SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – It’s understandable when you host a meeting featuring actor Matthew McConaughey – and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pops in as a surprise guest – that the mundane business of bipartisanship and saving democracy maybe gets lost in the shuffle.
Three days after the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, federal investigators have yet to uncover the motives of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. What little has been uncovered about Crook’s political views is ambiguous and inconsistent, with the New York Times reporting that he was a registered Republican who also donated to the Progressive Turnout Project.
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As Democrats debate whether President Joe Biden should run for another term, Republican officials back Donald Trump and his agenda for the next four years, according to the party’s recently released platform, which is expected to be approved at the Republican National Convention starting in Milwaukee.
MyPillow founder and election denier Mike Lindell was a surprise guest at a movie screening of Let My People Go, held July 12, at Orchard Mesa Baptist Church in Grand Junction. The film stars David Clements, a former lawyer and fired New Mexico State University professor, who now makes a living as an election denier.
Four Colorado bishops representing the Catholic Church have taken a stance on multiple upcoming ballot initiatives: vocally opposing measures to protect reproductive rights and gay marriage, and supporting potential measures that would negatively impact the rights of transgender youths.
This week, the Republican National Committee voted on the first new Republican platform since 2016. Eight years ago, the GOP’s platform — a hefty 58-page document outlining the party’s principles, goals, and positions on domestic and foreign affairs — laid out detailed policies for issues like abortion and marriage, but the most recent draft of the 2024 platform has both conservatives and progressives concerned. Is this latest version softening the party’s stances on social issues for political gain, or is it merely cloaking the same policies — or even more aggressive ones — in more opaque language?
This article first appeared in the Bucks County Beacon. It is republished here with permission.
When my parents Manny and Joanne Salzman were thinking about changing up their lives in the mid-1970s, Manny liked the idea of growing apples, and they toured a few orchards.
In another targeted attack against transgender people, the Colorado GOP, represented by Director of Special Initiatives Darcy Schoening, sent an email calling on the state’s school boards to resist enacting recent updates to Title IX that protect transgender students from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
