What A Day

Our House Is A Very Very Very Vaxxed House

09 Mar 2021

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The CDC said fully vaccinated Americans can safely gather indoors together, and laid out other guidelines for our current stage of the pandemic. The d...

Coming To The American Rescue

08 Mar 2021

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Senate Democrats passed the $1.9 trillion economic relief bill on Saturday, without any support from Republicans. The final bill pared back some eleme...

UBI Feel It Coming

05 Mar 2021

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Republican governors in West Virginia and Alabama have continued to advise wearing masks, bucking the trend of governors in Mississippi and Texas who ...

The Trial Of Derek Chauvin

04 Mar 2021

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Jury selection begins next week for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck and killed him la...

It's Gonna Be May

03 Mar 2021

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Biden is now saying that we'll have enough vaccine doses for every American by the end of May, instead of July. Meanwhile, states like Texas and Missi...

Read My Lips: More Billionaire Taxes

02 Mar 2021

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The coronavirus relief bill moves to the Senate this week. A group of progressive House Democrats are continuing to push for a minimum wage increase i...

GO—And I Cannot Suppress This Enough—P

01 Mar 2021

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The US vaccination campaign is accelerating, with the country hitting over 2 million doses a day last Friday and Saturday. Following a plunge in new c...

Minimum Wage, Maximum Rage

26 Feb 2021

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The House is expected to pass its COVID relief bill as soon as today, but there's still a question of what happens when the bill gets to the Senate. Y...

Vaccinate K-8

25 Feb 2021

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The FDA put out analyses yesterday showing that Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine is highly effective, setting the stage for its approval as ear...

Capitol Insecurity

24 Feb 2021

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Former Capitol security officials appeared before the Senate yesterday, citing communications failures for their inadequate response to the January 6t...

The Return Of The Tax Returns

23 Feb 2021

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The Supreme Court threw out the final Trump lawsuit challenging the results of the 2020 election, and also paved the way for Trump’s taxes to be dis...

Shock Me Like An Electric Bill

22 Feb 2021

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The US is approaching 500,000 deaths from Covid-19. But there is good news, too: New studies suggest that the vaccines might prevent transmission, and...

Making Black History

19 Feb 2021

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Black Americans still frequently have to break barriers to become elected, appointed, or hired to do a thing. We spoke to people who have become the '...

Amazon The Wrong Side Of The Law

18 Feb 2021

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Over two million Texans are still without power, and there’s a new storm on the way that’s expected to prolong the icy conditions. Oregon, Tenness...

Keep Austin Warm

17 Feb 2021

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President Biden was in Wisconsin yesterday on his first official trip since taking office making the pitch for his $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. Th...

It's The End Of Impeachment As We Know It

16 Feb 2021

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Donald Trump’s second annual impeachment trial is over, after a vote of 57 to 43 led to his acquittal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterda...

V Is For Vaccine with Dr. Anthony Fauci

12 Feb 2021

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President Biden announced yesterday that the US will have enough doses to vaccinate all Americans by the end of July. We talk to Dr. Anthony Fauci abo...

Second Mask's The Charm

11 Feb 2021

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The House Impeachment managers began to make their case against Trump yesterday, showing graphic and never-before-seen video footage that illustrated ...

If At First You Don't Succeed, Trial, Trial Again

10 Feb 2021

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The second impeachment trial began yesterday, with Senators voting 56 to 44 to uphold the trial as constitutional and move forward. House managers pre...

There Goes My Hero Pay

09 Feb 2021

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Trump’s Senate impeachment trial begins today. Trump’s team continues to argue that the trial itself is unconstitutional… that’s what they’l...

No Child Tax Credit Left Behind

08 Feb 2021

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Coronavirus cases in the US are in decline from last month, and the daily speed of vaccinations has picked up. But concerns over variants continue. A ...

MTG Get Off The Air

05 Feb 2021

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The House voted to strip Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments for spreading conspiracy theories and endorsing vio...

Which Side Are You Amazon?

04 Feb 2021

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Amazon faces its first unionization vote in the country in seven years next week in Bessemer, Alabama, and if the workers decide to unionize, it could...

