Black 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleNew 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...
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