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Why The GOP Debacle On The Hill Is Like Pro Wrestling

Republicans Turn Eating Their Own Into A Spectator Sport

Trump Casts The Worst And Dimmest For Season 2

Judge Shuts Down Trump’s Latest Attempt To Skate On Hush Money Conviction

In An Ominous Sign, ABC News Rolls Over For Trump

The Trump II Destruction Is Already Well Underway

Wray’s Resignation Clears The Way For Trump To Corrupt The FBI

Beware Of Trump’s Coming Purge Of The U.S. Military

At Risk Of Being Primaried, Joni Ernst Throws Pete Hegseth A Line

Incoming President Threatens Prison For Jan. 6 Committee Members

Hegseth’s Husk Of A Nomination Twists In The Wind

I Won’t Drink Anymore If That’s What It Takes To Be SecDef!

Trump’s Joke Of A Pick For The Pentagon Is Deeply Imperiled

Kash Patel Is A Blaring Alarm Of The Imminent Dangers Of Trump II

New Misconduct Allegations Against Pete Hegseth Emerge In The New Yorker

Rudy Giuliani Melts Down In Court: ‘I Have No Cash’

The Hard Truth Is That Donald Trump Got Away With A Violent Insurrection

With Matt Gaetz Out, Pete Hegseth Is Now In The Hot Seat

The Three Horsemen Of The Trump II Apocalypse

New Details Released On Sexual Assault Allegation Against Hegseth

What More Do GOP Senators Really Need To Know About Matt Gaetz?

No GOP Senators Have Been Bold Enough To Outright Oppose Gaetz For AG

Hegseth Settled Sex Assault Claim But Didn’t Disclose It To Trump

Trump Wants To Install His Personal Lawyers In Top DOJ Posts

Matt Gaetz Is Trump’s Way Of Humiliating Senate Republicans

Jack Smith Plans To Close Up Shop Before Trump’s Inauguration

Trump II’s Big Talk And Overt Threats Have A Power Of Their Own

Hundreds Of Jan. 6 Rioters May Ultimately Avoid The Law

Autocracy Has Come To America And It Won’t Be Pretty

Not The Fight We Wanted Or Signed Up For But It’s The One We Got

A Plaintive Cry For Election Reforms Before It’s Too Late

Trump Spent The Final Weekend Showing Exactly Who He Is

How We Got To The Precipice Of A Trump II Presidency

Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again

You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes

The Complex Election Threat Matrix Runs Through One Man

Trump’s MSG Rally Incited MAGA To Do Whatever It Takes To Seize Power

Jan. 6 Never Ended And Is Still Ongoing To This Day

Kamala Harris Plans To Close With A Strong Anti-Fascism Message

Two Generals Have Now Issued Dire Warnings That Trump Is A Fascist

Enough Already With The Endless Insistence On Fake Bipartisanship

The Trump Value Meal: Extra Buffoonery With A Side Of Fascism

Kamala Harris Refuses To Let Donald Trump Whitewash Jan. 6

Kamala Harris Punctures The Fox News Bubble In Her Own Way

Kamala Harris Ratchets Up Her Attacks On Donald Trump’s Fascism

Listen Closely Because What Donald Trump Is Saying Is Worse Than Ever

What It Looks Like When One Side Rejects Democracy

The Long, Brutal Public Health Cost Of Hurricanes

Georgia Board Turns Election Deniers Into Election ‘Monitors’

Trump Invokes The Ghastly Racist Trope Of Genetic Inferiority

Right-Wing Election Denialism Reaches An Astonishing New Low

Election Denier Tina Peters Slapped With 9-Year Prison Sentence

The Jan. 6 Case Against Donald Trump Is Part Of America’s Founding Story

Tim Walz Lowers The Boom On JD Vance Over Jan. 6

Electoral Politics Are A Terrible Prism For Natural Disasters

Trump’s Obsession With Violence Becomes More Explicit

The Eric Adams Case Is About More Than Public Corruption

Trump II’s Unique Dual Threat To Military AND Civilian Life

How To Decarbonize Your Life Right Now

Behold Trump’s New Creeptastic Quotes On Abortion

New Details Emerge On How Trump Already Weaponized DOJ The First Time

The 2024 Campaign Veered Off The Rails In One Bizarre Day

Trump-Vance Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Illegal And Legal Immigrants

