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Over on Fox News viewers heard something that probably surprised them: “The highest jump in the murder rate in this country happened in the last year of the Trump administration. It didn’t happen in any of the Biden years.”
“The last time that Democratic presidential candidate won Florida was when there was an anti abortion measure on the ballot. So this is something that Floridians pay attention to and that was President Barack Obama in 2012.”
No one can accuse Republicans of not being able to put forth meaningful legislation now that deputy whip Guy Reschenthaler has put forth a bill to rename DC’s main international airport after Donald Trump.
Conservatives spent Easter weekend lying about President Biden and trying to divide Americans because they cannot run on their policies, and so they depend upon turning us on one another in any way possible.
Cesar Chavez’s family endorsed President Joe Biden on Friday, after RFK, Jr claimed that the civil rights leader would have voted for the Independent who is flirting with running on the Libertarian ticket. “Fernando and Paul Chavez, the sons of the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers, are endorsing the president on Friday, the…
A sitting federal judge took the extraordinary step of warning of tyranny after Donald Trump’s attacks on Judge Juan Merchan and his family overseeing the criminal hush money case.
There is finally justice for Crystal Mason as her conviction for illegal voting was reversed, resulting in an acquittal, in what is seen as a major victory for voting rights.
After news that former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort might rejoin Donald Trump’s campaign, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) asked the DNI to declassify a Senate report with details about Manafort’s relationship with Russian government operatives.
President Biden is set to raise more money for his campaign in one night ($25 million) than Trump raised for his campaign all month ($20.3 million). According to the Biden campaign, “The evening will begin with a virtual pre-program for grassroots supporters hosted by Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and featuring a conversation with…
In a disciplinary proceeding that could result in the loss of Jeffrey Clark’s license, witnesses testified to his belief that ‘smart thermostats’ were used to manipulate voting machines.
A resolution to censure a Nebraska Republican was filed Wednesday evening after he repeatedly inserted a colleague’s name into a book passage including graphic details about a rape that he read during a floor debate.
After trust in Kensington Palace was undermined due to Kate Middleton’s photo manipulation scandal, tabloids tried to drag Prince Harry and Meghan Markle into the mess with false allegations against professional photographers.
Ahead of the State of the Union, the White House laid out the President’s vision for protecting and enhancing affordable healthcare and freedom for everyone.
“When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he’s like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy,” Turnbull said on Australia’s ABC News Q+A.
Believe it or not, conservatives and Republicans are enraged that: President Joe Biden would eat ice cream.
Democrats are not just sitting by as Republicans try to gaslight Americans about the inevitable consequences of their anti-abortion laws.
The Biden administration’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan took to Fox News to tell their viewers that actually, that National Security Supplemental they are so against helps American troops protect Americans from our adversaries.
Donald Trump has been a keynote speaker at CPAC since 2017, and increasingly since then it has modeled itself in his image. That transformation seems almost complete as during 2024 CPAC, Nazis were welcomed.
Rep. Jerry Nadler asked AG Garland to investigate former U.S. Attorney Scott Brady as he appears “to have been part of a deliberate attempt to launder foreign disinformation through the DOJ.”
Deputy Press Secretary and Senior Communications Adviser Andrew Bates read House Republicans the riot act for being on their 6th day of vacation while harming national security, saying the damage from their two week vacation mounts by the day.
After Speaker Johnson (R-LA) sent the U.S. House on a two week vacation without passing needed aid to Ukraine, the White House held a call to make the case for how urgent the need is, pointing to the fact that the bill advances America’s core national security interest.
The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board is endorsing President Joe Biden, citing the leadership “of the oldest and arguably the most experienced president in American history.”
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have come up with a way to take on China and protect our national security while also creating 10,000 good paying jobs, many of which will be union jobs.
The hearing into Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been conducted in a way that is very familiar to women in power and even more so to women of color: It has been focused on humiliating her by delving into her romantic life to portray her in a manner consistent with a racist stereotype of Black women as a Jezebel, with a focus that has nothing to do with the Trump RICO case.
