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    Crockett warns House GOP pursuing Biden impeachment: ‘We will be clapping back’

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  • ‘A consequential week for Trump’: Important deadlines and decisions loom in multiple Trump cases

    10:55
  •  Freedom Fighter Maria Ressa on How Disinformation Degrades Democracy

    10:46
  • #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation'

    09:52
  • Velshi: You can’t be pro-worker if you’re anti-union

    04:39
  • Teamsters official: It’s due time American workers ‘get what is theirs’

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  • For Fact’s Sake: The president does not set the price of gas

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  • Fmr. GOP Rep says McCarthy should tell Freedom Caucus ‘where to stick it’

    09:28
  • GOP Rep. urges McCarthy to 'cut out' Freedom Caucus and work with Dems to avert shutdown

    08:10
  • Bill Browder on Vladimir Kara-Murza Speaking Out Against Putin from Detainment in Russia

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  • Velshi: Years of Nepotism & Influence Peddling… and I’m not talking about the Bidens 

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 #VelshiBannedBookClub: Writing Poverty with #NickelandDimed

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“Nickel and Dimed” is the first of many books to highlight the very real experience of being working-poor in America. Sarah Smarsh’s “Heartland” and Stephanie Land’s “Maid” are groundbreaking first hand accounts of their lived experience. These books and their authors illuminate aspects of our nation that many would prefer remain shrouded in darkness: including systems of oppression and people - 37.2 million of them - living below the poverty line in America today. It also directly addresses the American can-do spirit, the “pick yourself up from your bootstraps” mentality and proves quite pointedly that it is a fallacy. Impossible and inconceivable for most.