The More Desperate Trump Gets, The More Toxic His Rhetoric Becomes

Welp, Turns Out Police ARE Investigating Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Fiasco

American Politics Hit Tilt In One Dangerous Weekend

Trump-Vance Virulent Attacks On Haitian Immigrants Yield Predictable Threats

What The Abuses Of Trump II Might Actually Look Like In The Real World

Kamala Harris Directly Confronted The Trump Menace In Our Midst

Harris Refuses To Concede The Politics Of Dominance To Trump

Trump’s Authoritarian Promise Is Distilled Into A Single Paragraph

Alleged Assailants In Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Fiasco Identified

Right-Wing Influencers Allegedly Duped By Russian Election Interference Scheme

Trump Outright Denies Arlington Cemetery Altercation

SCOTUS Has Set Up Tanya Chutkan To Fail In The Jan. 6 Case

6 Unanswered Questions About Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Fiasco

Cemetery Staffer Declines To Press Charges For Fear Of Retaliation

Now We Know What Jack Smith Was Up To In The Jan. 6 Case

The Colossal Systemic Failure In The Mar-a-Lago Case

In A Dramatically Changed Race, Trump Is On The Defensive

Democrats Pulled Off A Successful Convention Despite Themselves

The Dark New 2024 Twist To Trump’s Election Denialism

The Obamas Fire Up Dem Convention With Penis Joke And Real Talk

With An ‘I Love You,’ Harris Assumes Biden’s Mantle

A Dire New Threat Posed By Trump II Comes Into Focus

Project 2025’s Christian Nationalist Roots Exposed In Secret Recording

With JD Vance, Things Just Get Weirder And Weirder

The Ravages Of QAnon Brain Worms In The Real World

Roger Stone Was Phished Before Trump Campaign Hack-and-Dump

After Trump Campaign Hack, Experts Warn Of 2016 Redux

Jack Smith Wants More Time To Figure Out SCOTUS Immunity Ruling

20 Years Later, Political Press Still Falls Hard For Swift Boat Attacks

Harris-Walz Ticket Debuts With All The Feels

Kamala Harris Reportedly Picks Tim Walz As Her Running Mate

Judge Chutkan Has Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Back And Is Ready To Roll

Trump DOJ Allegedly Stymied Probe Into Whether He Took Egyptian Cash, WaPo Reports

Of Course Trump’s A Racist But It’s Worse Than That

Don’t Be Fooled By Trump’s Big Display Of Killing Project 2025

Kamala Harris Puts A Wobbly Donald Trump Back On His Heels

Trump Promises 2024 Is The Last Time We’ll Have To Vote … Wait, Wut?

Turns Out JD Vance Is One Weird Dude Even Without The Sofa Thing

At Least We Won’t Have Sleepwalked Our Way Into Authoritarianism

We Suddenly Have A Real Campaign On Our Hands

A Reader’s Guide To MAGA’s Racist And Misogynistic Attacks On Kamala Harris

The Impossibility Of Gaming Out Where Things Go From Here

The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return

Joe Biden’s Grip On Re-Nomination Is At Its Most Tenuous Since The Debate Disaster

Biden Relents And Elevates Supreme Court Reform To His Re-Election Agenda

The Whirlwind Of Events Defies What We Know About The Slow Grind Of Politics

A Shattering Weekend Of Political Violence And Casting Blame For It

Trump Leverages SCOTUS Immunity Ruling To Attack His Hush-Money Conviction

The Far-Right Wolves Are Still Circling While The Biden Saga Drags On

The Do-Something Caucus Responds In Force

‘Do Something’ Is Not A Plan Or Wise Counsel Or A Way Out

What An Utterly Surreal Week In American Politics

The American Experiment Has Gone Off The Rails

The Supreme Court Took A Sledgehammer To American Democracy

Why You Can’t Call The Roberts Court ‘Conservative’ Any Longer

How To Process Biden’s Debate Disaster

How Federal Workers Will Be The First Casualties Of Trump II

A New Trumpian Strategy For Perpetuating The Big Lie

Heritage Foundation Funds Blacklist Of Federal Workers

The Nevada Fake Electors Prosecution May Be Fatally Flawed

Aileen Cannon Refused To Step Aside Even After Other Judges Urged Her To Do So

A Quick And Dirty Guide To SCOTUS Malarkey In The Trump Immunity Case

Trump Revenge Race In Virginia Too Close To Call

The 2024 Election Is A Referendum On Jan. 6

Biden Takes Aim At Felon Trump And Out-of-Control Supreme Court

The GOP’s Whitewashing Of Jan. 6 Is Now Complete

Trump’s Campaign Of Retribution Is Already Well Underway

Behold The House GOP’s Never-Ending Stream Of Disinformation

Aileen Cannon Slaps Around Jack Smith Yet Again

Rudy G Gets Big Guffaws At Far-Right Confab For Calling Fani Willis A ‘Ho’

