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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 07/05/2026
183 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 06/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about ...
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Joe diGenova: The right pick for Trump’s bogus “grand conspiracy” case
A right-wing crank who was part of a Russian-assisted campaign to smear Joe Biden.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 06/05/2026
From the ACLU -  The coalition has issued a travel advisory for fans, players, journalists, and other visitors attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown.
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ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup
The coalition has issued a travel advisory calling on fans, players, journalists, and other visitors to exercise caution when traveling to the U.S. for the 2026 World Cup amid the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 06/05/2026
184 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 05/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  Gov. Ron DeSantis’ mapmaker doesn’t want you to know who helped gerrymander Florida. That was one of the most significant takeaways from Jason Poreda’s testimony Tuesday before the Florida legislatur...
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Who helped draw DeSantis’ Florida gerrymander? His staff won’t say.
It’s a secret.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 05/05/2026
From the ACLU -  A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers
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Municipalities: Beware of Changes in Flock’s Legal Terms if You’re Using or Considering License Plate Readers | ACLU
A flurry of Flock contract changes disempower customers
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 05/05/2026
185 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 04/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  The Supreme Court’s six-to-three Republican-appointed majority issued a staggering ruling on Wednesday essentially killing the remaining protections of the Voting Rights Act, dealing a death blow to ...
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Supreme Court deals a death blow to the Voting Rights Act
The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 04/05/2026
From the ACLU -  Children describe adult jail-like conditions at Colorado juvenile detention centers
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Children Say Conditions at Colorado Youth Detention Centers Look Like Adult Jails
A class-action lawsuit calls the state of Colorado to release children from jails to community-based settings while they wait for their juvenile detention cases.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 04/05/2026
186 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 03/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  Remember “the most transparent administration in history”? That’s what Donald Trump promised at the beginning of his second term, and it’s been going about as well as the rest of his promises. The on...
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Why We’re Suing RFK Jr.
The Epstein files are not the only documents the government is hiding.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 03/05/2026
From the ACLU -  Families share how Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order upended their hopes, and forced them to consider early births or leaving the U.S.
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Immigrant Parents Confront Fear, Uncertainty Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Threats
Families share how Trump’s threat to end birthright citizenship turned moments of joy into doubt about their children’s futures.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 03/05/2026
187 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 02/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  Victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and their families sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US district court in San Francisco on Wednesday, claiming various negligence, product liability, ...
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Victims allege OpenAI and Sam Altman are responsible for a mass shooting
A new lawsuit underscores key questions about the Tumbler Ridge killer’s use of ChatGPT.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 02/05/2026
From the ACLU -  One ACLU client spent six months in jail, because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect. She’s the fourteenth person known to be wrongfully arrested due ...
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Wrongful Arrests Pile Up Due to Facial Recognition Technology
One client spent six months in jail because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 02/05/2026
188 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 01/05/2026
From Mother Jones -  In May 2016, Elon Musk did something out of character that he has now spent years of his life trying to undo: He made what he believed to be a charitable donation.  The world’s richest man is also am...
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The Musk v. Altman court battle reveals how the oligarchy is afraid of itself
Inside a fight over the impossibility of sharing power in Silicon Valley.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 01/05/2026
From the ACLU -  ACLU litigation is leading courts to rethink warrants seizing our digital devices, social media accounts and other data to reinforce our Fourth Amendment protections.
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How ACLU Cases Are Limiting Overbroad Digital Search Warrants
New legal standards are restricting law enforcement’s access to cell phone and social media data
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 01/05/2026
189 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 30/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sweeping changes underway at the federal agency tasked with protecting the...
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Will Trump's Forest Service upheaval erase a century of precious historical documents?
Amid restructuring, the agency says it will retain records, but outside experts are wary.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 30/04/2026
From the ACLU -  City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
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New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law | ACLU
City’s police cross a line, breach norms, and threaten to normalize a nightmarish level of surveillance in American life.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 30/04/2026
190 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 29/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level since the start of his second term.  According to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll released on Sunday, only 37 percent of a...
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Trump’s approval rating sinks to lowest point of his second term
NBC News found steep drops in support for the president's performance on the economy and the war in Iran.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 29/04/2026
From the ACLU -  Amid rampant abuse by federal agents, state legislatures can pass critical laws that allow people to take federal agents to court for violating their rights.
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States Should Allow People to Sue Federal Agents for Violating Rights
Amid rampant abuse by federal agents, such as ICE, state legislatures can pass critical laws that allow people to take federal agents to court.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 29/04/2026
191 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 28/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  In a Truth Social tirade on Sunday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that Iran violated their ceasefire agreement with the US by firing shots at ships in the Strait of Hormuz and again threaten...
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Trump threatens war crimes in Iran again
The president: "NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!"
