Two of Donald Trump’s closest allies in Arizona warned him that his “fake electors” scheme to steal the 2020 election could be seen as treasonous, The New York Times reports. Trump’s team was recruiting Kelli Ward, chairman of the state Republican Party, and Kelly Townsend, an Arizona state senator, when …
Read More »'A Thing of Beauty': Trump Was Tickled as the Missouri Erics Scrambled to Claim His Endorsement
Donald Trump still has the power to make Republicans fight each other for his approval, and he’s enjoying it immensely. The former president “thought it was a thing of beauty and too goddamn funny” to endorse “Eric” in the Missouri primary and then to watch two MAGA candidates — both …
Read More »Senate Finally Passes Bill Boosting Health Benefits for Vets After Republicans Pulled Support
After Republicans nearly derailed what was widely believed to be a popular bipartisan effort to expand health care to vets exposed to harmful toxins, the PACT Act finally passed the Senate, Tuesday, Aug. 2. It passed a vote of 86 – 11 on Tuesday. The PACT Act cleared the House …
Read More »Al-Qaeda Leader Who Succeeded Osama Bin Laden Killed by U.S. Airstrike
A United States airstrike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Kabul, government sources revealed Monday. Al-Zawahri was one of the al-Qaeda leaders behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks and a close confidant of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. special forces in 2011. “Now justice has been delivered and …
Read More »Trump Hedges by Endorsing Mysterious 'ERIC' in Missouri Senate Race
Former President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is endorsing “ERIC”in the Missouri Republican Senate primary. The only problem is that two of the leading candidates to secure the nomination are named Eric. Eric Schmitt, the state’s attorney general, and Eric Greitens, the state’s disgraced former governor in a …
Read More »Trump's Lawyers Are Preparing Legal Defenses Against Criminal Charges
Donald Trump’s lawyers are preemptively preparing a legal defense against criminal charges from the Justice Department, as the former president’s attorneys are increasingly anxious that their client will be prosecuted for his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Members of the ex-president’s legal team have already begun …
Read More »Can Kansas Cling to Abortion Rights?
Tomorrow, Kansas will be the first state in the nation to vote on abortion rights in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and the election could be a bellwether for the future of abortion rights nationwide. On August 2, as part of …
Read More »First Capitol Rioter to Take Case to Court Will Spend Over Seven Years in Prison
Guy Reffitt, a recruiter for a right-wing anti-government militia movement and the first person to be convicted at trial for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Back in March, Reffitt, a 49-year-old from Wylie, Texas, who …
Read More »Trump Sides with Russia Over Brittney Griner
Former President Donald Trump sounds like he wants WNBA player Brittney Griner to stay in a Russian prison. During a podcast appearance on the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, the former president voiced his opposition to the U.S. government’s reported offer to swap Griner and U.S. Marine Paul Whelan …
Read More »Feds Charge Russian Puppetmaster for Secretly Directing U.S. Political Groups
A Russian national working with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has been charged with allegedly orchestrating a “years-long foreign malign influence campaign…to sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda, and interfere in elections within the United States.” The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment on Friday, which alleges that, between 2014 …
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