Rupert Murdoch has been described as perhaps the most destructive immigrant ever to become an American citizen—a fact that is hard to overstate.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Clarence Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
Tommy Tuberville—responsible for holding up about 300 military promotion confirmations—represents Alabama but lives and votes in Florida. Why is he still in the Senate?
Along with voting rights, DeSantis and the malleable Florida Legislature have cracked down on political protest, asylum seekers, the LGBTQ, abortion rights and more.
Male-dominated network of militants, academics, attorneys, judges, and activists lead drive to restrict, remove reproductive rights.
It’s been 60 years since JFK was murdered, and we still don’t know the whole story. We can’t afford to wait another 60 years to find out who was in on the attempt to overthrow our government on January 6th.
The Freedom Caucus is a gang, and it is much more dangerous than the Bloods, Crips and MS-13. Like them, it fetishizes violence, but unlike them, it can actually topple the society.
America has been lied into too many wars. It’s cost us too much in money, credibility, and blood. We must remember the lies, and tell our children about them so that memory isn’t lost.
The GOP has become the party of Putin, bin Salman, and Orbán, rejecting George Washington’s warning about partisanship replacing patriotism and, increasingly, rejecting the very idea of democracy.
In the face of a new increase in COVID cases, Ron DeSantis and his anti-vax surgeon general are once again spreading disinformation about protection against new variants.
Eagle AI is a project supported by a coup plotter, funded by right-wing dark money, and designed for MAGA activists to generate mass voter challenges based on incomplete and often out-of-date sources of data.
In every election cycle fundraising scams crop up. OpenSecrets identified 86 potential fraudulent fundraising schemes called scam PACs in the 2022 federal election cycle alone.
The next time you hear some TV pundit proclaiming the “solution” to the “problem” of Mitch McConnell or Dianne Feinstein being in office too long, consider their real agenda.
The merger of billionaire wealth with Republican governance—the public be damned—threatens the integrity and future of the American experiment.
Republicans like Vivek Ramaswamy want to convert America into, essentially, a feudal state, with them as the lords and you and me as the serfs.
Trump has done his work, and the Republican Party is no longer a legitimate political party. Like a cat with a toxoplasma-infected mouse, he’s eaten the party whole.