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TIFFIN — If Republicans want to advance an agenda of conservative principles and values, simply retaking the White House from Democratic control won’t be enough, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a group of political activists gathered at Clear Creek Amana High School. “This can’t be an election just about the presidency,” Gingrich said

The Colorado Independent’s story Monday on the Koch brothers influence in environmental politics has gone viral in a radio version produced by Kathleen Ryan for Public News Service. Ryan interviewed Colorado Independent reporter Troy Hooper for her report, which she broke into two segments, which ran Monday and Tuesday of this week. She said she will know by the end of the week how many stations carried the stories and how big the total audience was

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The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday sent a letter to both chambers of Congress, asking Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader

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In a move that may help them stay in office despite radical reformulations of their districts by the Republicans that control the state redistricting process, Detroit Democrats Hansen Clarke and John Conyers are expected to swap districts in the race for reelection in 2012. Clarke, 54, the first member of Congress of Bangledeshi descent and a former chief of staff for Conyers, is serving his first term in the House. In 2010 he defeated district 13‘s longtime Democratic representative, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick amid fallout from the corruption indictment of her husband and son, Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor

During his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this morning, Jack Lew, the deputy secretary of state, praised Gen. Stanley McChrystal and

Michigan Messenger intern Sam Inglot was on the Cheryl Fritze show on WILS 1320-AM in Lansing, talking about the current redistricting process. You can listen to the entire segment by clicking here .

After the jump, the full text of Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Republican Address to the

ThinkProgress reported this week that presidential candidate Herman Cain was once a spokesperson for America PAC — a radical group that “among other things, suggested Democrats wanted to ‘ kill black babies .’” # A Gallup poll released today shows that Cain holds the No.

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said in no uncertain terms Wednesday that the $25 billion bailout being sought by America’s

There are two senators who’ve accused Justice Department attorneys who represented Guantanamo detainees of sympathizing with terrorists: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work

A few months ago, Congressman Jared Polis told the Colorado Independent that he thought it would take a majority of states legalizing medical marijuana or otherwise liberalizing their laws before Congress would be likely to do anything at the federal level.

Building a Better Ohio, a group formed to support anti-collective bargaining legislation that will go before voters in November via a veto referendum known as

I spent the weekend at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot in Kentucky, where it was not hard to find and buy Third Reich memorabilia, so this, about the man who

As Sen. John McCain continues to tout offshore drilling -- and others in Congress start to jump on the bandwagon -- he’s found it necessary to downplay the

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) and its Board of Regents has made preliminary steps in satisfying the federal government’s grant of roughly

About 200 people, representing a diverse array of organizations and unions, marched in Miami on Tuesday to demand accountability from Bank of America and to support the Occupy Miami movement . The protest came on the same day the Bank of America announced it is dropping a controversial proposal to charge $5 for using debit card use. The march originated at the Greater Bethel AME Church in Overtown, a historically black neighborhood, met with members of Occupy Miami, camped out in what they call Peace City, and arrived at the downtown building of Bank of America

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has struggled to win over social-conservative primary campaign voters , but he recently took up the hard-core anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti-stem cell personhood movement, which would grant full citizen rights to fertilized human eggs. It’s a move that will surely doom his chances to win a general election in Colorado, according to First District Democratic Rep.