The political world is still collecting itself following the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday to the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol. The sheer volume of shocking details she provided, about what former President Donald Trump knew in advance of the Capitol riot and his behavior […] More
Lawmakers and the White House thought they had a deal in March to offset the spending, in part by clawing money back from the states. But governors in both parties balked, as did some House Democrats, and the deal collapsed. At the White House, Mr. Biden warned that the administration was running out of money […] More
Many political analysts have spent years warning that the G.O.P. was becoming an extremist, anti-democratic party. Long before Republicans nominated Donald Trump for president, let alone before Trump refused to acknowledge electoral defeat, the congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein declared that the party had become “an insurgent outlier” that rejected “facts, evidence and […] More
On the first weekend after the Supreme Court overturned nearly five decades of constitutional abortion rights, Democrats seized on the ruling to portray their Republican opponents as threats to women and their health care providers, while two sitting G.O.P. governors welcomed the decision, as they tried to emphasize that the matter is a local issue […] More
As Democrats continue to push their January 6th show trials, the Republicans are actually making gains with voters. Apparently, most voters care more about the fact that gas is now over $5 a gallon and the rapidly rising cost of food. Biden’s constant bumbling can’t be helping Democrats much either. Breitbart News reports: TRENDING: WHO […] More
Republicans are celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a win for the anti-abortion movement that was decades in the making. After a draft version of the opinion was leaked to Politico in May, Republicans expressed optimism, but largely withheld expressions of triumph. They didn’t hold back on Friday, reveling in […] More
President Biden warned Republican state and local officials not to block a woman’s right to travel to get an abortion. Video: Biden warns any state or local official that tries to stop women from traveling to get an abortion. pic.twitter.com/qO1HljI335 — Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) June 24, 2022 Biden said as he addressed the nation […] More
Former Trump Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on the Fox News Channel Thursday night to talk about the dawn FBI raid on his Northern Virginia home Wednesday. Clark said the agents made him go outside in his pajamas while they searched his house. Clark said twelve FBI […] More
WASHINGTON — The four hearings held in the past few weeks by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, with their clear, uninterrupted narratives about President Donald J. Trump’s effort to undercut the peaceful transfer of power, have left some pro-Trump Republicans wringing their hands with regret about a decision made nearly a year […] More
A complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center alleges that Republicans are using an obscure shell company to fund Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary challenger. The Campaign Legal Center detailed its complaint in a statement provided to PoliticusUSA: Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that “Snow Goose, […] More
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers.Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. Donald Trump badgered and bullied Republican state officials, threatened them, lied to them, and lied to others about them. He had his chief of staff, Mark […] More
Texas Republicans formally rejected Joe Biden’s election in 2020 as president in their convention this past weekend. More than 9,000 Texas Republicans came down to Houston for the annual GOP convention this past weekend. The latest blow to the legitimacy of the 2020 election was presented in the documentary “2020 Mules” on widespread ballot trafficking […] More
