With a campaign slogan of “Send Kesha to Congress, and your grandchildren to Mars.”, Kesha Rogers won the 22nd district Democratic congressional primary in Texas, with a platform of opposing the White House’s “British imperial controllers”.

Mike Quigley spoke in the House of Representatives this week, calling upon his Democratic colleagues in Congress to push for cuts to ineffective and inefficient military programs.

When it comes to the military budget, Senator Jon Kyl abandons the very principles of fiscal responsibility that seemed so forthright in his speech yesterday.

Dennis Kucinich is preparing to reassert congressional authority through a series of resolutions that would force Obama to begin a military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Original congressional authorization was for targeting of people responsible for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 – not a prolonged military occupation and nation-building mission.

With just one minute to speak, Congressman Doggett nonetheless made a clear and comprehensive case against escalation of the fighting in Afghanistan.

Congressman Kucinich reminds us that it’s economic insecurity, rather than military insecurity, that threatens most Americans these days.

The EFF is requesting assistance in reading the documents and considering their relevance. Please go on over and take a look at the newly released papers.

In a special fundraising site set up in response to Joe Wilson shouting at Obama, Rob Miller’s campaign has taken in $42,780 in donations so far. 700 dollars of that has been donated in the last 30 minutes alone – early in the morning.

By altering, rather than ending, the practice of rendition, Barack Obama, like George W. Bush before him, is making an implicit claim that he has the right to act outside the law. We opposed that claim when it was made by President Bush, and we therefore oppose that claim by President Obama as well.