Ginni Thomas, the right-wing activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pushed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to texts obtained by the Jan. 6 committee. CNN first reported that the committee was in possession of …
Read More »Trump's Election Lawyers Were Full of It, According to [Checks Notes] a Trump Campaign Memo
Remember how President Trump’s “elite strike force” of election lawyers kept promising they were going to release a trove of information proving the election was rigged in Biden’s favor, in part by compromised voting machines? Well, it turns out there was no trove after all, and that the Trump campaign …
Read More »'My Experience Is My Expertise': Deja Foxx on Being a Presidential Campaign Staffer at 19, Influencers, and Sexuality in Politics
“Why would you deny me the American dream?” Deja Foxx’s biting question to former Republican Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona at a town hall meeting in 2017, coupled with her impassioned defense of reproductive rights, launched Foxx as a leading political voice of her generation when she was only 16 …
Read More »Trump Takes His Donors to Graduate School at Trump University
Just days before his 2017 inauguration, Donald Trump coughed up $25 million to settle allegations that he’d defrauded students at his defunct Trump University. Four years later, as he scratches and claws to avoid leaving office, Trump is teaching a final master class in separating fools from their money. Log …
Read More »Trump's Tantrum and the Constitution's Imaginary 'No Do-Overs Clause'
It’s really hard to fully capture the current stage of the presidential election. At the same time that former Vice President Joe Biden and his supporters are feeling a confidence that the prize is just around the corner, President Trump has moved on to third-grade lawyering that barely passes the …
Read More »Joe Biden Para Presidente
Hemos vivido los últimos cuatro años bajo un hombre rotundamente incapaz de ser presidente. Afortunadamente para los EE. UU., Joe Biden es lo opuesto a Donald Trump en casi todas las categorías: el nominado presidencial demócrata demuestra aptitud, compasión, firmeza, integridad y moderación. Y quizá lo más importante en este …
Read More »Debate Night Was a Rough One for the Moderators: Here Are 4 Lowlights
Three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, six candidates dutifully assembled in Des Moines Tuesday night for the final debate before voting begins. With polls showing a virtual dead heat in Iowa, the stakes were high and the spotlights bright. But the questions? The questions were mystifyingly inane. No questions …
Read More »Biden Plummets Below Sanders and Warren for First Time in Major National Poll
Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign has been characterized largely by a string of gaffes — from saying poor kids are “just as bright as white kids,” to, most recently, confusing Vermont and New Hampshire. It looks like they may finally have caught up with him. In a new national pollreleased Monday, …
Read More »Biden Semi-Apologizes for Praising Segregationist Senators
Finally, after facing relentless criticism, Joe Biden apologized on Saturday for remarks he made weeks ago when speaking warmly about working with southern, segregationist Democrats in the Senate in the 1970s. “Now, was I wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that I was praising …
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