Things are going to get much worse if the Democrats who in two weeks will have united control of the federal government do not act quickly and decisively.
Things are going to get much worse if the Democrats who in two weeks will have united control of the federal government do not act quickly and decisively.
The Road to the Capitol Went Through Malheur There’s a clear connection between this week’s attempted coup and a decades-old conflict over federal control of public land in the American West. Maureen Nandini Mitra
January 8, 2021
Wednesday’s criminal attack on the US Capitol by a mob of right-wing extremists egged on by a sitting president was eerily familiar to many in the environmental movement who have been closely following some of these groups’ assaults on public lands in recent years, including the 2016 armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge.
Many of the extremist and militia outfits that participated in the January 6 armed insurrection against our democracy, including the Oath Keepers and III Percenters, are the same ones that have targeted national forests, parks, monuments, and wildlife refuges in the West to advance their anti-government beliefs. Photo by Tim Aubry / Greenpeace
Saturday, 9 January 2021, 6:34 am
Capitol Attack: All involved must be held
accountable
From the president
of the United States downward, all involved whether via
their actions or their failure to act must be held
accountable.
“The horrific assault
yesterday on the Capitol was not a protest. This was a
failed coup attempt deliberately designed to circumvent the
will of the people with the goal of keeping in place the
flawed leadership that was overwhelmingly defeated in the
November elections. From the president of the United States
downward, all involved whether via their actions or
their failure to act must be held
Many people say they are witnessing history with two Democrats winning Georgia s Senate seats. Author: Troy Kless (First Coast News) Published: 6:48 PM EST January 6, 2021 Updated: 8:09 PM EST January 6, 2021
GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. For some in cities like Brunswick, Tuesday s US Senate election in Georgia offered a chance for national reform, but a political expert says that change may not roll out quickly.
It was a difficult year for many like Latashia Doney, a working mom of four.
She works for the state’s unemployment agency, handling people’s requests for unemployment benefits.
“It’s taken a toll, people are waiting months and months for replies, Doney said. They were really worried in terms of the stimulus being signed [and] because the CARES Act ended [December 26].