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Some Democratic voters in Nevada recently told The New York Times that rising housing costs will keep them from voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November. Times reporter Jennifer Medina interviewed several voters around the Las Vegas area who said they’ve been disillusioned by the Democratic Party because of homes becoming more expensive during the Biden-Harris administration and see no hope of Harris bringing them down if she remains in office. "They just promise things. But I don’t see nothing coming out for us," 54-year-old Las Vegas resident Maria Ocampo told the outlet, adding that Biden didn’t ease the...

A emocratic bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 was met with overwhelming Republican opposition in the Senate today, where it failed to garner the 60 votes needed to move past a key procedural hurdle. The bill, which was introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), would have raised the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.10 per hour over the next 30 months, after which automatic annual increases in the minimum wage would be executed to account for inflation. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee was the only Republican who voted in favor of letting a debate...

Cross posted from New Zeal It is a central theme of this blog that Barack Obama was promoted to the presidency of the United States, by several Marxist groups including Democratic Socialists of America. While this sounds far – fetched to some, there is nothing new about socialists working inside the Democratic Party to put “their” candidates into very high positions. The late Millie Jeffrey was a leader in the United Auto Workers and an high ranking Democrat for decades.