Tag: Protests

Video from the site reportedly shows puppies being rescued by volunteers. (Screengrab)

Beltway Confidential

Pipeline protesters abandon dogs in dead of winter

Emily Jashinsky · February 28, 2017 6:28 pm

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., led the charge against Trump in January and could be gearing up for a short-lived boycott on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

John Lewis might just attend Trump’s speech despite the inauguration fuss

Anna Giaritelli · February 28, 2017 3:11 am

The protest comes the same day the president will be addressing Congress for the first time. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Rosie O’Donnell will rally with liberals outside White House

Lucas Theis · February 27, 2017 9:59 pm

Many women can't take the day off to make a political statement. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Why the ‘A Day Without a Woman’ protest is laughable

Hadley Heath Manning · February 27, 2017 7:35 pm

The disruptors have not been terribly representative of the local populations. (Scott Clause/The Daily Advertiser via AP)

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Town hall protests: Civic engagement, or boxing out everyone else?

David Freddoso · February 27, 2017 6:31 pm

Democratic protests could be the first fruits of a coming religious revival that could be every bit as fervent in ardor as the "Great Awakenings" that shaped the country in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)

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Democrats are having a religious revival, but politics is their religion

Timothy Philen · February 27, 2017 12:00 am

Of all the Republican-held districts in the country, Hillary Clinton ran further ahead of Barack Obama in this Georgia district than in any other except Texas's 7th House District, a demographically similar seat in the Houston suburbs.

A referendum on Trump in Newt’s old district

Salena Zito · February 26, 2017 5:02 am

They say local groups in every congressional district are using its guide to learn how to counter Trump. (Tanya Breen/The Asbury Park Press via AP)

Liberal groups deny ‘astro turf’ charges about anti-Trump protests

Nicole Duran · February 24, 2017 5:10 pm

There's no dignified way to deal with the kind of heckling and death threats that Walker received. (AP/Telegraph Herald/Jessica Reilly)

Beltway Confidential

A lesson from Walker: Produce results, and those angry town halls won’t matter so much

David Freddoso · February 23, 2017 5:55 pm

Laws aimed at totally preventing all bad things often end up being worse than the bad things. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Beltway Confidential

Arizona’s new riot act reflects bubbling conservative paranoia

Timothy P. Carney · February 23, 2017 4:11 pm

"This wasn't an artificial crowd. It wasn't manufactured. It was real people with real concerns." (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

Mark Sanford shoots down White House claim of ‘manufactured’ town hall crowds

Anna Giaritelli · February 23, 2017 12:23 am

The first congressional recess of the new Congress is playing out exactly how a group of dejected former Democratic Hill staffers had hoped in the wake of President Trump's victory. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Liberals copy Tea Party tactics to protest Trump at town halls

Nicole Duran · February 22, 2017 11:50 pm