The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 52 - Politics

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 52
Tulsi Gabbard missed 85% of House votes this fall. Hawaii's ex-governor wants her to resign
Trump and Putin Had a Nice Christmas Chat But the White House Isn't Talking About It
My one and only New Year's resolution: Don't let 2020 become 2016. Beat Donald Trump.
Federal Reserve report finds Trump's tariffs raised prices, cut employment and hurt US manufacturers | How Trump's trade war hurt the very individuals it was supposed to help
Sorry, Stephen Miller: Calling Out Your Bigotry Is Not Anti-Semitic
Ex-White House ethics lawyer says moving New York homeless into Trump Tower would bring ‘Higher Quality’ people into the building
Greta Thunberg: 'I wouldn't have wasted my time' with Trump meeting
White House call over frozen Ukraine aid was delayed because Trump was golfing: Report.
The decade Republicans hijacked our democracy, via the gerrymander
Twitter Critics Go Bonkers When Ivanka Trump Says Family Separations Aren’t In ‘My Portfolio’ - "Ivanka’s portfolio only covers photobombing and lots of vacations," said one wag.
NYT: Emails show Mulvaney's role in halting Ukraine aid
Democratic congressman: McConnell is making a 'mockery of the entire system' with impeachment approach
Mike Bloomberg Is as Big a Threat to Democracy as Donald Trump. Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign isn’t just an obnoxious distraction — it's a case study for the danger that billionaires pose to democracy.
Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump’s impeachment defenses
Ivanka Trump Is a Senior Adviser to the President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions.
Native Americans, the census' most undercounted racial group, fight for an accurate 2020 tally
Black Americans motivated by Trump to vote in 2020
'Destruction of Checks and Balances': WH Lawyers Reportedly Argued Trump Could Override Congress to Withhold Ukraine Aid
Bernie Sanders Lights Menorah, Shares Family History At Hanukkah Ice Skating Event. The presidential contender, who is Jewish, reflected on how his family fled religious persecution and he urged all Americans to reject bigotry and hate.
GOP purges voters in close election states ahead of 2020
Trump says he has been denied due process. But the Constitution does not afford him that.
Black Democrats energized to vote Trump out: poll
The Latest Conservative Outrage: Canadian TV Cut Trump From Home Alone 2 Five Years Ago — The CBC edited out Donald Trump's cameo in 2014, and now conservative media is furious.
Trump removes “sexual orientation” from Department of the Interior’s anti-discrimination guidelines | And the official explanation for their removal contradicts the Trump administration's reasoning in several LGBTQ-related Supreme Court cases.
Rudy Giuliani reportedly defied White House policy to make a backchannel call to oust Venezuela's President Maduro from office

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 52

Posted: 30 Dec 2019 09:27 AM PST

Welcome to the 'What happened in your state last week' thread, where you can post any local political news stories that you find important in the comments. This is a weekly thread posted every Monday, in order to facilitate more discussion on local issues on /r/politics. Since this is intended to be a thread about local politics, top-level comments that are exclusively about national issues will not be allowed. When commenting, please include the state you're living in, and don't forget to link sources. Also, please actually describe what happened. "I live in X, you know what happened" isn't helpful to users and will be removed.

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Tulsi Gabbard missed 85% of House votes this fall. Hawaii's ex-governor wants her to resign

Posted: 30 Dec 2019 04:19 AM PST