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Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner has an election message for the MAGA plotting to play militia to intimidate voters or interfere in the election, “F around and find out.”
Six months pregnant, Nevaeh Crain made three visits to emergency rooms in Texas within a 20 hour span, and still she died.
Elon Musk was a no show to court in Pennsylvania, in spite of being ordered to appear by the court. How did the court punish him for this? By giving him exactly what he asked for and allowing him to continue his potentially illegal scheme of a million dollar lottery.
Maryland Republican Senate candidate Larry Hogan has put on a big show about not wanting convicted felon Donald Trump’s endorsement, but he’s been busted bragging about Trump’s endorsement at a private fundraiser.
One of the country’s few remaining family-owned and -operated metro papers, the Seattle Times, enthusiastically endorsed V.P. Kamala Harris, and raised questions about the billionaire-owned papers that have refused to endorse.
CNN’s Jake Tapper rolled tape of Trump calling Harris a Fascist (among other things) over and over again, and then the Generals calling Trump a fascist. And then finally, Harris agreeing with the Generals.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda is a clear winner among experts, and on Wednesday more than half of the living winners of the Nobel Prize for economics signed a letter calling ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s.
President Biden’s infrastructure law is a big deal, so much so that I like to call it the big deal, because I think it rivals the New Deal in its impact,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said on a Monday call with reporters.
The Republican National Committee, co-led by Trump’s daughter-in-law, is training their thugs to challenge voters in Detroit.
Ex-president Donald Trump keeps promising to release his medical report, but has yet to do it. In contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris released a glowing medical report from an accredited doctor stating she possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.
Going to a Donald Trump rally turned at least one attendee into a Kamala Harris supporter.
After voters commented that the debate was more of a presidential debate than the actual presidential debate, it’s clear that Senator JD Vance poses a danger for Donald Trump, an unhealthy 78-year-old candidate facing sentencing for his 34 felony convictions.
Donald Trump has pulled out of the 60 Minutes primetime election special that’s been an American staple for over half a century, but VP Kamala Harris’ interview will air as planned on Monday, Oct. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
Ex-president Donald Trump has been making repeated promises about returning Michigan auto industry jobs to “greatness,” but when he was president the jobs in vehicle and parts manufacturing declined way before COVID hit.
“A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her health care choices.”
In what will be a surprise if readers buy what the mainstream media has been telling them, voters not only understand VP Kamala Harris’ economic policies, they prefer them.
The Harris campaign trolled JD Vance after he was reportedly turned away from a restaurant that had previously welcomed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
The two top Republicans up for the job of Senate Majority Leader if they take the Senate in the upcoming election talked about how they would thwart a Kamala Harris agenda including potential Supreme Court nominees. Senator John Thune of South Dakota told CNN’s Manu Raju that if Kamala Harris wins the presidency and Republicans…
Retired Republican Senator from Arizona Jeff Flake not only endorsed Kamala Harris for President and Tim Walz for Vice President, but encouraged other Republicans to put country over party as well.
Right wing media has been falsely telling their viewers that crime is surging under President Biden, even though violent crime decreased significantly.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called Donald Trump ‘deranged’ for saying women won’t need to think about abortion if he wins.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s favorability has surged 16 points since July giving her a 5 point lead over Trump in an NBC News poll, the largest increase for any politician since W after 9/11.
the Trump campaign waited until the very last minute to file their FEC report about how much they raised in August, because the number isn’t great.
Some among the political class are suggesting that focusing on Nuzzi’s lack of ethical disclosure is sexism. It’s important to point out that being held to professional standards is not sexism. It’s also not partisanship to expect ethical professional standards to be upheld.
After years of speculation and rumor, there is now sworn testimony cited in public court filings alleging that Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) attended a party connected to an alleged underage sex scandal.
President Biden will host a Cabinet meeting on Friday, during which he will direct his Cabinet to push his agenda forward over the next four months, a White House Official tells PoliticusUSA.
