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The “pro-life” party’s most in the news candidate is making news again on Wednesday, as yet another woman is set to come forward to accuse the Republican Senatorial candidate of taking her to a clinic for an abortion.
On Wednesday morning, two more big name Republicans, David L. Hobson and John M. Bridgeland, came forward to endorse Democrat Tim Ryan in his race for the U.S. Senate.
The world Oz, and really the party he is serving, envisions is one where local political leaders wield the ultimate control over women and girls.
Democrats and pro-democracy groups need to run ads based on these closing arguments and they need to start it now.
Neither Donald Trump nor Sarah Palin, nor for that matter Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert, want elected positions so they can govern. There is no interest in governing, therefore no need to know anything. What they want is power.
Katie Porter’s whiteboard got factchecked, and guess what. She is correct that corporate profits are behind inflation.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) asked Clarence Thomas to help him out after a lower court ordered him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia, investigating Donald Trump and other Republicans’ possible illegal interference with the 2020 election.
Knowing that Trump deems himself above the law and above having to comply with requirements others are expected to meet, they added that many other presidents have had to testify before Congress after they left office.
If you were wondering why the media is suddenly telling you that Americans care more about “crime” than they do their own right to live, we have the answer.
In Greg Abbott’s Republican Texas, public schools sent kids home with a DNA kit so their parents could identify them after a mass shooting or other emergency.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi did an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that aired on Tuesday, in which Mitchell inserted obvious Republican talking points about how voters don’t seem to care about women’s rights so much anymore, but are more focused on “crime” and “inflation.”
Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who somehow represents Texas, was doing his best to drum up outrage at “the Left” by sharing a fake story, without a link, with a byline by someone who left the publication in 2014
Trump election deniers are training thousands of poll “observers” around the country, many of whom have been recruited by “prominent” Republican Party figures.
There is, at best, a “sizeable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol,” top FBI were told of employees in the agency in an email suggesting it was a matter of “significant importance.”
After watching the 1/6 committee’s video of Speaker Nancy Pelosi calmly assessing the precarious situation she and her colleagues were in and proceeding to move forward to certify the election in spite of the danger, it is clear that she saved the United States of America on that horrific day.
A “long-serving” Trump aide was caught on camera moving boxes out of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, both before and after the DOJ subpoena demanding the return of the documents Trump stole, according to a new report.
John Fetterman blasted Mehmet Oz for his refusal to give a straight answer about how he would vote on a national abortion ban. “Dr. Oz can’t seem to get two words out: yes or no. It’s been an entire month since the GOP’s national abortion ban was introduced in the Senate, and Dr. Oz still hasn’t said how he’d vote.”
“The National Archives and Records Administration calls Trump’s claims about Obama, Clinton, Bush and Bush supposedly taking presidential documents ‘false and misleading.'”
Fox News apparently played audio from the Daily Mail in 2018 of Joe Biden telling his son Hunter, who has an addiction problem, that he loves him “more than the whole world pal.”
Rachel Maddow cut through the political noise Monday evening to warn that in order to effectively combat fascism, there is a necessity for a whole society response. And this is something we have done before.
Our media is failing us again. This time, it’s that they refuse to name clear anti-Semitism, falling back on safe distancing words like “purported” and “widely criticized as antisemitic” and “widely deemed antisemitic.”
We are not in a recession! In an era of bad to terrifying news, this is a welcome change. “This is an economy that’s still growing nicely. All that recession talk was empty.”
As President Biden warns of a possible nuclear threat, we learn today that there is a strong suggestion that the classified documents Donald Trump stole were handled *post* his presidency. Some of those documents included information about foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities.
The professor’s objections to Doug Mastriano’s work predate the Republican’s political career. And the criticism “goes back years and spans several countries.”
Republicans’ abortion bans are raising alarm for the parents of female student athletes in Florida, who are asked to report their menstrual history to play sports. Because a third party has access to that info and all of the forms are subject to subpoena, parents and doctors are raising the alarm.