Get In Loser, We're Doing Budget Reconciliation

03 Feb 2021

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Trump’s second impeachment trial starts next week in the Senate, and yesterday we got a preview of the arguments both sides will be making. We go th...

The Needle And The Doses Done

02 Feb 2021

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The daily pace of vaccinations is picking up, with some states working faster than others. We talk about states that have given the most shots per cap...

Less Talkie, More Stimmy

01 Feb 2021

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A group of Republican Senators are sending Biden a counter-proposal on Covid relief. They want to slash the bill by over a trillion dollars, and limit...

Subreddit And Forget It

29 Jan 2021

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The COVID strain first discovered in South Africa was found in the United States for the first time in the state of South Carolina. This strain is mor...

The Gig Short

28 Jan 2021

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At the Biden team's first public health briefing, officials noted that the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations in the US is on a downward trend...

All In A Hundred Days Work

27 Jan 2021

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Impeachment is moving forward in the Senate despite a Republican effort to dismiss it yesterday, but a conviction next month doesn't seem likely.Meanw...

Life With The Fast Strains

26 Jan 2021

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Pfizer and Moderna say their vaccines may be less effective against a new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa. In California, Governo...

Anarchy In The GOP

25 Jan 2021

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The House is expected to send the article of impeachment to the Senate today, with the trial set to begin the week of February 8th. There’s a distin...

Not Throwing Away My Shot

22 Jan 2021

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Biden released a 200-page national plan yesterday to centralize the COVID response effort, along with a flurry of executive orders and directives targ...

Malarkey: Eliminated

21 Jan 2021

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Yesterday was inauguration day, which saw President Biden give his first speech as president on themes of unity, the division in our country, and a ne...

Hello, Goodbiden

20 Jan 2021

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Trump leaves office today after four years of hellish incompetence. We reflect on the challenges President Biden and Vice-President Harris will inheri...

Executive Order Up

19 Jan 2021

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Over the weekend, Biden’s team announced the president-elect’s agenda for the first ten days of his term, plus a dozen or so executive actions Bid...

Meet Joe Bill

15 Jan 2021

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Biden unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package yesterday, which includes $1,400 stimulus checks, an increase in federal unemploy...

Impeachment's Back, Alright!

14 Jan 2021

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The House voted to impeach Donald Trump for the second time yesterday, making him the first president to be impeached twice. Soon-to-be minority leade...

Sedition: Possible

13 Jan 2021

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The House is planning to vote on impeachment today. Democrats and some number of Republicans are expected to support it, like Wyoming Representative L...

It's The Companies You Keep

12 Jan 2021

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The business community is responding to the siege on the Capitol by suspending contributions to lawmakers who didn’t vote to certify the election re...

Raid To Recovery with Rep. Mondaire Jones

11 Jan 2021

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This week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will try to pass a resolution to get Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, and if he doesn...

Pleading The 25th

08 Jan 2021

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After Trump incited an attack on the nation’s Capitol, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi want Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the Presiden...

Coup And A Half Man

07 Jan 2021

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Violent mobs broke into the nation’s Capitol yesterday in a failed coup attempt, which was incited and encouraged by President Trump and many other ...

Glory Be To Georgia

06 Jan 2021

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Votes are coming in from the Georgia runoff elections, with the results generally looking positive for Democrats… but we’re still waiting on the f...

Mask On, Run Off with Senator Ed Markey

05 Jan 2021

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Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief, and the country’s response to existential threa...

Can You Hear The Donald Ring?

04 Jan 2021

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In a leaked phone call from this weekend, Trump used every line he could to pressure Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to overturn the sta...

Introducing 'Gaining Ground: The New Georgia'

22 Dec 2020

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The future of our democracy hinges on the outcome of two Senate races in Georgia, a state that shocked the nation by flipping for the first time in ne...

WAD A Year

18 Dec 2020

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Congressional leaders are putting together the final pieces of an emerging deal on COVID relief, but the negotiations could continue into the weekend....

NCAA It Forward

17 Dec 2020

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Congressional leaders think they could pass a roughly $900 billion stimulus bill by the end of the week, which might include direct payments, but won'...

Staffing Season

16 Dec 2020

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Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg was announced as Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary yesterday, and former Michigan governor Jennife...

