Trumptanic
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Related | GOP strategist says Trump should hide until midterms are over…
Trump thwarted in hunt for rare noncitizen voters as midterms near
By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections. Even a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states access to a supercharged Department of Homeland Security computer program to verify voters’…
More DOJ rats jump ship, and Trump finally pays what he owes—sort of
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. This week, Trump is out $5 million, his personal lawyers are still in trouble, and even his most dedicated believers are bailing out. It’s about time. President Donald Trump finally—FINALLY—formally gave up the fight in the E.
We can police ourselves!
A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump can’t make ‘super intelligence’ happen…
Chaz Molder knows his odds in Tennessee. He still thinks he can win.
It’s football time in Tennessee, and while the Volunteer State might be washed in orange for its college athletes, its congressional map is burning red. Earlier this year, state Republicans passed a gerrymander that seeks oust all Democrats from its nine-seat House delegation. As for University of Tennessee alumnus Charlie “Chaz” Molder, the Democratic nominee in Tennessee’s 5th District…
A month ’til midterms
The midterms are officially one month out, and Republicans are desperate to try anything to save themselves from the impending blue wave. But even as President Donald Trump recruits the Supreme Court in his voter fraud sham and tries to disrupt mail-in voting, the midterms are closing in—and they’re not looking good for the GOP. To celebrate the final stretch of voter mobilization…
The GOP: A clown show, a cult, or both?
The Conversation is a weekly dive into the most popular stories on Daily Kos and what it tells us about the national political environment. The GOP is not just a clown show. It’s a fascist cult that pursues cruel and inhumane policies, lacking even a hint of empathy, intellectual curiosity, and charity toward their fellow Americans. It’s what happens when a political movement is…
Rural MAHA followers say Trump health policies haven’t reached their communities
By Ali Swenson and Linley Sanders for The Associated Press and Sarah Jane Tribble for KFF Health News About half of rural voters identify with Make America Healthy Again, a sprawling political movement championed by the Trump administration, but most said President Donald Trump’s healthcare policies have not benefited their communities, according to a new poll from The Associated Press…
Finally found it
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Hegseth focuses on T levels and haircuts while he fails in Iran…
Democrats push deeper into GOP territory as midterms near
House Democrats on Friday announced plans to invest in eight more House districts that they say are now competitive thanks to President Donald Trump’s sinking popularity, bringing the total number of seats the party is targeting for pick ups to 66. Trump won all eight of the districts the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says it will divert resources to by double-digit margins.
AI’s rogue hallucinations
A cartoon by Brian McFadden. Support my Patreon for early access and exclusives. Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, or at my website. Related | Trump can’t make ‘super intelligence’ happen…
JD Vance hates discrimination—against white men
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec was allowed to hold a one-on-one interview with Vice President JD Vance Friday, and the conversation was just as gross and blatantly racist as you’d expect. “What young men are kind of responding to is that there’s so many pressures now on that labor market that just didn’t exist when a lot of those tone-deaf Republicans that you mentioned…
Kash Patel criticizes the FBI, but he’s certainly fallen short
So apparently FBI Director Kash Patel has gifted FBI employees with a report, snappily titled “Patel Report,” about all the times the bureau “fell short” in chapters of its history. The notion that the least-competent and least-qualified dude to ever helm the agency is here to tell everyone how it did badly in the past is ridiculous, but to be fair, it makes for terrific content.
Thanks, Trump! Kennedy Center Honors gala gets evicted.
The Kennedy Center Honors have been forced to relocate from the historic venue for the first time—and it’s all thanks to President Donald Trump’s pettiness. This year’s ceremony will be held at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., after being evicted from its home as the board—composed of loyalists installed by Trump—voted to close the center instead of complying with court orders to…
Trump mocks ‘affordability’ as a made-up word
During President Donald Trump’s red-state rally tour, he decided that the best way to address one of his biggest failings was to pretend that the word “affordability” simply does not exist. “Remember they came up with the word ‘affordability.’ So from Day 1 they said, ‘Well, what about your prices?’” he said. “They always come up with these words: ‘Affordability.’ So the fake news starts…
Here’s how much you’re paying the government not to work
Right now, every week, you’re paying $1.6 million to Voice of America employees, which probably sounds totally good and fine, because we should pay federal employees and pay them well, right? The problem is that you’re paying them to not work, and you’ve been paying that for months now. This is all happening because President Donald Trump wanted to shutter Voice of America on account of…
The boy who cried socialism
A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Socialist or MAGA Republican? America has a preference.
Trump’s South Korea ‘deal’ blows up in his face
President Donald Trump tried throwing Alaska’s incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan a bone Wednesday—but it quickly backfired. During a White House event, Trump claimed that South Korea agreed to invest $54 billion to export natural gas from Alaska. “I want to thank, in particular, Dan Sullivan for getting this deal done,” Trump said before explicitly calling on voters to support Sullivan in…
The presidential fitness test is back—thanks to WWE and your money
Continuing the tradition of the Trump administration spending whatever money it wants on whatever stupid stuff it wants, say goodbye to $10 million of your tax dollars to fund the Presidential Fitness School Innovation Challenge. Now, you might be saying to yourself, “Hey, that doesn’t sound so bad. It’s probably good to have a pot of money for K-12 schools to help kids stay healthy and fit.”…
Republicans abandon North Carolina Senate race to try to save Kansas
It’s now October, the final stretch of the midterm campaign cycle when political parties are forced to look at the data and make choices of where their time and resources are best spent. And the moves being made by Republicans confirm that they are seeing in their private data what all of us are seeing in the public numbers: The GOP is in serious trouble. On Friday, the news outlet Semafor…