WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump basked in his impeachment victory on Thursday, waving a banner, all caps newspaper headline pronouncing him “ACQUITTED,” while he lashed out at his critics. Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast at a Washington hotel and held the USA Today newspaper aloft to show the crowd a day after the Senate, acting as a […]
As the U.S. Senate on Tuesday began debating the rules that will dictate the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump going forward, progressive groups continued their denunciation of the proposal put forth by Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who they charge has set the stage for a legal process that will “amount to nothing more than a fact-free […]
A diverse coalition of more than 30 progressive advocacy groups on Tuesday condemned the bipartisan, $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act as a “blank check” to the military-industrial complex that does nothing to restrain President Donald Trump’s reckless foreign policy. “Further inflating the Pentagon’s overstuffed coffers does not make us safer—it perpetuates a system that treats military […]
Legislation would make Alaska safe and invest resources locally ANCHORAGE – State lawmakers are pushing back against the Dunleavy Administration’s effort to send Alaska inmates to private prisons in the Lower 48. New legislation sponsored by Rep. Zack Fields (D-Anchorage) would remove the ability of the Department of Corrections commissioner to incarcerate prisoners in out-of-state […]