John Oliver Takes Down Tennessee Republican Racists
John Oliver called out the lies of Tennessee House Republicans who claimed that race had nothing to do with the expulsions of two House Democrats.
John Oliver called out the lies of Tennessee House Republicans who claimed that race had nothing to do with the expulsions of two House Democrats.
If House Republicans follow through on their threat to expel three Democratic lawmakers, those lawmakers can run in the special elections, and if they win, they can’t be expelled again.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Republicans cowards and got into a shouting match with Rep. Thomas Massie on gun violence.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy has refused to answer questions about the Nashville shooting and when reporters tried to ask him anything about guns, he ran away.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called President Biden a fool and demanded that his Secret Service protection be given up after the Nashville school shooting.
Gov. Ron DeSantis wanted guns banned from his reelection, but he also wanted the city of Tampa to take the blame for it, which demonstrates that the Florida governor is a Trump clone.
President Biden said that America should have societal guilt and the nation has a moral responsibility to prevent mass shootings.
Perhaps only Marjorie Taylor Greene was more public with her hatred of all things “Q” of the LGBTQ family but Lauren Boebert was right there with her.
After the Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked President Biden for calling for action to try to prevent future mass shootings.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday that he will reach out to non-MAGA Senate Republicans, but Democrats won’t sacrifice their principles.
Colorado’s third district may be about to put the final nail in Lauren Boebert’s political coffin.
Former GOP Rep. David Jolly discussed why the Republican narrative of freedom is false.
Marjorie Taylor Greene blames Paul Pelosi, in part, for his own attack, because he wasn’t standing there with an assault rifle ready to blast away.
Here is what should be the final nail in the coffin of the sick Right-wing conspiracies about the savage Paul Pelosi attack: The break-in with a hammer was caught on video by the Capitol Police.
President Barack Obama has an inspiring message of hope for you all.
As Paul Pelosi is in surgery, it’s important to remember that Republican ads show the Republican shooting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Joe Biden, and more.
Rachel Maddow talked to voting rights lawyer Marc Elias who pointed the finger at Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy for staying silent on Republican voter intimidation tactics.
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.
While the buzz on Twitter and with the Morning Joe crew has focused more on Rubio’s passive and nervous approach, it is critical to note that he faced an extremely skilled and prepared opponent.
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.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer endorses Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio US Senate race while calling out JD Vance’s craven political cowardice.
An armed man wearing a clown wig stormed into a Dairy Queen in Delmont, PA saying that he was working undercover to kill Democrats and liberals and restore Trump as king.
Gov. Greg Abbott said nothing about guns but talked about gang violence in a bid to shift the focus after a new shooting in Uvalde, TX.
Trump is not only set up perfectly – literally – to lose; he might lose better than anyone has ever lost a federal tort claim action.
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.
Devin Nunes tried to tie Obama and Benghazi to the FBI search and recovery of classified documents from Donald Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham called fears that the Supreme Court would overturn gay and interracial marriage politics and suggested that the court would not take those actions.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) went on a spending spree and burned through money that was for the general election only, and now the FEC is threatening him.
Manchin has been the GOP’s best friend this term, but that means nothing to the GOP, and Manchin knows 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.
 David Hogg of March For Our Lives was removed from a House hearing on the markup of several gun violence bills for calling out GOP lies.
Mehmet Oz complained on Fox News that John Fetterman has raised five times more money than his campaign by running on the issues.
While claiming that he wanted Americans to get to work despite the lowest unemployment rate in a half a century, Rick Scott said every able-bodied person should get a job.
Rather than assess our history and re-think traditions that are unhealthy, indeed lethal, for us, SCOTUS, lead by the illogical minds of Alito and Thomas, use tradition to validate laws and decisions that are harmful to–deadly for–Americans.
Mitt Romney penned a 4th of July piece where he argued that Americans are in denial, but it is Republicans who refuse to see the truth.
Liz Cheney says there is greater danger in not prosecuting Trump.
Leave it to Donald Trump to whine about a “two-tiered” justice system. This is the man who pardoned everyone who did his bidding while hammering the people like Michael Cohen who “failed him.”
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court made it clear that their recent decisions on guns, abortion, and climate change are the beginning and they must be stopped.
Senate Minority Leader has threatened to jeopardize national security unless Democrats stop trying to pass prescription drug reform.
Instead of proving that he isn’t the kind of person who would attack his Secret Service detail, Trump’s reaction corroborated Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony.
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.
Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Donald Trump knew that his supporters were armed on 1/6 and he didn’t care.
We have to recognize that the Supreme Court is now currently operating not just as an enabler of domestic terrorism in America but rather as a chief terrorist organization and a chief purveyor of anti-intellectualism in American culture.
The communications director of the far-right Republican front group Moms for Liberty was recorded threatening to shoot school librarians.
It is now assumed knowledge among Fox viewers and Republicans generally that working with Democrats violates a duty inherent to their office.
The Texas GOP convention booed Sen. John Cornyn so viciously that his speech could not be heard, all because he worked with Democrats on gun control.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) wasn’t having any of the GOP pearl-clutching over Supreme Court Justice security.
It has been decades since serious gun legislation was passed and the bipartisan gun violence bill in the Senate is historic in many ways.
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down democracy.
The Supreme Court has had no comment after it was revealed that Ginni Thomas pressured 29 Arizona lawmakers to overturn the election.
Biden’s answer on Jimmy Kimmel to Republicans, like Trump, who won’t follow the law, “We gotta send them to jail.â€
The DHS issued a new warning that calls for violence by domestic violent extremists would increase as we head into the mid-term elections.
Apparently, the MAGA movement has evolved to the point that some believe the proudly racist element has to be even more open with even greater clarity.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to use David Hogg to go viral and fearmonger about guns, but it did not go well for her.
