Month: June 2016

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Another Koch Acolyte Is Responsible for Illinois Economic Disaster

Governor Rauner’s tax cuts amounted to a 25 percent reduction and ended efforts to preserve education, road repair, and social services’ funding.

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The Front Runners To Be Trump’s VP Are Leaked And It’s As Bad As You Think

With his campaign struggling in the polls, the top two candidates to be Trump’s running mate have emerged, and the names are even worse than you could have imagined.

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Joe Biden Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag: Bernie Sanders To Endorse Hillary Clinton

In an interview with NPR, VP Biden said that he spoke to Sen. Bernie Sanders, who told him that he would endorse Hillary Clinton.

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Trump Goes Full Racist And Admits He’s Looking At Firing All Non-White TSA Agents

Donald Trump admitted during an event in New Hampshire that he is looking at firing all non-white TSA agents.

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Unstable Trump Goes Off The Rails And Jokes About Mexico Attacking The US

Donald Trump took his unstable behavior to a new level by “joking” in the middle of his New Hampshire rally that Mexico is coming to attack the United States.

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CNN In Hot Water After New Hire Corey Lewandowski Turns Up At Trump NH Rally

After Corey Lewandowski was spotted at Donald Trump’s New Hampshire event this afternoon, questions were raised about CNN’s relationship to the Trump campaign.

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Paul Ryan Shows That He Is Completely Terrified Of House Democratic Gun Protests

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan showed how scared he is of more House Democratic gun protests by setting up a sham vote on an NRA authored gun bill next week.

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Democrats’ Dreams Are Coming True As Chris Christie Is Being Vetted For Trump VP

The Trump dream ticket for Democrats may be on the verge of coming true, as Gov. Chris Christie is being vetted as a potential running mate for Donald Trump.

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Fox News Came This Close To Being Punished By The Feds For Illegally Aiding Republicans

Fox News narrowly avoided FEC punishment for illegally aiding Republican presidential candidates by setting up the debate rules so that they could hold two presidential debates.

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Toxic Trump Infects GOP As Republican Movement Grows Against Anyone Who Supports Nominee

Things are so bad that a Reagan diplomat to the United Nations said he will not only not vote for Donald Trump, but he will not support any Republican who endorses or supports Trump.

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Here Is Proof That Makes It Impossible For Republicans To Deny Trump’s Racism

The real campaign that Donald Trump is running can be summed up by the fact that the KKK sees inspiration in the rise of Trump’s campaign and the rhetoric that he is using.

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SPLC President Issues Warning to Congress About Radical Right Terrorism

“Neither the House nor the Senate has held hearings on the terrorism directed at law enforcement officials…by antigovernment zealots such as the Bundys.”

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President Obama Slams Donald Trump’s ‘Xenophobia’ During Remarks In Canada

The president rejected the idea that Donald Trump is a populist and said Trump has “never shown any regard for workers.”

Nate Silver FiveThirtyEight forecast 2016

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FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver Gives Clinton An 80 Percent Chance Of Winning The Presidency

Silver correctly called 48 of 50 states in 2008 and accurately called all 50 states in the 2012 election.

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Canada Appreciates Obama As Parliament Chants “Four More Years!” During Speech

President Barack Obama received huge applause at the conclusion of his speech to the Canadian legislature, accompanied by a rousing, aggressive chant of “Four More Years!”

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Clinton Has Huge Leads Over Trump In Latest Batch Of Swing-State Polling

These are Clinton’s biggest statewide polling leads of the campaign and reflect similar national results that show her with a solid seven-point lead over Trump.

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Things Get Dire For Trump’s GOP Convention As Mike Ditka Turns Down Speech Offer

Donald Trump asked Mike Ditka to speak at the Republican convention, and the legendary football coach turned the Republican nominee down.

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Trump Hit With FEC Complaint For Illegal Fundraising From Foreign Nationals

The Campaign Legal Center has filed an FEC complaint against Trump over the fundraising letters that his campaign has been sending to foreign nationals.

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Major Republican Donor Warns Trump Will Cause Global Depression If He Wins

A top Republican donor is warning that if Donald Trump wins the White House, he will trigger a global depression.