Trump Claims He Has Every Right To Prosecute His Enemies

Don’t Let Aileen Cannon’s Sleight Of Hand Fool You

How Much More Warning About Trump II Do You Need?

Biden Issues New Warnings On The Impending Threat Of Trump II

Republicans Can Never Grovel Enough To Satisfy Trump

A Turning Point In America’s Cold Civil War … If We’re Lucky

Donald Trump Bear Hugs Sam Alito At Height Of Flag Flap

Aileen Cannon Threatens To Sanction MAL Prosecutors

New Trouble Is Brewing In The Mar-a-Lago Case

Trump Turns WSJ Reporter Detained By Russia Into Re-Election Pawn

Flag-Flying Alito Busted Again … Via Google Street View

Aileen Cannon Gifts Trump Bogus New Fodder For His Disinformation Campaign

The Alitos Let Their Freak Flag Fly High – And No One’s Gonna Do A Thing About It

Rudy G Gets Served But Not Before Beclowning Himself Again

The Insurrectionists In Our Midst

Detroit Rises From Rock Bottom With Its First Population Increase Since the 1950s

Biden Throws Down Gauntlet In Taunting Trump To Debate

Mike Johnson Joins The Pathetic Parade To The Trump Trial

It’s Showtime! Star Witness Michael Cohen To Testify Against Trump

Judge Strafes Trump’s Legal Team After Stormy Daniels Testimony Ends

Don’t Blame Jack Smith For The Erosion Of The Rule Of Law

It Will Be Up To History Now To Render A Verdict On Aileen Cannon

Oh Look, Aileen Cannon Has Delayed The MAL Case Yet Again

Some Good Old-Fashioned (Alleged) Political Corruption

The Strangest Presidential Election Year We’ve Ever Endured

Another Wave Of Campus Arrests Overnight As Police Intervene In Protests

Trump Coup Lawyer Jeff Clark Absolutely Scorched In DC Bar Finding

Ken Chesebro Has A Whole Lotta ‘Splaining To Do

Federal Judge Directs His Scorn At Trump’s Courtroom Behavior

Rogue Supreme Court Abandons Democracy In Her Hour Of Greatest Need

18 People Indicted In Arizona Fake Electors Scheme

Trump Lawyer Loses All Credibility With Trial Judge

Wait, Trump Is Sticking With The No Sex Claim?

Awww, House Mows Over MTG On Way To Passing Ukraine Aid

It Takes A Village Where No One Is Above The Law To Bring Down A Tyrant

Kevin McCarthy’s Putrid Gift To Mike Johnson

NYT Is Said To Have Learned Nothing From Its Trump I Coverage

Trump Faces A Mini-Trial For Contempt Within The Larger Hush-Money Trial

The Sheer Absurdity At The Heart Of Trump’s Historic First Criminal Trial

The Big Lie Is A Long Con, A Grift, And A Trump Family Biz Opportunity

Trump GOP Reaps The Whirlwind On Its Anti-Abortion Absolutism

Judge Cannon Rules For Jack Smith–Though You Wouldn’t Know It

Donald Trump Wrings The Last Drop Of Dignity From Lindsey Graham’s Tortured Soul

Trump Refuses To Let Anti-Abortion Politics Wreck His Bid To Avoid Jail

The 3 Worst Aspects Of Aileen Cannon’s Latest Shenanigan

Trump’s Electoral College Mischief In Nebraska Fails

Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Done With Judge Aileen Cannon And Lets It Show

Trial Judge Rips Trump Over Attacks On His Daughter And Tightens Gag Order

The Easter Madness Of Donald J. Trump

Republicans So Badly Want To Run Against The Black Guy

Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case

Trump Re-ups ‘Stop The Steal’ Disinfo Slogan To Delegitimize 2024

Could Ronna McDaniel Kill Off The Partisan Talking Head Model Of News Coverage?