Here comes the Satanic Temple suing Indiana and Idaho in federal court over their abortion bans because they violate the religious rights of people in those states.
Thomas’ illegitimate court forced many Americans to realize that they are actually pro-choice: “Net opposition has increased by 6 points since late June (from net -35 to net -41).”
The Supreme Court refused to hear pro-Trump liar Mike Lindell’s defamation case appeal, which means Mike Lindell must face the $1.3 billion lawsuit that Dominion initiated against him.
Trump Projection: Trump appeared to use the IRS as another weapon to be utilized against his critics in an attempt to silence them. Under Trump, both James Comey and Andrew McCabe were targeted for the “autopsy without death” “random” IRS audit.
Trump supporters are threatening law enforcement for Trump and being egged on to do it by the elites they rail against.
If Donald Trump is “the” target of the federal 1/6 probe, that is a seismic shift in our politics.
We are in for “some of the worst attacks on the rule of law this country has ever seen,” Democratic Rep. Don Beyer warns Greg Sargent.
While some of Senator Graham’s arguments to get out of testifying might have flown, he seems to have screwed himself with his public disputing of other witnesses’ characterizations of the Georgia phone calls.
Former FBI agent and now Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told CNN’s Marg Brennan that the rhetoric coming from former president Trump and his supporters is bad for our democracy and he’s concerned about the safety of our law enforcement agents.
In another chilling reminder of the times in which we live, police are investigating an incident in which an armed man shot and killed himself Sunday morning after he rammed his vehicle into the security barricade of the U.S. Capitol.
The DOJ saw something concerning on the surveillance footage they’d subpoenaed of Mar-a-Lago’s storage area,
The leader of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump, is under investigation for possible violation of the Espionage Act. The FBI executed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant to investigate “potential crimes associated with violations of the Espionage Act.”
For once, maybe the Right has got it right when they compare the Mar-a-Lago raid to the Russia investigation. After all, the Trump campaign was working with Russia in the 2016 election, which by their logic suggests that the Trump raid is equally valid.
The very fact that the FBI got a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago means that a federal judge found probable cause that a crime was committed and further evidence would be found at Trump’s home in Florida.
Even when President Biden does the one thing Republicans claim they care about most but somehow haven’t done (it was Obama who got Osama), it’s reported as a bad thing.
Heading into Arizona’s primary, it is yet another Republican who claims not to believe in election results when his “side” loses who is leading in the polls. Arizona state Representative Mark Finchem is running to be in charge of…the state elections.
Days ago, Exxon Mobile and Chevron reported record profits on high gas prices. Now it’s BP’s turn.
BP announced record profits of $8.45 billion between April and June, the second highest in their history and more than triple what they made in the same period last year
Betting on the legislative graveyard overseen by certain Senators, data brokers in a post-Roe country are selling listings on and access to pregnant people confident that they can get away with it,
Judge Dabney Friedrich declined to allow the DOJ enhanced sentencing under the terrorism statute for January 6th defendant Guy Reffitt, 49 of Wylie, Texas who was affiliated with the Texas Three Percenters, and sentenced him to seven plus years in prison.
Susan Collins said the same-sex marriage bill may be doomed now because of how Democrats (Leader Schumer working with Manchin) worked behind the scenes to find common ground with the Inflation Reduction Act.
The media showed its bias by trying to fact check the ten-year-old girl in Ohio who required an abortion after being raped.
The doctor didn’t make up a story to justify being against Dobbs; it’s the other way around. There are way too many stories to tell that justify being against Dobbs.That is why medical and human rights experts are against it.
The only line of defense left to our democracy is in the Democratic Party winning elections, and they are facing horrific poll numbers for President Biden, bad maps and poor prospects for the House and Senate.
During the 1/6 hearing, evidence was presented that Mark Meadows knew that Trump lost and yet went ahead to push to obstruct Congressional proceedings. If this is true, his efforts were corrupt and potentially criminal.