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Mitch McConnell Stabs Trump In The Back While Complimenting Hillary Clinton

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has done little to hide his distaste for his own party’s presidential nominee, but McConnell is now claiming that Trump is not credible candidate while at the same time complimenting Hillary Clinton.

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Enraged UK Lawmakers Want To Block Trump’s Email Address Due To Spam

UK lawmakers are getting increasingly annoyed as Donald Trump continues to send them spam emails asking for money. It is gotten to the point where the lawmakers are asking Parliament to block Trump’s email address.

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The Truth Comes Out: Mitch McConnell Is Too Big Of A Coward To Take On The NRA

No matter how many people are murdered in acts of terrorism, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is siding with the National Rifle Association. He doesn’t want to be remembered as the guy who defied the NRA.

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Hypocrite George Will Says the Party He Helped Create Isn’t His Anymore Because Trump

“Trump exposes the GOP as America’s institution of bigotry, dishonesty, ignorance, warmongering and cruelty against the vulnerable and powerless.”

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Trump Flips Out And Blames The Media After Getting Busted For Mike Tyson Convention Scheme

Donald Trump threw a fit after word got out that he planned to have Mike Tyson speak at the Republican convention, and blamed the media for his plan to have a convicted rapist support him on national television.

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Anti-Gay Pastors Disgustingly Praise The Orlando Massacre, Say Not Enough Died

“The tragedy is — I’m kind of upset that he didn’t finish the job! Because these people are predators! They are abusers!”

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Trump To Turn GOP Convention Into World’s Worst Infomercial Starring Mike Tyson

Instead of a political convention, Donald Trump is preparing to stage the world’s worst infomercial in Cleveland.

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Unlike American Evangelicals, Pope Francis Says Christians Owe LGBT People an Apology

“We Christians have much to apologize for; and those apologies need not be confined to just one area. Ask forgiveness, and not just say we’re sorry.”

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Study: National Debt Will Balloon Under Trump, Remain Flat With Clinton

Under the presumptive GOP nominee, the national debt would spike by $10 trillion in just ten years, in large part because of generous tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals.

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The Trump Campaign Now Says They Never Called For A Ban On ‘All’ Muslims

Donald Trump’s campaign spokesperson says the presumptive GOP nominee never promised to ban all Muslims from coming to the U.S.

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Elizabeth Warren Is Gathering A Democratic Army To Defeat Donald Trump

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is urging all Democrats to go on the attack against Donald Trump because now is the time to go after the Republican nominee.

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Trump Implies That He Will Indict Hillary Clinton If People Give Him Money

Donald Trump is trying to raise money with the suggestion that he will indict Hillary Clinton if he wins the White House.

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Hillary Clinton Busts Republicans For Trying To Pass Off Old Benghazi Info As New Facts

The Hillary Clinton campaign has offered up a point by point debunking of the so-called new revelations in the House Republican Benghazi report.

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Trump Makes Sarah Palin Look Smart By Mispronouncing United States In Trade Speech

Trump’s latest attempt to look like a presidential candidate has turned him into a national laughingstock after the Republican nominee managed to mispronounce the name of the country he is running to be the next president of.

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Mitch McConnell’s Obama Obstruction Is Killing Trump In New Swing State Poll

Mitch McConnell’s scheme of obstructing President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee has backfired and is harming Donald Trump in a new poll of six critical swing states.

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Trey Gowdy Just Accidentally Admitted That The House Benghazi Report Is A Total Failure

While trying to defend his committee’s Benghazi report, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) accidentally admitted that the Republicans have utterly failed.

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President Obama Says It’s Time To Stop Subsidizing Israeli Defense Industry

It’s time for Israel to fund its own military and stop killing American jobs with a “special relationship” subsidizing its defense industry.

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Editorial Cartoon: Spilled Blood

Blood money from the NRA to Congress…

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New Electoral College Projection Has Hillary Clinton Demolishing Donald Trump

The latest Electoral College prediction should have the Trump campaign panicking.

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SCOTUS Rules That Domestic Abusers Can Be Barred From Owning Guns

If you’re a domestic violence offender, the Supreme Court says you don’t have a Second Amendment right to a firearm.

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Republicans Rocked By Report Detailing GOP Lies And Abuses During Benghazi Investigation

House Republicans were dealt a severe blow by a 339-page report from the Democrats on the Benghazi Select Committee who not only provided the evidence that Republicans have hidden but also detailed the Republican abuses and lies throughout the investigation.

