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Meet Trump's Pick To Lead DHS
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Kri...
Can Big Oil Grease The Courts?
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Iran has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transfer point, sending oil prices over $100 a barrel wit...
Why Trump Abandoned America First
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. Remember Am...
The Cost Of War Is More Than Oil
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. According t...
Trump, Iran And A Brewing Economic Crisis
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In case you haven’t noticed, the American economy isn't doing so well right now. Oil prices have been on an absolute rollercoaster since the Iran w...
The War With Iran Has No Exit Plan
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confu...
Can States Stop Trump’s Election Meddling?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically change how Americans vote, and to make that happen he’s holding all other legislation hostage until Co...
Sen. Mark Warner Won’t Miss Kristi Noem
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem via a Truth Social post. Her tenure was marked by a p...
Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue?
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Three states – North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas – held primaries Tuesday. The turnout was massive, but so were the stakes, with the balance of...
Trump’s War Hits The Economy
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is sowing death and chaos, surely, but with ship traffic avoiding Iran’s shores, the war’s also threatening the glob...
Why Congress Might Not Stop Trump’s War In Iran
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Trump officials brief all of Congress on what, exactly, the administration’s objectives are in Iran. Until now, the Trump administration has...
Trump’s Dangerous Gamble In Iran
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites acr...
Hillary Clinton Called Her Epstein Hearing Political Theater
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Oversight Committee to answer questions during their investiga...
Texas Republicans Return To Islamophobia
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Texas Senate primary is already setting records for both Republicans and Democrats, with more than $110 million spent on advertising and reserved...
Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s State of the Union address had everything — if by “everything,” you mean easily fact-checkable lies. We also got fearmongering and ra...
Dems Opt Out Of State Of The Union
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address tonight. And spoiler… the state of his particular union isn't great. According to new p...
Trump Orders More Tariffs After SCOTUS Ruling
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Friday that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked sweeping tariffs using a 1970s emergen...
DHS Dysfunction
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been about a week since the Department of Homeland Security entered a partial shutdown, with Democrats refusing to fund the agency until chang...
Don't Bank On Trump's Tax Cuts
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The IRS has lost tens of thousands of employees since President Donald Trump took office – the result of DOGE, policy differences, last year’s go...
Trump’s Iran Power Play
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. officials met with Iranian envoys in Switzerland Tuesday to negotiate the fate of Iran’s nuclear program — and came away with a “set of gu...
The MAGA Health Movement
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's been about a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission." ...
Democrats Shut Down DHS
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Capitol Hill was surprisingly busy this week. Republicans and Democrats yelled at one another, Republicans yelled at other Republicans, and amazingly...
Bondi's DOJ Fails Again
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Department of Justice fumbled yet another attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump’s enemies on Tuesday night. This time, it failed to get a...
ICE Warns It’s ‘Only Getting Started’
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, the Trump administration has been eliminating policies aimed at slowing down climate change – and now, it may go even further. ...
Epstein Files Cause Ripples Across The Pond
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Getting justice for Epstein survivors seems impossible in the United States. But in the United Kingdom, the Epstein files could bring down the Britis...
Why You Can Basically Bet On Anything These Days
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sunday was the Super Bowl, which means betting. A lot of betting. And even if you're not a gambler– and even if you don't particularly care about s...
Trump Passes The Buck To Bondi
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're just one week into February, and a lot has happened already — from the fallout over the Department of Justice's Epstein file dump, to Preside...
Trump’s Artificial Economy
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The economy is in pretty much the same weird place it’s been for the past few months. Hiring is down, the cost of living is up, and no one really k...
The Many Faces Of Tucker Carlson
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you haven't been following conservative media for a long time, you might not know that there have actually been many eras of Tucker Carlson. He la...
Can Body Cams Restrain ICE?
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that all federal officers in Minneapolis will now wear body cameras. She also ...
1540: DOJ Validates Trump's 2020 Election Lies
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, which might be why last Wednesday, the FBI execu...
A Shutdown On Pause
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Senate Democrats were ready to shut down the government Friday night in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol — but they didn’...
Streets Of Minneapolis
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Minneapolis is still under ICE’s thumb — and contrary to the Trump Administration and some media reports, ICE has not “de-escalated” in the Tw...
The Sunshine State Strategy
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio is expected to publicly testify Wednesday about what exactly the U.S. has planned fo...
Mayhem In Minneapolis
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a massive funding package making its way through Congress this week. It includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including ...
Joining ICE Is Much Easier Than You Think
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, Alex Pretti – a 37-year-old registered nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis – was shot and killed by Border Patrol a...
