GOP Lawmaker Was Busy Buying Amazon Stock as Economy Was Shutting Down Last Year
Rep. Dan Crenshaw speaks during a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill on July 22, 2020, in Washington D.C.
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New reporting has found that Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) traded stocks for the first time as a member of Congress during March 2020, while Congress was negotiating and voting on the CARES Act.
Crenshaw bought six stocks in March 2020, five of which he bought between March 25 and 27, the days that both chambers of Congress voted on and passed the CARES Act,
Here Are Some of the Top Republicans Not Attending CPAC This Year
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How Unions Helped Georgia Flip the Senate
On-the-ground organizing builds people power and victories from the bottom up.
In the Georgia Senate runoff elections on January 5, Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock unseated Trump-supporting incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue by margins of less than 80,000 votesâabetted by what a UNITE HERE! leader calls an âunprecedented ground gameâ by labor unions.
âDemographics is not destiny. Demographics is opportunity,â she says. âTalking to people at their doorsteps is necessary to get them to vote.â
âIn the last couple weeks, we were talking to 15,000 people a day,â says Gwen Mills, the secretary-treasurer of the 300,000-member hotel and food-service workers union. During the six-week runoff campaign, according to Mills, UNITE HERE! had more than 1,000 members knocking on peopleâs doors in the Atlanta and Columbus areas a total of 1.5 million times.