BREAKING NEWS

Trump announces end of fight to add racist citizenship question to census
President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead take executive action that instructs the Commerce Department to obtain an estimate of U.S. citizenship through other means. It was unclear how he planned to fund or organize such an estimate, but the concession ends a threat designed to keep immigrants from responding to the census and diluting Democratic power at the federal level… [more]

PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition to repeal the GOP’s anti-democratic law designed to keep people from voting, and check out the brilliant “Don’t Think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff — a quick read that contains the ultimate keys for Democrats to win elections — and arguments.