Resistance is Everywhere
Hundreds of stories, one message: resistance is everywhere you look.
Resistance is community organizations
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Ideas We Should Steal: Make our Rivers So Clean, You Can Swim in Them
When Adam Lindquist came to the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore in 2011, he thought the nonprofit business improvement district’s plan to make the harbor swimmable by 2020 was a little “crazy.” But he was up for the challenge. He’d…
Resistance is in the courts
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DOJ lawsuit seeking Georgia voters’ unredacted data dismissed, again
“Georgia has worked with our federal partners and will continue to do so, but cooperation does not mean ignoring the law or surrendering the privacy rights of Georgia voters,” he said in a statement. “We stood our ground because the law…
Resistance is investigations
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Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him
This week, Representative Jamie Raskin—the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and potentially its future chair—will formally demand that the Justice and Interior Departments turn over a wealth of documents related to the charging…
The New Republic
Resistance is pushback
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A $500 check won’t buy these voters — and some are sending it to Sherrod Brown
Donald Trump’s $500 checks are getting a reception he probably didn’t have in mind: Some recipients say they’re sending the money straight to Democrats running against his allies.
Resistance is states taking action
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New Mexico Commissioner Garcia Richard Bans Uranium Mining On State Lands
“My grandfather worked in uranium. My father worked in uranium. So, I did not learn about this issue from a policy paper. I learned it from my family, from the people who went into those mines, and from communities that were left with the…
Resistance is in the courts
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Federal judge orders ICE to halt "likely illegal" policies in Baldwin County
“The government stood up in court and argued that they don’t need warrants to enter private construction sites and round up all the workers, and that they can’t trust government-issued IDs. By setting aside those unconstitutional policies…
Resistance is cities taking action
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A Virginia school district pioneers solar and battery microgrids
Due to be installed by the end of the year, the storage systems will be among just a handful of batteries at school buildings around the country, according to Generation180, a national nonprofit headquartered up the interstate in…
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." — Edith Wharton
There are so many people who are doing so much to make things better in our country and our world.
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