonowitz.
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These two instances of police violence highlight the cyclical nature of police violence against Black Americans – and the growing mistrust among Black Americans for local police.
Under Walz’s leadership, Minnesota expanded abortion rights and LGBTQ+ rights, now provides free lunch and breakfast to Minnesota’s K-12 students, and made public colleges tuition-free for families earning less than $80,000 a year.
V-Dem Institute, a global research organization that monitors indicators of democracy around the world, determined that academic freedom has “substantially worsened” in the United States in recent years.
Christian nationalism thrives on fear, insecurity and hate. By casting illegal immigrants as criminals, child traffickers and drug dealers, Trump continues to fan the flames of fear in his followers.
The judge ruled that rejecting mail ballots for issues with the date on the outer envelope violates voters’ First Amendment rights, since voting is considered an expression of free speech.
“It is inconceivable that after decades of promises and political posturing, Congress has yet to pass a permanent solution for undocumented immigrants who entered the country as children and other undocumented people,” said Make the Road PA’s Armando Jiménez.
“Danny is a battle-tested patriot who represents the best of his generation. Bucks County will be safer with him as our Sheriff,” said former Bucks County Congressman Patrick Murphy.
We need a representative in Congress who engages not in sophistry, but in truth-telling, and one who has the courage to have in-person town halls open to all their constituents, writes Newtown’s Steve Cickay.
Locally, the cuts have already hacked away about one-third of the $800,000 the federal government had been sending to supplement Bucks County Opportunity Council programs like Fresh Connect.
