Jan 31, 2013: New Front in the War on Women
The Latest Extreme Anti-Abortion Trend A record number of new abortion restrictions — 135 in all — were put in place during 2011 and 2012. The GOP nominated someone who has advocated for so-called “personhood” measures and co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape as their vice presidential candidate. Republican senatorial candidates made highly offensive and inexplicable [...]
Jan 30, 2013: What Gabby Said
An Emotional Call to Action on Gun Violence Former Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in the head two years ago this month in a shooting that also left six of her constituents dead, including a nine year-old girl. In the wake of the Newtown gun massacre, Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, founded Americans for Responsible Solutions, [...]
Jan 29, 2013: Now’s The Time
Let’s Get Immigration Reform Done We are now closer than we have been in years to achieving common sense immigration reform that will put the 11 MILLION undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship. Momentum for reform has been building since the election, when American voters strongly rejected Mitt Romney’s harsh “self-deportation” prescription in favor [...]
Jan 25, 2013: What The GOP Wasted $3 Milllion On
Republicans are against government spending — except when they aren’t. Here’s one of the worst examples of the GOP’s hypocrisy.
Jan 24, 2013: Grand Theft Election
The GOP’s Plan to Rig the Electoral College & Steal the White House Republican politicians have a big problem. Their massively unpopular policies and offensive rhetoric about minorities, women, and LGBT people have alienated vast swaths of the electorate, making it increasingly difficult for them to win national elections. And these problems are only getting worse [...]
Jan 23, 2013: Extreme
The 8 Most Extreme Moments of the New Congress The 113th Congress has barely started, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans from already dishing out plenty of extreme, offensive, and out-of-touch comments. Here’s a roundup of the eight most extreme moments so far: Impeach the president because he wants to reduce gun violence: Freshman Reps. Trey [...]
Jan 22, 2013: 40 Years
Roe v. Wade Turns Forty Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision protecting a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion. While Republican politicians remain stridently and vocally opposed to the decision, polls show that an overwhelming majority of the public favors the decision. Even about half of those who [...]
Jan 18, 2013: Surrender
Republicans Let the Hostage Go Just as they did in 2011, Republicans have been threatening to take the entire economy hostage in order to extract trillions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs that Americans depend on each day. As we recently discussed, the result of taking the debt ceiling [...]
Jan 17, 2013: Impeachment?
The GOP’s Most Extreme Reactions to Obama’s Commonsense Gun Safety Plan It’s not just NRA lobbyists that are reacting completely irrationally to the president’s commonsense proposals to prevent gun violence. Matt Drudge likened President Obama to both Hitler and Stalin. But some Republicans are now even going so far as to suggest impeaching the president. [...]
Jan 16, 2013: Gun Violence Prevention 101
The President’s Sensible Gun Violence Prevention Proposal The president and vice president today announced a sweeping agenda to stem the epidemic of gun violence that exists in our country. You can find the full text of the plan HERE, but ThinkProgress’ Annie-Rose Strasser breaks down everything you need to know about the president’s plan: 1. [...]
