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[] [Two Weeks Before Midterms, Trump Attacks Democracy With 'One of the Most Naked Attempts to Promote Voter Suppression' in Modern Times](1f9d0/ct3_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Jake Johnson, staff writer After President Donald Trump fired off a hysterical tweet this weekend warning of mass "voter fraud"—a right-wing bogeyman for which there is virtually zero evidence—and threatening violators with severe punishment, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law condemned the president for... [] [] News... [] [#WontBeErased: Massive Rally Outside White House to Counter Trump's 'Sick, Cynical' Attempt to Deny Trans People's Existence](1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Julia Conley, staff writer Assembling in front of the White House on Monday, LGBTQ gathered to deliver a clear message to President Donald Trump: transgender Americans "Won't Be Erased." --------------------------------------------------------------- ['These Children and Their Evidence Should Be Heard': Lawyers Urge Supreme Court to Let Youth Climate Suit Go to Trial](1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Jake Johnson, staff writer Just days after the right-wing Supreme Court sparked backlash for granting the Trump administration's request for a stay of the landmark climate lawsuit brought by 21 American kids and young adults, attorneys for the youth plaintiffs on Monday filed their response to the Justice Department's stay application—which they argue is full of errors and "mischaracterizations"—and urged the high court to reject the White House's effort to permanently halt the suit. --------------------------------------------------------------- [To Stop Far-Reaching Threat of Bolsonaro, 300+ Economists Sign Joint Declaration to Defend Brazil's Democracy](1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Jon Queally, staff writer Faced with the looming threat that right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro could soon win the second-round of elections and become the next president of Brazil, hundreds of economists from across the country and around the globe have joined forces to declare their support for Fernando Haddad, the Workers' Party candidate, in order to save the nation's democracy and protect "essential values" like social inclusion, peace, and equal protection under the law. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [Common Dreams is fueled by readers, like you. 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Bush's 2003 tax cuts for the rich, Barack Obama's extension of those tax cuts, and Donald Trump's passage of a $1.5 trillion giveaway to the wealthy last year has netted the owners of Walmart $1.1 million per day in dividend income tax savings for the past 16 years. --------------------------------------------------------------- [In 'Historic Moment' for Climate Action, Wales Pledges to Leave Its Remaining Coal in the Ground](1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Julia Conley, staff writer Climate action groups on Monday applauded the government of Wales for demonstrating that it is taking seriously a recently-released UN report on the climate crisis by announcing that the country would end its extraction of coal. --------------------------------------------------------------- [In Softball Interview, Kushner Says Facts First, Then We 'Determine What We Want to Believe' About Khashoggi Murder](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Jake Johnson, staff writer After kicking off a rare public appearance on Monday by answering a series of laughable softball questions from CNN's Van Jones—"How did you get this job? You have like the dopest job in the world"—President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner admitted that the facts of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder are separate from "what we want to believe" and argued that whatever the administration's "fact-finding phase" reveals, the U.S. must stick with its brutal ally to counter Iran. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More News](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) [] [] Views... [] [The West Enabled Khashoggi's Demise - Not To Mention All the Other Saudi Crimes](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Belén Fernández Enamoured Western media coverage catapulted 'Crown Prince charming' and other notorious regional human rights abusers into the role of 'modernising reformers' --------------------------------------------------------------- [Inequality: A Feature and Driver of Bolsonaro’s Rise in Brazil](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Luísa Abbott Galvão Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate aligned himself with financial interests, attracting support from the moderates willing to overlook his fascist nature and lean into his free-market agenda --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stop GOP Voter Suppression—Or Else!](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Thom Hartmann Most American voters generally don’t like billionaires and corporations running politics, so the GOP is simply not letting them vote. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Either Tyranny or Revolution](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Chris Hedges Corporate capitalism, which has destroyed our democracy, has given unchecked power to the uber-rich. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Are Humans Actually Capable of Democracy?](1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Frances Moore Lappé --------------------------------------------------------------- [An Arena Full of the Richest Americans Would Own as Much Wealth as 70% of the World](1f9d0/ct30_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) 1f9d0/ct31_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH by Paul Buchheit For 35 years Americans have been duped into believing that well-positioned individuals should be allowed to do whatever they want, and the result is the perverse level of inequality we now have --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct32_0/1?sid=TV2%3Av8nFFy1WH) [] [] Newswire... 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