There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
Rachel Maddow responded to the Republican denial of a pay gap, and the Meet The Press attack on her, by intellectually destroying the Republican War On Women.
Sensing that the Republicans are on the run, President Obama mounted a counterattack against the war on women by explaining why this war isn’t just a women’s issue.
On Countdown with Keith Olbermann, guest Lewis Black hinted that Rush Limbaugh might be brain damaged and ripped the Republican Party’s war on women.
President Biden said that the conservative Supreme Court majority and extremist Republicans are about to find out about the political power of women.
But by Monday, I knew it was a lifetime war. Tuesday I knew I would get there. And I will.
All across America, lawmakers have been carving away at a woman’s right to authority over her own body. The last five years account for more than 1/4 of all abortion restrictions enacted since Roe V Wade.
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
The ongoing war against the ACA by Republican messiah Ted Cruz is an attack on women that he enlisted ALEC’s assistance to continue.
Republicans latest super bad idea: They’re going to win women voters by branding the Democratic Party as the party of Weiner, Spitzer and Filner.
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
This is a warning to Republicans and religious maniacs that their war on women, like their sexist mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh, has ignited a firestorm they are ill-equipped to extinguish.
Since House Republicans are losing the war on women, they are holding 7.4 million student loans hostage to inflict the most damage on women who coincidentally outnumber men enrolled in college.
Refusing to immediately reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act as it is written is a mistake that the Republican Party may not recover from.
Republicans in various states are on a rampage to restrict contraception and healthcare services to low-income women based on their extremist ideology.
We women are told to relax about the War on Women, but the war via Virginia’s transvaginal ultrasound bill has spread to Pennsylvania.
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises…
There are around a million gang members in the U.S. Gang violence costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars, and Republicans seem unmoved.
Republicans have assailed President Obama for allegedly waging a war on religion, but it is Republicans who are waging a religious war against women.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell showed that Republicans have a history of lying about abortion, and don’t mean anything they say on the issue.
Democrats are not just sitting by as Republicans try to gaslight Americans about the inevitable consequences of their anti-abortion laws.
The Biden-Harris administration is marking the 15th anniversary of the very first bill of the Obama-Biden administration, the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, with further actions to help close wage gaps and improve pay transparency.
Republicans talk a lot about “babies”. They use “babies” as an excuse to deny women and girls life saving healthcare. But when it comes down to actually putting their money where their mouths are, Republicans don’t help babies. They don’t help pregnant women or nursing moms.
Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Congress to reject any more funding for Netanyahu’s war in Gaza.
Democrats have introduced a bill to permanently protect pregnant and postpartum women in custody. It’s cosponsored by a range of Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent. There is not a single a Republican cosponsor of this bill, and yet this bill is all about the health and safety of pregnant women.
Hours after Republican strategists sent a memo warning Republicans how to frame abortion, Chris Christie tried it on Morning Joe and it did not go well.
The media loves to present Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin as a “moderate.” He is not. He has never been. And to prove that, he bragged on Fox News that he is coming for the freedom of women and girls.
Although Republican Senators make noise in public about being unhappy with Senator Tommy Tuberville’s military holds that threaten U.S. national security at a time of global unrest and heightened security concerns, they aren’t willing to actually stop him by supporting a new proposal to speed up the confirmation process.
If the idea that people vote with their wallets before they vote with their ballots is true, then Taylor Swift’s domination spells trouble for Republicans, and so does Barbie’s success.
Even after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy went back on the deal he made with House Democrats, House Republicans expected Democrats to help McCarthy fend off the same nihilist faction he elevated in order to get power.
There’s been very little coverage of this very unsettling continuation of a shared purpose between Hungary and leading Right wing figures in the U.S., including CPAC. On Monday, Elon Musk met with the President of Hungary Katalin Novák after he missed the “Demographic Summit” in Budapest.
New polling reportedly revealed to Republican Senators showed that “pro-life” is not resonating with voters anymore, so now Republicans are considering rebranding “pro-life” as “pro-baby.”
President Biden’s visit to Maui, Hawai’i was well-received and appreciated by the folks who actually live there. You might not know that, though, if you listen to wailing conservatives gnashing their teeth in rage against his compassion. Let’s take a look at what actually happened first.
Here 4 the Kids organized a sit-in of white women from around the country at the Colorado Capitol on Monday for the purpose of getting an Executive Order signed by Gov. Jared Polis that will ban guns and create a buy-back program.
On the first anniversary of the Uvalde,Texas mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) condemned the inaction of the Republican caucus, saying this bloodshed is a choice.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that Republicans are pushing nothing but culture war issues because they have no plan to make lives better.
Glenn Youngkin, whom you have been wrongly told over and over again is a “moderate,” used a procedural move to block an attempt to prohibit law enforcement from obtaining the menstrual histories of girls and women in that state.
