Sen. Tammy Duckworth has strong words for Donald Trump. She called the former president “despicable” after he disparaged the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest military award for valor. Last week, Trump said that service member recipients of the medal are “either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit …
Read More »Why Kamala Harris' New Politics of Joy Is the Best Way to Fight Fascism
Brat. Weird. Megan Thee Stallion. Democrats haven’t just recast the lead at the top of their electoral ticket; they’re performing an entirely new show. Right wing operatives, desperate to make silly selfies seem like evidence of — gasp! — socialism, are trying to claim this new politics of joy (and …
Read More »Republicans Worry as Red-State Polls Look 'Worse Than They Should' for Trump
This month, GOP operatives and others close to Donald Trump have grown increasingly nervous over trends they’ve seen in recent private polling data produced by different Republican organizations and conservative allies. It’s not just the swing-state polling or the national surveys that are causing distress lately. The anxiety-spiking numbers are …
Read More »RFK Jr. Is Begging His Opponents for a Job
Between a bizarre photo with a bear carcass and brushing off allegations of sexual assault, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s presidential campaign has faded into the background as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump take the spotlight. Now, Kennedy is trying to worm his way into …
Read More »Project 2025 Co-Author Says It's Time to 'Rehabilitate' Christian Nationalism
Donald Trump is wishing his attachment to Project 2025 would disappear, but its top brass has no problem bragging to anyone who will listen about their access to the former president. In undercover recordings produced by the Centre for Climate Reporting, Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought touts his connections to …
Read More »Trump and His MAGA Movement Are Actively 'Hijacking' Georgia's Elections
After completing the MAGA takeover of the Georgia State Election Board, Donald Trump’s allies quickly cemented his 2020 election lies into policy, and moved to allow conspiratorial-minded county election officials to refuse to certify election results if they see fit. Even before the election board granted broad powers to county …
Read More »RNC Speaker Slams Trump's Comments to Musk: 'Economic Terrorism'
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien prompted an internal rebellion at his union last month when he addressed the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. O’Brien didn’t endorse Donald Trump, but his appearance at Trump’s coronation sent a strong message — one the union chief now seems to be trying to temper. On …
Read More »Can Sherrod Brown Survive in the Age of Trump?
T he first time I see Sherrod Brown he’s wearing a bright-orange hard hat and overshirt, slapping the backs of a group of burly union steelworkers. He comes through the side of the cavernous steel facility in a scrum of old-school union bosses — guys straight out of central casting …
Read More »Donald Trump Brings Plenty of Loathing and the 'Cats' Soundtrack to Montana
It’s Day 20 of the Kamala Era, but Trump World remains in the Before Times. Sure, the Let’s Go Brandon merch is being sold at a discount, but otherwise the mood in the non-swing state of Montana is very July 2024. Or July 2016. The ex-president is on his way …
Read More »Trump Campaign Says It Was Hacked, Suggests Iran Was Involved: Report
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said on Saturday that it had been hacked, blaming “foreign sources to the United States,” per a report from Politico. The campaign cited a Microsoft report from Friday that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email in June to a high-ranking official on a presidential …
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