The Right-Wing Billionaires Bankrolling the Effort Destroy America’s Unions
The Economic Policy Institute released a report today detailing the network of conservative mega-donors supporting the Supreme Court case Janus...
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Trump’s VA Secretary Steals From Taxpayers
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin isn’t going to be resigning as he should be. Instead, Viveca Wright Simpson, Shulkin’s...
How the NRA Helped Train the Florida School Shooter
NRA Foundation — the National Rifle Association subsidiary responsible for the group’s school safety initiative — helped fund the marksmanship...
Trump and Putin Share the Same Criminal Network
by Mark Tracy No previous United States president has had anything close to Donald J. Trump’s record of repeated...
U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Trump’s EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Says a Lack of Public ‘Civility’ Forces Him to Take Expensive First Class Flights
Scott Pruitt is back in the big seats. Two days after an exposé in the Washington Post revealed the EPA...
Pentagon Won’t Answer Who Would Pay for Trump’s Expensive Military Parade
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon on Thursday said it was not certain that the Washington-area would host a parade requested...
New York City Plans to Divest $5 Billion from Fossil Fuels and Sue Oil Companies
New York City is seeking to lead the assault on climate change and the Trump administration with a plan to...
Fight For $15 Movement Plans Fast-Food Workers’ Strike Across South
The Fight for $15, the movement that has galvanized city campaigns to raise the pay of low-wage workers, is teaming...
Anti-Science Trump Plans To Gut Renewable Energy Research Funding By 72 Percent
Continuing his disastrous anti-environment crusade, Donald Trump is reportedly proposing to gut funding for renewable energy research programs by a...
Bernie Sanders Brilliantly Dismantles All Of The Lies Trump Told In His SOTU Speech
In this Majority Report clip, we watch Bernie Sanders, piece by piece, cut through Donald Trump’s State of the Union...
Melania Trump Wasted $675,000 Of Taxpayer Money On 21 Vacation Flights In 3 Months
While living in New York, First Lady Melania Trump cost taxpayers $675,000 to and from New York to DC, and...
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out Plan To Hold Health Insurers Accountable
WASHINGTON ― In a speech to a liberal health policy conference on Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed new rules to...
Trump Announces Plan To Increase Levels Of Toxic Air Pollution In America
The Trump administration has announced their plan to roll back regulations under the Clean Air Act that will allow fossil...
Oxfam Calls Out Donald Trump for Making Wealth Inequality Worse
The world’s richest 1 percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year, according to a new report...
Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare For All’ Online Town Hall Draws Over 1 Million Live Viewers
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ televised town hall on Tuesday night to promote single-payer health care, or “Medicare for all,” drew a live...
Now Republicans Are Threatening to Blow Up Children’s Health Care: Paul Krugman
Back in the depths of the Cold War, people used to talk about “doomsday machines,” devices that could destroy the...
White House Propaganda Crumbles As Doctor Admits Trump Hasn’t Had A Psychological Evaluation
The White House is going to try to spin the results of Trump’s physical into an argument that he is...
Trump’s Golf Trips Cost Taxpayers $43 Million In 2017
According to a new analysis of Trump’s golfing habits, his frequent trips to the golf course cost American taxpayers $43...
Let’s Wrench Power Back From the Billionaires: Bernie Sanders
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Like His Late Father Who Had Alzheimer’s, Trump May Be Suffering from the Same Disease
President Donald Trump’s decision to about the size of his “nuclear button” compared with North Korea’s was widely condemned as...
Billionaire Koch Bros Launch $20 Million Propaganda Campaign To Get Americans To Support Tax Cuts For The Rich
The Koch Brothers, through their political action networks, have decided to spend $20 million on a new ad campaign designed...
As The Rich Get Tax Cuts, More Americans Fall Into Extreme Poverty
The Republican Party that controls all branches of our federal government recently decided that the most important thing they could...
