Shannon Argueta

According to the Huffington Post, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday that will establish a commission to investigate voter fraud. The move comes months after the president made the baseless claim that millions of illegal voters cost him the popular ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

On Saturday, Utah added itself to the list of Republican-controlled states that have no damn business passing laws that have to do with women's reproductive health. Governor Gary Herbert signed a bill  into law that requires abortion doctors to tell women the fairy tale that ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

While most of the country worries about how they are going to survive when the GOP on Capitol Hill rips away healthcare from 24 million Americans, Republican men in Texas have different priorities. They are not trying to figure out how their hospitals and clinics are going to ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Imagine you are a woman who was just violently raped. You are laying on the ground bleeding because your attacker decided he wanted to beat you before forcing himself on you. When he leaves, you are afraid for your life and you just want someone to help you. So, you do what you ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Last week, Republican darling Tomi Lahren stopped by The View and ignited a firestorm when she told the hosts that she was a pro-choice conservative. The 24-year-old explained that because she believes in limited government, she feels like she would be a hypocrite if she told ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Mar 21, 2017

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump finally released his long-awaited budget proposal and it was just as cruel as expected. The budget read like a pornographic novel for Republicans, cutting dozens of programs for the poor and elderly while sinking $54 billion more into ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

The day after Donald Trump's inauguration millions of women across the world took to the streets to protest the new president of the United States. The backlash was fierce from the right -- Republican voters lashed out and told us that we should "give him a chance" and "let him ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Over the last few days Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has been the target of bipartisan condemnation after he made a series of incredibly racist comments. First, the congressman argued "we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies." His argument was that caucasians ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

After careful consideration and consultation with her husband, the author decided against publishing this article under a different name. While publicly declaring her spouse to be an undocumented immigrant runs the very real risk of attracting unwanted attention, the author and ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

For more than one hundred years Lady Liberty has stood proudly in New York Harbor guiding people to freedom, but on Tuesday night, for two hours, her torch was extinguished. And on the eve of International Women's Day and the #DayWithoutAWoman protests, along with everything else ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Twenty-two year old Daniela Vargas was brought to the United States illegally when she was just a little girl. Like many undocumented immigrant families, her parents were seeking a better life in the country that has long held that everyone should be able to obtain the "American ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

For weeks, Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been dodging requests from constituents to hold a town hall meeting. His refusal to speak to the people who he serves has become such a problem that Floridians have taken missing person ads in local papers, stapled signs to telephone ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

“There’s nobody bigger or better at the military than I am" - Donald Trump  In 2013, the Department of Homeland Security, at the Department of Defense's request, issued a policy memo that protected the spouses, parents and children of active-duty military members from being ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

During the 2016 presidential race, then-candidate Donald Trump promised America's xenophobes that he would create a "Deportation Force" if they elected him. The right went wild; for years they'd been dreaming of a president who would rip families apart and deport throngs of ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

It's no secret that when more people vote, Republicans lose. This is the reason the GOP works so hard to suppress voting rights under the guise of "protecting our elections from voter fraud." However, even though we all know this is true, right-wing lawmakers never openly admit ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

On Monday evening, publishing company Simon & Schuster canceled Milo Yiannopoulos' book "Dangerous" after a tape surfaced of comments he'd made that unambiguously advocated sexual relationships between men and boys. The white nationalists of the alt-right, unable to admit that ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Kellyanne Conway may have pulled off one of the biggest political upsets in history when she got Donald Trump elected president, but the months since the election have been terrible for her. As counselor to the president and one of the most well-known faces of the ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

The sudden departure of Michael Flynn as President Trump's National Security Advisor on Monday night left the administration scrambling to explain away not just his ties to Russia but why Trump kept Flynn's dishonesty from the American people. According to reports, former ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

On Thursday morning, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, walked into the White House Briefing Room and violated federal ethics laws during an interview with Fox & Friends. In response to the silly drama Trump whipped up with Nordstrom's after the retailer had the ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

On Tuesday, Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue decided that targeting undocumented immigrants just wasn't going to cut it and introduced a bill to hurt the immigrants who are doing things "the right way."  The Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment Act (RAISE ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

When it became apparent that Donald Trump did not win the popular vote in the election, he immediately started lashing out. The insecure (alleged) billionaire declared that 3 million illegal voters stole it away from him, a lie he apparently picked up from a random Twitter ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

Thursday morning was the annual National Prayer Breakfast and President Trump's first time addressing the room of religious and political leaders. If you expected the newly appointed leader of the free world to take his speech seriously, you would be sadly mistaken. Instead of ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

If there is one thing that the disastrous Donald Trump presidency has shown us (besides what a bigot he is) it is the fact that Republicans are the biggest hypocrites in our nation. And this was once again proven this week when Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired for ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018

On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the 43rd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and bragged about the GOP's success at pushing anti-choice legislation through. Pence proclaimed "life is winning" to the crowd of conservatives who wish to strip women of their ...read more

• By Shannon Argueta
  Nov 9, 2018