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27 June 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE STILL DON'T HAVE A THOUSAND DOLLAR DONATION FOR JUNE - THAT'S HURTING - Normally, we can count on two or three 4-digit donations each month. So far for June, there have been none. We have a lot of small donors helping. Those matching contributions are a vital part of the formula. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Elizabeth Warren | A Foreign Policy That Works for All Americans  Elizabeth Warren, Medium Warren writes: "Let's start with a serious problem: Around the world, democracy is under assault." READ MORE On Wednesday in Miami, Democratic presidential candidates take the stage during the first night of the Democratic presidential debate. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty) 5 Takeaways From the First Democratic Debate Domenico Montanaro, NPR Montanaro writes: "If the overarching question heading into the first debate of the 2020 presidential primary for Democratic voters was 'Who can you see as president up there?' it's not certain they got a clear answer." READ MORE A group of migrant families in a Border Patrol transport van in McAllen, Texas. (photo: Carolyn Van Houten/Getty) US Asylum Officers Slam Trump's Policy, Call It "Contrary to the Moral Fabric of Our Nation" Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News Aleaziz writes: "A group of US asylum officers urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to block a Trump administration program forcing Central American migrants to remain in Mexico as their cases are processed in the US, calling the directive 'fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our nation.'" READ MORE Kellyanne Conway. (photo: Evan Vucci/AP) Kellyanne Conway Had More Hatch Act Violation Reports Filed Against Her Than Anyone Else in 30 Years Jessica Kwong, Newsweek Kwong writes: "The House Committee on Oversight and Reform voted 25-16, largely along party lines, to issue a subpoena for Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway after she failed to appear for a hearing Wednesday on charges she violated the Hatch Act dozens of times." READ MORE Then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. (photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) How Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao Turned a Kentucky Town Into Their Personal Swamp Alexander Nazaryan, Yahoo News Nazaryan writes: "The small western Kentucky town of Paducah loves Mitch McConnell. Even if progressives loathe McConnell for his ruthless effectiveness as master of the Senate, and even if plenty of his fellow Kentuckians disapprove of his performance, he can always find a warm embrace here on the banks of the Ohio River."  WORTH READING IN ITS ENTIRETY. EXCERPT: Over the past decade and a half, Paducah has reaped $509 million in funds from federal departments Chao has been in charge of, according to Restore Public Trust, a progressive group that has tracked the Chao-McConnell relationship. Outwardly, that funding appears to violate no laws, but critics say it is improper all the same. “The facts are clear — Secretary Elaine Chao helped her husband politically through Department of Transportation grants, through Department of Labor grants, and she used her position to campaign for him,” Lizzy Price, a spokesperson for Restore Public Trust, told Yahoo News. “Taxpayers don’t pay Secretary Chao’s salary so that she can boost her husband’s political career. Chao’s actions are as swampy as Trump’s administration gets and merit a thorough investigation.” Price and others say that Paducah is a perfect case study of how Washington’s most powerful couple have tended to the very kind of swamp Trump promised to drain. They have done so strategically, consistently and with little notice, according to those making such accusations. And they have done so for years. Paducah is hardly the only example. Politico recently reported that Chao fast-tracked projects favored by McConnell in Owensboro, another Kentucky town on the Ohio River. There, as in Paducah, Chao pushed for projects that McConnell supported and that appeared to benefit him politically. READ MORE Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. (photo: AP) Maduro Accuses the US and Colombia of Attempting an Elaborate Coup Anthony Faiola, Washington Post Faola writes: "Venezuela's top government spokesman on Wednesday called the country's former spy chief a 'traitor,' a 'mercenary' and a 'slave' to the United States, and accused him of working with opposition leaders not only to overthrow the government but also to kill President Nicolás Maduro, his wife and other senior government officials." READ MORE   Wind farm. (photo: Getty) US Generates More Electricity From Renewables Than Coal for First Time Ever Oliver Milman, Guardian UK Milman writes: "The US generated more electricity from renewable sources than coal for the first time ever in April, new federal government data has shown." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation