Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Tag: Rep. Pramila Jayapal

Jayapal’s bill to overturn Citizens United targets Musk’s ‘shadow presidency’

As billionaires like Elon Musk reshape American democracy, a new amendment seeks to reverse the Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporate money to dominate politics.

Jayapal and Sanders seize on Musk’s critique of US healthcare costs...

Progressive lawmakers urge Elon Musk to address healthcare inefficiencies, highlighting Medicare for All as the solution to rising costs and inequality.

Climate crisis has made western US megadrought worst in 1,200 years

"Climate change is here and now," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal. "If a 1,200 year mega-drought isn't enough to make people realize that, I don't know what is."

In the latest round of budgetary chess, Progressive caucus leader Jayapal...

The Seattle Democrat has been willing to take the heat to secure a down payment on an agenda for economic equity and sustainability.

As progressives secure $15 wage in house covid bill, Jayapal says...

“We shouldn’t care whether Republicans are gonna vote for this or not. The vast majority of the American people support this package, Republicans and Democrats.”

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Live by phony conspiracies, die by real conspiracies: Truth crawls from a swamp of...

On top of six months of popularity-killing blundering, reality is outing Trump—blowing apart obsolete fix-it moves.

Colbert’s termination is a corporate assault on dissent and a victory for Trump  

Was he blindsided by media conglomerates eager to capitulate to him?

Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare...

Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.

CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10 million off health...

Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.

To resist injustice in Gaza and the wider world

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is neither polemic nor memoir, although it contains elements of both.