Trump Sets A Shocking Record For Laziness By Taking 4 Times More Vacation Days Than Obama
As 2017 draws to a close, Donald Trump has blown the record for presidential first year vacation days out of...
Trump Told Friends ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ From Tax Bill
President Donald Trump told friends at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club “you all just got a lot richer” after the passage...
Trump Embraces Corruption By Pulling US Out Of Global Anti-Corruption Pact
Donald Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative which is more commonly...
Protesters Heckle Paul Ryan And Scream Liar As He Celebrates Cutting Taxes For The Rich
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House...
Mentally Destroyed Trump Is Spending His Days Laying In Bed, Watching TV, and Tweeting
As president, Trump is a sloth who is spending 4-8 hours a day laying in bed, watching TV, or tweeting....
Whiny Millionaires Beg Trump To Give Them Even More Tax Breaks
In spite of the fact that every analysis performed on the Republican tax cut package shows that the legislation is...
4 Trump Accusers Call on Congress to Investigate the Predator Trump
NEW YORK ― Four women who have accused President Donald Trump of sexual harassment and assault are demanding that Congress investigate...
The Gun Lobby Puts Up Big Money To Elect Accused Child Molester Roy Moore
Just when we thought the National Rifle Association couldn’t be any more repugnant, the extremist gun organization rises to the...
Robert Mueller Is Coming After Trump Financial Crimes By Subpoenaing Deutsche Bank Records
Trump was dealt a body blow as Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed his financial records from Deutsche Bank. The...
The Trump Crime Family Is Collapsing As A Top Senate Investigator Is Coming For Jared Kushner and Trump Jr.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee told reporters that due to information that Mike...
Billionaire Drug Pusher Indicted
U.S. prosecutors charged billionaire, founder of an opioid medication maker, John Kapoor, with fraud and racketeering. This follows indictments against...
Elizabeth Warren: Trump Keeps Choosing Big Banks Over Working Families
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said President Donald Trump’s appointment of Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is more...
Trump Family To Save $1 Billion Under New Tax Plan, Middle Class Gets Shafted
According to a new analysis of the tax plan that passed the House this week, the entire Trump family will...
Trump Made Millions of Dollars From Drug Money Laundering in Panama: Newsweek Reports
President Donald Trump made tens of millions of dollars in profits by allowing Colombian drug cartels and other groups to launder...
Trump Claimed Keystone Pipeline Had ‘No Downside’ And Now It’s Leaking 210,000 Gallons Of Oil
In another failure for Donald Trump, the Keystone XL pipeline he revived shortly after taking office leaked more than 200,000...
Despite Trump Tantrums, Growth Of Solar Power Strongest In Red States & Republicans Love Solar
Donald Trump’s desire to pollute America’s skies with millions of tons of poisonous gases from coal-fired generating plants is running...
Voters Reject Psycho President As Number Who Believe Trump Is Mentally Fit Falls To New Low
A new Quinnipiac University Poll found that the number of Americans who think that Trump is mentally fit to be...
The Seven Republican Super-Donors Who Keep Money In Tax Havens
Seven Republican super-donors helped bankroll the conservative push for power in the 2016 election cycle, between them pumping more than...
Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The Trump administration has pulled out of a global deal to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, a move...
Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm: Middle-Class Americans Will Foot The Bill For GOP Tax Scam
Bernie Sanders sounded the alarm about the GOP tax plan on Thursday, saying the massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
How Corporate Giant Nike Stays One Step Ahead of the Taxman
Everyone knows Nike. Most people probably own a pair of Nikes. It is unquestionably one of the best-known brands in...
Bernie Sanders Warns of ‘International Oligarchy’ After Paradise Papers Leak
Bernie Sanders has warned that the world is rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a tiny number of billionaires,...
Trump Administration Wants to Use Taxpayer Dollars to Keep Outdated Coal Power Plant Operating
You hear it all the time from Trump supporters, the tired old shibboleths about “government shouldn’t be picking winners and...