The surprise January 6th hearing featuring Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to Mark Meadows, the Chief of Staff to then President Donald Trump, offered bombshell after bombshell.
“One of the most stunning offerings of testimony in American history just then from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to the then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said of Tuesday’s surprise January 6th hearing featuring Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to Mark Meadows, the Chief of Staff to then President Donald Trump.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed an aide had given him fake slates of electors to give to then Vice President Mike Pence, but new
texts show a Trump attorney coordinated with Johnson to pass the fake elector scheme to Pence.
Republicans decry the accusation that they are waging a war on women, but not only have they been doing so for decades, but they are now destroying the moral fiber of freedom.
Former deputy acting attorney general Richard Donoghue testified that none of Trump’s election fraud claims were credible and Trump still wanted members of the DOJ to say the election was corrupt.
Former Trump White House attorney Eric Herschmann to Jeff Clark: “You just admitted your first step you would take as AG would be committing a felony. You’re clearly the right candidate for this job.”
“Do you know how it feels to have the President Of The United States target you?” Ruby Freeman asked.
Donald Trump had a “direct and personal role” in the attempt to defraud the United States with a fake elector scheme, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said in her opening statement.
Fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick’s partner Sandra Garza said on CNN’s Hold On that while Trump is riling up the insurrectionists to more violence by dangling pardons, he and his enablers have Secret Service protection. The rest of us do not.
John Eastman knew that both plans to steal the election for loser Donald Trump were illegal, but felt comfortable that the Supreme Court would allow them to get away with it by choosing not to get involved by citing the political question doctrine.
On Thursday in response to Trump’s Truth Social whinge: “I demand equal time!” the California Democrat responded,”Equal time means sitting your lying ass in a witness chair. We’ll wait.”
Then President Trump knew his scheme was illegal a full two days before he tried to overthrow a lawful election, former Vice President Mike Pence’s general counsel Greg Jacob testified.
Enough with the “maybe Clarence Thomas should recuse” discussion. Recuse? This assumes he belongs on the Supreme Court. His wife played an active role in an attempted coup. She tried to throw 80 plus million peoples’ votes in the trash. Thomas doesn’t belong on the court.
Federal prosecutors say a document titled “1776 Returns” was used by the Proud Boys to lay out a plan to storm the Capitol Complex and prepare for “execution day” on January 6th.
A South Florida Synagogue has sued over Gov. DeSantis’ new 15 week abortion ban because it violates their religious freedom.
The surveillance footage Republicans chastised the 1/6 committee to show has been published and it is not good news for Republican Representative Barry Loudermilk of Georgia.
The January 6th Committee has shown that then President Trump knew his false claim about the 2020 election was a lie.
The purpose of the second bipartisan January 6th Hearing is to present the evidence that Trump knew he lost the election but decided to continue lying about his loss by spreading the Big Lie, which set the stage for the domestic violence of January 6th.
The 1/6 Select Committee showed never before seen footage of the domestic terrorists right outside of the House doors during the first January 6th Committee hearing on Thursday evening.
Donald Trump plotted over months to not only overturn an election but to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
The FBI arrested Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on Thursday for involvement in the January 6th attack.
Just released emails from May of 2018 show that the Trump administration separated families at the Mexican border without due process, on purpose, in order to deter others and to inflict harm.
The DHS issued a new warning that calls for violence by domestic violent extremists would increase as we head into the mid-term elections.
What does it mean if 90% of Americans want the right to life, a right enshrined in the Constitution, but can’t get it because their lawmakers refuse — for decades– to respond to the will of the people?
After the mass shooting at Uvalde Elementary, over 4,000 people protested the NRA on Friday. They were staged across from the George R. Brown Convention Center where the NRA’s convention is taking place in Houston.
Watch as Senator Ted Cruz walks away from reporter after being asked if “this is the moment to reform gun laws.”But first, the Texas Republican tries out his party’s special interest donor’s favorite talking points about mental illness and how this is not the time to discuss “politics.”
