Hispolitica
“One vote can determine whether America lives up to the virtues of its founders."
It took only two months. That’s the amount of time that elapsed from when Maurice Kamto, an African opposition leader who had been serving time, was released from prison and when he flew to the United States to meet with Democrats in positions of power at the State Department and the House of Representatives. Democrats […]
Georgia Rep. Lucy McBath (D) defeated incumbent Rep. Karen Handel in 2018 by 1%, so it was expected that Handel would challenge McBath in the 2020 presidential election, especially after it was exposed that McBath’s primary resident is in Tennessee, not Georgia. Rep. McBath is vulnerable. Very vulnerable. The appeal that she had during 2018, running on a gun violenc...
Hating on Scalia is disturbing. Regardless of what side of the political aisle you find yourself, respect should always be given to all elected officials and confirmed jurists, regardless of how they voted or ruled.
As the year comes to a close, lawmakers and citizens are preparing to usher in a new decade that will bring forth a promising start and a contentious election season that will dictate the path that America will take.
“Children are having to watch their mothers get raped & fathers beaten nearly to death.”
Speaking at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw (D) didn't give a Ra Ra speech to the masses, rather he outlined the stark differences between Republicans and Democrats.
It’s impossible to know exactly what went through the mind of the 12-year-old boy when he refused to become a child soldier of the terrorist group Boko Haram. When the Boko militants came to his village armed with machetes and axes, he and his mother made a run for it. They weren’t successful. As Boko […]
“Not only is this common sense, it’s moving through Congress with bipartisan support.”
“He’s Mitch McConnell’s right-hand man and for far too long, he’s let party bosses and corporate lobbyists control his Senate seat at the expense of the people he claims to represent.”
In the midst of the Democratic effort to overturn an election result--also known as impeachment hearings--you could be forgiven for missing an important Trump administration victory in Africa. It shows how the Trump administration’s approach to foreign policy can pay dividends and improve human rights around the world. Last week, Cameroon’s parliament introduced a bill […]
As the Impeachment hearings are underway, Americans are bearing witness to our struggle for reasoned argument and the metastasis of myopic partisan blindspots. In the words of Carl Sagan; “If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that.” An intellect untested by opposition is an intellect unknown. We have […]
It was an unexpected move: the Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would be cutting military aid to the government of Cameroon. That aid was, for the nation of Cameroon, a vital resource in their ongoing fight against Islamic extremism. Cameroon is the tip of the spear in the fight against Boko Haram. The […]
State legislators across the country are once again “rolling the dice” on whether to support gaming in their respective states. With the majority state legislative sessions beginning in January 2020, gaming industry officials and representatives are dreaming of Black Jack and sharpening their arguments as to why gaming is needed in states like Florida and […]
It is going to be a heated race in Georgia between U.S. Representative Lucy McBath (D-Georgia) and former Republican Congresswoman Karen Handel (R), if Handel wins her primary. In looking at some polling and money raised, it appears as if McBath is set to battle Karen Handel, and she may be reading the writing on […]
Congresswoman Debbie Murcasel Powell (D-FL 26th District) held a meeting at her office to acknowledge the efforts of leaders in the Hispanic community. Murcasel Powell, who is of Ecuadorian descent, spoke with the ambassador to Ecuador in Washington about the anti-government protests which began when President Lenin Moreno began raising taxes and eliminated a subsidy […]
"The Ukrainian government was planning to reopen the Burisma Investigation.”
A police officer in Fairfax County, VA was suspended after turning over an undocumented immigrant into federal custody. The unidentified officer arrived at the scene of a car accident on September 21. The driver did not have his license and the officer turned him over to an ICE agent that was nearby. “This is an […]
Abortion rights activists are breathing a little easier after a Federal District Judge ruled to temporarily stop Georgia’s controversial ‘Heartbeat bill’ (H.B 481) from going into effect on Jan.1.
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, will sue the U.S. Government if Elizabeth Warren is elected president in 2020. "You have someone like Elizabeth Warren thinks that the right answer is to break up the companies … I mean, if she gets elected president then I would bet that we will have a legal challenge, […]
On the 43rd anniversary of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal money from funding abortions, "Squad" members Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., joined former Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., to repeal the amendment. "I was a staffer in 1977 to the late, great feminist congressman Ron Dellums," Lee said in the […]
Representative Adam Schiff, House Intelligence Committee Chairman, is being called a hypocrite by Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) for a phone call where Schiff said he would be willing to accept dirt on Trump. The two-year-old call was a prank by Russian radio hosts Vladimir "Vovan" Kuznetzov and Alexey "Lexus" Stolyarov, who have close ties […]
Today, Reps. Donna Shalala (FL-27), Ayanna Pressley (MA-7), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) introduced the Protecting Student Aid Act of 2019 (PSA Act), as a response to fraud and federal student aid programs.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is standing tall and proud for reaching 38 members, which the group says is largest number of members it has ever had.
Americans are about to witness an epic Democratic senatorial primary slugfest between one of most liberal members of Congress, Rep. Joe Kennedy III, and with one of the most Socialist-minded Senators, Ed Markey.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) appeared on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos to discuss the gun violence issue, where the sophomore senator called on the U.S. Congress to pass is Grassley-Cruz bill, a bipartisan measure that according to his legislative office, “strengthens background checks by targeting felons, fugitives, and people with dangerous mental illnesses.”
In an obvious attempt to provoke congressional Democrats and pro-illegal immigration activists across the country, President Donald Trump released a short video of his "Wall" being build along the U.S. border with Mexico.
The influential House Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives has once again voted in another chairman, Rep. Andy Biggs (R) of Arizona. The group of conservative-minded legislators has helped guide a fiscally responsible government narrative since it first came into existence.
Former congressional candidate Jon Ossoff has just announced in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he will run for the U.S. Senate against Republican Senator David Perdue in 2020.
2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris continues to receive pushback after agreeing with a supporter that President Trump was “mentally retarded.”
Democrats and Republicans don’t have much in common these days, but both groups can agree that pedophilia has no place in our society, and individuals who commit heinous crimes against children should feel the full wrath of the criminal justice system.
Controversial Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) took a defensive swipe at Rep. Steve King (R) after the Iowa congressman called her past claim that detained illegal aliens were drinking out of toilets “FakeNews.”
President Trump is once again poking congressional Democrats in the eye over the funding of his infamous southern border “Wall.”
Medicinal marijuana consumption is supported by the overwhelming majority of Americans, and now legalizing the recreational use is at an all-time high, at least it is in Arizona.
The gun violence lobby refuses to talk about the ongoing “gun violence” and mass killings that are occurring daily in the Democratic-controlled city of Chicago, Illinois.
The mass shooting in Odessa, Texas las weekend continued to fuel the narrative from the "gun violence" lobby that "assault weapons" like AR-15's should be banned from purchase and possession.