Stimu-Less And Less

15 Dec 2020

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The first coronavirus vaccines were administered in the US yesterday, and public education efforts also got underway with the HHS and CDC emphasizing ...

Better 538 Than Never

14 Dec 2020

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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was authorized by the FDA on Friday evening, and the first shipments went out on Sunday. Most state governments intend to ...

COVID By The Numbers

11 Dec 2020

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The FDA’s advisory panel voted to approve emergency authorization of the Pfizer-BionNTech coronavirus vaccine. Once it’s authorized, which could b...

Zuck The Police

10 Dec 2020

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Facebook is facing two major antitrust lawsuits, one from the Federal Trade Commission and one from nearly every state in the country. The suits argue...

No One's Quick As Gascón

09 Dec 2020

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As vaccinations kick off in the UK, the approval process is moving forward here in the US as well. The FDA now says Pfizer’s vaccine offers protecti...

Crime And Capital Punishment

08 Dec 2020

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A bipartisan relief bill that had some momentum last week hit a snag after two senators said they won’t support the proposal. We explain. Plus, an u...

California, Here We Close

07 Dec 2020

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Biden has reportedly selected California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led the defense of the Affordable Care Act in the Supreme Court last mon...

Runoff The Jewels

04 Dec 2020

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There’s about a month left to go until the two Senate runoffs in Georgia, with Republican Senators Loeffler and Perdue walking the line of campaign...

God Save The Vaccine

03 Dec 2020

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The UK became the first country to authorize Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine yesterday, with vaccinations expected to begin next week. In the US, the CDC...

Congress This Mess

02 Dec 2020

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Attorney General Bill Barr said what is obvious to everyone, that the Justice Department hasn’t found any election of widespread voter fraud that wo...

Bidenomics 101

01 Dec 2020

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Biden officially announced several top members of his economic team, including his picks to lead the Treasury, White House Council of Economic Adviser...

Pardon Me, Mr. President

30 Nov 2020

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New York City is opening up elementary schools next week after city officials faced heavy criticism for appearing to prioritize economic activities li...

Yes We Michigan with Rep. Rashida Tlaib

20 Nov 2020

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Michigan and Wayne County have repeatedly been targeted in Trump’s attempts to overturn the election results. In particular, he and his supporters h...

Home Is Where The School Is

19 Nov 2020

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Yesterday brought more bad news about the current state of the pandemic, even as we got more good news about ending it in the future. The entire publi...

Airborne In The USA With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

18 Nov 2020

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The US is in an extremely dangerous period of the pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations at record highs, holidays fast approaching, and little in ...

Midnight Train To The Senate

17 Nov 2020

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Pharmaceutical company Moderna announced yesterday that its vaccine is 94.5% effective, according to early data. This comes after Pfizer's announcemen...

System Of A Lockdown

16 Nov 2020

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The federal government still hasn’t affirmed Biden's victory, blocking him from the White House access he needs to get a handle on the transition an...

Trial and Error

13 Nov 2020

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Joe Biden’s lead has only grown since major networks projected him to win the presidential election last weekend, and despite that, Trump has contin...

Lost In Transition

12 Nov 2020

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The US is still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of confirmed cases rising by 70 percent in the past two weeks. The CDC put out ...

Exhibit None

11 Nov 2020

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Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo made a bad “joke” yesterday that led many to believe Trump will continue to ignore the election results… which is...

I've Vaccine Enough

10 Nov 2020

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Pfizer says an initial analysis of their vaccine found it was more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19. President-elect Joe Biden announc...

Let's Joe Crazy

09 Nov 2020

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The presidential race was called this weekend for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, leading to spontaneous celebrations across the country. Biden and Harri...

Biden Rising

06 Nov 2020

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A significant number of ballots were counted yesterday in states where races have been too close to call, leading to gains for Joe Biden in Pennsylva...

Another Brick In The Blue Wall

05 Nov 2020

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Joe Biden now has the most votes of any presidential candidate in history, and he’s won two more key states in his path to 270 electoral votes: Mich...

No Winner, No Cry

04 Nov 2020

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Yesterday was Election Day, and it ended as we expected it to: without an official call on the presidential race. There wasn’t a Biden landslide lik...