There was an armed school police officer at Robb Elementary and this officer exchanged gunfire with the shooter. The officer was shot and injured. In fact, three local officers were injured in the shooting.
Twice accused of threatening to blow a woman’s head off, Georgia Senate GOP nominee Herschel Walker dodged a question asking if he believes there should be new gun laws in the wake of the Texas shooting by saying, “What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.â€
Republican Senator Susan Collins called the police after concerned citizens left a message in chalk outside of her home urging her to protect women’s rights.
The Big Secret revealed in Schmidt’s “The Warning” newsletter is that John McCain was a hero, but also a coward. A coward who put the national security of this country behind his own ambitions and reputation.
It turns out that the people most emotionally deluded were those defending Brett Kavanaugh and the deceptively rigged confirmation hearing
You could be forgiven if watching Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) testimony on Friday reminded you of another sweating Republican from long ago. No, not the orange president. The president who actually faced consequences for breaking the law.
Clarence Thomas should not be sitting on the Supreme Court, and it is an under-reaction to suggest he should recuse.
“Senator Lana Theis accused me by name of grooming and sexualizing children in an attempt to marginalize me for standing up against her marginalizing the LGBTQ community…in a fundraising email, for herself.
Hate wins when people like me stand by and let it happen. I won’t.”
What we have here is a party based on spittle-inducing ad hominem attacks. The party of backseat driving babies, pointing their fingers and offering no ideas to actually help people.
Roy’s texts do not read like someone seeking truth, they read like a request to manufacture some fraud claims
Republicans have become so disingenuous on the matter as to use lies about her record on it as a weapon against a Democratic nominee while bemoaning that a white male Republican nominee was even asked about alleged sexual assault.
Russia listens to Trump’s pleas for their help, wants to help, does help, and views Trump as a partner in their genocide.
If Republicans really cared about gas prices, they have the power to actually do something about it, but it would involve hurting one of their most reliable donors.
Big Oil chose to reward their shareholders and their CEOs after record profits, instead of funneling the money into production. Republicans blame Democrats for this and for the price of gas.
Republicans know that they can tell the media something is “politically-motivated” and the media will conflate that with the facts of why Trump is being prosecuted because “both sides” are equal to our modern-day media.
“Judges sounded the alarm today, verbally grabbing America by the lapels Warning from the bench today that Jan 6 is ongoing risk to the nation,” Scott MacFarlane reported.
President Biden is overseeing an economy that has unemployment over the last four week have hit its lowest level since 1969.
As the Republican/McConnell conservative activist Supreme Court hears a Mississippi abortion case, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows just 24% of Americans want Roe v. Wade overturned. Just 24% of Americans want Roe V Wade overturned: The Yahoo News poll shows “more than twice as many Americans (55 percent) say they want the court to…
Uncle Joe – also known as the President of these United States, signed Democrats’ once-in-a-century, $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The people enabling Trump’s lies should be called out for what they are: Traitors to democracy. Time is running out for democracy, and sadly we have only 48 senators (all Democrats) willing to take a stand for our country.
The FEC has been ordered to take action on complaints made against the NRA within 30 days.
Moab police were under fire when they released the body camera footage of their August 12 stop with Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito for missing clear signs of domestic violence red flags and for ignoring a 911 caller’s report that Brian hit Gabby multiple times.
Lots of excuses were thrown out, some blaming the dispatcher, but now there’s confirmation of the dispatcher relaying the report to the responding officers.
Women and girls deserve so much better than this. We deserve better than to be ruled by rapists and their criminal enablers.
It turns out Governor Greg Abbott (T-Texas) is not just aiding and giving comfort to Delta, but he is doing so with your tax dollars.
The Justice Department signaled that it won’t defend Republican Representative Mo Brooks and their reasoning suggests they might not defend Trump either for their alleged part in the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol.
