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MAGA Congress Escalates Against BreakThrough News

October 10, 2026 BreakThrough News. , , ,
For months, MAGA Republicans in the House Ways and Means Committee have been targeting BreakThrough News for our editorial judgment and viewpoints they don’t like. The Committee is abusing their powers in a blatant attempt to shut us down. Now, they’ve taken things to another level.  We just received a new letter from Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO). The letter lists the names of our reporters and editors and threatens to individually subpoena each of them to a deposition in Washington if we don’t yield our legal rights, including First Amendment privileges.

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills And Case For Public Banks

October 6, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. , , , ,
For several years, “the death of the dollar” has been a persistent headline, with compelling data to back it up. The dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has slipped from over 70% in 1999 to about 57% today. Last spring, gold overtook U.S. Treasuries as the largest asset in foreign central bank reserves for the first time since the mid-1990s. The BRICS nations are settling more of their trade in their own currencies, and the U.S. has used the dollar as a sanctions weapon so often that friendly nations as well as rivals are looking for a way out. A topic once confined to gold bugs and doomsday newsletters has gone mainstream.

Food Stamp Catastrophe

October 6, 2026 Natalie Pattillo, Portside. , , ,
A father in Illinois had to choose between going to work or going to the food bank because he only had enough gas for one trip. A deaf person in Nebraska had to go to their doctor to get additional proof of their disability. In states like Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, and Florida, many applicants are now required to get a letter from their landlord or a neighbor verifying how many people eat in their household. These are just a few of the experiences that food banks and anti-hunger advocates are hearing from those who are newly applying or being forced to re-apply for food stamps.

Iranian American Organization Sues Trump To Demand End To War

September 26, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. , , ,
The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ongoing war on Iran. The organization filed the complaint on Thursday, asking a court to halt the U.S.’s military action against Iran and to declare the U.S.’s war on Iran unconstitutional. The lawsuit argues that Trump violated the Constitution’s war powers checks, and that the war continues to harm Iranian Americans, including those represented by the organization. Since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran in February, “at least 3,600 Iranians have been killed, at least 18 U.S. servicemembers have lost their lives...

Students Speak Out Against Bill Targeting University Boycotts Of Israel

September 22, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
New York, NY – On September 18, members of the Students for a Democratic Society at NYU held a speakout as part of a national week of action to oppose the “Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act” (HR 4795), which was recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. If the bill becomes law, it will strip federal funding from universities that divest from the state of Israel. The speakout took place in front of Gould Plaza, the site of the 2024 NYU Palestine Solidarity Encampments. Hundreds of students, faculty and community members rallied during the encampments to demand NYU to divest from Israel and shut down the study-away site at Tel Aviv.

NYC Night Of Action To Demand Freedom For Maduro And Flores

September 20, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , , ,
Brooklyn, NY – On September 14, Brooklyn Against War hosted a documentary screening and letter-writing event in support of its campaign to free Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. At a local Brooklyn bar and community space, the activist group showed Oliver Stone’s 2009 documentary South of the Border. The film centers around interviews with then-Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, alongside many other progressive and left-wing contemporary Latin American leaders, such as Evo Morales.

Housing Bill Could Boost Community Land Trusts

September 18, 2026 Doug Ryan and Tiana Patterson, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
On July 11, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law. The effects of the law, which comprises 47 components, including program reauthorization, new authorities, requirements for cabinet agency rulemaking, reporting, and interagency cooperation, largely depend on executive branch actions. More precisely, ROAD includes some provisions that are self-executing, others that require guidance by a certain date, and others for which HUD has some flexibility. That said, even though it is not fully clear how the law’s provisions will be implemented, community members, as well as local and state governments, should prepare now for the opportunities ahead to advance their goals of developing and preserving more housing.

42 Organizations Urge Congress To End Unlawful Boat Strikes

September 10, 2026 Defending Rights and Dissent. , , ,
To mark one year of the Trump administration’s illegal and immoral campaign of extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, Defending Rights & Dissent joined over 40 organizations in sending a letter that urged Congress to halt the strikes, defund the campaign, and investigate and hold accountable any individuals responsible. “The brazenly criminal boat strikes have gone on for a year. 225 people have been extrajudicially murdered,” said Sue Udry, Executive Director of Defending Rights & Dissent. “It’s far beyond time for Congress to take action to end the killings, and to begin to hold the Trump administration accountable for their violations of U.S. and international law.”