No Sleep Til Votes In

03 Nov 2020

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After four long hard years, we’ve made it to election day… now we just need to make it through the next 24, to 48, to 100-plus hours. We discuss w...

First Vote's The Charm

02 Nov 2020

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Over 93 million people have voted as of Sunday night. More than 8 million of those voters are doing so for the first time, according to the data firm ...

In This COVID Economy?

30 Oct 2020

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Another 5 million people cast ballots yesterday, bringing the vote total to over 80 million so far. We explain two recent Supreme Court decisions ove...

Ballot Cleanser

29 Oct 2020

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COVID-19 numbers are up in the US, with more than 500,000 new cases over the past week. Trouble spots include El Paso, TX, where hospitals are stretch...

I've Got Polls But I'm Not A Pollster

28 Oct 2020

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With less than a week until November 3rd, almost 70 million people have already voted in this election as of last night, which is over half the total ...

I Just Can't Barrett

27 Oct 2020

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Amy Coney Barrett was officially confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, cementing a 6-3 conservative majority on the court. Barrett has not said whethe...

Pence Like Nobody's Watching

26 Oct 2020

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At least 5 aides of Mike Pence including his Chief of Staff have tested positive for Covid-19, but Pence still isn’t going to quarantine. The countr...

A More Muted Presidential Debate

23 Oct 2020

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Last night Biden and Trump faced off in the second and final presidential debate. It was less interrupt-y and the candidates discussed everything from...

Pharma Police

22 Oct 2020

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The DOJ announced an $8.3 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma yesterday for illegally marketing their painkiller Oxycontin. The settlement doesn’t...

OK Google, What's A Monopoly

21 Oct 2020

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The Justice Department filed a major lawsuit against Google saying that the company is illegally trying to maintain its search dominance using anti-co...

Stuck In The Meddle With GRU

20 Oct 2020

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In the final two weeks before November 3rd, Trump has been criticizing his own public health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Meanwhile, Biden and Harr...

Con Census

19 Oct 2020

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In the US, we’re now seeing uncontrolled spread of coronavirus as parts of the country get colder and people prepare to gather for the holidays. On ...

Everything Is Feinstein

16 Oct 2020

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A new study shows eight million people have fallen into poverty since May, when the CARES Act money started running out, but lawmakers in Washington s...

Rotten To The Court

15 Oct 2020

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Amy Coney Barrett appeared for her last day of Senate questioning yesterday and gave more evasive non-responses. Today is the final day of the hearing...

Take On Amy

14 Oct 2020

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Yesterday was day two of Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings, when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee got their first public chance to ...

If U Seek Amy Coney Barrett

13 Oct 2020

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Senate hearings began yesterday to consider Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Democrats tried to keep the focus on the Affo...

Vaccine Nation With Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

12 Oct 2020

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Senate confirmation hearings begin today for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's Supreme Court nominee. The president is scheduled to return to the campa...

The Date Debaters

09 Oct 2020

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Thirteen men were charged yesterday in connection to an alleged violent plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. This is unsurprising when y...

Veeping With The Enemy

08 Oct 2020

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Last night was the first and only vice presidential debate, with Senator Kamala Harris and VP Mike Pence facing off. Their conversation covered police...

Keep Calm And Harrison

07 Oct 2020

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Trump said yesterday he won't negotiate with Democrats on another Covid relief before the election. He sent a torrent of other tweets too, all while m...

The West Wheeze

06 Oct 2020

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Trump is now back in the White House after making a Trumpian and very public return, but doctors say he’s still not "out of the woods." Press Secret...

All The President's Meds

05 Oct 2020

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Amidst rosy reports about Trump's condition, we also learned that he received multiple drug treatments over the weekend including dexamethasone, which...

The President Has Covid-19

02 Oct 2020

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In a tweet overnight, President Trump said that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. The news comes after a White House aid,...

Take It Espy

01 Oct 2020

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Former Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy is running for Senate in Mississippi, hoping to be the first Democrat to represent the state...

Presidential Interruption

30 Sep 2020

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The first presidential debate took place in Cleveland last night. It was an extremely bumpy ride, with Trump failing to condemn white supremacy and su...

Performance Enhancing Debates

29 Sep 2020

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Tonight is the first of three debates between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump. The debate will cover six major topics, which include ...