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Here's your wins for this week! Four. Democrats Call For Hearing On Chatbot-Enabled Mass Shootings You’ve likely heard about how AI chatbots have helped users not only kill themselves, but plan and execute mass shootings to kill OTHER people, including a couple of incidents in Florida. The more people hear about this, the more agitated they will get about AI. News from the States has a story about Congressional action. Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC) and about 30 of her colleagu

Here's your wins for this week! Four. Oil Money Takes “Center Stage” In CA Gov Race The fact that America won’t act on climate change is directly tied to the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold on elected officials. Historically, we haven’t heard much about that. But now, according to Politico, “oil money is taking center stage” in the CA governor’s race. No matter who becomes Governor, this attention is a win for the American people and the planet. Another plus is t

State and local candidates get a lot less media attention than candidates for Federal races. But these races have a direct effect on your day-to-day life more than Congressional or Presidential races do. Governors and state legislatures control key government functions like state taxes, minimum wages, regulations on businesses, and rules for joint federal-state benefit programs like Medicaid and SNAP. They also control how elections are conducted where you live, includi

Your top five wins this week. Five. Business Organizes To Fight For Immigrants Businesses across the country who depend on immigrant labor and customers are feeling the pain from Trump’s immigration crackdown. Finally, a response. It’s limited, but it’s a start! The Texas Restaurant Association and business leaders across the country have started a coalition, called Seat the Table, demanding that Congress and the White House create work permits for “long-term, law-abidi

It is entirely possible for Democrats to win back the Senate. And if we do, we’ll have more power to put up good legislation and shut down bad legislation, if not to get anything past the President. Democrats need a net gain of just four seats. We can do things in this midterm cycle to set us up for more power in the future. Electing the right candidates to move us forward is how we get there. So with that in mind, here are the candidates I like best, ranked by the date

Four. Pentagon releases Ukraine aid after Mitch editorial Say what you will about outgoing KY Senator Mitch McConnell, he has always been a stalwart supporter of Ukraine. His recent op-ed on money for Ukraine that had been promised, but mysteriously held back, made a difference. Late in April, Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-Md.). asked Pete Hegseth about it, and he said the money had been released. In the op-ed in the Washington Post, McConnell said that “Republican majorities