Incompetence and conspiracy theories meet a deadly virus: Will history repeat itself, or will we face an even deadlier disaster with unprepared leaders at the helm?
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Pete Hegseth is one of the most extreme far right figures ever nominated to a cabinet post, at least in modern memory.
Press freedom groups also worry that Trump’s promises to use the federal bureaucracy to seek retribution against perceived enemies would extend to journalists.
Oz’s 2022 financial disclosures show that he has invested in health care and food firms. If confirmed to run CMS, his job would involve interacting with companies that have contributed to his wealth.
NOTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect the citizens of the United States of America. EVERYTHING Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from the citizens of the United States of America.
Class war sounds ugly, but it’s exactly what Republicans and their billionaire backers have been waging against working class Americans for 43 years now. It’s damn well time to fight back by declaring a class war of our own.
A rightwing author is using the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer—executed for resisting Hitler—as a figurehead against the left, raising fears of political violence.
With bought politicians, and a court on their side—the billionaires have seized control.
The Dirty Money Project is a searchable database to track donations to Florida politicians from polluting industries such as Big Sugar, the agricultural industry, phosphate miners, major utilities, developers and even the sneaky “polluter PACs."
Everyone is a victim under the MAGA small tent, and so long as Trump gets to take as much as he wants, he’ll allow a small group of religious nut jobs and fraudsters to prey on America’s women to sate America’s newly empowered fanatics.
Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in political campaigns.
When language becomes a political weapon, coupled with the willingness of the press to repeat harmful statements and lies, democracy becomes the victim.
Will Trump and the GOP manipulate the Constitution and the courts to take the presidency without winning the vote?
Tim O’Hare’s leadership in Tarrant County, Texas, gives a glimpse of far-right priorities: cutting programs for at-risk youth, targeting elections and stifling dissent.
More than three-quarters of the time the former President and his Vice Presidential candidate open their mouths in a press conference or an early morning social media post or at a public rally—they are lying.
So where did Trump get this idea that hurricane aid was being parceled out on a partisan basis, with Biden allies getting preference over those backing Republicans? That is what he did to Democratic states when he was in office.