Trump's Never-Ending Enemies List
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the steps President Donald Trump and his allies too...
Trump: Bigly Unpopular
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After meeting with NATO allies in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce “the framework of a future deal with r...
Why Greenland Keeps Rejecting America's Advances
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland isn’t new. Back in 2019, he made an offer to buy the island, but was told by Denmark and Greenla...
Will Claude Code Change Everything?
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks a year since President Donald Trump took office for a second time, and a lot has happened. Amidst all the threats to take over Greenland, ...
A Brief History of ICE
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a mul...
How We Got Here: The MAGA New Right
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is declining in popularity with voters, but his rhetoric and that of the Trump Administration is only growing more extreme. But to und...
Can Minnesota Deport ICE?
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The great city of Minneapolis is under siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and we have all seen the videos to prove it… which may be why t...
Iran, Greenland, And Trump's Ego
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Iran, weeks of protests against the ruling regime have resulted in the deaths of thousands of protestors at the hands of the government. The Trump ...
Trump’s War On The Fed
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck back on Sunday night after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into his handling of r...
The 'Dark Fleet' Behind Venezuela's Oil Trade
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Coast Guard seized another oil tanker, the Olina, on Friday. It is the fifth Venezuela-linked tanker seized by US forces under Presi...
The White House Blames Victim In Minnesota ICE Shooting
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, protestors continued to gather in Minnesota’s largest city to stand up to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an officer fatally ...
And Then The Majority Was 2
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives — and after the resignation of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the passing o...
A Quack In Trump’s Presidency
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a strange 12 months for Trump. He won the 2024 election on a wave of economic discontent, and responded by blowing up a wing of the White ...
Did The J6ers Win?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Five years ago today, supporters of President Trump, emboldened by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol. Now, with ...
Trump Extracts Oil -- And The Venezuelan President
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Late Friday evening, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and hi...
Donald Trump’s Pot Shot
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance...
Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Rep. Ilhan Omar
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has made multiple xenophobic comments about Somali immigrants over the past few weeks, following the findings of an investigation into...
Quantifying Happiness In 2026
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unemployment is up. Two-thirds of Americans have recently struggled with the rising cost of groceries. And the President of the United States has occu...
Trump Can't Stop Saying Biden
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump has been president for 11 months, and during that time, former President Joe Biden has basically left the public eye. Yet as Trump's own preside...
If Tariffs Are So Great, Why Are There So Many Exemptions?
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump loves tariffs. But according to a new analysis from Politico, more than half of US imports right now are not subjected to them....
ICE Polices The American Dream
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration has put billions of dollars into building an immigration superstructure meant to punish those who have done nothing wrong and...
The GOP’s Plan For Your Healthcare
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monday is your deadline to pick an insurance plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplace – and there is still zero plan to ensure that the enhanced ...
Billionaires Brawl Over Warner Bros.
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve been talking about the Paramount Skydance/Warner Brothers Discovery/Netflix Billionaire Boys Club Spectacular for a few days now. But it’s r...
The Vax Wars Are Here
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is likely to reverse its long-standing recommendation that all newborns be immunized against Hepatitis ...
Why Trump’s Got A Big AI Problem
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration has gone all in on artificial intelligence. It doesn’t hurt that AI’s biggest backers also happen to run the biggest comp...
Rep. Jim Clyburn Offers A Historical Warning
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, released a new survey this week in an attempt to figure out who, exactly, is a Republican these da...
Hegseth Takes His “Secretary of War” Title Too Seriously
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been under fire for his continually evolving explanations and blame-shifting regarding a September attack on an all...
President Trump Is Disconnected From His Beloved Base
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is old, and it shows. But in his second term in the White House, he's not just old – he's cloistered. After building his political c...
With Next Phase Of Ceasefire Unclear, Gazans Brace For Winter
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's been nearly two months since the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas went into effect. The ceasefire is intended to be the first...
Trump Capitalizes On The National Guard Shooting
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot just a few blocks away from the White House, on Wednesday. One of the two shooting victims, ...
Protecting The Franchise: How Can We Secure Our Elections?
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fear is mounting about the integrity of next year’s elections and all the tricks MAGA World might be able to pull. How valid are those concerns? Wha...
The Tennessee Democrat Fighting The MAGA Machine
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress is not exactly a barrel of fun at the best of times. Still, after the unexpected exit of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene last ...
MAGA Threats Made Him Leave The Country
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A lot happened while we were off this weekend, from President Donald Trump's overly friendly meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to ...
Trump's Grift Goes Global
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From $400 million planes to $300 million ballrooms, from cryptocurrency to just plain… currency, President Donald Trump and his family have profited...