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Two Tweets Prove That Donald Trump Isn’t Even Trying To Run For President

It has been hours and Donald Trump has not said a word about today’s Supreme Court decision on abortion. It is clear that Trump is not taking his presidential campaign seriously, or even trying to run for president.

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Together Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton Are Lightning in a Bottle

Elizabeth Warren is a perfect complement to Hillary Clinton. It’s lighting in a bottle special. It’s Obama at the DNC in 2004. This is the magic Clinton was missing.

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Republicans Facing Catastrophe As Trump Leads Clinton By Single Digits In Texas

The Republican Party may have to spend precious resources defending Texas as Donald Trump is holding a single digit lead over Hillary Clinton in the Lone Star State.

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Elizabeth Warren Just Showed Why She’d Be An Amazing Veep

In her first appearance at a campaign rally with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, Elizabeth Warren showed exactly why she would be a wonderful Vice-President, and the right person to take down Donald Trump. In fact, any vice-presidential pick Donald Trump chooses to counter Elizabeth Warren would be a pitifully poor one, and no match at all for Warren’s wit, policy knowledge, and skills on the campaign stump.

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Hillary Clinton And Elizabeth Warren Team Up To Devastate Donald Trump In Ohio

Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren didn’t just campaign together in Ohio. The presumptive Democratic nominee and the senator from Massachusetts teamed up to rip Donald Trump apart.

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Clinton Calls Supreme Court Abortion Ruling a Victory But Warns The Fight Is Far From Over

Secretary Hillary Clinton called SCOTUS’ Texas decision a victory for women across America but pointed out that the fight is far from over, “In Texas and across the country, a woman’s constitutional right to make her own health decisions is under attack. In the first three months of 2016, states introduced more than 400 measures restricting access to abortion.”

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Republicans Suffer A Major Defeat As Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Anti-Abortion Law

By a 5-3 vote, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that would have made abortion virtually extinct in the state by requiring them to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers. The court ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it placed an undue burden on women.

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It is Time To Drug Test Corporate and Religious Welfare Recipients

If we are going to drug-test poor people to reduce the deficit, let’s start on the other end of the income spectrum and test the one percent.

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Trump Throws A Twitter Tantrum Over Poll Show Him Getting Crushed By Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump is throwing a Twitter fit, and claiming that the polls are biased against him after a new poll showed him getting smoked by Hillary Clinton.

Obama Tells Republicans they created Trump

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Obama Approval Rating Skyrockets To 56% As GOP Faces Trump Led Collapse

As the Republican Party nears a state of Trump led collapse, President Obama’s approval rating has reached its highest level since 2011.

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Trump Supporting Neo-Nazis Stab 5 People At Protest In Sacramento

Members of a neo-Nazi group whose founder supports Donald Trump have stabbed five people outside of a protest in Sacramento, CA.

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Things Get Dire For Donald Trump As Campaign Manager Admits That Trump Is Clueless

Donald Trump’s campaign manager admitted that one of the virtues of having Trump as a candidate is that he doesn’t know what is going on.

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Hillary Clinton Just Crossed A Threshold That Could Signal Crushing Defeat For Trump

The new ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Hillary Clinton breaking the 50% threshold, which could be the first sign that a crushing defeat may be looming for Republicans in November.

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Even Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Is Qualified To Be President

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refused to say that Donald Trump is qualified to be president during an interview on ABC’s This Week.

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Editorial Cartoon: Brexit

Xenophobia and nativism break out in Britain.

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Republican ex-Treasury chief Paulson slams Trump, to vote for Clinton

Henry Paulson, a Republican who was U.S. Treasury secretary during the 2008 financial meltdown, on Friday called a Donald Trump presidency “unthinkable” and said he will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Obama tries to limit fallout from British EU exit vote

U.S. President Barack Obama tried to limit the fallout from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, which threatens to harm the U.S. economic recovery, derail his trade agenda and distract U.S. allies from global security issues.

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Trump’s “unlimited” wealth may not be enough to fund his campaign

New York real estate developer Donald Trump says he has “unlimited” personal wealth to fund his White House run, but a Reuters review of his financial disclosures suggests he does not have enough cash to see his campaign through to Election Day.

