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  MAINE IS BEING FLOODED WITH ANONYMOUS DARK MONEY TO  PROTECT A SENATOR WHOSE VOTE IS GUARANTEED AS SHE HAS  ALWAYS GENUFLECTED TO SPECIAL INTERESTS, IGNORING HER  CONSTITUENTS....  MAINE CAN DO BETTER!  I was 29 years old when Susan Collins first became my senator. That’s me in the middle of that photo, when my fellow loggers and I were up at the border fighting for fair wages. Now I’m 58 years old, and Susan is still my senator. After 30 years in Washington, she’s become a corporate puppet who does the bidding of her billionaire donors and Donald Trump – she’s voted with him 96% of the time. Mainers are sick and tired of her broken promises and her fake concern. But being in the Senate for half of my entire life means every single voter is gonna know who she is when they see her name on the ballot this November. On the other hand, I’m a logger from Allagash who started this campaign just a couple of weeks ago. Mainers already know they don’t like Susan C...

  Good morning. My name is Adam Kinzinger. You might know me as one of the only Republicans in Congress on the January 6th Committee, and one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. I’ll be straight with you — I’m a proud conservative. But I am going to do what I can to help elect Alex Vindman to the U.S. Senate in Florida this November. Our democracy is more important than parties or politics. Alex and I are both veterans. I served this country flying KC-135s and RC-26Bs with multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Alex was a 21-year U.S. Army combat veteran who was wounded in Iraq and awarded a Purple Heart. Both of us took an oath to the Constitution and defended our democracy and fundamental rights with everything we had. Alex and I may not agree on everything, but I fully trust him to tell the truth, to protect our freedoms, and to work for the best interests of Floridians and all Americans. But it is going to take all of us doing our part to get him there. And right...

  Donate Leather is durable. It’s attractive. And it’s in many items we use daily: shoes, belts, purses, wallets, and jackets to start. But, as Green America discovered when looking into leather production in Bangladesh , it’s also frequently made with toxic chemicals and child labor. And it’s not just Bangladesh, researchers are finding major problems – from destruction of the Amazon to animal abuse – in leather production around the world. And many vegan leathers are not much better, starting with, you guessed it, nasty chemicals and labor abuses. Corporations that are raking in profits bear the greatest responsibility for ensuring that workers, consumers, communities and the environment are protected from the creation of leather and leather alternatives. But they often fail in that role. That’s why Green America is urging corporations to clean up their act. In the meantime, as consumers, we can use our purchases to support more responsible leather and alternative leather produc...

                THESE ARE QUESTIONS MANY ARE STRUGGLING WITH -                      AFFORDABLE ENERGY COSTS - HOW TO ACHIEVE THEM AND                THE IMPACTS OF FOR-PROFIT ENERGY CORPORATIONS....                AS WELL AS RENEWABLES!   Who should decide Virginia's energy future: the people of Virginia—or out-of-state corporate executives? That's the question at the heart of a proposed takeover that could affect utility bills, local communities, and our Commonwealth for decades to come. Today, I'm launching the Energy Costs Listening Tour because Virginians deserve more than headlines and closed-door negotiations. They deserve answers and transparency. And they deserve a real opportunity to be heard before decisions of this magnitude are made. Over the coming weeks, I'll be traveling...

The Day the Rain Stopped, But the War Went On ​ Among the wildflowers that bloomed after the rain, we forgot the war for a few moments Abandoned Afghan Ally Aug 10 Introduction ​If you’ve ever stepped outside on an American summer day after a sudden downpour and breathed in the smell of wet earth, you know that familiar feeling — the sense that, for a moment, the whole world exhales. Now imagine that feeling in a place where rain is a rare gift; in Afghanistan, where every drop feels like something sent down from the sky. ​I want to tell you about a day it rained, while I sat beside an American soldier — a soldier who was thousands of miles from home, from Texas, from his family, but who, in that moment, sitting right next to me under that same rain, felt like he was home. This isn’t a story about war. It’s a story about something that even war couldn’t take from us. ​ The Rain That Put Out the Fire ​The rain had started the night before. Light at first, then heavier and heavier, until...