June 30, 2020 House Dems turn to 'environmental justice' with massive climate change blueprint House Democrats on Tuesday released a 547-page blueprint on how to combat climate change, in which they called for “environmental justice” to be put at the heart of environmental and climate change policy in the coming years.
June 30, 2020 AOC says proposed $1B budget cut to NYPD isn't enough: 'Defunding police means defunding police’ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., weighed in Tuesday on the proposed New York City budget cuts to the police department she said don't go far enough, saying “defunding police means defunding police.”
June 29, 2020 Justin Haskins: Al Gore, John Kerry, others have radical plans for a 'Great Reset’ of capitalism The “Great Reset" is rapidly gaining popularity among many of the world’s most powerful movers and shakers.
June 24, 2020 Progressive candidates surge in New York congressional primaries With a plethora of absentee ballots to count, the results in many of the contests from New York’s Tuesday primaries remain far from final. But the partial returns clearly indicate strong showings by progressive candidates in Democratic congressional primary elections in and around New York City.
June 24, 2020 Ocasio-Cortez takes victory lap after primary blowout: 'Their money couldn't buy a movement' With 100 percent of results in, the congresswoman running her first reelection campaign took 70 percent of the primary vote.
June 24, 2020 Engel falls behind insurgent left-wing challenger in preliminary results, as Ocasio-Cortez wins primary Longtime U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, who was first elected in 1988 and rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in the House, was substantially trailing middle school principal Jamaal Bowman in Tuesday's primary -- which could mark the second major upset of a veteran New York City Democratic congressman in just two years.
June 23, 2020 AOC beats back Dem challenger in NY congressional primary Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fended off a challenge by former CNBC contributor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to win the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th District, the Associated Press projected Tuesday.
June 22, 2020 Trump urges AOC to run against Schumer, says she’d win President Trump urged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to run against the state’s longtime Sen. Chuck Schumer in the 2022 primary in November, saying that she would be a “big improvement” and that she would likely win.
June 21, 2020 AOC gloats that Trump’s Tulsa turnout was sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok’ U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to take pleasure Saturday night in reports that the turnout for President Trump’s Tulsa, Okla., rally was lower than expected.
June 21, 2020 Daniel Turner: Carbon tax is a bad idea that would hurt our economy and destroy jobs The absolute last thing our country needs is a new tax that would slow our economic recovery and hiring. But environmental zealots have never let facts get in the way of their radical polices to restructure our entire economy to be “green.”