After Republicans scuttled the very bipartisan border bill they insisted on, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pointed out that it’s unclear who could trust the GOP to negotiate now.
Project Veritas and its founder James O’Keefe have been forced to admit their claims about 2020 election fraud in Erie, Pennsylvania that were used by Trump in his efforts to steal the election from voters were not true.
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries pointed out that Speaker Emerita Pelosi had the exact same margins in the last Congress as Speaker Johnson has now, and yet passed major and historic legislation, over and over again.
After a rather epic lesson in public humiliation due to his own forced errors, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blamed “the body” of the U.S. House instead of the “leader” (himself) on Wednesday.
Republican Senator James Lankford reminded his party’s base that border crossings were also high under Trump due to gaps and loopholes in the law, which the bipartisan border deal addresses.
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.
Former president and current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump excels at self-pity, and nothing demonstrated that more than when he announced that he had been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated.
A Manhattan federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in her Trump defamation suit on Friday.
Judge Kaplan shut down Trump lawyer Alina Habba as she tried to gaslight about the established fact that E. Jean Carroll was raped by Donald Trump.
Elon Musk tried to utilize the power of his social media platform to push Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posting that he believed the Republican would “exceed the polls” when the votes were counted, but Ramaswamy suspended his campaign after only winning 3 delegates in Iowa.
An impeachment resolution against Cannon would serve the same purpose as the impeachments of Donald Trump: A point of reference that this is not okay. An official objection to her abuse of the justice system. A warning that House Republicans have a very slim majority.
GOP Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan et al appear to have walked right into a rather clever trap set by Hunter Biden’s legal team. “Hunter Biden just delivered a devastating blow to the contempt proceedings. This new letter from his counsel Abbe Lowell shows that the House GOP walked into a trap,” CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen wrote.
Trump supporter Laura Loomer thinks that the deep state has created the snow storm in Iowa to hurt Donald Trump and help Nikki Haley.
President Joe Biden heads to Allentown to tout the small business boom, and a record has been set for new small business applications.
On Thursday, 1/6 defendant Gilbert Fonticoba was sentenced to four years in federal prison for his actions on January 6th and subsequent lack of remorse.
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.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called out Chairman James Comer (R-KY) for having members at the hearing who’ve submitted falsified evidence to the record, as well as having submitted mischaracterized closed-door hearings.
When asked about their case for impeachment of President Joe Biden, Republicans offered up the dog ate my homework, third grade excuse of: “There’s stuff there.”
Two Southern Republican Representatives bizarrely focused on Hunter Biden as a sexual being during a House hearing, including Nancy Mace mentioning his balls and Marjorie Taylor Greene clinging to her Hunter revenge porn obsession.
Republicans have been quick to dismiss the new report that claims Donald Trump’s businesses took over $7.8 million from foreign governments while president, including almost $200,000 from a Chinese-owned state airline as the Chinese government was lobbying the Trump administration.
Florida Proud Boy Christopher Worrell was sentenced to ten years in prison on Thursday after being convicted of assaulting police on January 6th.
In what has become so predictable it mainstreamed “projection,” a new investigation by Congressional Democrats revealed that during his presidency, Donald Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments.
Special Counsel Jack Smith is doing his job, which means that former president Donald Trump is not happy. In a motion filed Thursday, Trump lawyer John Lauro called for Jack Smith to be held in contempt for an “unlawful” production of discovery.
In 2007, then Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who would later be appointed by then President Donald Trump to his Cabinet as Labor Secretary, made a non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein that barred even his victims from learning about it. Under Trump, Acosta tried to slash funding for sex trafficking victims by 79%.
Funding WIC should have been priority one for House Republicans, but instead, they’re holding an impeachment inquiry based on Trump-driven fiction about President Biden, while putting pregnant women, infants, breastfeeding moms and children at risk.
Senate Republicans are worried that House Republicans moving forward without evidence in their impeachment push against President Biden will be seen as crying wolf.