Iowa Republicans are putting forward a bill that would discourage the people who need help the most from applying for food assistance.
You all knew this was going to be bad, but ceasing to function before they ever started? This is a new low for Republicans.
Someone in Republican leadership should be willing to stand up for an election worker who was forced to flee her own home due to violent threats from their party leader. Anyone? Anyone?
Republican Michigan state judge Brian Zahra’s ex-wife says he drove her to get an abortion years ago, and she’s angry that he voted to block a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution in September.
If you were wondering why the media is suddenly telling you that Americans care more about “crime” than they do their own right to live, we have the answer.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi did an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that aired on Tuesday, in which Mitchell inserted obvious Republican talking points about how voters don’t seem to care about women’s rights so much anymore, but are more focused on “crime” and “inflation.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer endorses Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio US Senate race while calling out JD Vance’s craven political cowardice.
John Fetterman blasted Mehmet Oz for his refusal to give a straight answer about how he would vote on a national abortion ban. “Dr. Oz can’t seem to get two words out: yes or no. It’s been an entire month since the GOP’s national abortion ban was introduced in the Senate, and Dr. Oz still hasn’t said how he’d vote.”
A new poll reveals that President Joe Biden’s approval rating has jumped to its high for the year as women are increasing engagement in the midterm election.
House Republicans responded to Trump being raided by the FBI by completely losing the plot of their midterm campaign and imploding.
The 1/6 Committee hearings have not changed Republican minds about reality, only about Trump’s viability.
An emotional and furious Jon Stewart unloaded on Senate Republicans for blocking an expansion of healthcare for veterans.
Republicans are expressing concerns that their Senate candidates are blowing it, specifically pointing to Herschel Walker losing to Raphael Warnock in Georgia.
Ohio Republican US Senate candidate JD Vance suggested that women should stay in bad and violent marriages for the benefit of children.
Investigate the investigators. Bannon promised it was coming. Last night on Tucker Carlson’s show, the man with no defense promised a lot of offense.
President Biden called out Republicans for not supporting his climate change proposal and vowed to use his executive powers to act.
Senate Republicans have blocked a bill that would have stopped states from preventing women from traveling out of state for abortions.
Democrats need to use their energy very purposefully and very carefully in the lead up to the 2022 midterms, because it is hard to overstate the peril we are currently facing.
The only line of defense left to our democracy is in the Democratic Party winning elections, and they are facing horrific poll numbers for President Biden, bad maps and poor prospects for the House and Senate.
Mitt Romney penned a 4th of July piece where he argued that Americans are in denial, but it is Republicans who refuse to see the truth.
A new poll shows Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) leading his Republican challenger Herschel Walker 54%-44% in the Georgia US Senate race.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cut through the talking points of Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) to call out the big-government fascism behind her “pro-life” points.
Speaker Pelosi warned that Republicans are plotting to pass a national abortion ban if they take back Congress.
President Biden warned Republican state and local officials not to block a woman’s right to travel to get an abortion.
Senate Republicans and Democrat Joe Manchin teamed up to block the advancement of legislation that would federally codify abortion rights.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has said that he will vote against the Women’s Health Protection Act because he thinks it expands abortion.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he has no problem with peaceful protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices.
Republican Senator Susan Collins called the police after concerned citizens left a message in chalk outside of her home urging her to protect women’s rights.
An enraged Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that America is tired of hearing from extremists and they are ready to fight to keep abortion legal.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned Republicans that he is about to make it get real in the Senate on abortion rights.
Sen. Joe Manchin joined with Republican Senators in blocking the Women’s Health Protection Act from moving forward.
The past week has telescoped America’s history of racism and genocide in the intensest of ways, highlighting too that it’s the highest governing offices in the land that are promulgating the most virulent racism and leading the genocidal charge.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) used her questions during a Senate hearing on Afghanistan to gut the main Republican criticisms of Biden.
Most disturbing about this evidence is the way it highlights just how widespread the acceptance of sexism, and of violence against women, is.
Speaker Pelosi slammed the cowards of the Supreme Court for the dark of night Texas abortion law decision, as the House passed the Women’s Health Protection Act.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy tried to whip up anti-immigrant sentiment and weirdly attacked pregnant women but was shot down by Jen Psaki.
The Republicans’ flagrant disregard for living, breathing American citizens and attempts to control private businesses for political gain is a direct result of the pandemic.
The founders conceptualized freedom as a social mission, a social obligation, the chief goal of which was to serve the public good, not one’s narrow private interests.
This is the first time in recent memory that a Republican has openly confessed that his drive to control women is borne of a flawed religious belief that is nowhere to be found in the Christian bible.
