JoeManchin

From the shadow docket, radical Supreme Court blows up Voting Rights Act, allows racist gerrymander

The U.S. Supreme Court hacked one more big chunk out of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Monday, allowing Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting plan a lower court had rejected. They did it …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

Joe Manchin is being ground into the dust of history by just one man, and it's Joe Manchin

There’s a moment early in the film version of Lawrence of Arabia where the inexperienced T. E. Lawrence, in a burst of pure racism, describes the Arabic peoples as, “A little people, a silly people, …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

Morning Digest: Supreme Court blocks ruling that ordered Alabama to draw a second Black district

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

New proposal from Democrats sets the bar for Collins/Manchin ‘bipartisan’ ruse on election reform

The confession from the former guy that hell yes, he was attempting a coup, and that he’d pardon anyone convicted of trying to violently overthrow the government on his behalf should he be in a …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

Manchin could be responsible for 15 million people losing Medicaid coverage this year

Right now, there are nearly 77 million non-elderly people who have health coverage through Medicaid, the federal/state partnership program to provide coverage to disabled Americans, and low-income …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

With a third of the fiscal year gone and a Feb. 18 deadline, Republicans make offer on spending bill

It’s 15 days until funding for government—still operating at the levels from the former guy’s last year—expires. The government has been operating on the Republican budget levels passed in 2020, with …

Thu Feb 3, 2022

Dozens of employees from one fossil fuel company recently donated more than $50,000 to Sinema

Everyone loves a good pizza party, which is what I’m imagining the energy giant NextEra held in offices across the country as the company compelled employees to donate to Kyrsten Sinema last year. A …

Wed Feb 2, 2022

Progressives fight to keep Biden’s vision alive, Manchin gets big corporate reward for tanking it

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) made what, in retrospect, was a strategic error last Nov. 5. Their leader, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, in negotiations with Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair …

Wed Feb 2, 2022

Biden should keep fighting for his 'signature domestic policy achievement,' Democratic senators urge

Weeks after a massively successful policy to fight child poverty lapsed, a group of Democratic senators is making another push to restore it. The policy is the expanded child tax credit, and Sens. …

Fri Jan 28, 2022

No Labels tried to slur Ruben Gallego and kiss Kyrsten Sinema's ass. It did not go well

No Labels, a billionaire-funded dark money consortium that has spent more than a decade trying to hector Democrats into cowering before corporate America, has sunk to a new low. In a tweet with a link …

Wed Jan 26, 2022

Biden, Democrats start salvage on Build Back Better, as Manchin says they’ll have to start all over

The Senate bounced back after Wednesday’s historic session with an appeals court confirmation and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer teeing up another 20 confirmation votes for when the Senate returns on …

Fri Jan 21, 2022

Build Back Better needs to get back on track

Riding high after his work helping Republicans dismantle democracy, Sen. Joe Manchin has imperiously declared that President Joe Biden is just going to have to start over in getting his support on the …

Thu Jan 20, 2022

‘Democracy’s foes have not had the last word.’ The fight to save democracy won’t stop

What comes next? Republicans teamed up with two faithless Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, to deliver a body blow to President Joe Biden, democracy, and their own institution Wednesday. …

Thu Jan 20, 2022

McConnell admits he doesn't think Black people are American as voting rights dies in the Senate

Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema made it official Wednesday night: Whatever they say, the reality is that they oppose voting rights. Democracy itself is something to which Manchin and Sinema give …

Thu Jan 20, 2022

The easy trick Democrats have to save democracy, and the Senate, if Manchin & Sinema let them

Despite what you might be hearing from Republicans and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the proposal Senate Democrats will advance for reforming the filibuster to pass voting rights is carefully …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

It's official: Manchin and Sinema are the lone holdouts among Democrats, refusing to save democracy

At 6:30 PM ET Wednesday, the Senate Democrats will try to break the filibuster on voting rights and election reform. There will be 48 Democrats united behind doing this, according to Fix the Senate, …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

Emily's List reminds Sinema groups are happy to withhold endorsements if she doesn't do her job

Senate Democrats are trying to get rid of the filibuster for voting rights legislation. This shouldn’t be a controversial decision, and in some ways, it isn’t; Democratic Sens. Krysten Sinema of …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

Democrats stymied as Manchin holds the key to doing anything to help them get reelected

Frustrated front-line House Democrats desperately need to pass some part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan to have something to run on in 2022. They’re pushing for BBB to be split …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Manchin, Sinema could be forced to work in potential Plan B keep filibuster and save voting rights

The Senate resumes Tuesday at noon, foregoing what would have been a week of recess for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in order to debate the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, the combined voting …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Schumer postpones filibuster, voting rights fight to next week

It was the perfect storm for the Senate on Thursday, resulting in disaster for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to have a showdown over the filibuster and voting rights and elections reforms by …

Fri Jan 14, 2022