Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush just announced that he opposes renewing the Voting Rights Act (VRA) -- saying “I don't support reauthorizing it as is.” Governor Bush needs to get his facts straight. Because of a 2013 Supreme Court decision that gutted one of the law’s crucial protections against discrimination at the polls, restoring the VRA “as is” isn’t even an option. Instead, there’s a bipartisan bill before Congress right now, the Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), that’d update the VRA for the discrimination voters still face today and stop laws that block us from exercising our rights. Any candidate who wants our votes - all eligible Americans’ votes - should work to protect and strengthen the right to vote. Jeb Bush should call on Congress to pass the VRAA, and encourage his fellow presidential candidates to do the same. Tell Jeb Bush: if you think the VRA needs to be modernized, then call on Congress to get it done!

When the Republican leadership set up the Select Committee on Benghazi, its frivolous purpose was transparent. It was created as an outlet for the Republican leadership to attack Secretary Clinton, plain and simple. We just never thought they would admit it... until now. In a recent interview, Rep. McCarthy told Sean Hannity that, “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.” The Select Committee on Benghazi has become one of the longest-running Congressional task forces in history - longer than Watergate. It has cost American taxpayers $4.5 million. And according to Rep. McCarthy, it was a political stunt to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Using taxpayer dollars to further a political agenda is unethical. But using taxpayer dollars to exploit a national tragedy that resulted in the loss of four American lives is utterly reprehensible. Rep. McCarthy dropping out of the Speaker's race is not enough. Join us and demand that the House Republicans stop this charade and shut down the Select Committee on Benghazi now.

SB 136 would make New Hampshire the 17th state to call for a U.S. constitutional amendment to prevent outside interests from buying our elections. The bill passed the New Hampshire Senate unanimously and faces a key vote in the New Hampshire House by November 12. House Speaker Shawn Jasper agreed to attend a public event to discuss the bill and then changed his mind. In talking with the Speaker, I believe that he agrees that NH voices are being drowned out by excessive and undisclosed outside money that is pouring into NH campaigns. He however, seemed to be focused on one particular point that is not actually part of this bill. He needs to hear our voices! 69 local resolutions have passed in New Hampshire similar to SB 136 and residents poll 3 to 1 in favor of a constitutional amendment. A recent Bloomberg poll found that 78% of Americans and 80% of Republicans support overturning Citizens United. Our democracy is not for sale!

"What Republican legislators here in Wisconsin and elsewhere who are introducing gender-policing bathroom bills want to do is reverse the modest degree of social progress trans people have made. They are standing on the side of hate, and their victims are the children, teens and adults who really need protection."

In the wake of a massive data breach of Experian computers affecting 15 million T-Mobile customers and applicants, we urge both companies to: Set a precedent and be the first companies to pay for security freezes on all victims’ credit reports after a data breach. Credit monitoring can only help detect new fraudulent credit accounts after they have been opened or applied for. But security freezes (also called credit freezes) block thieves from opening new accounts in the first place.

I was born and raised in a gun-owning, hunting family in Sheridan, WY. There are too many in this country who have easy access to weapons that have nothing to do with responsible gun ownership or hunting. Would you please represent Americans, not gun manufacturers?

As a terminally ill patient, I see and feel firsthand the struggles imposed on us as far as our death is concerned. We need the right to die law in the state of Missouri. It is a kindness to allow a terminally ill patient to end their suffering on their terms. We treat our pets better. Randy, a war veteran said it best: "Dignity to me means being able to hold my head up high. I'm not holding my head up now. Not with tubes. Not with bags. I'm not dying with dignity. " Randy suffered 4 weeks in pain and couldn't even speak. I am begging you... if you read this petition please sign it. Please allow us to have the same kindness that we allow our pets when they are suffering.

My husband and a lot of my friends work at the local state college. I don't want to be receiving meaningless "thoughts & prayers" should anyone choose to shoot up their workplace also. I'd like the greatest possible protections in place for such innocent victims, and I don't think a national security state such as we've become since 9/11 should have qualms about doing that for its own citizens.

I am a recent victim of Texas residential appraisal, mortgage and lending fraud but I have a solution for you and your family that wasn't available for me. If a new home buyer gets a simple and CHEAP “Appraisal Review” for their property inside the two years after they purchase the home it will save them from the financial damage that happened to me. If the $275 Appraisal Review is rolled into a 15 year mortgage that would translate to a consumer expense of an additional $1.53 per month. Situation is solved!!! A 30 year mortgage would cost the consumer a whopping .76 per month!!!! This policy would also provide the appraisal industry and professionals with more income due to increased consumer demand for their services.

As a public school teacher, I have seen the effect of gun violence on children; their fear and worry during lockdown drills, their frantic questions about what they should do if a shooter should come to our school. My 4th graders begged me to keep a baseball bat next to the door so I could hit him, should he enter our room. Is this what we want for our children?

Ben Carson says Kindergarten teachers should be armed. It would be funny if he wasn't serious, and if our children weren't being gunned down in an epidemic of violence that has led to 15 school shootings in the last 3 months alone. As the father of a first grader, I'm sickened by this. Politicians like Ben Carson kowtow to the NRA while our kids have to do drills in school where they practice hiding in closets. This is madness. There are actual steps that would help: effective background checks, commonsense safeguards around gun sales, better mental health care, etc. More guns in schools is decidedly not the answer. Dr. Carson is a GOP front-runner and his words matter. He should apologize, withdraw his proposal, and start talking about actual solutions. Or at least be quiet.

Jackson was waived into adult court at the age of 16- party to the crime of felony murder and armed robbery and was given 100 years; a bunch of kids in a robbery that went horribly wrong. Hayes was in the next room when the fatal shot was fired. Many heartless sentences like this were given to youngsters at the time and it is now 25 years later. We have learned of the undeveloped juvenile brain. Hayes Jackson explains how he was a follower and easily led into the wrong situations. That is the way most kids are. He is not so today- this is a mature man ready to give back to society and well deserving of a second chance. Please help.