The Secret Service is probing Elon Musk’s post about threats to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Bloomberg reports.
Democrats requested an immediate investigation into Ohio sheriff Bruce Zuchowski, who is reportedly intimidating Democratic voters in his jurisdiction by collecting their addresses in order to target them later.
The Dow and S&P 500 opened at new record highs hours before President Joe Biden is set to give a speech marking an important milestone in the economic recovery he has successfully overseen.
The question on voters’ mind should be WHY did over 100 Republican former national security officials just endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president?
Vice President Kamala Harris hammered Donald Trump for a mother’s abortion ban related death in Georgia.
Since President Joe Biden’s Presidential Proclamation and additional Interim Final Rule on June 4th, border encounters have decreased by more than 50%, according to new statistics shared by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Monday.
Sen. JD Vance refused to say that Donald Trump would veto a national abortion ban, saying the issue is a hypothetical and “I’ve learned my lesson on speaking for the president.”
When Elon Musk tweets that he will “give her a child” he is not offering anything consensual. He’s offering to do something Taylor Swift has expressly made clear, so clear that Swifties have told him to leave her alone, she does not want.
The Russians have an active list of 2,800 influencers worldwide, 600 of whom are in the U.S.
A top Trump volunteer in Massachusetts is out after sending an email on Sunday evening warning “the campaign has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a battleground state” and urging supporters to put their efforts into Pennsylvania instead.
Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia was out stumping for fellow Republican Donald Trump on Labor Day, only to be drowned out with boos and with chants of “We’re not going back!”
While President Biden has been rebuilding America’s infrastructure, the Biden-Harris administration has also been pushing to have it rebuilt by empowered labor, so as to rebuild the middle class.
The Harris-Walz campaign is launching a bus tour and hundreds of millions of dollars in ads to make sure voters know where Trump-Vance stand on IVF and abortion, in spite of the Republicans’ gaslighting.
The US Army issued a “stark” and “rare” rebuke of ex-president Donald Trump’s illegal campaign stunt at Arlington National Cemetery, saying the campaign had been made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies, all of which prohibit political activity on the grounds of the cemetery.
MSNBC’s Morning Joe hosts discussed the huge changes they’re seeing in the Democratic Party after night 3 of the DNC, pointing out that the party that used to be easy to beat is now on the offense and turning weaknesses into strengths which is hard to beat.
Republicans, the party led by an accused draft dodger, tried to falsely accuse Democratic Governor Tim Walz of “stolen valor,” but did so by… stealing valor.
In the post-Roe environment, this is not good news for Republicans. Abortion will be on the ballot in both swing state Arizona and Montana, where Democratic Senator Jon Tester needs all of the help he can get to win his close race.
It’s not just you. America also prefers Democrat Minnesota Governor Ted Walz to Republican Ohio Senator JD Vance. In fact, Walz is the most popular candidate in the race, according to new polling showing him as a net 31 points ahead of JD Vance.
Donald Trump is the master of being on all sides of every issue, and the media keeps falling for it, gaslighting Americans and pretending that Trump doesn’t utilize verbal trickery to avoid accountability.
Mallory McMorrow: “Tonight, I want to tell you about just one aspect of project 2025: Its plan to turn Donald Trump into a dictator.”
Randolph says Trump’s promise of slashing energy and electricity prices by half at least would mean the U.S. would be totally reliant on foreign oil because there would be no U.S. Oil and gas industry left, production and job losses would drop at the fastest rate in history, U.S. GDP would turn negative the first month, and we would enter a recession.
The Biden-Harris administration’s new “Time Is Money” takes on “corporate tricks and scams like excessive paperwork, long wait times, and more that pad the profits of big business at the expense of everyday Americans’ time and money.”
We’re hitting the two year anniversary of two landmark and historic pieces of legislation, the Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act. You’ve probably heard the Biden-Harris administration speaking about these bills, but might not understand how they’re helping to transform America.
