Republicans respond to any example of their extremism with a grab bag of rehearsed misdirections—lying, denying, cherry-picking, gaslighting, what-abouting, culture-warring, or simply counterattacking Biden, Blackness, and wokeness.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Food experts have warned for years that monopolies make our food supply vulnerable. Now families with babies are paying the price.
Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost, and Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.
The Texas GOP platform formalizes the false idea that Joe Biden is illegitimate, hatred of the LGBT+ community, white supremacy, paranoia of immigrants and the idea that Texas can ignore federal laws that it doesn't like.
A "perfect" compromise for Second Amendment jihadis, a pistol that has the same firepower as an AR-15. In other words, overkill in a more compact package.
The January 6th committee played testimony from Trump campaign officials including Gary Coby, former digital campaign director, admitting that there was no fund devoted to defending Trump's claim that he had won the election.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Capitol held two prime-time televised hearings so far. Dismissed by some as show trials, these hearings may test the medium’s ability to capture the nation’s attention.
President Biden’s claim that the rate of mass shootings during the period of the assault weapons ban “went down” only for it to rise again after the law was allowed to expire in 2004 holds true.
The big question is why would anyone listen to Ginni Thomas or give her the time of day. Oh, yeah. She's married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
Factoring in thousands of fraudulent signatures, five Michigan Republicans fell short of the necessary 15,000 signatures required to qualify to run for the office of governor.
We know how easily a government can be toppled into fascism and how close we came in 2020: if just five Republicans had not refused to go along with Trump we'd be in this fascist dystopia today.
The first public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol begin tomorrow. In prime time.
The Supreme Court left Alabama’s congressional redistricting—deemed a violation of the Voting Rights Act by the lower court—in place through the 2022 midterm elections.
A draft document sought to grant authority to three companies—including two which were also involved in auditing the election results—to send armed workers to seize all voting machines and election data at will.
In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the U.S. and the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.
While constantly screaming about voter fraud, the GOP is infiltrating operatives as poll workers. That doesn't sound suspicious at all.