Shadow Hearing To Break The Blockade On Cuba

September 4, 2026 Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
On September 2, 2026, Congresswomen Delia Ramírez and Ilhan Omar hosted a shadow hearing in Congress on “Breaking the Blockade: Reassessing the Moral and Legal Failures of U.S.-Cuba Policy.” A shadow hearing, called by the minority party, has all the formalities of an official hearing of Congress. Four distinguished witnesses gave testimony about the current state of life in Cuba under the oil blockade imposed by the Trump administration in January, and additional coercive measures that have been steadily imposed since then.

Hakeem Jeffries And Jared Kushner Meeting Reveals Ugly Truths About US Politics

August 30, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
According to the New York Times, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held an undisclosed, i.e. secret, meeting with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law. “The rare engagement was held in a private space in New York City, offered up by a mutual friend of the two men, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting and a third who was briefed on it.” While millions of Democratic Party voters worry about Trump interfering in the voting process in the November midterm elections or demand investigations of the Trump administration or even impeachment of Trump himself, one of their “leaders” is meeting with his son-in-law on the sly.

Congress Finally Passed A Housing Bill; It Isn’t Enough

August 25, 2026 Layla Sayed and Logan Decker, Inequality.org. , , ,
On July 11, 2026, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law, making it the most significant federal housing package enacted in more than three decades. Many are celebrating the bill for “simply existing”. However, for many working-class tenants, the bill is not enough. The 21st Century Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream, or ROAD, to Housing Act contains more than 60 provisions covering housing construction, manufactured and rural housing, homeownership, rental housing, veterans’ housing, federal program reform, and community banking. Its central strategy is to increase the housing supply by reducing regulatory barriers and encouraging state and local governments to allow more construction.

Congress Has A Responsibility To Reverse Water Crisis It Caused In Puerto Rico

August 11, 2026 Coenia Sanchez, In These Times. , , , ,
The air in Puerto Rico is thick with the vibrant, unmistakable rhythm of life. Parrots cut bright streaks across the sky from roof to roof, and iguanas bask lazily on the grass. But the more telling sounds of daily life are the water trucks lumbering through neighborhoods — or the hollow, dry hiss of household pipes when the taps give out yet again. Nearly nine years after Hurricane Maria tore through the island, a dangerous myth persists: that Puerto Rico’s ongoing humanitarian crisis is a failure of local resilience or an unavoidable consequence of climate change. This is a lie. 

Court Makes It Clear The White House Is Not Donald Trump’s Plaything

August 9, 2026 Austin D. Sarat, Scheer Post. , , ,
Last year, WMAU in Washington, D.C. noted that “Since returning to office, Trump has bathed the Oval Office in gold, paved the Rose Garden, added giant flagpoles on the north and south lawn, weighed in on a restoration project at the Federal Reserve, replaced tile in the Lincoln Bathroom with marble, overseen a major overhaul of the Kennedy Center and even brought Trump-style luxury to a small passthrough at the White House known as the Palm Room.” And then there is the White House Ballroom project and the 250-foot arch he wants to build near the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.

BreakThrough Issues Official Response To Congressional Subpoena

August 8, 2026 Ben Becker, BreakThrough News. , , ,
Through its attorneys, BreakThrough News issued its official response to the House Ways and Means Committee today, detailing how the Committee’s own statements reveal the illegitimate and unconstitutional nature of their witch-hunt. The response explains: “The Subpoena falls short of the requirements that govern congressional investigations. The objections fall into four parts. First, the Subpoena exceeds the bounds of legislative inquiry by seeking to adjudicate and to expose rather than to inform legislation; the Committee’s own public description of its object confirms as much.

Dr. Fauci And His Inquisitors

August 8, 2026 Stephen Millies, Struggle -La Lucha. , , , ,
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 29 was a throwback to the days of Joe McCarthy and the witch hunt.     The retired director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was allegedly called before the panel to account for his actions during the coronavirus pandemic. It was really a trap set by committee chair, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. The aim was to get the 85-year-old scientist to contradict his earlier testimony and then have him indicted for perjury or obstruction of justice. That’s an old tactic used during the anti-communist hysteria during the late 1940s and 1950s.
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