New data shows it's
gotten easier to vote in the U.S. since 2000
For all the concern in recent years that
U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or
under threat, a report out Tuesday offers a
glimmer of good news for American voters
worried that casting a ballot will be
difficult in 2024.
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A guide to Project
2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the
next Republican administration
Project 2025, a comprehensive transition
plan organized by right-wing think tank The
Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP
presidential administration, is the
conservative movement's most robust policy
and staffing proposal for a potential second
Trump White House - and its extreme agenda
represents a threat to democracy, civil
rights, the climate, and more.
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This Democratic
group is taking the fight over abortion
rights to state legislatures
Democrats say they're taking the fight
over abortion rights to state legislative
races in 2024 as they seek to flip seats and
expand their majority across the country.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign
Committee, an organization that works to
elect Democrats to statehouses, wrote that
state legislatures have become "the arbiters
of reproductive freedom, shaping the reality
facing women and their access to care" in a
memo first shared with USA TODAY.
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Overwhelming
majority of AAPI adults in new poll support
legalized abortion
A new poll has found that a majority of
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific
Islander (AAPI) adults in the United States
are highly supportive of legal abortion.
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Brett Kavanaugh
rides to the Biden administration's defense
in a big First Amendment case
Last week, a policymaking body within the
judiciary announced new steps to combat
"judge shopping," a practice that has
allowed Republican litigants to choose to
have their cases heard by partisan judges
who are well to the right of even the median
Trump appointee. The Supreme Court has also
heard several cases in its current term
where it appears likely to reverse rulings
made by the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit, a MAGA stronghold
that frequently hands down decisions that
appear designed to sabotage the Biden
administration.
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Biden is giving
Intel $8.5 billion for big semiconductor
projects in 4 states
President Biden announced a deal with
Intel that will give the chipmaker up to
$8.5 billion in grants and another $11
billion in loans to build semiconductor
plants in four states - the biggest project
to date in his push to bring chips
manufacturing back to America.
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Biden starts ramping
up - while building a cash advantage over
Trump
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign
swelled in size at the end of last year as
it ramped up operations after months of
relative quiet. The campaign spent more
money in the final three months of the year
than in the first nine months combined,
according to campaign finance reports filed
late Wednesday night.
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Biden, DNC raise $71
million in third quarter
President Joe Biden, the Democratic
National Committee and their joint
fundraising committees brought in more than
$71 million combined in this year's third
quarter, the campaign said Sunday.
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