New Hampshire’s Republican governor just vetoed a bipartisan redistricting...
New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bipartisan bill Friday that would have allowed an independent redistricting committee to redraw the state’s legislative and congressional district...
View ArticleDonald Trump is running for president on some staggeringly unpopular ideas
The Republican Party has a problem. It’s abandoned the kind of popular reforms that will appeal to middle-of-the-road voters, and insists on running on unpopular ideas. Worse, instead of rallying...
View ArticleMissouri GOP Senator trots out anti-Semitic trope during speech before...
On Tuesday this week, freshman Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) made an appearance at the National Conservatism Conference to deliver the keynote address. His remarks predictably targeted progressive...
View ArticleTrump’s 2020 campaign spending: Rented chandeliers and fast food fare
President Donald Trump’s re-election effort has been pulling in massive amounts of campaign cash — and making some interesting decisions about how to spend it. A wide array of expenditures — from...
View ArticleYes, Trump is a racist
I want to be frank and direct from the outset: President Donald Trump’s comments over the past few days suggesting that four House members of color should “go back … [to foreign countries] from which...
View ArticleDemocrats sue over a Florida law that puts Trump’s name ahead of rivals on...
Democrats are challenging a Florida law that ensures President Donald Trump’s name appears at the top of the state’s 2020 election ballot, which they say gives him and fellow Republicans an unfair...
View ArticleRepublicans try to copy ActBlue after years of smearing it
Since its founding in 2004, the online fundraising non-profit ActBlue has helped progressive candidates and causes raise more than $3.5 billion online. Though Republican politicians have frequently...
View ArticleTrump launches his re-election campaign with a litany of grievances and...
President Donald Trump launched his re-election campaign late Tuesday with a speech that reprised familiar notes of grievance and resentment from his first White House run, but that also proclaimed,...
View ArticleA dead man’s secret files again prove Republicans lied in court — this time...
North Carolina Republicans were lying to a federal judge when they claimed they were unable to fix the state’s racially gerrymandered legislative map in time for a special election, a new court filing...
View ArticleBlack voters sue Mississippi over Jim Crow-era laws that benefit white...
A group of black voters is challenging Mississippi’s racist, Jim Crow-era laws that try to give a decided advantage to white candidates vying for statewide office, ahead of a critically important...
View ArticleRepublicans say their goal is to stop abortions. Their policies say otherwise.
In the 46 years since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, perhaps no single month has witnessed more aggressive legislative threats to reproductive rights than the one we’re in...
View ArticleA quick look at the transcript disproves Republicans’ new smear of Rashida Tlaib
Republicans have focused their bad faith criticism on a different woman of color in Congress this week. In the newest round of outrage, Republican lawmakers are arguing that Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI),...
View ArticleTrump is shattering democratic norms. Republicans in Congress bear the blame...
For all the talk about President Donald Trump’s refusal to abide by conventional norms befitting the nation’s chief executive, he bears only partial responsibility for his almost daily desecration of...
View ArticleRepublicans turn to Frank Luntz’s playbook instead of developing a real...
The Senate “debate” about the Green New Deal resolution Tuesday revealed that while the American public is clamoring for concrete climate action, Republicans still deny climate science and have no plan...
View ArticleTrump’s Justice Department reveals the empty promises Republicans made about...
After the president and Republicans repeatedly promised to protect people with pre-existing conditions, the Trump administration on Monday evening said it supports a federal judge’s ruling that the...
View ArticleTrump Justice Department sides with court ruling that would invalidate the...
Last December, a Republican judge named Reed O’Connor handed down an opinion purporting to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. The case, Texas v. United States, was brought by several...
View ArticleFor years, Republicans failed to investigate the red flags around Russia....
Republicans have been steadily attacking House Democrats’ sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged misconduct, claiming the congressional inquiries are a purely partisan overreach....
View ArticleAt CPAC, Trump serves up red meat to his base
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — It’s nearing lunchtime at CPAC, and thousands of attendees crammed into the main hall are hungry. They’ve been waiting since morning for a juicy, Trump-branded steak worthy of...
View ArticleRepublicans headed to House climate committee show how the party is changing...
The six Republicans named to a House select committee meant to address the mounting threat of climate change range in ideology and reflect the larger Republican Party’s shifting approach to discussing...
View Article26 Democrats join Republicans in support of gun control measure that...
Just before the House of Representatives voted on the first significant piece of gun control legislation to pass the chamber floor in over 20 years, Republicans, with the support of Democrats, managed...
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