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Director of Heritage Foundation’s Controversial Project 2025 Steps Down

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By Glynn Wilson – The conservative Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, also inspired by the radical Catholic cult Opus Dei, could be the albatross hanging around Trump’s neck that drags him down into icy defeat come November. The ice is already cracking. Paul Dans, who directed the Heritage Foundation’s controversial 2025 Presidential Transition Project, or Project…

Who Will Make the Final Cut as Vice Presidential Running Mate for Kamala Harris?

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Who would you like to see her pick and why? – By Glynn Wilson – GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Kamala Harris is on track to pick a vice presidential running mate by August 7, according to the schedule established by the Democratic Party to formally nominate its ticket in preparation for the national convention in Chicago…

Project 2025: The Author and Head of the Heritage Foundation’s Ties to Radical Catholic Group Opus Dei

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The Anti-Democratic Group Wants to Bring Back Theocracy – By Glynn Wilson – The Full Big Picture – Americans of all stripes who favor keeping our democratic Republic have many good reasons to be concerned about Project 2025. But the underlying reason we should all be concerned is not just all the horrendous policy proposals…

Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Appeals to Black Women’s Sorority to Help Power Her Campaign

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By Glynn Wilson – Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail in her first week with a series of appearances in strategic places, appealing to key constituency groups to fire them up to get onboard and help power her campaign. In Indianapolis on Wednesday, she spoke at a rally of more than 6,000 Black…

Kamala Harris Opens Her Campaign With a Two Point Lead Over Trump

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By Glynn Wilson –  Public Opinion Analyst – Vice President Kamala Harris opens her campaign for president with a two-point lead over Republican Donald Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday. The national poll shows her leading…

Joe Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Vice President Kamala Harris

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Breaking News –  By Glynn Wilson –  President Joe Biden announced on Twitter (X) on Sunday afternoon that he would comply with the wishes of many Democrats and abandon his bid for re-election, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to replace him at the top of the ticket. The move may sooth some of the…

Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Christians Trying to Sway the Election and Change the Country

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By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented – ProPublica – A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. These previously…

Biden is Running: Campaign Goes After Project 2025

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By Glynn Wilson –  CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, Md. – While hunkered down in the mountains at the presidential retreat of Camp David last week preparing president and candidate Joe Biden to “debate” Republican challenger Donald Trump, what appears in retrospect to be a bad plan that went horribly awry, some members of the Biden campaign came…

Conservative Supreme Court Rules Trump Has Some Immunity from Prosecution for Jan. 6

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By Glynn Wilson – The conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court issued a long-anticipated ruling on Monday claiming that former President Donald Trump is in fact entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for his actions of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection against his own government on…

The Mood From Camp David is Not Good

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But there will be a party on the Fourth of July anyway, with fresh, locally grown tomatoes and plenty of good beer and vodka – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN PARK, Md. — As the sun rises in the forest down the street from Camp David, where President Joe Biden…

Trump Found Guilty on All 34 Counts in New York Hush Money Trial

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By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald J. Trump was convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal on Thursday by a New York jury, becoming the first former president to be tried and convicted of a felony. The conviction will no doubt reverberate around the country and impact the presidential election…

Supreme Court Justice Alito Refuses to Recuse For Display of Controversial Flags

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By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Predictably and with righteous arrogance, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. declined to recuse himself on Wednesday from two cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after reports that flags displayed outside his houses appeared to support Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement to…

House Democrats Demand Supreme Court Justice Alito’s Recusal Over Flag Controversy

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats on Capitol Hill are demanding that religious conservative Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito recuse himself on all cases related to Donald Trump’s incited insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including the immunity motion before the court, after it was reported that an upside down American flag was photographed…

The Supreme Court is Above the Law, Out of Reach of the Power of the Press

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Never in all my years of covering public affairs and the courts did I ever imagine a day when the Supreme Court in this country would be taken over by fascists and support an American dictator in overturning an election and attempting to halt…

Media Transformation from the O.J. Simpson Trial of the Last Century to Trump’s Hush Money Trial

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Please forgive me, sensational news readers, for taking a Spring Break from all the clickbait over the past few days to sit outside and drink in the clean air and sunshine after months of being cooped up inside hiding from the winter cold, the…

Biden Administration Releases Stronger Clean Air Rules for Chemical Plants and New Standards for Regulating Chemicals in Drinking Water

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By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For 25 years since I was first hired by newspapers to cover the environment as a news beat activists have begged, pleaded and prodded the federal government to pass and enforce laws and regulations to force polluting industries to do more to protect public health. Progress had been…

Biden Administration Announces Tough Auto-Emissions Standards to Combat Climate Change and Promote Electric Vehicles

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The stakes could not be higher for the future of the United States and humanity. There is a consensus based on an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence that continuing to burn fossil fuels for energy and transportation will doom the next generation of humans to living through a…

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: President Biden Follows State of the Union With Budget Proposal

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Federal agencies react positively to proposed federal budget even though it’s dead on arrival in the Republican House – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not wasting any time and showing what federal leadership looks like, President Joe Biden released a $7.3 trillion budget proposal on Monday for fiscal year 2025 that is packed with…

President Joe Biden Delivers Super Hero State of the Union Address

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The moment could not have been more critical for American democracy and the future of the planet. President Joe Biden rose to the occasion, seeming to summon a Super Hero power in standing up to the anti-democracy forces sitting in the United States Capitol building sneering, and jeering…

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump’s Immunity Appeal

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The god damn United States Supreme Court announced its agreement on Wednesday to take up the case of whether former President Donald Trump has immunity from prosecution on charges of engaging in a seditious conspiracy and inciting a violent insurrection in a corrupt plot to overturn the results…