This campaign event offered a positive vision of the future for the country that secures Americans’ freedoms and protects our democracy.
Let’s just say they’re excited.
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.
“Invasion” and “Great Replacement” conspiracies, once relegated to the right-wing fringes of white nationalist, anti-immigrant, and neo-Nazi groups, are now mainstream in today’s Republican Party. And it’s putting a target on immigrants.
“I thought it was full of platitudes. I saw no apology whatsoever that I would expect to be right out of the gate. It should say they’re embarrassed by his comments,” said Telford Borough Councilwoman Meredith Torres.
The ACLU and Department of State argued in Commonwealth Court that election officials don’t use the handwritten dates on ballot envelopes for anything. GOP lawyers say it’s a tool against fraud.
“Every incident of violence or intimidation at the polls must be addressed,” said Philip Hensley-Robin, Executive Director of Common Cause Pennsylvania.
Saturday’s free community event will have over 55 local vendors, as well as lawn games, balloon animals, music and refreshments.
The Republican VP nominee’s politics of blame were never meant to help the working class, writes Elizabeth Catte, author of “What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia.”
“We are all looking for some kind of hope; for someone who has been successful in taking on the far right,” said Barbara Simmons, executive director of The Peace Center in Langhorne.
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