Political Charge Weekly Recap 4/29

Let’s jump right into the good news from this past week!

Good News

Tucker Carlson got FIRED from Fox News!!!

South Carolina and Nebraska’s state legislators, which are majority Republican, failed to pass new, severely restrictive abortion bans this week

Rep. Jamie Raskin has completed chemotherapy and is in remission

The Minnesota legislature, which is majority Democratic, passed a new, expansive voting rights bill

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed several bills protecting the right to abortion and gender-affirming care

Mike Pence testified for Jack Smith’s grand jury that has been investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol

An associate of Steve Bannon was sentenced to more than four years in prison for defrauding donors of a campaign to “build the wall”

A federal judge in Iowa has ruled against former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, who was claiming he was defamed by articles published by Esquire magazine

The U.S. has agreed to give Seoul a greater voice in consultations on a potential American nuclear response to a North Korean attack in return for swearing off developing its own nuclear weapons

A new NBC News poll finds the ‘MAGA’ movement was the least popular individual or group tested in the new survey — just 24% of Americans have positive views of the movement

Disney has sued Ron DeSantis, the five-member board and other state officials in federal court, claiming ‘a targeted campaign of government retaliation’

Fox News has agreed to give voting technology company Smartmatic additional documents about Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other senior corporate executives

Call to Action

It’s hard to keep track of all the anti-trans legislation being introduced in the state legislators, but I just found a great resource — TransLegislation. I encourage you to click on your state to see what has been introduced, and then get in contact with your local legislators (find their names and contact info HERE) to tell them you do NOT want these bills passed at all. It’s up to all of us to protect the trans community.

Cartoons

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