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“Brexit” Result Reveals Republican Xenophobia Has Infected England

The conservatives driving Brexit’s success depended on fear, anti-globalism, tribalism and anti-immigration exactly like Donald Trump’s campaign.

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Hillary Clinton’s Lead Grows To 13 Points As Trump Campaign Collapse Worsens

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton regained a double-digit lead over Republican rival Donald Trump this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

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Trump Goes Psycho And Attacks His Own Foreign Policy Advisers While Riding A Golf Cart

While riding around one of his golf courses in a golf cart, Donald Trump bizarrely attacked his own foreign policy advisers and admitted to reporters that most of them were not good.

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A Cold Shudder Goes Through Republicans As Obama Destroys Trump With 6 Sentences

President Obama’s remarks about Donald Trump were short, sweet, and should send a wave of terror through the Republican Party.

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First Trump Fundraising Email Flops After Being Reported As Spam

Donald Trump’s first fundraising email wasn’t the hit that he claimed it was because nearly 60% of the emails he sent were automatically listed as spam.

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Hillary Clinton Was a “One-Woman Army” Fighting for Children’s Health Insurance

As Senator Kennedy said, ‘The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.'”

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Brexit Revealed the Always on the Make, Money-Grubbing Grifter That is Donald Trump

“Maybe he’s two Donalds…Maybe Today He’s Not Running For President, He’s Selling Suites.” But he’s not two Donalds and he’s always selling suites.

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Texas Secessionists Say #Texit! and We’ll Try Not to Cheer Too Much

“If Trump fails #Texit seems to be our best remedy.” So the best remedy for sanity is insanity. Okay, GOP, we get that.

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Fox News Makes Republicans Even Dumber By Blaming Obama For Brexit

Fox News has never let little details like geography, reality, or common sense stop them before, so it is no surprise that they are blaming President Obama for Brexit.

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Impotent Trump Blows Brexit While Lobbing Sexist Attack at Hillary Clinton

Trump said, “You know, if Obama wanted it the other way, if he said leave, she would have said leave. She does whatever he wants her to. Now, you know why, but that’s okay, we don’t have to get into that.”

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Republicans Throw A Tantrum And Demand Ethics Charges For House Democrats Over Protest

Former Speaker of the House Tom DeLay is urging House Republicans to file ethics charges against the Democrats who participated in the sit-in protest.

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Global Jaws Drop As Sarah Palin Outdoes Trump With A Racist Response To Brexit

Wallowing in her usual delusion of persecution, Sarah Palin sees Brexit as declaring Independence and urged America to leave the “shackles” of the UN.

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One Chart Shows The Biggest Lesson That Democrats Need To Learn From Brexit Vote

There is a great deal of chatter among the political talking heads who are trying to connect the Brexit vote to the US presidential campaign. Most of their analysis is grasping, but there is one key lesson that Democrats need to learn from Brexit, and it is summed up neatly in a single chart.

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Obama Makes History By Designating First National Monument Honoring LGBT Rights

President Obama’s historic designation of the first national monument honoring LGBT rights wasn’t just about honoring past struggles, but also showing support for the struggles that remain.

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Trump Humiliates Himself In Front Of The Entire World With Bungled Brexit Response

Donald Trump arrived in Scotland early this morning, and congratulated them for their vote to take their country back. The problem is Scotland didn’t vote to Leave the UK.

Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton after winning new york

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Trump Puts Himself First As Clinton Pledges To Protect American Workers After Brexit Vote

Hillary Clinton responded to the potential economic upheaval that could be caused by the Brexit vote by vowing to protect American workers. Donald Trump’s response was to think about how much money he could make.

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Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Savagery

Republicans finally revealed their “replacement” health care “reform” that literally robs healthcare from tens-of-millions of Americans.

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Fox News’ Howard Kurtz Nails it by Calling CNN’s Lewandowski Hiring ‘Sad’

“For CNN to hire him 12 minutes after he was fired is to use, one of Trump’s famous words, sad.”

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Why It Will Take A Lot More Than A Protest To Stop Gun Violence

If the slaughter of 20 school children didn’t sway Republicans to support sane gun safety laws, why would a protest by House Democrats?

