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Republicans Are Playing Dirty To Reduce Democrats’ Power

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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/18/republicans-are-playing-dirty-to-reduce-democrats-power.html

The #FiveWhiteGuys trying to take down Pelosi are stupid beyond words

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/16/1813379/-The-FiveWhiteGuys-trying-to-take-down-Pelosi-are-stupid-beyond-words

Butina In Negotiations With Prosecutors Over ‘Potential Resolution’ To Her Case

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/butina-in-negotiations-with-prosecutors-over-potential-resolution-to-her-case

Trump Offered Ricardel Estonia Ambassadorship After Melania Ousting

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-offered-ricardel-estonia-ambassadorship

Friends raised money for a gay college athlete after her parents disowned her. Then the NCAA called.

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https://thinkprogress.org/ncaa-punishes-lgbtq-athlete-66e28ef63ede/

Ex-Coal Lobbyist Wheeler Gets Trump Greenlight As Permanent EPA Chief

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-nominate-andrew-wheeler-permanent-epa-administrator

Ethics committee investigation finds Rep. Kihuen harassed women in violation of House rules

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https://thinkprogress.org/kihuen-sexual-harassment-investigation-84bfaca9a7d8/

Climate change policy can be overwhelming. Here’s a guide to the ideas that work.

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https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/16/18096352/climate-change-clean-energy-policies-guide

Trump, stung by midterms and nervous about Mueller, retreats from traditional presidential duties

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http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-absent-20181113-story.html

Democrats Are Poised to Wipe Out Republicans’ North Carolina Gerrymander In Time for the 2020 Election

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/north-carolina-gerrymandering-lawsuit-anita-earls.html


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How Blue States Help Red States

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress love to demonize government handouts, which, in fact, their own supporters depend on and are increasingly financed by taxpayers in blue states. 

The federal program Temporary Assistance for Needy Families – what we used to call “welfare” – provides cash assistance to fewer than 1 percent of Americans.

But the Trump administration is proposing to lump many social programs under a new agency with the word “welfare” in its title.

A recent White House report on imposing work requirements, for example, put Medicaid, food assistance, and housing aid into a rebranded program called “noncash welfare.”

Defined this broadly, a large chunk of America relies on welfare. Add in disability benefits, unemployment insurance, and medical benefits, such so-called “welfare” amounts to 17 percent of the average American’s income.

Welfare has become especially unpopular in “red” states that vote Republican and support Trump.

But these same states are often the biggest beneficiaries of government assistance.

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