Al Franken's Blog

Turns out, Americans have a pretty good bullshit meter! The President of the United States threw a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago — dubbed “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” — on the very same night that SNAP benefits ended for 42 million Americans. And now millions are waiting in line at food banks. […]

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What a difference a year makes! I went from feeling like crap to feeling…good?! Dare I say hopeful even!?

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Trump says he will grant only partial SNAP benefits to the 42 million Americans who rely on them to feed themselves and their kids.

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Tomorrow is Election Day. Vote!

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Here’s something scary: This is your last chance to donate to Midwest Values PAC before our first major elections since Trump slithered back into the White House.

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Everybody can’t do everything, but everybody can do something. Corny? Possibly. True? Yes!

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In case you missed it, last week Steve Bannon — yes, that Steve Bannon — sat down with The Economist and said some deeply disturbing things, because ya know, he’s Steve Bannon.

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We’re now on day 21 of a Republican-induced government shutdown — and let me tell you, it’s a doozy.

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You may have read or heard about the Young Republican (18-40 year olds) group chat where they referred to Black people as “monkeys” and “watermelon people” and joked about the Holocaust, professing their admiration for Hitler.

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1808: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney’s campaign sends history’s first fundraising email, requesting 75 cents to “help defeat the scourge of the Embargo Act of 1807.” Note: 75 cents would be around $14 in today’s dollars.

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