The Republican playbook has been leaked and it shows that they want to talk about anything besides guns.
Daniel Defense’s reckless and bizarre advertising may have left the door open to its own demise.
All of these issues—women’s right to choose, gun control, the rights of people to love how they want and marry whom they want, and much more—depend on one issue: democracy.
Most of these groups likely fear the inevitable court cases brought about by a federal red flag law, court cases that would inevitably solidify the limits of the 2nd Amendment
Gov. Ron DeSantis is threatening to veto state funding for a Tampa Bay Rays facility because they spoke out against the massacre of children in Uvalde.
President Biden turned the NRA and the Republican Party’s argument about protecting rights against them in his gun speech.
Gov. Greg Abbott wants to take the “drills” next level and make them “audits,” meaning the state wants to send a real intruder (One working for the state) into schools, randomly, to “audit the response.”
The common thread through decades of Senate inaction on gun violence is Sen. Mitch McConnell obstructing gun reform.
The comedy duo The Good Liars confronted Wayne LaPierre and thanked him for everything that he has done to prevent mass shootings with thoughts and prayers.
As if the gun wasn’t bad enough, the recipient also gets the 1,000 rounds of ammunition in order to pull off the next mass shooting, should he choose to do so.
CNN’s Jim Acosta put NRA board member Judge Phillip Journey on the spot and wanted to know why an 18-year-old should be able to buy an AR-15.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) called out the NRA for not caring about gun owners and being a grifting scam.
Rep. Jim Jordan’s message to families who lost children to school shootings is that America needs more faith, family, and freedom.
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.
After House Republicans had the nerve to tweet about baby formula, Rep. Eric Swalwell lit into them for getting kids killed by doing nothing about guns.
Something very dark and disturbing is happening with respect to the investigation into the Uvalde mass shooting.
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.”
Someone has to stand up for guns, apparently. Last night, the duty fell to the guy who has $3.3 million reasons to plead the case for guns.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate will begin the process of voting on gun legislation tomorrow.
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.
Beto O’Rourke crashed a press conference by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to them that the Uvalde mass shooting is on them.
Dealing with values shared by only 10% of Americans? No problem for Fox. It is time to go to work. Have no doubt that guys like Tucker Carlson and Mark Levin are on a mission.
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€
A judge found that Marjorie Taylor Greene was qualified to stay on the ballot and can run for reelection in 2022. The AP reported: ATLANTA (AP) — Judge finds Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene qualified for reelection; Georgia secretary of state to make final decision. — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) May 6, 2022 Greene lied numerous times…
At her weekly press conference, Speaker Pelosi called out the hypocrisy of Kevin McCarthy while suggesting that people get arrested for bringing guns into airports as Rep. Madison Cawthorn did.
Biden declared war on the NRA by calling for an assault weapons ban and other common-sense gun laws.
In the $1 billion in new military aid that President Biden announced for Ukraine is 800 air defense systems and 100 drones with a commitment for more.
California is moving forward on legislation modeled after the Texas abortion bill that will allow private citizens to enforce an assault weapons ban.
President Biden praised the historic settlement of $73 million that Sandy Hook families got from Remington.
This weekend was different because it’s different Trump. It is exposed Trump. And if they come for him, he’s telling his movement to come for him. Fascism.
What happens in communities after a mass shooting? In Michigan, one group is hosting an event to pick up the pieces and push for change.
March For Our Lives is calling on President Biden to pick a Supreme Court nominee who supports the right of innocent Americans not to be shot.
The Trump administration forged documents for Michigan and Arizona declaring him the winner of the 2020 election.
A North Carolina Trump/Qanon devotee was sentenced to 28 months in prison for threatening to shoot Speaker Pelosi on January 6th.
The hosts of “Fox and Friends” have taken things quite personally after a man was brought into custody in connection with the burning of a large Christmas tree outside the Fox building. “This is personal to you too at home now. The Fox Christmas tree, vandalized. Arson. And that’s personal to you. It’s personal to…
For decades Fox News has been fighting a bogus war on Christmas. This year a man burned down their Christmas tree.
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…
Sen. Graham has made no statement about a report that he urged Capitol Police officers to shoot Trump terrorists on 1/6.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) opened up his remarks at a press conference by offering generic token words after a school shooting in his state and then talking about Biden’s “border crisis.”
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace took down Tucker Carlson’s 1/6 lies while discussing the dangerous spread of Capitol attack propaganda.
Rural Oklahoma has been hit with a new drug epidemic. It’s not opioids or heroin. People are overdosing on ivermectin.
In a new video, March For Our Lives called the NRA failing and vowed to finish the job and end the gun lobby.
The United States military was in Afghanistan for 20 years. And the forces couldn’t operate in the region alone. The military had help from thousands of Afghani’s that risked their safety by working with the Americans. Now that Afghanistan is unstable, the country is keeping a promise made to those contractors and many will be…
Last summer, congressional candidate Kim Klacik released a campaign video that featured her walking along the streets of Baltimore. The ad, entitled, Black Lives Don’t Matter to Democrats, quickly went viral in conservative circles. Republicans quickly promoted the candidate with Donald Trump sharing her ad on Twitter and saying he was excited to work with…
Despite being a freshman congressperson from a small district in Colorado, Lauren Boebert has fast become a name in politics. Most of the coverage of her, however, is not favorable. She tweeted out the location of Nancy Pelosi during the January 6th insurrection when Trump supporters were looking to harm the Speaker. She has made…
Donald Trump has said time and time again that he didn’t his supporters storming the US Capitol on January 6th was all that big a deal. In fact, he’s been quoted as saying, they were there to hug the police officers (140 officers were injured in the melee and 4 have died since that day….