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33,000 Americans die annually from gun violence. It’s all too easy to normalize this, but it’s not normal. As we move towards the midterm elections this November, it’s important to keep up the pressure by setting ourselves up to choose candidates who support gun reform (not these people) and pushing for the gun safety measures within our reach.
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Is the latest presidential tweet or scandal getting you down? Can’t wait for November to roll around for you to flex some electoral muscle? You don’t have to! State primary season is upon us, and although midterm and off-year primaries receive nowhere near the attention of presidential-year primaries, they are absolutely essential to a healthy progressive resistance.
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As the midterm Congressional races heat up, some Republican lawmakers are considering breaking with the GOP stance on immigration reform as a means to seek reelection. A discharge petition is currently five signatures shy of from the 218 it needs to trigger four votes on immigration matters, including one to protect Dreamers (Americans brought to the US without documentation as children and who were protected under DACA, a policy the Trump administration ended in March). Meanwhile, the Trump administration continues its invective against undocumented immigrants, and outrages aplenty are being committed against them by ICE.