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Editorial Cartoon: Sit-In

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North Carolina Could Flip To Blue As Poll Shows Underlying Tar Heel Trouble For Trump

The latest poll of North Carolina shows a tie between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at 43%, but there is room for growth in Clinton’s support that could signal a blue flip of the state in November.

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Trump Falls Apart When Asked For Proof To Backup Claim That Clinton Server Was Hacked

When Donald Trump was pressed for evidence to back up his claim that foreign governments hacked Hillary Clinton’s email server, Trump fell apart and offered nothing but vague promises.

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CNN Shows Their Anti-Clinton Bias By Going All In For Trump With Corey Lewandowski Hire

In a move that made their 2016 election bias clear, CNN hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski despite the fact that Lewandowski is forbidden by a non-disclosure agreement to say anything negative about Donald Trump.

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Hillary Clinton Uses Supreme Court Ruling On Obama Immigration Action To Hammer Trump

Hillary Clinton hammered Donald Trump and highlighted his bigoted immigration policies after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on President Obama’s immigration executive actions.

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The Media Humiliates Paul Ryan With the Truth By Calling Him “NRA’s Li’l Lapdog”

The Daily News mocked Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) for his cowardice in response to the Democratic sit-in over terror gun bill, calling him the NRA’s “li’l lapdog”.

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President Obama Hits Trump Square In The Ego With The Perfect Put Down

President Obama delivered a put down to Donald Trump that is certain to bruise his ego and send the presumptive GOP nominee up the wall.

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Trump Accepts Endorsement of Man Who Advocates Killing Abortion Providers

Trump met with Troy Newman, who says the federal government has a responsibility to execute abortion providers

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Democrats Show America What Real Leadership Looks Like With Brave House Protest

During this historic, courageous sit in — Democrats found not only their spine but the knowledge that they carry moral authority on this issue — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Congressmen John Lewis.

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Democrats Sing We Shall Overcome Hold As House Republicans Try To Hold A Vote

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tried to take back the House from Democratic protesters, and it did not go well. Republicans pretended like nothing was happening as Democratic chants and verses of We Shall Overcome drowned the GOP in a sea of protest.

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Paul Ryan Is Mobilizing Police To Forcibly Remove Democratic Protesters From The House

Reports are circulating that the Senate police have been moved to the House to potentially forcibly remove the Democratic protesters who are occupying the House of Representatives.

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House Democrats’ Gun Protest Drowns Donald Trump In A Tidal Wave Of Blue Power

Donald Trump thought he was going to get all of the media attention with his speech about Hillary Clinton. Instead, House Democrats have dominated the news with a dramatic takeover of the House floor to demand a vote on gun control legislation.

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Paul Ryan Makes House Democratic Protest Stronger With Disastrous CNN Interview

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) went on CNN and helped the Democratic protest get stronger with a disastrous interview that dismissed the American people’s concerns about gun violence with NRA talking points.

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C-SPAN Fights Back Against Paul Ryan Blackout And Shows Live Video of Democratic Protest

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan turned off C-SPAN’s cameras, but he was not able to stop the network from broadcasting video of the Democratic protest that has shut down the House of Representatives that is being shot by Rep. Scott Peters and shown on Periscope.

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President Obama And Hillary Clinton Endorse Democratic Gun Protest House Shutdown

Both Hillary Clinton and the White House have endorsed have endorsed the Democratic protest that has vowed to shut down the House of Representatives until Speaker Paul Ryan allows a vote on gun control legislation.

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Paul Ryan Cuts Off C-SPAN Cameras To Blackout Democratic Gun Protest House Shutdown

Speaker Paul Ryan responded to Democrats shutting down the House with a protest to demand a vote on gun control by shutting off C-SPAN’s cameras and blacking out the sit-in.

House Democrats stage sit in for gun control vote

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Fed Up Democrats Take Over The House And Stage A Sit-In To Demand Gun Control Vote

House Democrats have had enough of Republican refusal to allow a vote on gun control, so they are staging a sit in on the House floor and demanding a vote on common sense gun reform legislation.

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Trump Bombs With An Unintentionally Hilarious Attack Speech On Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump tried to attack Hillary Clinton with “major speech,” but his speech was a bungled unintentionally hilarious attempt at running for the White House that was based on right wing conspiracy theories and lies. On top of it all, Trump sounded sedated and completely clueless in what played like a bad SNL sketch that ran too long.

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