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June 04, 2023 Top News 'Not Ruling Anything Out,' Says Manchin of 2024 Third-Party Presidential Run Will the Democrat from West Virginia go to bat for the billionaire-backed No Labels? Jon Queally When 3 Men Richer Than 165 Million People, Sanders Says Working Class Must 'Come Together' Big-money special interests "want to divide us up," said the indepedent senator at a living wage rally in South Carolina, "and we are determined to bring working people together." Jon Queally Millions of US Women at Risk After 'Regressive' Attack on Abortion Rights by Supreme Court: UN Experts Abortion bans in 14 U.S. states since the 2022 Dobbs decision "have made abortion services largely inaccessible and denied women and girls their fundamental human rights to comprehensive healthcare including sexual and reproductive health." Jon Queally 'Victory for Free Speech': Federal Judge Strikes Down Tennessee Anti-Drag Law as Unconstitutional "Similar to the countless battles the LGBTQ+ community has faced over the last several decades, our collective success relies upon everyone speaking out and taking a stand against bigotry," said the group who challenged the statute. Jon Queally Maxwell Frost Had One Word for Both Ron DeSantis and Fascism. It Began With "F" The freshman Democratic congressman offered a concise political rebuke of his fellow Floridian during a rock concert Friday night. Common Dreams Staff Progressives Say Submitting to GOP Ransom on Debt Ceiling 'Nothing to Brag About' "Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly broken." Jon Queally

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