The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 25 - Politics

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 25
Schumer now backing Sanders plan to add dental, vision and hearing coverage to Medicare
Matt Gaetz charges could come as soon as July, reports say
Former Rep. Katie Hill blamed sexism for having to resign after her sex scandal while Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo have kept their jobs
"Traitors": Rep. Moulton calls for Greene, Gaetz and Gosar to be ousted over FBI-riot theory
Progressives crank up filibuster pressure on Sinema with million-dollar ad buy in Arizona
Maxine Waters: Trump, campaign should be investigated for any Jan. 6 role
Stop Hoping the G.O.P. Will Play Ball
Jan 6. was the blueprint: The GOP is now planning a state by state hostile takeover
Fact-check: Fox News and Republican lawmakers push new false flag conspiracy that FBI orchestrated US Capitol attack
Liz Cheney is surrounded by a security detail after death threats over her Trump criticism
Sanders Says Congress Must Combat GOP Attacks on Voting Rights in 'Any and Every Way' | "What Republican legislatures and governors are doing in the most disgraceful way imaginable is to try to deny people of color, young people, poor people the right to vote."
Roger Stone videos detail January 6 role before Capitol riots
Since When Is Being an Election Official a Job to Die For? | Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.
Opinion: The Justice Department must recognize how close we came to disaster
CNN Reporter ‘Horrified’ That Justice Department Grabbed Her Records “This is a sheer abuse of power,” writes CNN’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
Bernie Sanders says he and Biden are ‘looking at reality for working families’ with infrastructure plan | ‘In terms of real wages for working people, it’s lower today than it was 48 years ago. Half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck,’ Sanders said
Trump DoJ investigations come from ‘the playbooks of dictators and despots’, Democrat says
More than 70 companies call on Senate to pass voting right bill
Fauci pushes back against the 'craziness' of attacks on his evolving pandemic response, saying 'that's the way science works'
After the Citizens United ruling is Democracy sustainable? Do all roads lead to oligarchy?
Trump-tied ‘dark money’ groups funding Arizona ballot review
‘Time is running out’: President Joe Biden wants to go big like FDR but window may close
39 senators who now support changing or eliminating the filibuster previously opposed doing so
Trump discussed sending infected Americans to Guantanamo Bay: book
It’s Not Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiation. It’s Time-Wasting Sabotage.

The "What happened in your state last week?" Megathread, Week 25

Posted: 21 Jun 2021 09:15 AM PDT

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. Things like "I live in X, you know what happened", "Nothing happened" or "[Politician] continues to be an idiot" isn't helpful to users and will be removed.

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Hi there, /r/politics. Because this thread is about local politics, I'd like to reiterate that news about President Biden or any other national political figure is off topic in this thread and will be removed. Thank you, and have a good week.

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Schumer now backing Sanders plan to add dental, vision and hearing coverage to Medicare

Posted: 21 Jun 2021 04:48 AM PDT