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Building a Kingdom of Real Estate Empires: Christian Dominionists’ Plans to Transform Pennsylvania One Town at a Time
Is your town next?
Kira Resistance
August 13, 2024
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Kingdom Provisions Slaughterhouse in Pipersville Cited for Inhumane Handling of Animals, Again
For the third time in less than 18 months, the USDA issued a suspension notice to Ephraim Z. Stoltzfus. The action follows an incident in July that revealed employee incompetence and subsequent animal cruelty.
Jenny Stephens
August 12, 2024
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The 33rd Annual Ukrainian Festival Offers a Chance to Celebrate Ukraine’s Culture While Expressing Solidarity With It’s Fight for Independence
Dance troupes, musicians, singers and spectacular cuisine keep crowds coming back year after year to celebrate Ukraine’s independence.
Jenny Stephens
August 8, 2024
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Photo Essay: Joyful Warriors Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Launch Democratic Presidential Campaign at Philadelphia Rally to Fight and Win This Election
This campaign event offered a positive vision of the future for the country that secures Americans’ freedoms and protects our democracy.
David Iskra
August 6, 2024
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Kamala Harris Chooses Gov. Tim Walz — An Abortion Rights and Public Education Advocate — As Running Mate
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.
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August 6, 2024
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Report Names Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly As Part of GOP’s ‘Bigoted Conspiracy Caucus’
“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.
Cyril Mychalejko
August 5, 2024
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Souderton Community Members Demand Swift Action Following District’s Weak Response to Board Director’s Sexist, Vulgar Social Media Attack Against Vice President Harris
“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.
Jenny Stephens
August 5, 2024
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Common Cause Addresses Emerging and Evolving Threats to Upcoming 2024 Election
“Every incident of violence or intimidation at the polls must be addressed,” said Philip Hensley-Robin, Executive Director of Common Cause Pennsylvania.
Jenny Stephens
August 2, 2024
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Sierra Club Endorses Ashley Ehasz for Congress in Pennsylvania’s First Congressional District
The environmental group pledges to turn out its scores of volunteers to help elect the candidate who will actually protect “families’ health, air and water” and “build a clean energy economy that works for the people of our Commonwealth.”
Aidan Tyksinski
July 31, 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.
