Shannon Argueta
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Trump's Latest Executive Order is a Desperate Attempt to Deflect Attention from his Clumsy Cover Up
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
Utah's New Anti-Abortion Law Deliberately Puts Women's Lives At Risk
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
Republican Men Wage An All Out War On Women's Rights In Texas (Again)
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
Trump's Cruel Immigrant Purge Is Forcing Rape Victims Into The Shadows, Afraid Of The Police
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
Glenn Beck To Pro-Choice Tomi Lahren: Sit Down And Shut Up
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
President Trump Loves Military Veterans...To Death
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
Trump Is Sending A Hate Group To UN Conference On Women's Rights
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
In Trump's America, Steve King Is Finally Free To Be The Racist Asshole He's Always Been
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
My Family Is Living In Hell Thanks To Donald Trump's Inhumane Immigration Policies
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
Lady Liberty Went Dark But Nevertheless, She Persisted
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
Arrest Of DREAMer After News Conference Sends A Chilling Message To Immigrants: Dissent Is Cause For Deportation
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
Marco Rubio Evicted From Office Building After He Chickens Out Of Town Hall Meetings
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
Trump's Sadistic Executive Order Allows Military Families To Be Deported
“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
Trump's Border Patrol Goons Forced Domestic Airline Passengers To Show ID
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
Montana Republicans Attack Their Own Bill Because It Makes Voting Too Easy
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
In A Sad Attempt To Defend Milo, The Right Is Once Again Calling Lena Dunham A Pedophile
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
'Morning Joe' Hosts Throw Kellyanne Conway Under The Bus To Protect Donald Trump's Pathological Lying
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
In Rare Misstep, Kellyanne Conway Admits Trump Knew Michael Flynn Was In Bed With Russia
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
Kellyanne Conway's "Free Commercial" For Ivanka's Merchandise Violated Anti-Corruption Regulations
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
Republicans Want To Make America White Again By Cutting Legal Immigration In Half
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
After Vowing Immediate Action, Trump Quietly Drops Plans To Investigate Imaginary "Massive Voter Fraud"
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
Trump Picks Fight With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Loses in Epic Fashion
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
Sally Yates Fired For Standing Up To The President Like Sessions Told Her To (VIDEO)
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
Pence Proclaims Pro-Life March is About "Love" And "Compassion". It isn't, and I Should Know
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