From May 9th to 13th, the Arlington County Democratic Committee (ACDC) will be using ranked choice voting to select their nominee for a seat on the Arlington County Board. With incumbent Jay Fisette not seeking a sixth term, a crowded field of four candidates are seeking the party’s nomination for the open seat.
Individuals from several parties are joining together to challenge corruption in Pennsylvania's poorest District -- Philadelphia's district #197.
“It angers and saddens me that President Trump has taken the advice of war hawks and escalated our illegal regime change war to overthrow the Syrian government...This Administration has acted recklessly without care or consideration of the dire consequences of the United States attack on Syria without waiting for the collection of evidence from the scene of the chemical poisoning. If President Assad is indeed guilty of this horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians, I will be the first to call for his prosecution and execution by the International Criminal Court.
State Representative Gabrielle LeDoux (R-Anchorage) is the latest legislator to introduce legislation that would open state elections to all voters. Rep. LeDoux’s HB200 would establish a top-two style nonpartisan open primary election system, similar to Washington and California’s models.
Bernie Sanders took time out of his busy schedule of trying to bring a single-payer healthcare bill to the Senate to endorse a candidate for governor of Virginia. Earlier this week, Sanders endorsed former congressman Tom Perriello in the governor’s race.
The U.S. military launched an airstrike assault on Syria Thursday in response to Tuesday's chemical gas attack in Idlib, which U.S. officials say Syria President Bashar al-Assad was behind. President Donald Trump ordered the strike of nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles against the government airbase where the chemical attack was reportedly launched.
Trump has long made a point of condemning wars of regime change. But the neocons act quickly.
Following the deadly chemical attack in the Syrian city of Idlib early Tuesday, Trump quickly came out to express his sorrow:
From time to time, a huge story can be uncovered in what some might perceive as an unlikely place. Take /r/the_donald subreddit for instance. Yes, the mere mention of it will cause some to roll their eyes, but bear with me.
Sure the subreddit is full of overused terms like "snowflake" and "cuck," but sometimes buried deep beneath even the most extreme and sensational rhetoric there is something worth reporting. Take the following post as an example:
IVN recently reported on the fact that the current political environment is really a tale of two realities. Hyper-partisanship has gotten so bad that people perceive the world with their own truth (with a lowercase "t") and it can be difficult to discern what is and is not fact, because media outlets tend to stick to one "truth" or the other.
Tulsi Gabbard's January fact finding trip to Syria received criticism from establishment politicians and partisan pundits alike. This week, the trip received renewed attention after a Lebanese newspaper supposedly published a transcript of the meeting.