Shady PACs with GOP ties are trying to screw over Democrats
With their House majority in peril, Republicans appear to be resorting to dirty tricks. Aside from trying to gerrymander their way to victory, Republicans also seem to have created a shady PAC to prop up less electable Democratic candidates, in an effort to take competitive seats off the map. The ads come from a group called Lead Left, a name clearly intended to mislead viewers into…
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Here’s why the Trump team is targeting Minnesota—again
Minnesota became the first state on Monday to ban prediction markets, the scuzzy, unregulated gambling platforms where you can make money by betting on elections and wars—especially if you happen to have a little insider information from the government. But by Tuesday, the federal government had already sued—because if there’s one thing the Trump administration loves, it’s forcing blue states…
Democrats finally release 2024 campaign autopsy—and it’s a mess
The Democratic National Committee released its long-delayed autopsy of the 2024 election Thursday, but the incomplete and error-riddled document raises more questions about party Chair Ken Martin’s leadership than it answers. Compiled in the aftermath of Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign, the document was supposed to be a summary of interviews with major stakeholders…
Trump will ease refrigerant rule in a bid to address surging grocery costs
The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said the Biden-era rule imposes costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants U.S.
Cops attacked by Jan. 6 rioters sue Trump over reparations scheme
Two of the police officers who responded to the pro-Trump Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are now suing the administration after it revealed plans for a taxpayer financed slush fund to reward insurrectionists and other Trump allies. D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Officer Daniel Hodges and former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn filed suit on Wednesday. The suit seeks to block the…
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Trump’s latest GOP target is his dumbest yet
Emboldened by his successful efforts to oust multiple GOP lawmakers who defied his orders, President Donald Trump now has a new Republican target—and it may be his dumbest yet. On Wednesday, Trump turned his ire to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, threatening to go after the Pennsylvania Republican who has come out against Trump’s corrupt slush fund to give reparations to traitorous rioters who…
Trump is winning all the wrong battles
On paper, the past few months have been good for President Donald Trump. He notched primary victories against a slew of Indiana Republicans who refused to redistrict their state as he’d demanded. He helped take down Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie. And his endorsement of corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in that state’s Republican Senate primary all but…
Tina Peters’ commutation has left election officials feeling betrayed
The Trump-aligned former county clerk had been convicted for helping to breach her own county’s election systems, but Colorado Gov. Jared Polis abbreviated her sentence. By Carrie Levine for Votebeat When Colorado Gov. Jared Polis first signaled that he was considering clemency or a commutation for Tina Peters, a former county clerk who was convicted for helping to breach her county’…
Tom the Dancing Bug reveals the shadow docket’s true identity!
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The devil is in the details of Trump’s shady IRS ‘settlement’
The week started with a one-two punch of the Department of Justice’s so-called Settlement Agreement with President Donald Trump on Monday, followed by a little something extra on Tuesday—no big deal, just an afterthought, really. It’s totally normal and not corrupt to promise the sitting president and everyone around him total immunity from all investigations or audits…
The reflecting pool saga gets murkier, and why Republicans think flags will save them
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. GOP has a new midterms strategy: Lotsa flags! Hope they’re extra absorbent because there’s a blue wave coming. Massie’s loss proves GOP voters do not tolerate opposition to Trump Republican lawmakers risk defying Trump at their own peril—but his victories could be…
If I’m not supposed to steal it …
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Watch Democrats shred GOP’s sham hearing on racism
House Judiciary Committee Republicans spent Wednesday attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center, using the Justice Department’s dubious fraud case to try to whitewash the Trump administration’s long history of racism. Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas cut through the spectacle by asking GOP witnesses one simple question: Are the Proud Boys and neo-Nazis white supremacist…
Major news outlets are ignoring Trump’s shady stock trades
The mainstream media has largely ignored a report detailing how Donald Trump has consistently publicly touted companies in his role as president while quietly buying up their shares. On Monday, Judd Legum of the Popular Information newsletter published an investigation correlating Trump’s financial disclosure filings with his public statements. And he found a pattern: Trump praises companies…
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Republicans rush to kiss Trump’s ass so he won’t target them next
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie’s loss in the Kentucky primary on Tuesday has sent Republicans rushing to kiss the ring on President Donald Trump’s makeup-slathered hand. “You have to give up on some of your personal preferences sometimes because you’re in a deliberative body, and you have 434 colleagues, okay?” House Speaker Mike Johnson said during a press conference Wednesday.
Jeff Bezos slobbers bizarre praise on Trump
Multibillionaire and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos claimed in an interview that President Donald Trump has been more “mature” and “disciplined” in his second term, an assessment at odds with what the entire world has seen since January 2025. “I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term,” Bezos said in an interview with CNBC that aired…