Members of Congress are pushing to repeal the 17th Amendment and elect senators the way the Constitution originally decreed. Nine GOP House lawmakers have co-signed a joint resolution introduced by Republican Texas Rep. Keith Self to repeal the amendment that mandates that U.S. senators be chosen by direct election. If the resolution passes and is…
The United States declared its independence from Great Britain 250 years ago, but the flashpoint of the Revolutionary War which led to the Declaration of Independence happened when British forces marched to seize the colonists’ arms. Thomas Gage, serving as the British commander in Boston and royal governor of Massachusetts, acted on intelligence about stockpiled…
Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after the First Congress passed warrants in the U.S. Constitution, the current Congress has attempted to reauthorize a warrantless spying tool. Members of the 119th Congress continue advocating for the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which allows the government to collect and search American citizens’ data…
It had always been my dad’s wish to visit the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii. A day or so after the attacks of Dec. 7, 1941, the man who would be my father joined numbers of his peers in skipping school, bombarding recruitment offices, lying about their ages, and “enlisting.” I have a picture of…
Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico expressed his support for a gun licensing system, mandated safety standards for handguns and a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms in a rarely-seen 2020 webinar recording. Talarico, who has attempted to backtrack on views regarding child sex changes and illegal immigration, defeated Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett during the…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) evolved from being a relatively small group of activists into a growing force within the Democratic Party over four decades. DSA is on pace to field its largest congressional delegation in its history after several members won their primaries against establishment Democrats. The movement has entered the mainstream Democratic…