The tragic tale of medical torture deliberately being inflicted on a U.S. citizen by Republicans in Texas is gruesome, but it also reveals that abortion ban exemptions are a very thin sham meant to appease on the surface only. They aren’t meant to actually be used.
Republicans are putting democracy and Ukraine in danger again while helping Vladimir Putin, refusing to pass Ukraine aid in 2023. At what point will the media finally call out what’s behind the Republican pro-Russia stances?
Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and James Comer have issued a subpoena for Hunter Biden, but the problem is Jim Jordan has been dodging a 1/6 related subpoena for years.
You can imagine that this man, our President, is none too amused to see the House of Representatives run around like slavish devotees of the Marjorie Taylor Greene conspiracy-laden brand of do-nothing-but-set-fires-and-then-use-fire-to-extort-entire-government-into-wasting-money-and-time “conservatism.”
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) admitted privately that there is no justification for formal impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, yet over the weekend he announced that a vote on impeachment inquiry is an “important step.”
Almost a week after Robert De Niro denounced the censorship of his planned anti-Trump speech, which he gave anyway, Republican front-runner and insurrectionist Donald Trump attacked him for his “disgusting language.”
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s son Matt Madrazo is in charge of monetizing Twitter’s hard-right turn with a hoped for $100 million in political ads to influence U.S. elections in one direction, even as Elon Musk takes billions from U.S. taxpayers.
Ad companies warned CEO Linda Yaccarino that instead of desperately trying to lure companies back to the platform even as Musk continued his hate tweeting, she should save herself by resigning.
Mike Johnson shows his own weakness as he accused by Biden of projecting weakness on China by meeting with Xi.
The White House has condemned Twitter owner Elon Musk’s post amplifying the same antisemitic trope that motivated the Pittsburgh Tree of Life mass murderer.
Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R-Fla) administration has hired a company whose CEO supports the Governor’s presidential campaigns and specializes in combat training and uses a former Navy SEAL accused of war crimes as an instructor to train civilian forces, according to a new report.
Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) told CNN that ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) elbowed him in the hallway, causing pain — a charge that Rep. McCarthy denied. But an NPR Congressional correspondent witnessed what she called a “shove” and the ugly back and forth that ensured.
Democrats flipped a critical Pennsylvania county commission for the first time in over 100 years. Dauphin County houses the state capital of Harrisburg, and the Democrat who won has vowed to expand ballot access and ballot curing, which Dauphin didn’t allow under Republican rule.
Communities rejecting MAGA hate like Moms for Liberty suggests there might be hope for the United States, which is still reeling from the divisions exploited by the efforts to get Donald Trump into the White House in 2016 that then exploded upon his win and still divide us today.
Tick tock, the entire government has 45 days to come up with ways the Biden-Harris Administration can improve the way research on women’s health is conducted to address historical health disparities and inequities.
Finally, at long last, it’s being said. The Democratic Party isn’t teeming with raging liberals running the show. The country has moved left, and the Democratic Party is right where the center of the country is now on issues. “Almost on every single issue, the Democratic Party is where the center of the country is,”…
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.
Democrats are rushing to put abortion measures on the ballot in Arizona, Nevada, and Florida in a strategy dubbed by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff “Dobbs and Democracy.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) celebrated the milestone of the Senate having confirmed 50 Black judges to the federal bench under President Biden.
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.
On top of girls and women winning the right to live and have freedom, which is something we shouldn’t even have to be fighting for in 2023, things also do not look so great for Republicans. Referendum results show that about 20% of Trump voters crossed party lines to vote to protect abortion.
Good news for democracy as the race for Kentucky Secretary of State was called for a Republican who beat election deniers in the primary. He has been referred to as, “The best-performing statewide GOP candidate in KY.”
The circus continues as Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba told Newsmax that New York Attorney General Letitia James isn’t very bright, a claim she based on having “seen their case.”
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.
