Project 2025 is a dangerous and unconstitutional attempt to move us towards an authoritarianism guided by Christian nationalism.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
After spending most of this year trying to attack Ohio majority authority over the constitution itself, and failing, Ohio Republicans spent the next three months lying to Ohio voters—trying to get them to give up their rights.
The voting public hates the brinkmanship practiced by Congress. So why does Congress run right up to the edge of the cliff—and sometimes beyond it—for every funding resolution?
Internal materials reveal the right-wing group, Alliance Defending Freedom, is far along with a strategy to bring their "war on woke" to the Supreme Court.
Religious charlatans like Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson, exploiting a basic human urge to know the unknowable, to touch the mystery of life, are the most dangerous of all the various types of con men on Earth.
As one of Mike Johnson's first acts as speaker, he's chosen to protect serial liar and indicted fraudster George Santos. That speaks volumes about his willingness to stand up to corruption.
Florida's Scott, Trump, Rubio, and DeSantis all claim to love Jesus. Non-wingnut Christians frown on collective punishment, guilt by association, and indiscriminate slaughter of non-combatants, but End Times folks are OK with all of that.
Election officials brace for surge in AI-generated misinformation, and lawmakers face complex challenges in containing it.
Ron DeSantis spoke at the Koch-funded Heritage Foundation to clearly delineate how far out of his depth he is on foreign policy issues.
In MAGA Mike Johnson (what Trump calls him), Republicans have found the perfect embodiment of their deplorable basket of hatreds. The only “loves” they have are rightwing billionaires and the fossil fuel industry. And, of course, Trump’s good buddy Vladimir Putin.
Leonard Leo was instrumental in packing the US Supreme Court with the conservative supermajority. But he has also been busily at work packing state supreme courts as well.
Though voter fraud has not been a problem, getting in the way of people voting isn’t a new phenomenon in Alabama. Neither is using election security to justify it.
The huge question here is why billionaires like Reed Hastings and John Arnold, as well as the DeVos family are throwing money at a school board election campaign.
In their blind loyalty to their mega-donors, Republicans' fixation on giant tax cuts for billionaires has created a revenue problem.
A behind-the-scenes pressure campaign to shore up support for Jim Jordan as Speaker, which included anonymous threats to at least one member of Congress, appears to have backfired.
The right wing faces crises with incompetence or cynical exploitation: Bush and Hurricane Katrina; Netanyahu and Gaza; Trump and Covid, or tossing paper towels at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.