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4/18/2024
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Senate nominee bankrolled by far-right activist trashing MLK and the Civil Rights Act
Last month, Bernie Moreno won the Republican nomination for US Senate in Ohio. Moreno benefited from an early endorsement from Turning Point Action, the far-right activist group founded by Charlie Kirk
4/17/2024
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Meet the people spending $800,000 or more to make Trump the next president
Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election, was recently found liable for sexual assault, and has been charged with 88 felonies. Trump is currently spending four days a week at the
4/16/2024
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Who pays on Tax Day
Yesterday was the last day for Americans to file their 2023 taxes on time. What is the biggest difference between Tax Day this year and Tax Day in 1980? Millionaires pay a lot less. Between 1945 and
4/15/2024
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Senate spotlight: A Trump Republican's China problem
November's election will not only determine which party controls the White House but also the United States Senate. Currently, the Democratic caucus holds a narrow 51-49 advantage. Control of the
4/13/2024
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People v. Trump
Next Monday, April 15, Donald Trump will report to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse to stand trial. According to the official summary released this week by Judge Juan Merchan, the case involves
4/13/2024
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Arizona Republicans condemn their own abortion policy
On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a bombshell decision banning virtually all abortions in the state. The majority found that since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a near-total ban
4/9/2024
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What Trump really said about abortion
During the 2024 presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump boasted that he would "come together with all groups" on abortion and "negotiate something" that would "
4/8/2024
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Cruz's corrupt bargain
After the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United, there are few restrictions on spending money in federal elections. But Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) may have violated one of the last legal
4/4/2024
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Elon Musk's viral lie about the 2024 election uses bogus data
In October 2022, Elon Musk completed his purchase of Twitter. He then dramatically changed the algorithm to boost his own tweets. The new algorithm, according to a February 2023 report by Platformer,
4/3/2024
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A humanitarian catastrophe
A UN-backed report published in mid-March found residents of Gaza are facing “high levels of acute food insecurity.” According to aid groups, the number of people in Gaza experiencing “catastrophic
4/2/2024
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Corporate profit bonanza
In the last three months of 2023, after-tax corporate profits reached an all-time high of $2.8 trillion. This is part of a long-term growth in corporate profits that began in the 1980s, picked up steam
4/1/2024
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UPDATE: New smear campaign puts first Muslim appellate nominee in jeopardy
Republicans first attempted to sink the nomination of Adeel Mangi, who would be the first Muslim American to serve on a federal appellate court, on allegations that he was an anti-semitic terrorist
3/28/2024
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These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Then, according to the report of the bipartisan January 6 Commission, Trump engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020
3/27/2024
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Let's chat
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3/26/2024
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Inside the squatting hysteria
On March 17, a provocateur named Leonel Moreno posted a video on TikTok where he purports to give instructions on how people can successfully "squat" in other people's houses. It was one
3/25/2024
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The secret to changing Trump's mind
On August 6, 2020, then-President Donald Trump issued an executive order "addressing the threat posed by TikTok," the popular social network run by ByteDance, a Chinese company. According to
3/22/2024
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Popular Information's future
In March 2020, I took down Popular Information's paywall. Since then, each edition of Popular Information (767 newsletters!) has been freely available to everyone. And over the last four years, we
3/21/2024
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Georgia's Medicaid system is a disaster. Other states want to copy it.
In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule allowing states to tie Medicaid eligibility to employment, a first in the program's 50-year history. The policy shift was the result of decades of
3/20/2024
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The Mangi question: A crowd-sourced accountability reporting project
On Monday, Popular Information reported on the nomination of Adeel Mangi to be a federal appeals court judge in the Third Circuit. Mangi's resume would typically result in a quick confirmation. He
3/19/2024
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Congress' stock trading addiction
On March 12, Bloomberg reported that the Department of Defense was canceling a $2.5 billion grant to chip-maker Intel. The money was supposed to make Intel "a dedicated supplier of chips for