The Biden-Harris administration announced proposals to protect the over 30 million on Medicare Advantage from predatory marketing, increase access to behavioral health care, promote equity in coverage, and improve supplemental benefits.
1/6 Officer Michael Fanone presented sedition hunter Forrest Rogers with the handcuffs used to arrest MAGA terrorist Danny Rodriguez, who drove a stun gun into Fanone’s neck and bragged about it later to Trump supporters.
“What is James Comer hiding? Why won’t he release his tax returns and bank records?,” Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell asked.
Even fraud trial testimony didn’t stop Donald Trump from spending Sunday evening spiraling on social media about how former Vice President Mike Pence should have stolen the election he lost for him.
The best reason House Republican Leaders can come up with to justify why they stripped out aid to Ukraine and funding our borders is that they are so concerned about the deficit that they needed to add $12.6 to it.
After Republican Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) refused to affirm the validity of the 2020 election – despite being asked 8 times, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates called out election denial as a dangerous conspiracy that has done “unprecedented harm to the country.”
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who is weaponizing the U.S. House of Representatives against President Biden’s child Hunter, thinks it’s totally unfair for anyone to even talk about his wife and she thinks God made him Speaker.
The Biden administration has announced new funding for law enforcement and the police, while Trump spent his presidency trying to defund the police.
The Biden administration announced more than $334 million in grants for community policing, including safer schools, crisis intervention teams, de-escalation training, and more.
Today, President Biden announces over $5 billion in investments in rural communities, which he will do during a Rural America Event in Northfield, Minnesota, where he is visiting the family farm Dutch Creek Farms
Ron DeSantis’ height doesn’t have anything to do with his qualifications for president, but his obvious path of democratic backsliding as he poses as a strongman matters very much.
Amid endless whining, Donald Trump’s lawyers have paid the $15,000.00 in fines for his violations of the gag order.
A seemingly clueless Mike Johnson, now stupefyingly elevated to the position of Speaker with very little experience under his belt and a world of what he doesn’t know overwhelming the bits he can grasp, told Sean Hannity last night that he would charge ahead with impeachment against President Joe Biden.
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.
Representative Jared Golden of Maine who represents Lewiston asked for forgiveness while giving remarks that are what we deserve to hear from each and every lawmaker who has opposed the banning of deadly weapons of war
“This is a dark time in America. …Prayer is appropriate in a time like this, that the evil can end and this senseless violence can stop,” Johnson told reporters, leaving out any actions he might lead Congress in taking and, as is his wont, not taking questions.
Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana has began his speakership in the wake of three weeks of inaction by his chamber by giving the House a long weekend off, even as the world and the nation face crises and a government shutdown looms.
Mike Johnson doesn’t treat the majority of Americans as human beings. He dehumanizes them in both policy efforts and rhetoric. He is also a ringleader against democracy. This is exactly who the Republican Party is now.
Lubbock Texas passed a new law banning from people assisting anyone in or traveling through the county in getting an out-of-state abortion, effectively enshrining restrictions on the fundamental Constitutional right of freedom of movement.
Some Republicans are worried that their speaker candidates can’t cross the 217 threshold and that if they don’t make it, more members will want to cut a deal with Democrats to reopen the government.
All of the eight new Republican speaker candidates were vetted by the former president in a process Rep. Pete Sessions described as “the president is interested in having someone he can work with.”
Democratic Whip Katherine Clark hammered Rep. Jim Jordan in a House floor speech, during which she nominated Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates pointed out that while President Biden has been working to advance bipartisan legislation and protect our national security, Republicans are busy fighting with one another.
Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) downplayed the threats being made against Republicans who oppose Jim Jordan for speaker, including threats being made against their wives.
President Biden will give a big prime time speech tonight at 8 PM Eastern to discuss the U.S. response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israel and Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine.
The Biden-Harris administration is announcing the largest ever investment in America’s grid with $3.5 billion in funding for 58 projects across 44 states, which will enable more than 35 gigawatts of renewable energy on the grid.