Crunch Time For Trump As Letitia James Closes In On Her Big Prize

Federal Judge Warns Of A Jan. 6 Repeat In The 2024 Election

Just Out There Running For Prez As A Straight Up Mob Boss

The Uniquely Catastrophic National Security Risk Of A Trump II Presidency

What New Madness Has Aileen Cannon Visited Upon Us?!

A Wild Weekend Of A Deranged Trump Telling You Exactly What He Will Do

Trump Keeps Exploiting Our Collective Lack Of Urgency

Cash-Strapped Trump’s TikTok Flip-Flop Exposes His Extreme Personal Vulnerability

Don’t Be Lulled Into Thinking Trump II Will Just Be A Repeat Of Trump I

Aileen Cannon Continues To Make A Mess Of The MAL Case

Another Rising GOP Star Succumbs To Their Own Buffoonery

GOP Stunned To Discover It’s Not Running Against A Cadaver In 2024

The Everlasting Shame Of Mitch McConnell

The Unholy Alliance Of Donald Trump And Elon Musk

In The Winter Of Our Trump Discontent, Things Look Bleak

Weisselberg To Plead Guilty To Perjury In Trump Civil Fraud Case

The Race To Try Trump Before The Election Reaches A Critical Stage

What To Make Of The Supreme Court Taking Trump’s Immunity Case?

Aileen Cannon Gets Something Right For Once

Jack Smith Pounds Trump For His Unprecedented Conduct In MAL Case

A Big Week Ahead For Donald Trump On Multiple Fronts

Trump’s Ridiculous Attempt To Escape The MAL Charges

Russian Disinformation Op Against Biden Blows Up In GOP’s Face

Russia’s Staggering Success In Duping Willing Republicans And Right Wing Media

Trump II Will Feature A Whole Lot Of Christian Nationalism

Fani Willis Endures Disrespect, Racist Tropes, And Public Humiliation

Jack Smith Urges SCOTUS To Stay Out Of Trump’s Immunity Case

Congrats On Your Bogus Impeachment, Champ

Candidate Trump Keeps Doing Putin’s Bidding And No One Bats An Eye

On The Road To Fascism, A Pit Stop To Fuel Up On Stupid

What The Hell Kind Of Day Was That?

Aileen Cannon Has Created Another Mess In The MAL Case

Republicans Are Flailing Like Never Before And It’s Amazing To Behold

Trump Is Doing To The GOP What He Wants To Do To America

Dems Fall For GOP’s Kabuki Theater Over Ukraine, Israel, And The Border

Weisselberg Poised To Plead Guilty To Perjury In NY Civil Fraud Case

What Is Trump Buying With Millions In Legal Fees For His Associates?

Alina Habba Gets Scorched By E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer–And Wilts

Greg Abbott’s Performative Border Clash Is A Classic MAGA Era Stunt

Relish What One Person Can Do To Defend The Rule Of Law

Federal Judges Warn Of The Dire Threat To Democracy

Ralph Norman Has No Regrets About His Call For ‘Marshall Law’

Trump’s Extraordinary Win In New Hampshire And The Road Ahead

Rudy G Tries Dodging $148M Defamation Judgment With Bankruptcy

Trump Isn’t Just Winning The GOP Primary. He’s Consolidating Absolute Power

Trump Is Definitely Not Going On Trial In DC In March

Ouch! Trump Lawyer Takes An Absolute Drubbing By The Judge

Trump Is Playing With Absolute Fire In The Carroll Case

Iowa GOP Embraces Insurrectionist For POTUS

Trump Is About To Take A Big, Big Loss In The NY Fraud Case

Bomb Threat Reported At Home Of Trump Trial Judge

On A Historic Day, Political Violence Was Just Below The Surface

Trump Takes Sledge Hammer To Rule Of Law Today In Historic Case

The Worst Dereliction Of Duty Ever By An American President

Trump’s Latest Gambit In Jan. 6 Case Already Kinda Worked

Trump Continues To Test The Constitution’s Limits

The New Argument That Might Save Trump’s March Trial Date

A Presidential Election Unlike Any Other Is Upon Us