“We wish we had a space dignified enough to offer our visitors,” said Zelfareli Cruz Medina, Niltepec’s mayor.
As she spoke, caravan members were stringing up garbage bags to use as tents in Niltepec’s main square. The warmth of the welcome in Niltepec stood in deliberate, stark contrast to Trump’s hostility, said Jorge Luis Fuentes, a senior town official.
Several thousand protesters, an ethnically mixed crowd of all ages including members of Pittsburgh’s tight-knit Jewish community, held an anti-Trump rally about a block away from the synagogue just as his visit began, singing Old Testament psalms and carrying signs with such slogans as “We build bridges not walls.” One group of demonstrators chanted, “President…
Rachel Maddow explained without exaggeration or rhetorical flourish how your vote could save America and place a check on Trump.
A CBS local anchor described the outpouring of people as protesting Trump’s unwelcome visit to the Squirrel Hill synagogue where eleven people were murdered by a Trump caravan conspiracy believer (video), “This is a protest like none I’ve ever seen in the Pittsburgh area, hordes of people.†So it didn’t take embarrassed conservatives long to…
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) delivered a simple but powerful closing message for the Democrats. Schatz said that Republicans are corrupt and Democrats are here to stop them.
Beto O’Rourke did the one thing that has Republicans like Trump and Ted Cruz so rattled. He rejected the politics of insults, and instead offered to work with Republicans but stand up to them when needed.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke showed America what real character looks like and took down Trump without mentioning the president’s name.
Republican campaigns took a defensive approach a week before elections to determine control of the U.S. Congress, with the party spending more to try to hold on to previously secure House seats and President Donald Trump preparing a six-day trip focused on Senate races.
The U.S. Interior Department’s acting inspector general has referred a probe into Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s conduct to the Justice Department for further investigation, media reports said on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources.
Trump could hear the thousands of protesters down the street as he showed up unwanted and uninvited to the scene of the synagogue shooting.
FedEx ended a discount program for NRA members after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting due to the gun lobby’s declining economic clout.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has asked the FBI to investigate a right-wing conspiracy to bribe a woman to accuse Mueller of sexual misconduct.
Former Vice President Joe Biden declared while campaigning for Democrats in Wisconsin that he was sick and tired of the Trump administration.
By Jessica Resnick-Ault PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – Grieving families and friends gathered on Tuesday for the first funerals for victims of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, as protesters prepared for a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump amid accusations his rhetoric had encouraged anti-Semitic extremists. Nearly 2,000 mourners from across the United States came…
Early vote turnout has surged 508% among voters under 30, in part due to the Senate campaign of Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke.
Grieving families and friends gathered on Tuesday for the first funerals for victims of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, as protesters prepared for a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump amid accusations his rhetoric had encouraged anti-Semitic extremists.
Just hours after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, without proper permission, President Trump played Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” at a rally. The singer is not impressed.
If Democrats win at least 23 more seats on Nov. 6, they will regain control of the 435-member House of Representatives from Republicans for the first time since 2011.
Local, state, and national officials who were asked have refused to appear with Trump at his unwanted photo-op in Pittsburgh.
According to the American Psychological Association’s annual “Stress in America†survey nearly 70% of Americans are stressed about the future of the country. The survey says that the current social and political environment is especially stressful for young people. “Mass shootings, rising #suicide rates, and #climatechange are among the top stressors for our nation’s youngest…
Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was gathering on Tuesday to bury the first victims of the deadliest attack on the U.S. Jewish community as critics prepared to protest President Donald Trump’s visit to the city.
According to the Washington Post, President Donald Trump is “planning to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to U.S. citizenship for children of noncitizens born on U.S. soil.†A move by the president to revoke what is called “birthright citizenship†would be his boldest anti-immigrant move yet, and would be…
On Monday, one of Donald Trump’s most vocal critics in the House of Representatives pledged to aggressively investigate the president if Democrats take control of the House after next week’s midterm elections. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said in an interview that as a new majority his party would have the responsibility to use the powers…
Political observers closely watch the so-called generic congressional ballot to get an idea of which party is likely to win control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections. Because of Republican gerrymandering, it is widely believed that Democrats need an advantage of approximately six percent in the national popular vote if they are to win…
Presidents are supposed to unify our country and bring Americans together for a common purpose. But the majority of people believe we currently have a president who fosters division and promotes white supremacy, according to a new poll. The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll published Monday found that 54 percent of respondents think Trump’s…