President Joe Biden took a well-earned victory lap for the economy he and his Vice President Kamala Harris have overseen as the economy grew way above expectations at a 2.8% in the second quarter.
With just over 100 days to go, Harris for President released its first official video of the campaign titled “We Choose Freedom,” which hits the exact right energy of this moment.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that convicted felon and former president Donald Trump could have been struck by shrapnel instead of a bullet.
Fresh off of a Win with Black Men call that raised over $1.3M for VP Kamala Harris, Bakari Sellers said her campaign is “one of the most successful Democratic campaigns we’ve seen in a long time.”
The endorsements are rolling in for Kamala Harris, which along with her incredible fundraising numbers are a show of force for the Vice President as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
When you think of JD Vance, see MTG. It’s what she wants. Independent voters will no doubt be persuaded, but perhaps not in the direction the Republican thinks.
Joe Scarborough addressed his network’s baffling decision to pull the Morning Joe show on Monday, saying that they were told that the network would be running breaking news all morning but that didn’t happen.
In 2016, J.D. Vance’s college roommate says he called Donald Trump “America’s Hitler.”
In 2024, J.D. Vance blamed President Biden’s “rhetoric” for the shooting carried out by someone who appears to have been a registered Republican.
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a barn burner of a speech in which she said we can’t count on Trump to keep Americans safe, pointing out that President Joe Biden strengthens NATO, while ex-president Donald Trump embraces Putin and makes America weak.
Donald Trump knows hundreds of people involved in Project 2025. Many of them worked for him to advance his agenda when he was in the White House. He is lying when he says he doesn’t know them.
“Building a clean energy economy can and should be a win-win for union autoworkers and automakers,” President Biden said in a statement sent to PoliticusUSA. “This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs and retain even more.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called out the New York Times for misrepresenting what she said about President Biden, “I don’t know what’s happened in New York Times that they make up news.”
The Biden-Harris campaign is launching a $50 million ad campaign in July, using Trump’s own words and his Project 2025 to highlight the threat he poses to women’s and girls’ health freedom. The “Her Own” ad will run in all battleground states.
While media hysterics hyping a few House Democrats’ power grab try to divide the Left, conservative leaders are warning of a coming split in Donald Trump’s coalition due to his stance on abortion.
Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) tried to help the media with a list of 9 questions that should be asked of a presidential candidate, and it’s a list full of questions that get to the character of a presidential candidate and oddly have mostly been ignored by the media.
In years past, the warnings we hear from historians, experts on tyranny and from the Biden-Harris campaign might have been mere musings but today we face the very real threat in the form of the perfect storm.
As Donald Trump and his Republican enablers work out in the open to turn the United States back into a monarchy, this Independence Day marking our nation’s success 248 years ago at rejecting an autocratic king has turned somber.
MSNBC’s Katie Phang, host of the show named after her, pointed out that calls for President Joe Biden to withdraw discount his first term successes.
“These reporters are cherry-picking shreds of gossip at best… and making shit up at worst. Some have openly loathed Biden for years, & are salivating at the chance to torch his team,” former speechwriter to President Joe Biden Dan Cluchey wrote.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reminded voters ahead of the nation’s 248 years old “Independence” birthday that we don’t know how long our experiment in self-governance is going to last. This week, the greatest country in the history of the world turns 248 years old. We have to remember that this is an experiment in self-governance,…
In yet another story of Donald Trump harassing witnesses, Stormy Daniels told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that Donald Trump is trying to get her 13-year-old daughter’s address.
SCOTUS has made the upcoming 2024 presidential election about choosing the United States first essential King. A president with King-like powers, basically. A democracy in name, only.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi said the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States placed the court itself on trial.
The Republican majority on the Supreme Court really seem to despise the principles upon which the United States was founded. Today, for example, Chief Justice Roberts appears to enshrine the end of the independence of the Department of Justice.
