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Welcome to Trail Mix, a fun but nutritious snack for your election news diet. See something interesting on the trail? Email me at jake.lahut@thedailybeast.com. This week, we take an early look into the 2024 fallout from Donald Trump’s historic indictment in Manhattan court. Plus, we dive into Gov. Ron DeSantis’ nabbing of a top GOP

Violence against children and at school spark outpouring of concern, rage Re: “3 children, 3 adults dead,” March 28 news story Although normally, I’d never watch a video of a shooting, I did just now of the Nashville, Tenn., school event. I do truly praise the officers who went in and did their job so

Source: TFP File Photo The National Rifle Association on Thursday asked the full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear arguments in a challenge to a 2018 Florida law that prevents sales of rifles and other long guns to people under age 21. A three-judge panel of the Atlanta-based appeals court this month upheld

Last night, the General Assembly adjourned sine die from its 2023 legislative session. This session, NRA successfully worked with the pro-Second Amendment majority to ensure that no anti-gun bills progressed. NRA will be back in Atlanta for the 2024 session. Meanwhile, please stay tuned to www.nraila.org and your email inbox for further updates on issues

Courtesy of Aaron Burden (Unsplash CC0) My sincere condolences to all American women. Apparently Republicans do not believe that your struggles have been sufficient to “keep you in your place.” After six Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned rights guaranteed by the Constitution to decide the fate of your own body and mind by overturning

Founder of USIDHR Rings the Bell of Peace for a Harmonious World at FOWPAL Ceremony – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Friday, March 31, 2023 · 625,311,948 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases

A federal judge hearing a right-wing challenge against what are deemed two common-sense gun safety measures in Delaware has ruled against the gun lobby on a critical question in Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, Inc. et al. v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security et al.  Therefore, Delaware’s bans on assault weapons, large capacity magazines remain

In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in this biweekly roundup. Lest We Forget “Why in God’s name do we allow these weapons of war on our streets

Today and tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold decision making only hearings on two anti-gun bills: HB 426, which aims to bankrupt the firearm industry, and HB 984, to restrict lawful carry. Please consider submitting testimony AGAINST House Bills 426 and 984 through the Hawaii Legislative website. For help creating an account and submitting testimony, click here. Thursday,

Rep. Tim Burchett claimed that only a “revival” of Christianity, not Congress, can solve the problem. As the country reels from news of yet another school shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee this week, one Tennessee Republican has vowed that Congress will never solve the U.S.’s mass shooting epidemic, and that only Christian nationalism

Advertisement A federal judge hearing a challenge against gun measures in Delaware ruled against opponents iover a major question in Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, Inc. et al. v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security et al, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced. In an opinion issued Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews denied a preliminary

Everyone in America is sick of the gun violence that plagues us everywhere we go. Everyone that is, except the one group of people that could possibly do something about it: Republicans. They seem to think there’s nothing you can do and we all should just accept children getting slaughtered at school is an inevitability

For years, the NRA has been litigating a Florida law that bans young adults aged 18-20 from purchasing a firearm. In 2021, a federal judge begrudgingly upheld the law, despite finding that it imposed sever restrictions on the people’s right to keep and bear arms while affording very few public safety benefits. The judge, however,

One hundred thirty-nine. Say the number; let it sink in for a minute. Then consider the number 86. Let that sink in for another minute. Then consider this: Monday’s shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in the Nashville, Tenn. area, became the 139th mass shooting in 2023, only 86 days into the

In the futile and hopeless hours of familiar gridlock after the most recent mass shooting in Nashville, the social media meme war that serves as proxy for our political process launched again into overdrive. Some themes were familiar: Republicans love guns more than they love children; the party that purports to revere life seems unwilling

Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• How much further will the Supreme Court go to assist in the arming of America? That has been the question since last June, when the court ruled that New York’s