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Welcome, readers, to the first Good Men Project Daily News Brief! In this new column, we will be distilling and listing current important stories we feel are affecting Democracy.
Thomas Jefferson is attributed as saying “The cornerstone of democracy is a well-informed electorate.” This is something I believe in the very fabric of who I am. This country, this great experiment in self-governance, relies on one thing above all else: the choices we make at the polls are driven by the information we are provided as a citizenry.
Therefore, it is my great honor and privilege to be tasked with collecting for the Good Men Project what I feel are the previous day’s most important stories that affect our democracy and offer them to you as close to daily as possible.
My name is Mckay Williams, I’m an editor here with the Good Men Project and this is your daily brief.
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Deadly protests erupt in Nicaragua.
In a developing crisis, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has halted his social security overhaul, which has lead to massive protests across the country in which twelve people have already been killed. The challenges of other countries’ democracies are integral to understanding our own. In addition to the Venezuelan democratic crisis, the South American continent could be setting the stage for a political powderkeg last seen in the 1950s. Keep your eyes on this story.
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DNC files suit against Donald Trump, the Presidential Campaign, and Russia.
I love me some long-form journalism, and so I’d like to point you toward MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for this story offering some historical context to the DNC lawsuit against the MAGA campaign, Donald Trump, and Russia. While this may seem like a quirky, almost catty way to express outrage, it opens up opportunities for documents to be moved into the public realm via court filings… watch this if possible.
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Nationally, students protest against gun violence on the anniversary of Columbine massacre.
The National School Walkout protests on April 20th were interesting to me not only on the base level of students fighting for what they believe is their right to Life but because unlike the March for Our Lives protests last month, these students absences were not blessed by their schools. These kids are actively engaging in civil disobedience, and it hints at the future for this generation.
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Jeff Sessions threatens to quit if Mueller probe is attacked by the president.
For the history buffs out there, the words Saturday Night Massacre harken immediately back to October 23rd, 1973, when Richard Nixon fired the Attorney General, the Deputy AG, and the Deputy’s Deputy in an attempt to end Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox’s investigation into the Watergate break-in. Jeff Sessions is effectively creating a career suicide pact with Deputy AG, Rod Rosenstein, stating that if Rosenstein is fired in an attempt to end the Mueller probe, he will quit as well.
Stay here, right here, for more The Daily Brief, tomorrow.
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