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It’s been only a couple of days since President Trump tweeted a racist screed telling four congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S., to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Since then, Trump has doubled down on his attacks, and many…
White supremacists protest at last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA. Photo: AP On July 11th, Spokane, WA Republican Party chairwoman Cecily Wright introduced the alt-right personality James Allsup at a meeting of Northwest Grassroots, a local tea party organization. Allsup—a 22-year-old elected GOP precinct officer and noted white supremacist—is introduced by Wright…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), announcing that he will not seek re-election for another term in Congress, during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 11, 2018 Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty Images) On Wednesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) announced that he would not be seeking re-election and would retire…
CNN Despite a last ditch effort by protesters to appeal to any vestige of shame or dignity from within the GOP, House Republicans on Tuesday voted in favor of a tax overhaul that will give a giant boost to the ultra-rich while dramatically screwing over most ordinary citizens. The final vote was 227-203, with 12…
Surely there are more than two Republican senators who are smart enough to realize that Betsy DeVos is neither qualified nor competent to lead the U.S. Department of Education. Which makes her confirmation Tuesday all the more maddening. For all of President Donald Trump’s talk as a candidate about disrupting Washington as usual, there…
Country First The United States has had, prior to Donald Trump, 44 presidents. (Arguably we’ve had 43, but the guardians of historical pedantry long ago decreed that Grover Cleveland, who served nonconsecutive terms, would be counted as two.) There’s no reason our descendants shouldn’t enjoy at least another 44—and, one hopes, even more. But there’s…
(Mark Lyons/European Pressphoto Agency) Last night, CNN aired a terrific segment on people from coal country who voted for Donald Trump — but are now worried that his vow to repeal Obamacare will deprive them of crucial protections that enable them to stay afloat financially. This dovetails with other reporting that suggests a lot of Trump…
Amid a wave of criticism on Monday, House Republicans are reversing course on a plan to kill the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent body created to investigate unethical wrongdoing by lawmakers. House Republican met in secret on Sunday evening and voted to rein in the OCE by subjecting it to oversight from the…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the Department of Energy’s name in 2011 while running for president, to head that department in his future administration. According to CBS News, “two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process” said Perry had met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on…