Politics, Corruption & Criminality

The DeSantis campaign is barely a week old and has already been caught in illegal campaign finance shenanigans.

This "debt ceiling" isn't a crisis. It is a plot: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House.

The billionaires and large corporations backing "No Labels" are deeply invested in maintaining the status quo and opposing Democrats' agenda for working people.

Election administrators are still digging out from the mountains of misinformation from the 2020 election cycle. Bad actors are using AI to ramp up for the next one.

J. D. Vance speaking with attendees at the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore, Wiki Commons

Despite the White House's lofty rhetoric, it is actively bolstering the military power of a majority of the world's authoritarian countries, from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to dozens of others.

Republicans gave Big Pharma a green light for some of the most aggressive tax gaming that highly trained accountants could dream up.

Arizona's hard right election deniers, Paul Gosar and Kari Lake, traveled to Budapest to revel in the latest Hungarian edition of the far-right CPAC conference—held there in admiration of defacto dictator Viktor Orban.

It is impossible not to unsee the blatant corruption of the Supreme Court through the connections of Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni and the far-right influencers feeding them money and gifts.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, known for requiring stations to broadcast far right propaganda, recently announced plans to eliminate entire local newsrooms at local-television stations in five broadcast areas.

Florida's GOP House majority now wants 18-year-olds to be able to buy rifles, shotguns and even AR-15s—because, well, its Florida.

Wendy Rogers has a habit of claiming that media that she doesn’t like is funded by George Soros, employing the antisemitic trope that the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist is somehow dictating their coverage.

Considering the recent reports on Gorsuch and Thomas, observers suggest the news of Roberts' wife's headhunting commissions is more evidence that the Supreme Court is suffering a massive, systemic ethics crisis.

At an April 15 retreat for donors to the Republican National Committee, Cleta Mitchell called on her party to find ways to tighten the rules for student voting in several battleground states.

This is the third year in a row Florida's lawmakers have changed voting rules, attacked community-based groups who support voters, and implemented unnecessary and confusing barriers to voting.

No other democratically run nation on the planet gives its highest court justices lifetime tenure. Now legal experts are recommending term limits.