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…
Trump boasts ‘phenomenal job’ as unemployment surges
Just hours after President Donald Trump praised himself for supposedly doing a near-perfect job with the economy, the monthly jobs report was released—showing an increase in unemployment and fewer jobs than analysts had expected. The Labor Department revealed Friday that the unemployment rate has risen to 4.2% and that only 29,000 jobs were added in September—a far cry from the 90,000…
Modern times
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GOP’s cash blitz in Texas won’t save Ken Paxton
Three weeks ago, Republican super PACs began dumping tens of millions into Texas’ Senate contest, unleashing an ad blitz they hoped would hurt Democratic nominee James Talarico and boost Republican Ken Paxton. Yet Fox News dropped a poll Thursday evening that showed the money is not working, with Paxton trailing Talarico 49% to 51% among likely voters. Oddly, the poll found Talarico’s…
Bad jobs report, empty healthcare promises … and more!
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Chris Backemeyer hopes to sink GOP Rep. Mike Flood in midterms
Better Know a Democrat is an interview series to give voters a closer look at candidates in competitive races across the U.S. Nebraska’s 1st District runs red. In 2024, President Donald Trump won it by 13 percentage points, and Republican Rep. Mike Flood was reelected by 20 points. But with diesel prices rising due to Trump’s war of choice in Iran, some Nebraskans who entrusted their…
59 years ago: Thurgood Marshall became first Black Supreme Court justice
On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, becoming the first Black person to serve on the court. Nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to replace retiring Justice Tom Clark, Marshall went on to serve one day shy of 24 years on the bench. “I believe he earned that appointment; he deserves the appointment,” Johnson said. “He is best qualified by…
Swinging for the midterms
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We need just 1 in 10 Republicans
The math is quite simple. In a 50-50 country, it doesn’t take a massive political realignment to produce a decisive majority. If just 1 in 10 Republican voters switches sides, Democrats gain 5 percentage points and Republicans lose 5 points, turning a 50-50 electorate into a comfortable 55-45 Democratic lead. Now, no one should pretend that the GOP’s electoral troubles this cycle are…
Eric Schmitt with the sports
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Kennedy Center on track to be Trump’s next bankruptcy
The Trump administration has been insisting to the courts—and everyone else—that the only way the Kennedy Center can stay open is if President Donald Trump’s name can be slapped on it, because those people who raced to donate because Trump’s name was on it would take their money back if Trump’s name isn’t on it. It turns out that pretty much the opposite is true. Basically…
Trump taps Musk to help kill people in war
The Trump administration has once again put racist billionaire Elon Musk in a position of influence over U.S. policy, this time at the Defense Department. On Wednesday, the department announced that Musk would join defense technology company CEO Palmer Luckey—who is also a GOP megadonor—and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in leading “Project Meridian.” The department described the…
JD Vance proves he can’t take a heckle
Vice President JD Vance is continuing his toxic midterm stumping tour in Florida, where once again he lied, was promptly heckled, and then tried to undermine the fact that most people do not like him. “We got a clown over here, ladies and gentlemen,” Vance said as the protester was escorted from the room. “That guy, you know, he pretends like he just broke out into an emotional protest…
The Oval Office could be Trump’s next target for tackiness
It seems like no matter what else is going on—the economy tanking, his war in Iran failing and flailing, his party facing a historic midterm rout—we know that President Donald Trump will always make time for what he really loves: his construction projects in Washington, D.C. And he just revealed, in one of his patented “Sir” stories, that he wants to add to his swath of destruction and tear…
Republican suggests more ‘hurtful methods’ in Tennessee execution
Legal analyst John Yoo appeared on Fox News Thursday to try to explain how the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee could have been avoided. Pike is currently being treated at a hospital after surviving two doses of lethal injection. And instead of dealing with the moral implications of state-sanctioned killings, Yoo said that the problem is that lethal injection is the “most humane…
Why dark red Utah may be fertile ground for Democrats
Utah is one of the most Republican states in the country, coming in at No. 13 based on its Partisan Voting Index which measures how partisan a state is compared to the U.S. as a whole. But there is reason to believe that Utah could be fertile ground for Democrats in the years ahead—especially if the GOP maintains its loyalty to Donald Trump and Trumpism. About half of Utahns identify as…
Even crypto bros are bailing on Trump
It’s honestly impressive, in a perverse way, to see just how much President Donald Trump has managed to alienate the voters who carried him to victory in 2024. And now, he even appears to be losing the crypto bros, who were some of his strongest soldiers. On Thursday, The Washington Post spoke with several crypto streamer influencer bros like Carl Runefelt, who bought the stupid $TRUMP…
Hegseth focuses on T levels and haircuts while he fails in Iran
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday where he ranted at length about faux masculinity, engaged in anti-transgender hate speech, and extolled the virtue of testosterone—all while presiding over a wildly unpopular war against Iran opposed by most Americans. Hegseth described the purportedly positive changes he has made to the military: “No…