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While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.

Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...

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It’s amazing watching as even Florida is changing. In heavily Republican Sarasota County, voters just broke up the Moms for Liberty-aligned conservative majority on the school board. Former teachers Megan Tennimon and Beth Mayberry both won outright, while Teresa DeWitt,

Bob Rae: "This is no time for armchair critics or for second-guessing. We're dealing with a very unfriendly administration at the moment, to put it mildly. And this is a tyranny that we have to fight." #cdnpoli

We are Indivisible With Liberty and Justice For All! Southlake Corner Visibility Brigade every Saturday at 10-11! #NoKings @indivisiblefwa.bsky.social @candeechi.bsky.social @lucelaw.bsky.social

DHS has been abusing administrative subpoenas to go after people who criticize ICE online. If this happens to your accounts, know your rights.

When the Government Demands Info About Your Online Accounts

The First Amendment protects the right to document and criticize government actions, including when doing so anonymously online. But the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ramped up efforts to surveil and silence critics using a tool called an "administrative subpoena" or "administrative summons".

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"..companies such as Costco, Apple, and Delta Air Lines continued to defend or maintain key diversity initiatives.. The results show that the corporations that remained firm on their stance on DEI did not take a hit to their bottom line." #DEI www.blackenterprise.com/pro-dei-comp...

Pro-DEI Companies Are Doing Just Fine According To New Study

New research finds S&P 500 companies that maintained DEI policies performed as well as — and sometimes better than — peers that pulled back.

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Public schools are not Sunday schools. If states want to violate the separation of church and state, they’ll have to get through us.

Protecting the midterms will require a trained citizenry dedicated to defending our sacred right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted. Join the nearly 35,000 Americans who are building the nationwide infrastructure we need to respond to attacks on voting rights in every community.

Join Our midterm Election Protection Program

In 2026 we are building our strongest election protection program ever, in all 50 states. We’re going to bring Indivisible’s grassroots organizing force out to ensure that whatever tricks they try to ...

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Carney on the US: We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they’ve asked.

🚨BREAKING: 9th circuit DISMISSES Republican lawsuit challenging Nevada's ballot receipt deadline. As a result of our SCOTUS victory in Watson we've now also won cases in Nevada, California, Illinois and Kansas. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...

🚨 Republican National Committee v. Burgess Appealed

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I’m about to print personal details of someone lost in the ICE prison system. His family asked us to do this. His real name is Adolfo Simeon Castro Perez and his real country of origin is Honduras. However, ICE records have his name as Adolfo Simeon-Castro and his country as Mexico. DOB 8/11/91

Organizing everywhere isn’t a slogan — it’s the work that’s required to reclaim the power of the pro-democracy majority.

One fun thing about eating chia seeds every day is that, despite keeping the bathroom clean, every once in a while you get a chia plant sprouting in your sink drain

Here’s how worried MAGA parents are that their sons might grow into compassionate people. www.msn.com/en-us/lifest...

NEW: We asked a court to step in and force the government to allow our client Amanda to attend upcoming vice-presidential events. Amanda was previously stopped from entering an official government event because she makes fun of the vice president online.

Across the country, federal agents are intimidating and brutalizing people just for exercising their First Amendment right to record law enforcement in public. Urge your representatives in Congress to pass the Right to Record Act and protect our constitutional right to document the truth.

Protect The Right to Record

The public has a constitutional right to know what our own government is up to. But right now, federal agents are harassing and intimidating people legally recording them in public. Congress must pass the Right to Record Act.

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The Pentagon fired the publisher and editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper that is supposed to maintain editorial independence from the very department it covers.

The Heritage Foundation studied 27 years of Georgia elections. Of 64,742,598 ballots cast, only 23 were fraudulent, just 0.0000355% of all votes cast for 27 years! www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

How widespread is election fraud in the United States? Not very | Brookings

In swing states, reported cases of voter fraud amounts to less than 1%.

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And yep, ICE agents placing knees on necks is a thing. Earlier this year, we counted more 40 instances immigration agents doing it and similar moves www.propublica.org/article/vide...

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

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A private prison company that stands to make hundreds of millions of dollars from Trump’s immigration crackdown just sent more than $1.4 million to his political operation.

"Nearly six months after the U.S. Navy evacuated 1,300 family members from Bahrain at the start of the Iran war, officials are saying the evacuees cannot return for the foreseeable future and should find new homes elsewhere." www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion

The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.

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Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview apnews.com/article/star...

Flock cameras are a domestic violence issue. Of the four police officers noted in this article, at least two were stalking partners. The other two were disciplined for “concerning behavior”. In my years safety planning with victims of domestic violence… 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/21/b...

Flock license plate cameras under fire as Mass. police misconduct cases mount - The Boston Globe

At least four police officers in the state are under investigation for misusing the technology, and a wave of towns continue to opt out.

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15,903 "illegal ballots" became 185, and they still haven’t shown that those 185 people cast any ballots. Gifted article: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'