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Austin Linfante

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Multimedia Editor at WCPT 820 AM

Editor @HeartlandSignal / @ohiou '17 & '21

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  • Michigan Republican congressman would prefer it if people stopped calling his office

    1 month ago | heartlandsignal.com | Austin Linfante

    Amidst a flood of concerned constituents descending on Republican town halls, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) told a local news station that he would prefer it if people stopped calling his office. During an interview with WWMT Kalamazoo on Tuesday, Huizenga said he believes most of his constituents support President Donald Trump's actions so far, even though Republican lawmakers have been dealing with severe backlash across the nation. Lawmakers in particularly competitive districts, like Reps.

  • Rob Bresnahan breaks pledge, votes to gut Medicaid and SNAP

    1 month ago | heartlandsignal.com | Austin Linfante

    Less than two weeks after pledging to vote "no" on any bill that cuts benefits programs, U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA) voted to advance a budget resolution that will likely gut Medicaid and food stamps. On Feb.

  • North Dakota House committee debates resolution asking SCOTUS to terminate Obergefell

    2 months ago | heartlandsignal.com | Austin Linfante

    On Monday, the North Dakota House Judiciary Committee began debating House Concurrent Resolution 3013, a Republican-written resolution urging the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states in 2015. North Dakota State Rep. Bill Tveit (R-Hazen) introduces HCR 3013, a resolution asking SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, the decision that legalized gay marriage nationally.

  • Democrats should fight back with an aggressive, fact-based counternarrative every single day

    2 months ago | heartlandsignal.com | Austin Linfante

    This moment feels a lot like those frightening early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were scrambling for reliable information about the growing health emergency. Then, like now, the Trump administration was at the heart of a propaganda effort fueled by right-wing media and hellbent on spreading lies and misinformation. Back then, the administration was touting ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 cures; today, it's peddling falsehoods about USAID funding condoms for Hamas.

  • Controversial Christian nationalist legislation introduced in North Dakota House

    2 months ago | heartlandsignal.com | Austin Linfante

    At the start of the new legislative session, a group of North Dakota legislators put forward a potentially unconstitutional resolution that would have the state "acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ." "Whereas, the founding fathers of this great state begin the constitution with the words, 'We', the people of North Dakota, grateful to Almighty God ...

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