Marjorie Taylor Greene had actually gone a few weeks without any kind of major controversy. And for the embattled Georgia congresswoman, that seemed to be too long. During an appearance on Steve Bannon’s show on Thursday, Taylor Greene went on an extended and bigoted attack on transgender Americans warning them to stay out of prisons…
Meghan McCain‘s father John McCain was one of the most revered Republicans of his day. He was often referred to as a Maverick due to his willingness to buck the party line. Liz Cheney attempted to be a post-Trump maverick back in January of this year. And for voting her conscience, she has been pilloried…
It is particularly distressful that the majority of Americans have no taste for any religion dominating their lives, or flouting the laws of the land under a twisted interpretation of religious liberty – a term that is not in the U.S. Constitution.
How long will it be before some Republican state legislature passes legislation “granting civil immunity†to any white supremacist who shoots and kills protestors holding a sign they disagree with?
House Democrats are calling on their Republican colleagues to return Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) donation to form an “America First Caucus” that would promote “Anglo-Saxon” values. “While they continue to dodge questions about Greene’s racist platform, the NRCC has refused to return the $175,000 in campaign cash Greene funneled into their coffers,” the Democratic…
They were fine with MLB’s exemption until that particular big business failed to toe the fascist line and support Georgia’s 2021 iteration of Jim Crow.
Speaker Pelosi said that she would not make any changes to the infrastructure bill in order to get Republican votes.
Republicans are once again pandering to extremist right-wing religious fanatics in a bigger way than normal, and as is always the case, they are targeting women and members of the LGBTQ community with extreme prejudice.
This issue is absent any gray area. Republicans either oppose violence against women or they support it.
In an interview on MSNBC‘s “Morning Joe,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) criticized Republicans for their response to the storming of the United States Capitol, saying there have been disagreements over how an investigation into the event would proceed. Video of Speaker Pelosi: Speaker Pelosi slams Republicans for trying to include Black Lives Matter in…
Here is to all of you out there who have somehow held on during the reign of terror, who feel broken, who swallowed shards of rage and will never see your country the same way again. Here is to your courage for surviving, for voting, for speaking, for being. Never forget what you did in November of 2020.
Over 520,000 people have died due to Covid-19, but every single member of the self-styled “pro-life” party has so far voted against the Covid relief bill. What could they object to that would justify the imminent, ongoing destruction of our country? In fact, a majority of economists polled by Reuters said they expect President Biden’s…
At the rate Republicans, led by Trump, are attempting to stop voting, it is glaringly apparent they hate democracy nearly as much as they detest the U.S. Constitution. When Donald Trump refused to say if he would allow a peaceful transfer of power if he does not win re-election, it should have sent a shockwave…
In a stunningly emotional ad that hits right at the heart of what women have been feeling for four years under this president, the Lincoln Project’s new ad asks, “When your daughter looks in the mirror, what do you want her to see?”
President Donald Trump, whose testing positive for coronavirus has dominated the headlines over the last week, sought to bring attention back to a possible Supreme Court battle between Democrats and Republicans after his rival, Democrat Joe Biden, said he would advance legislation to protect Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that permits women to have…
A new poll found that just 38% of Americans want Trump to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, as 57% want the next president to do it.
During the 2018 midterms, the Democrats had a wave election, picking up 40 more House seats than Republicans. They won many of these seats because suburban women voted for them in record numbers. On Friday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s granddaughter said her grandmother’s dying wish was to be replaced by a president other than Trump. On…
Joe Biden has opened up a three-point lead in Arizona as white women have dumped Trump and moved toward Democrats in the red state.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez harshly criticized Ted Yoho on Thursday after he issued a half-hearted apology to her for using insulting language in a confrontation. The Democratic congresswoman was responding to the Republican congressman’s defensive comments on the House floor on Wednesday, which many saw as no apology at all. “I could not allow my nieces, I…
This past week Americans got another example of the religious Republican fallacy that the movement is pro-life, and another reminder that the GOP’s fealty to the fossil fuel industry is on par with their devotion to evangelical fundamentalists. First, there were reports that there was a clash between Democrats and Republicans in the House over…
Trump’s own advisers are warning him that without and immediate change in his message he is poised to lose the election to Joe Biden.
On Friday, Joe Biden went on Morning Joe to answer questions posed by co-host Mika Brzezinski. I didn’t watch the interview because the very fact there was one demonstrated that nothing has changed since 2016. Before we go any further, I’m not about to pronounce guilt or innocence of Trump, Biden or anyone else. This…
Although there were plenty of platitudes during International Women’s Day “festivities†for the progress women have made in an inherently patriarchal world, there was precious little attention afforded to the ongoing radical religious assault on women’s basic human rights in an allegedly free and equal society. It is likely the case that many Americans are unaware…
In conjunction with a political organization called “Protect Our Care,” which seeks to provide “outreach, rapid response, research and messaging center in the fight to protect health care,” former President Barack Obama released a video in which he celebrated and touted the reforms passed in the Affordable Care Act. The ACA, commonly called Obamacare by…
