“The Justice Department that should be fighting to protect clean air and water and avert catastrophic climate change will now work on behalf of polluters to advance the poisoning of people and the planet.” The executive counsel at the fossil fuel behemoth ExxonMobil is leaving his role to join the Trump Justice Department’s newly renamed Energy and […]
“The Supreme Court’s attacks on voting rights are about rigging elections for Republicans,” said Rep. Greg Casar, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. US President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked a pro-democracy resolution recently introduced by key House caucus leaders, warning that the measure’s adoption would strike a fatal blow to the Republican Party. “They do this, […]
“The intense escalation of corporate spending we are now seeing shows that it is well past time for salvaging American democracy to be treated with the urgency that it deserves.” NEW @Public_Citizen report: Corporations have already spent $517 million on the 2026 midterms. That’s more corporate money than any previous election cycle — and […]
“You’re making a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable,” said US Sen. Gary Peters. Postmaster General David Steiner drew the ire of Democratic senators and voting rights advocates on Wednesday when he said that the US Postal Service would not deliver mail-in ballots in states that do not hand their voter files to the Trump administration. […]