For Joseph Messerly, a Soda Springs business owner and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the decision to run for state office started with one issue: Idaho libraries. His mother is a children’s librarian, and she even testified in opposition to one of the early iterations of this year’s legislation […] The post Idaho Democratic Party doubles legislative candidate numbers in the face of GOP supermajority appeared first on Utah News Dispatch.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said “chaos” and “dysfunction” in the House GOP has “effectively” given Democrats the majority, lending credence to far-right criticism of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as the GOP majority slims. Jeffries said Sunday in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell that Democrats hold outright influence over the House…
Following President Biden’s green light last week for police assaults on peaceful campus protests against the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza, both the scale of police violence and the fever chart of arrests continue to rise.