US Absent From Global Climate Conference
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the last two weeks, a critically important climate conference has been taking place in Belem, Brazil. For the first time in 30 years, the United S...
"Things Happen": Trump Goes All In On MBS
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump joyously welcomed Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, also known as MBS, to the White House on Tuesday. That's des...
The U.S. Takes Aim At Venezuela
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be willing to hold talks with Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. His statements came...
Were There Any Winners In The Government Shutdown?
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The longest government shutdown in American history ended last week, thanks to 8 Senate Democrats giving up the fight to extend Affordable Care Act su...
Make America What Again? Policy Priorities For A Progressive Future
15 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Good policy is good politics, or so the saying goes. So, uh, how do we agree on what that is? Jane Coaston talks with three of the left’s most prom...
Scam Calls Are Getting Worse: Here's Why
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, a court filing showed that the Trump Administration has declared the current funding structure for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
The Government Reopens — To More Epstein Chaos
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The House returned on Wednesday and ended the longest shutdown in government history. House Republicans were joined by six democrats to fund the gover...
Misread the Moment: Rep. McBride On Senate Democrats
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government shutdown is inching closer to an end as members of the House of Representatives return to Washington today. They are expected to vote o...
Sen. Sanders Slams The Surrender Dems
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Monday night, the Senate passed legislation to reopen the government, sending it to the House. The eight Senate Democrats who reached a deal with Repu...
Inside the Deal to End the Shutdown
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Sunday evening, senators from both parties reached a deal that could bring an end to the government shutdown, which has lasted well over a month. T...
If Not A Recession, Why Does It Feel Like One?
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Tuesday’s election results, everyone seems to have gotten the message that affordability is king. Democrats, Republicans, and even President D...
Is Trump About To Lose His Trade War?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It was a big day for President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court heard arguments on his power to impose tariffs unilaterally. And the justices seemed…...
Dems Win Big: A Midterm Preview?
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday was Election Day and Democrats won big! Voters in New York City elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor. In Georgia, D...
Chicago Fights Back
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A federal judge once again blocked the Trump Administration from sending the National Guard to Portland over the weekend — but if Trump is successfu...
The GOP's Anti-Semitic Turn
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, former Fox News host and conservative pundit Tucker Carlson invited white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes onto his highly-ranked po...
Will Trump's Trade Truce With China Last?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump announced a trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping after a 90-minute meeting in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. But wha...
The Redistricting Game
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Virginia judge allowed the state’s Democrats to pursue a redistricting plan on Wednesday that would permit them to amend the state’s constitutio...
Is This Mamdani's Moment
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Highly anticipated elections are happening across the country on Tuesday. In states from California to Virginia, Americans will head to the polls in b...
The Price of Care: Fixing The ACA
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The main issue keeping the government closed is healthcare — specifically, the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that have been in place since ...
The Reality of Being An American Farmer Right Now
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese and American negotiators announced on Sunday that they had agreed to a “framework of a deal” on tariffs ahead of President Donald Trump’...
FBI Takes Down NBA-Mafia Gambling Ring
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced over 30 indictments as part of a massive investigation into a criminal gambling ring. Those indicted in...
The Key to Unlocking the Epstein Files
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the government shutdown in its third week, the House of Representatives is still out of session – and votes aren’t getting scheduled. That in...
Trump’s Deadly Attacks in the Caribbean Sea
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the start of September, President Donald Trump has ordered a series of lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, killing dozens of people. H...
This Supreme Court Could Change The Future of Elections
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In two weeks, millions of Americans will be voting — but a Supreme Court case could change elections as we know them. Last week, the court heard arg...
Over 7 Million Americans Protested Against Trump
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of Americans were in the streets over the weekend, rallying against President Donald Trump and his administration's latest authoritarian esca...
America Has No Kings
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, people across the country are taking to the streets for the second iteration of the “No Kings” protests. Organizers say they anticip...
Rural Healthcare Is At Stake In The Shutdown Fight
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A federal judge halted the Trump administration’s efforts to get rid of roughly 4,000 federal workers during the shutdown on Wednesday. And yet whil...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Sounds Like A Democrat Lately
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the government shutdown chugs along, cracks form within the GOP. The biggest crack? Georgia Republican Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene. She's s...
Your Shutdown Outrage Won’t Change The Next Election
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Week two of the government shutdown isn't proving to be any more successful than week one. In fact, on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said this sh...
Trump Is Prosecuting His Enemies
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things have been moving fast since President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social last month QUOTE: "Pam: I have reviewed over 30 statements and posts ...