Campaign Action House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is widely known for 1.) making speeches on the Senate floor flatly lying about Democratic actions in order to justify Republican ones and...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has put out a series of tweets stating his belief that Congress cannot in good conscience consider any nominee for the Supreme Court until the investigation of Donald...

Buried in an alarming-all-by-itself Politico article pondering how far down the line of succession we'd have to get, in the Justice Department, before we found someone who would not either have to ...

The Proud Boys are one of America’s brownshirt-like fascistic groups of predominantly white nationalists—see racist and sexist—finding favor with Trump and Trump supporters. Like all good hate groups...

Data can be soul-crushing. While sometimes numbers communicate exactly what you’d like to hear, polling isn’t for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to polls that reveal a lot about your...

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s personal attorney, appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday to try to spin away from the growing scandal enveloping the White House. Giuliani told Hannity...

The reasons that Donald Trump would need a massive distraction at this point are numerous. Every day seems to produce fresh evidence that the White House was fully aware that Trump’s delay of...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has announced that he will vote for the Republican tax cut bill that will add $1.5 trillion to the deficit and pretty much ruin the country. And he is willing to lie through...

Before the vice presidential debate got underway in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg dropped by a Fox News pre-debate segment and absolutely leveled the place. This is precisely how you...

On Monday, a little while after taking off on Air Force One on a trip from Mar-a-Lago to Washington, D.C., Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz found out that he would need to be tested for the 2019 novel...

Mark Hamill has been a progressive Jedi Twitter warrior for years. When we first met Hamill as Luke Skywalker, he was whining that he had to go to Tosche Station to pick up more power converters and...

If you’ve been on social media within the last week (or gone out in search of some fast food), you’ve probably seen the countless posts about the new chicken sandwich at Popeyes. If the photos aren’t...

UPDATE: CORRECTION: I got a very important part of this wrong. I said that Trump stole from the veterans and spent the money on his campaign. I blew that part. Here is the relevant quote from New...

Donald Trump and White House staffers claimed Trump was having a weekend full of meetings at their not-racist-at-all “Southern White House”—better known as Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump’s cash cow private...

Occupying the White House has proven lucrative for Donald Trump. He’s been able to charge the Secret Service hundreds of thousands for rental space and golf carts. He’s been able to turn his Washin...

Of all the people running for president, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 election campaign is receiving the most donations from active military service members. According to Seth Harp at Rolling Stone...

More than anything during this pandemic Donald Trump has proved himself wholly devoid of what most of us expect as normal human decency. From lying about the threat of the virus itself, to completely...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn’t make it a few hundred yards from his airport terminal to a waiting SUV limo at baggage claim without running into angry constituents. Rather than take...

Once again, Republican Senators have a problem with Kamala Harris (D-CA) being incredibly good at her job. In Thursday’s hearing with Jeff Sessions, she asked him some tough and pointed questions...

This just came through the Twitter wire: You might remember a few weeks ago when Papa John CEO John Schnatter attacked the NFL’s handling of the peaceful protests against racial injustice for...

Campaign Action A little over a month from now, the 538 Electoral College members will come together and throw in their “votes” to choose our next president. By that time, Hillary Clinton will have...

Campaign Action Now seems like a good time to revisit how Republican leadership in Congress knew about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the summer and fall of that year....

For Donald Trump, having his own son be the person who finally confirms that his presidential campaign indeed sought to collude with the Russian government during that nation's extensive efforts to...

Campaign Action For opponents of immigration, it’s do as I say and not as I do. For example, Melania Trump and her sister, Ines, both moved to the U.S. sometime in the mid-1990s to pursue careers in...

Just last week, four actual American soldiers died in Niger, in an attack likely organized by the regional branch of al Qaeda. If you were unaware of these deaths, or even that there were Americans...

Buzzfeed reports that the streak of powerful men being called to account for their sexual assaults on women is not over. A high-stakes legal showdown is brewing for President Donald Trump, as a woman...

When Debbie Ramirez came forward with her account of a drunken college-aged Brett Kavanaugh disrobing in front of her in the common space of a Yale facility, she was stepping bravely into the...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar showed her former-prosecutor chops in Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, in which Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz testified about his examination...

After ripping through the GOP's "deepest bench" of presidential candidates in decades, snagging the presidency with a little help from his Russian friends, and cowing congressional Republicans into...

Like most of the rest of you, I’m a tad miffed at Democrats’ capitulation to evil. In agreeing to forgo impeachment witnesses and simply read the latest evidence of Donald Trump’s ghastly treachery...

Donald Trump asks the question frequently, and always with a sneer: If President Barack Obama knew that Vladimir Putin had intervened in the United States’ election with the direct intention of...

The Proud Boys are one of America’s brownshirt-like fascistic groups of predominantly white nationalists—see racist and sexist—finding favor with Trump and Trump supporters. Like all good hate groups...

Donald Trump walked into the Rose Garden on Friday morning, and, as expected, abused the National Emergency Act to appropriate funds for a wall along the southern border. What many probably didn’t...

Ceaselessly ripping up norms, Donald Trump has clearly turned the Department of Justice into a political weapon, and Attorney General William Barr now gladly oversees it with one goal in mind: prot...

An anonymous (to the public) couple is stepping up to stand with Planned Parenthood in a big, big way. From City Pages: The Planned Parenthood clinic in Uptown Minneapolis is due for a makeover. And...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer wants some answers to questions he's been asking since June about the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors' selection of Louis DeJoy to be postmaster general....

Lexington, Kentucky’s Mayor Jim Gray hit social media to make this announcement in the wake of the Charlottesville white supremacy riot: Good job, white supremacists! As Daily Kos writer Hunter...

Attorney General Bill Barr has entered dangerous new territory as the White House released a memo detailing the call between Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky. A quick...

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed the Democratic House 410-4 on Feb. 26. It was identical to a bill called the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act that the Senate had passed already by unanim...

If you don’t know that the stock market has been setting record after record since Joe Biden won the White House—and since he fumigated and elephant-hosed�the same—that may be because Biden ...

Indiana has canceled nearly half a million voter registrations since November, claiming that it’s just a overdue clean-up effort, but Jason Kander—now a voting rights advocate after his time as...

Remember way back in October of 2016? Those were the days, weren’t they? FBI Director James Comey famously sent a letter saying that the FBI has opened up a second investigation. (Maybe you heard...

Republicans have been freaking out over the fact that one of the least-liked human beings on the planet, Sen. Ted Cruz, has found himself in a real dogfight this election, against Democratic challe...

Conducting over two dozen interviews with senior administration and public health officials, and consulting a cache of previously unavailable documents, the New York Times has uncovered what now...

Intelligence expert and author Malcolm Nance put Jared Kushner's alleged request to establish a secret channel with the Kremlin in perspective for average viewers Friday night. "Had any individual...

On Wednesday, The New York Times did its New York Timesiest to both sides the growing success of the Biden administration’s vaccine delivery program. Sure, that program has added hundreds of millions...

Popular vote loser Donald Trump is every bit the monster we thought he was, no matter how many people tried to shrug him off as a showman.  I don’t know how many ways I can say “do not normalize this...

Wow! It’s official! Democratic candidate Doug Jones has been declared the winner in the Alabama Senate race. Not only great news for our country and our Party, but a direct slap in the face to ...

In a dramatic victory that’s indicative of the shifting political winds in Wisconsin, progressive Judge Rebecca Dallet has been elected to the state Supreme Court. She defeated conservative Judge...

The Washington Post is just one of several sources rushing to claim that President Jimmy Carter crossed a dangerous line in saying that Donald Trump’s election was “illegitimate.” Almost unbelievably...