Rachel Maddow exposed the logical flaw in Sen. Manchin’s demand for ten Senate Republicans to support HR 1, while the GOP is destroying voting rights.
In 2020, Democrats were able to regain control of the White House and the Senate. It would have been impossible to do so without the state of Georgia. The long time red state turned purple in the last calendar year. In November, Joe Biden secured the state’s 16 electoral votes. In January, Raphael Warnock and…
There was nothing usual about the presidency of Donald Trump. The 45th president stormed into office promising to break norms, and that he did. The people around him celebrated the fact that Trump’s reign wasn’t par for the course. The same people, though, furiously reacted to any perceived slight against Trump. Trump may have spit…
When Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, the Republican party took a hard took at what went wrong. They decided that they GOP would be better served by seeking the votes of Latino and Black Americans. But the party essentially did the opposite. They nominated Donald Trump, whose disdain for minority voters was quite…
There are a million differences between Joe Biden’s presidency and Donald Trump’s presidency. The biggest difference, though, may be the way that press conferences are held. Trump had 4 press secretaries and each one was controversial in their own way. One thing was for sure, though, Americans saw much less of them than their predecessors….
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) essentially claimed that President Biden is making the immigration situation worse because he isn’t behaving like Trump. Video: President Biden’s news conference today makes our immigration problems worse. He doesn’t have the situational awareness to fix the problem because he doesn’t understand the problem. What he did today was entice people…
During his press conference, Biden was asked if he thinks he will be running against Trump in 2024 and he had no time for nonsense.
Biden’s first press conference message to Sen. Mitch McConnell was that Republicans need to decide to work with him or divide America, but either way, he is moving forward.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and four top Democrats have introduced new pieces of legislation to fix America’s rigged tax code.
Trump and the Republican Party’s refusal to adopt a federal pandemic response on mask-wearing social distancing, and testing resulted in the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The Miami Herald reported today that Florida Democrats are calling for the Department of Justice to investigate state Senate races. 11 of Florida’s Democratic U.S. House members sent a letter to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland saying that  “a cloud of corruption hangs over Florida’s 2020 election cycle, which thus far, has received only…
Speaking to The Washington Post, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said only 0.1% of Covid-19 relief funds the Trump administration set aside for farmers went to Black farmers, aggravating existing economic gaps. “We saw 99 percent of the money going to White farmers and 1 percent going to socially disadvantaged farmers and if you break that…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is attempting to withhold all messages he sent or received during the Capitol riot on January 6. The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to review government records; several Texas news outlets have requested copies of his internal communications only to be rebuffed. Paxton’s refusal to cooperate…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) hammered Senate Republicans for a series of baseless objections to the nomination of Vanita Gupita to be Associate Attorney General. Rachel Maddow broke down the reason why Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is trying to block Gupita’s nomination: Here is the background on Vanita Gupta and Sen. John…
Over the course of 2020, the federal government spent a massive amount trying to deal with the economic fallout of the pandemic. Republicans and Democrats agreed that in the face of crisis, America needed to put the fire out first, worry about all the water they were using later. But in 2021, people are beginning…
