Ilhan Omar

This week the House voted on strict party lines, 218–211 with one member voting “present,” to remove Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) from the Foreign Affairs Committee. …

McCarthy hands the Minnesota representative more power — Mission accomplished! Republicans have successfully expelled Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar from the foreign affairs committee. The party line vote [218 to 211]. One Republican, David Joyce of Ohio, voted “present.” Anyone think Joyce’s “present” was cowardly? The foreign affairs committee considers legislation that impacts the diplomatic community. …

My mother and her parents — my grandparents — left their village in the Ukraine in 1921, then spent two years in a barn on the outskirts of Odessa waiting for papers and tickets which allowed them in 1923 to come and enter the United States. They weren’t Holocaust survivors…

Yesterday, when the Republicans expelled notable Jew hater Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, supposedly for her antisemitism, the even more notable Jew hater Marjorie Taylor Greene stood up and clapped. No one Jew can ever speak for the entire Jewish people, for since ancient times we have…

Rep. Ilhan Omar would not take being thrown off the Foreign Affairs committee meekly. She gave a defiant speech where she made the MAGA Republicans and their meek appeasers seem weak and impotent. Ilhan Omar asserted herself with this speech.

This is likely to expand to a larger article. Let’s start exposing the Republican hypocrisy. Today Twitter is full of tweets like this: This one I had to tweet on. Because I like Elizabeth Warren. Almost always agree with the problems she see, better than I do. …

We defy you, Donald Trump. Every year at the holiday of Purim, Jews read in the Book of Esther about how Mordechai refused to bow down to Haman, and Haman conceived a hatred for the Jews for this slight to his narcissistic ego. A hatred so powerful he tried to…

AOC and The Squad are the brainchild of Zack Exley, founder of Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats. Exley first teased about developing The Squad in a 2012 blog post a week before traveling to Russia, and he returned with a plan to seize control of the US government. The…

Rep. Ilhan Omar was clear that immigrants like her have proven their loyalty to America & democracy, which exceeds that of many who profess it. Ilhan Omar speaks to Politics Done Right. It was a very long day at Netroots Nation 2022. After interviewing more than a dozen people and…