Sen. Bernie Sanders joined mega-popular Twitch streamers Pokimane and Valkyrae on the live video platform Tuesday night to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 election entered its final two weeks. The Vermont congressman kicked off the event by calling this election “the most consequential election in our …
Read More »Trump Calls Obama a 'Jerk' to Distract From His Obsession With Dictators
While speaking at a campaign rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday, Donald Trump threw a jab at former President Barack Obama, but not before openly praising authoritarian leaders of Russia and North Korea. Trump touted Vladimir Putin as “tough” and admiredKim Jong Un‘s love for “producing nuclear weapons,” before …
Read More »Trump Is Already Talking to Lawyers About Contesting the Election Results
Donald Trump has reestablished contact with a lawyer involved in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and who is now encouraging the former president to begin laying the groundwork to once again contest the outcome. According to a Wednesday report from The New York Times, Trump has …
Read More »Elon Musk Could Get a Huge Tax Break From Donald Trump
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. Thanks to a provision buried in the tax code, Elon Musk could reap one of the largest personalized tax breaks in American history if former President Donald …
Read More »Elon Musk Is Offering Payouts to Registered Voters. Is it Legal?
Elon Musk’s public offerings of cash payments — and even a chance at $1 million — to registered voters who sign a vague petition are drawing scrutiny from Democrats and federal prosecutors —who are warning the right-wing billionaire that his cash giveaways may violate federal law. According to a Wednesday …
Read More »The Long Island Feud That Could Decide Control of Congress
Nassau County is the land of political nepo babies. It’s a place where, for most of the modern political era, “patronage jobs” have been handed out liberally to friends, family members, and supporters of the party in power— which has largely been the Republican Party. Laura Gillen’s family learned this …
Read More »Trump's 'Secretary of Retribution' Unveils Plot to Nab North Carolina's Electoral Votes
An influential attorney in Donald Trump’s campaign to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election has outlined a proposal for Trump to steal the 2024 electoral college votes in the state of North Carolina — the results in November be damned. Ivan Raiklin is a former Green Beret and …
Read More »Ukraine May Cost Trump the Election
Immigration and economics loom large on the campaign trail and in the minds of voters, but America’s foreign entanglements could well decide the election. The Democratic Party is desperately trying to keep debate about the conduct of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon contained to an intramural row over policy, …
Read More »Elon Musk 'Jokes' in a Church About Someone Killing Kamala Harris
Elon Musk keeps trying to stick his “joke” about somebody assassinating Vice President Kamala Harris. Over the weekend, Musk remarked, again, that “no one’s even bothering to try to kill Kamala” — while he was speaking in a house of God. Acting as a Donald Trump surrogate — in addition …
Read More »Trump on America's Future: 'We Have to Go Back to 1798'
Donald Trump called for the country to go “back to 1798” during a rally showcasing the former president’s full-throated embrace of nativist totalitarianism in the final days of the 2024 campaign cycle. During a Monday rally in Greenville, North Carolina, the former president railed against undocumented migrants, promising to invoke …
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