Women in Suburbia Don’t Seem Too Worried About Its Destruction

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President Trump has sought to fan fears about lower property values and crime, but polls suggest his general statements are not resonating locally.

President Trump’s effort to court suburban women by promising to protect their neighborhoods is encountering one sizable hitch: Most suburban women say their neighborhoods aren’t particularly under threat.

At least, not in the ways the president has described.

Their communities feel safe to them, and they’re not too concerned about poorer neighbors moving in, according to polls in some key battleground states by The New York Times and Siena College. They say in a national Monmouth University poll that racial integration is important to them, and unlikely to harm property values or safety. In interviews, many have never heard of the federal fair-housing rule encouraging integration that the president has often cited by name in arguing that Joe Biden would abolish the suburbs.

They’re not even all that worked up about the idea of new apartments nearby, sullying suburbs dominated by single-family homes. Continue reading.

Former One America News correspondent lands senior FDA post

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Emily Miller, a gun-rights advocate and former senior correspondent for the right-wing One America News Network (OANN), has been appointed as assistant commissioner for media relations at the embattled Food and Drug Administration, Miller confirmed in a tweet.

It’s unclear what Miller’s qualifications for the FDA post are. In her career at OANN, she was accused of fabricating quotes from Hillary Clinton and peddling conspiracy theories alleging that the Obama administration used “smart gun” technology, which permits only authorized users to access a firearm, as a way to “track law-abiding citizens.” View the post here.

What happened in Wednesday’s Senate trial, in 5 minutes

Washington Post logoThe first day of opening arguments in President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial can be divided into two consequential parts: what happened on the Senate floor and what happened off it.

Let’s start with what happened in the official trial. The clock started Wednesday on Democrats’ allotted 24 hours to argue that the Senate should convict Trump of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) spent two of those hours laying out the broad outlines of their argument. Here’s what he said: Continue reading.

Join Us for Our Precinct Caucuses

The evening of Tuesday, February 6, 2018, progressives throughout the state will gather in with their neighbors to start the party endorsement process. Never caucused before?  Here’s a video:

We urge you to join us that night.  We have a searchable list of caucus locations here.  The post includes a link to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s precinct finder site for those who don’t know which precinct they live in.

Below, we have links to download documents to help you participate: Continue reading “Join Us for Our Precinct Caucuses”