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$10K Grant from FHLB Dallas and Arvest Bank Helps National Guard Veteran

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Monday, July 3, 2023
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U.S. military veteran Tracy Hayes can move around her Hensley, Arkansas, home more easily thanks to a $10,000 Housing Assistance for Veterans (HAVEN) grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) through its member, Arvest Bank (Arvest).

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  • U.S. military veteran Tracy Hayes can move around her Hensley, Arkansas, home more easily thanks to a $10,000 Housing Assistance for Veterans (HAVEN) grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) through its member, Arvest Bank (Arvest).
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    A retired National Guard veteran is now able to move around her home more freely, thanks to a $10,000 HAVEN grant from Arvest Bank and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas.
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    HAVEN provides grants to veterans and active-duty, reserve or National Guard service members who have been disabled in the line of duty since August 2, 1990.
  • “It’s so much easier to get up and down the stairs.”
    Ms. Hayes, now 52, served in the National Guard for 27 years.

Tunnel to Towers Delivers 30 Mortgage-Free Homes to Families of Fallen American Heroes

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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Staten Island, NY, May 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is honoring the memory of 30 American heroes by delivering forever homes to the families they left behind.

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  • Staten Island, NY, May 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is honoring the memory of 30 American heroes by delivering forever homes to the families they left behind.
  • Tunnel to Towers provided 21 Gold Star families and nine fallen first responders families with prior military service, with a mortgage-free home, or paid-off the mortgage on their existing home.
  • “To all of the families who know the true meaning of Memorial Day, I thank you for your service and sacrifice.
  • Join us on our mission to provide mortgage-free homes to the families these heroes leave behind by donating $11 per month please visit T2T.org.

Democrats need to make the U.S. Constitution work for them as the 2024 election looms

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Thursday, May 11, 2023
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U.S. President Joe Biden has launched his re-election campaign, and we can expect to hear a lot about the need to protect American democracy from the Donald Trump-led Republicans.

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  • U.S. President Joe Biden has launched his re-election campaign, and we can expect to hear a lot about the need to protect American democracy from the Donald Trump-led Republicans.
  • Now that the former president has been held liable for sexually assaulting and defaming columnist E. Jean Carroll, we might also hear about the need to uphold the rule of law and basic standards of human decency.
  • But neither Biden nor the progressives who support him say much about protecting the U.S. Constitution.
  • As such, they need to rediscover its pro-democratic dimensions so they can work with the document — and make it work for them.

General welfare, equal protection

    • The progressive parts of the U.S. Constitution begin in the preamble, which says that one of its core purposes is to “promote the general welfare” as opposed to private interests.
    • They were aimed at building a national citizenship based on “the equal protection of the laws,” and they prohibited the states from denying that protection to any American.
    • Taken together, the U.S. Constitution’s general welfare and equal protection clauses enable what founding father John Adams called “a more equal liberty” to advance, however unevenly, throughout American history.
    • The 14th Amendment also requires the U.S. government to pay its debts, undermining Republican threats to force a catastrophic national default this summer.

Guaranteeing democracy

    • They did so by arguing a “Republican” government could not be too democratic, only to find that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider such “purely political” questions.
    • That is, they should insist that the “Republican Government” guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution requires basic democratic standards that several GOP-dominated states no longer meet.
    • Even by the criteria of ultra-conservative constitutional “originalists,” this argument is straightforward, because the meaning of “a Republican Form of Government” was self-evident in 1787.
    • They agreed that republics drew their authority from “we the people,” who made their choices known in periodic elections.

Voting rights

    • Citing the guarantee clause, Democrats at the federal level could therefore press states to democratize voting districts and expand voting sites.
    • If Congress passed a law to that effect, Biden might even consider using an executive order not just to promote voting rights, but to ensure all citizens have a reasonable chance to vote, even if that means sending the National Guard to polling sites.