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D onald Trump’s big victory and horrific agenda — for military-led mass deportation, accelerating climate change, rolling back reproductive rights, and pursuing dictatorial powers — sent Democratic governors leaping to the barricades. Or, at least, the microphones. In the days following the 2024 election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared he’d …

Political interference, mind control, domestic spying, and generally speaking, making America worse (again). These are just some of the many grievances Donald Trump and his allies have leveled against the intelligence community in recent months. They have been repeated on podcasts, on YouTube shows, and at rallies since Trump began …

As Democrats reflect on the sources of their electoral loss, recriminations are in full swing. Following in the footsteps of Mark Lilla’s 2016 op-ed that launched the genre, many have settled on blaming “wokeness.” In short, Democrats lost due to playing “identity politics”: attending to the particular concerns of anyone …

In July, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he knew “nothing about Project 2025.” “I have not seen it, have no idea who is in charge of it, and, unlike our very well received Republican Platform, had nothing to do with it. The Radical Left Democrats are having a …

Donald Trump has won the election, and Republicans are now comfortable openly admitting that Project 2025 was the plan all along. The draconian policy package prepared by the Heritage Foundation in preparation for a second Trump administration was so extremist that in the final months of the campaign, the former …

In 1999, Hurricane Floyd roared through North Carolina as one of the state’s deadliest and most harmful hurricanes. It was the second major storm that month and the third in as many years to ravage the state. Chandra Taylor-Sawyer, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, was raised in …

In July, María Teresa Kumar, president of Voto Latino, began noticing something urgent about older and undecided Hispanic voters in her group’s internal polling, and also in the data from focus groups they had conducted in a handful of swing states since January. Kumar and her colleagues at Voto Latino …

Donald Trump has long criticized the Affordable Care Act; he ran and won the presidency in 2016 on a promise to “terminate” Democrats’ signature health care law. But after he won, he and the GOP-controlled Congress repeatedly failed to repeal the legislation, as promised. More recently, Trump has declared on …

Step aside Kristi Noem, there’s a new contender in the race to determine which conservative can murder a dog in the most brutal way imaginable. According to a Tuesday report from The Guardian, Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Foundation and a key architect of Project 2025, bragged to …

Every time I hear “voting is your civic duty,” I cringe. As a climate activist and Get-Out-The-Vote organizer, I can’t help but feel our election system is disconnected from the reality of actual Americans. The platitudes traditional politics offer feel so oblivious to the constant political buffoonery people are expected …