A tiny Wall Street sales tax could fund huge improvements for the rest of us. Just a 0.1 percent tax — that’s 10 cents on every $100 of stocks, bonds, and derivatives trades — would generate an estimated $752 billion over 10 years.
Election offices and those who run them have been targets of harassment and even death threats since the 2020 presidential election, primarily by people acting on former President Donald Trump’s lies that the election was stolen from him through widespread fraud or rigged voting machines.
The program allows families to apply for lawful temporary legal status without having the remove the applicant from the U.S. while waiting for permanent resident status. DHS estimates the program would benefit 550,000 noncitizen spouses and stepchildren.
Republican state lawmakers just won’t let it happen.
And how voters can use the tools of democracy to counter their plans.
The Bucks County Beacon spoke with Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Rachel Laser about Project 2025 and Christian extremists’ efforts to take away our freedoms.
