Democrats Are Asking Two Sandy Hook Parents to Run for Congress. It’s Not an Easy Decision.
Nicole Hockley, speaking, and Mark Barden, right, with Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty at a news conference in December 2014Pat Eaton-Robb/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden are best friends. Both lost young sons on one of the most violent…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…
Ted Nugent Calls for Shooting “Half of Our Government”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently sat down with Ted Nugent—the rock guitarist and NRA board member who was invited to the White House for a bizarre photo-op last year—for a conversation on the “true, America-hating” evil found in gun control advocates. The two…
Republicans Are a No Show Across the Country for Town Halls on Gun Action
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The organizers of last month’s March for Our Lives have taken their movement to town halls across the country and invited congressional lawmakers—who have returned to their districts for a two-week recess—to discuss action on gun control. According to the Town Hall Project, more than 130 of these meetings are taking…
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Links YouTube Shooting to “Criminal Illegal Aliens”
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) was about to discuss sanctuary cities on the Fox Business Network on Tuesday afternoon when news broke about a shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California. “You were going to talk to me about sanctuary cities…
Barack Obama Explains Why the March for Our Lives Gives Him Hope
Obama speaks at the National Portrait Gallery in February at the unveiling of his official portrait.Abaca Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the student leaders, survivors of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who organized the March for Our…