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 28/04/2026
From the ACLU -  Despite abhorrent conditions and increasing deaths in ICE detention, the Trump administration’s new warehouse detention system would increase capacity to 96,000 people and undoubtedly lead to continued abuse.
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Trump Administration is Buying Warehouses to Turn into ICE Detention Centers
Despite a record number of deaths in ICE detention, Trump is doubling down on his mass detention and deportation campaign by buying warehouses to hold 96,000 detained people.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 28/04/2026
192 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 27/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  This article was originally published as part of the Undark series “What I Left Out.” In this installment, journalist Beth Gardiner shares a story that didn’t make it into her recent book, Plastic In...
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Rich nations' plastic waste is burned for fuel abroad, creating grave health risks
The result is a witches brew of toxic compounds contaminating, air, soil, and food.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 27/04/2026
From the ACLU -  The ACLU is at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. Follow live coverage of the fight to defend birthright citizenship.
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Live Coverage: Birthright Citizenship SCOTUS Oral Arguments
The ACLU is at the Supreme Court for oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara. Follow live coverage of the fight to defend birthright citizenship.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 27/04/2026
193 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 26/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday calling for the acceleration of research on certain psychedelic drugs as treatments for depression and other conditions. Podcaster Joe Rogan stoo...
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Podcasters, presidents, and psychedelics: How Joe Rogan got Trump into ibogaine
Billionaire Peter Thiel also stands to benefit from the executive order signed on Saturday.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 26/04/2026
From the ACLU -  Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals
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Utah Passes Nation’s Strongest Digital Identity Bill | ACLU
Legislation includes a “duty of loyalty” of participants in an ID system to individuals
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 26/04/2026
194 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 25/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded pitch deck. Launched on Friday, HSTF.gov was fir...
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Homeland Security's new task force website sanitizes Trump's deportation agenda
With help from Edward "Big Balls" Coristine and other usual suspects.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 25/04/2026
From the ACLU -  Follow for live coverage of the nationwide peaceful protests to condemn President Trump's escalating abuses of power.
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Live Coverage: No Kings National Day of Action
Follow for live coverage of the nationwide peaceful protests to condemn President Trump's escalating abuses of power.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 25/04/2026
195 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 24/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  Elon Musk has long been in an on-again, off-again relationship with the moon. Though just last year he called it “a distraction”—saying his focus was shifting exclusively to Mars—he now seems to be r...
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America's next moon mission depends on Elon Musk, for better or worse
The US government, unwisely, has "concentrated immense power in the hands of a single individual.”
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 24/04/2026
From the ACLU -  As the ACLU fights to protect people’s privacy, playwright Matthew Libby discusses his play about the private companies fueling the government’s surveillance of immigrants.
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How One Playwright is Using Theatre to Expose the Surveillance State
Creator of DATA discusses how his play about the companies fueling the government's mass surveillance apparatus mirrors our current world.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 24/04/2026
196 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 23/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as t...
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Tomorrow's skylines will be made of wood
Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and safe for tall buildings.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 23/04/2026
From Citizens for Ethics -  The post CREW statement on Southern Poverty Law Center appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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CREW statement on Southern Poverty Law Center - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent the past 50 years as one of the nation’s most critical bulwarks against the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups. This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to rewrite American history, prosecute dissent and erode the civil rights of millions of Americans.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 23/04/2026
197 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 22/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation...
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A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 22/04/2026
From Citizens for Ethics -  The post CREW statement on Cherfilus-McCormick resignation appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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CREW statement on Cherfilus-McCormick resignation - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick did the right thing by stepping down, but she shouldn't have waited until the moment before potential expulsion to do so.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 22/04/2026
198 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 21/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  Hasan Piker’s name is everywhere. Not because he won an election or passed legislation. Not because he’s a big sports star or an astronaut. It’s because he won’t stop yapping—and scores of people won...
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Is Hasan Piker the left’s biggest problem—or its best shot?
"Why are you still talking about me?" Piker jokes. "I'm irrelevant.”
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 21/04/2026
From Citizens for Ethics -  The post Congress must use this moment to finally establish a clear standard for expulsion  appeared first on CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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Congress must use this moment to finally establish a clear standard for expulsion  - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The House Ethics Committee is uniquely positioned to answer calls for expulsion and finally establishing a clear standard for expulsion.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 21/04/2026
199 Days Until the Mid-Term Elections & Democrats Take Back The House and Senate.
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Congress Letters @congressletters.com · 20/04/2026
From Mother Jones -  The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning commission meetings. But the pushback to hyperscale data c...
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Maine said no to new data centers. Other states are racing to follow.
At least 12 more legislatures are weighing bills to halt grid-killing AI development.
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