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Renew America Movement
The Renew America Movement (RAM) was an American political group founded in 2021 by former staffers from Republican Party (United States), Republican Party administrations, with the intention of working to reduce political polarization in the United States. In 2022, it merged with the Serve America Movement and the Forward Party (United States), Forward Party, to form a political party under the Forward Party name that was launched on September 24, 2022. History The Renew America Movement founding was led by former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor (security expert), Miles Taylor, who served under former President Donald Trump. Their stated goals were to unite Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Republicans, and independent voters "...who have the courage to stand up against political extremists across the country", for a reduction of political polarization in the United States. Founding members of the group also included Republicans George Conway, An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ridge
Thomas Joseph Ridge (born August 26, 1945) is an American politician and author who served in the Presidency of George W. Bush, George W. Bush administration as the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security from 2001 to 2003 and as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, United States secretary of homeland security from 2003 to 2005. He was the first person to hold either office. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and as the 43rd governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. Ridge was born in Munhall, Pennsylvania, and raised in veterans' public housing in Erie, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Harvard College, Harvard University with honors, he served in the United States Army, U.S. Army during the Vietnam War where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Bronze Star. He then returned to Pennsylvania and completed his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 13th largest by area, the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 30th most populous, and the List of U.S. states by population density, 11th least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County, Utah, Washington County in the southwest, which has approximately 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Lake Tribune
''The Salt Lake Tribune'' is a newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The ''Tribune'' is owned by The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., a non-profit corporation. The newspaper's motto is "Utah's Independent Voice Since 1871." History 19th century A successor to ''Utah Magazine'' (1868), ''The Salt Lake Tribune'' was founded as the ''Mormon Tribune'' by a group of businessmen led by former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) William Godbe, Elias L.T. Harrison and Edward Tullidge, who disagreed with the church's economic and political positions. After a year, the publishers changed the name to the ''Salt Lake Daily Tribune and Utah Mining Gazette'', but soon after that, they shortened it to ''The Salt Lake Tribune''. Three Kansas businessmen, Frederic Lockley, George F. Prescott and A.M. Hamilton, purchased the company in 1873 and turned it into an independent newspaper which consistently backed the local Liberal Party. Sometimes v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 6 United States Capitol Attack
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup,Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * * two months after his defeat in the 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a Joint session of the United States Congress, joint session of Congress from 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of the President-elect of the United States, president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack#7Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attempts To Overturn The 2020 United States Presidential Election
After Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican Party (United States), Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support from Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign, his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters. These efforts culminated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, January 6 Capitol attack by Trump supporters in an attempted Self-coup, self-coup d'état.Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * Trump and his allies used the "Big lie#Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election, big lie" propaganda technique to promote claims that had been proven false and Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories asserting the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international conspiracy. Trump pressed United States Department of Just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 United States Elections
Elections in the United States, Elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2022, with the exception of absentee balloting. During this U.S. midterm election, which occurred during the term of president Joe Biden, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate were contested to determine the 118th United States Congress. Thirty-nine state and territorial Governor (United States), U.S. gubernatorial elections, as well as numerous state and local elections, were also contested. This was the first election affected by the 2022 U.S. redistricting, 2022 redistricting that followed the 2020 U.S. census, 2020 census. The Republican Party (United States), Republican Party ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives while Democrats expanded their Senate majority. Midterm elections typically see the incumbent preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kelly
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, retired astronaut, and former United States Navy, naval officer serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from Arizona, a seat he has held since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. Kelly flew combat missions during the Gulf War as a United States Naval Aviator, naval aviator before being selected as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot in 1996. He flew his first space mission in 2001 as pilot of STS-108, then piloted STS-121 in 2006, and commanded STS-124 in 2008 and STS-134 (the final mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'') in 2011. In January 2011, Kelly's wife, then-Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, was shot and nearly killed in 2011 Tucson shooting, an assassination attempt in Arizona. Kelly retired from the Navy and NASA that October. In 2013, Kelly and Giffords founded a nonprofit political action co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abigail Spanberger
Abigail Anne Davis Spanberger ( ; née Davis; born August 7, 1979) is an American politician and former intelligence officer who served as the U.S. representative for from 2019 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she won reelection in 2020 and 2022. She is the Democratic nominee for governor in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election. She will face incumbent lieutenant governor and Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears. If elected, Spanberger will become the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia. Early life, education, and career Spanberger was born Abigail Anne Davis in Red Bank, New Jersey, on August 7, 1979, where her father was a police officer and her mother was a nurse. She relocated with her parents, Martin and Eileen Davis, to Short Pump, in Henrico County in Virginia, outside Richmond, when she was 13 after her father moved from policing to federal law enforcement for the United States Postal Inspection Service. She attended John Randolph Tucker Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Slotkin
Elissa Blair Slotkin ( ; born July 10, 1976) is an American politician serving since 2025 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Michigan. From 2019 to 2025, she served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Michigan's 7th congressional district. The district, numbered as the 8th from 2019 to 2023, stretches from Lansing, Michigan, Lansing to the outer northern suburbs of Detroit. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Slotkin was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense official. Slotkin was elected to the Senate 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan, in 2024, defeating Republican nominee Mike Rogers (Michigan politician), Mike Rogers in a close race. She became the second female senator from Michigan after Debbie Stabenow. She is expected to become Michigan's senior senator when Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as bills. Those that are also passed by the Senate are sent to the president for signature or veto. The House's exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, impeaching federal officers, and electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the Electoral College. Members of the House serve a fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. Special elections also occur when a seat is vacated early enough. The House's composition was established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of representatives who, pursuant to the Uniform Congressional District Act, sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niskanen Center
The Niskanen Center is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that advocates libertarian and market-oriented principles regarding environmentalism, immigration reform, civil liberties, and an effective welfare state. Named after William A. Niskanen, an economic adviser to Ronald Reagan and former chairman of the Cato Institute, it states that its "main audience is Washington insiders", and characterizes itself as moderate, with others calling it centrist. The organization has been credited with fostering bipartisan dialogue and promoting pragmatic solutions to contemporary political challenges on issues such as family benefits, climate change, and criminal justice reform. History The Niskanen Center was founded in early 2015 by Jerry Taylor. At its launch, the center was composed primarily of former staffers of the Cato Institute who departed in the wake of a 2012 leadership struggle pitting Ed Crane against the Koch Brothers for control of the libertarian think t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
