Arizona and Missouri will join a growing group of states holding ballot measures this November to codify the right to abortion into state law. On Monday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes certified that advocates had gathered 577,971 signatures in favor of the Arizona For Abortion Access Act, a proposed …
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 »Trump Celebrated Email Hacks. His Campaign Wants Their Own Docs to Stay Private
In July 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump called on the Russian government to hack the emails of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. It wouldn’t be long before the scandal of Russian election interference would dominate headlines for much of the campaign and Trump’s presidency. And Trump has since claimed that his …
Read More »J.D. Vance Likes That Trump 'Will Talk to Anybody,' Including Nazi-Loving Nick Fuentes
J.D. Vance came to Trump’s defense when confronted with the fact that the presidential candidate had dinner in 2022 with white supremacist Nick Fuentes, who recently attacked Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, a child of Indian immigrants. Fuentes said last month he doesn’t expect Vance — “the guy who has an …
Read More »Insecure Trump Lies, Claims Harris Crowd Was Manipulated With AI
Former President Donald Trump is trying to downplay his presidential opponents’ rally crowd sizes, falsely claiming that “nobody was there” at a Detroit event hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Trump, who is obsessed with the size of his own crowds and …
Read More »The CIA Sent Him Deep Undercover to Spy on Islamic Radicals. It Cost Him Everything
O ne day well into President George W. Bush’s second term, an ultra-deep-cover Central Intelligence Agency officer flew back to the United States for a break from a yearslong assignment in the Middle East. The man had a bushy beard and a distinctive, needled scar on one arm from an …
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 »Offering No Proof, Trump Tells Rallygoers Dems Conspired With Media to Call Him 'Weird'
Donald Trump kept his Montana rally crowd waiting for nearly 90 minutes Friday night and then immediately insulted the state. Scheduled to speak at 8 p.m., he didn’t emerge until around 9:30 p.m., and then he said, “I’ve gotta like Tim Sheehy a lot to be here,” mentioning the GOP …
Read More »Will the Government Stop Political Deepfakes Like Elon Musk's Kamala Harris Ad?
Elon Musk recently made headlines when he posted a deepfake video of Vice President Kamala Harris, with manipulated audio to make it sound like she called herself the “ultimate diversity hire” who doesn’t know the “first thing about running the country.” A month earlier, a Republican congressional candidate in Michigan …
Read More »Would Kamala Harris Be Our First Gen X President?
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, her new VP pick, have gotten a lot of mileage out of labeling Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance “weird.” It’s a brilliant construction, as it’s taken the word hurled at those considered outsiders in America — by race, gender, or affinity — …
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