While the Supreme Court didn’t give Trump absolute immunity, it said presidents can abuse their power and pressure federal government agencies to overturn elections. That is considered an “official act.”
The conservative Supreme Court majority showed they are doing their best to help destroy the federal government with a 6-3 decision in the Corner Post Inc. v Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Like many incumbents before him, Biden had a bad debate. But a bad debate does not a bad president make.
Democrats are on the freedom warpath. Democrats say abortion is defining the races for the White House, Senate and House and they have every intention of holding Republicans accountable for their MAGA extremism.
Katie Phang, host of MSNBC’s The Katie Phang show, called Trump’s excuses out, writing that he could have testified and that he and his team could have chosen to put on the elections expert, but chose not to.
Well, this isn’t going to go over well with the Trump crowd. The cover of next week’s The New Yorker will show an illustration of Donald J. Trump with tiny hands ready to be handcuffed,
The Biden campaign warned that the threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater, and the ballot box is the only way to way to keep Trump out of the Oval Office.
Fox News repeated a question asked by a Democratic strategist to Republican Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) wondering why Republicans were there to defend ex-president Donald Trump’s affair with a porn star.
Since March, there have been more than 150 physical threats against judges in Trump cases, according to a Reuters special report filed Tuesday.
Apparently there is nothing serious compelling Speaker Johnson to show up for his actual job, so instead he will give ex-president Donald Trump the fawning cheer section he requires in court on Tuesday.
When it comes to the Supreme Court’s questions regarding Donald J. Trump v. United States, they were supposed to answer the basic question of if Donald Trump had presidential immunity as he claims he does in the election interference trial in D.C.
Newly released exhibits reveal that the lock on the storage room in Mar-a-Lago where Trump kept highly classified documents was just a residential door lock that could be opened with a coat hanger.
After Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) admitted that Republicans killed the bipartisan, conservative border bill, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates blasted Republicans for killing the border deal.
David Pecker testified that he believes Donald Trump also had knowledge of the catch and kill contract for the former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
After ex-president Donald Trump allegedly violated the court imposed gag order four times over the last three days, yet another order to show cause to hold him in contempt was presented on Thursday morning.
Donald Trump’s lawyers couldn’t defend their client’s actions, so they resorted to claiming that it was political speech and that no one had stopped him from reposting things so he figured it was okay. The Judge was not impressed, and warned the defense they were losing all credibility with the court.
The Donald Trump defense amounts to the “Regina George” defense, as New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi called it, claiming that Michael Cohen was “obsessed with President Trump.”
Wily Donald Trump always finds a way to get around constraints, and so on Monday Trump’s Truth Social is speaking for him while he is in court, and it’s telling us that people miss “Daddy Trump.”
Although a “couple million” Trump supporters live within an hour of his trial on Monday, only an estimated 50 showed up.
Norm Eisen explains that Donald Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial is actually about alleged election interference by the then candidate for president.
As Senators introduced new legislation to address identity fraud as well as systemic fraud during the pandemic, Sen Wyden drew a contrast between the way Democrats and Republicans address fraud.
House Republicans are overthrowing the government like people quiet quit. They’re simply not allowing the full power the people gave to President Biden, because they don’t want to share power and they do not respect American voters.
Thanks to Joe Biden, the United States will be making the most advanced semiconductor chips on the planet while creating tens of thousands of new jobs.
The new campaign fundraising numbers are in, and they spell enthusiasm for the Biden-Harris campaign. They raised more than any other Democratic candidate in history at this point in the quarter, and 40% of the donors are new this cycle.
After news that Donald Trump spoke privately with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jared Kushner secretly met with Netanyahu, it’s looking like Trump is trying to undermine the President of the United States with a shadow presidency.
GOP megadonor and “billionaire bully” Tim Dunn told former Texas Republican House Speaker Joe Straus that only Christians should hold leadership positions in the House.
Conservative lawyer and ex-husband for former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway will headline a fundraiser for President Biden in D.C. on April 24 and has written a check for $929,600.