Republicans ramp up bid to rig election maps
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
Category: Corruption
Shady US Department Trump official used his position to get his son-in-law an EPA job
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
Big Oil Takes $1.9 Billion in Tax Breaks Intended for Small Businesses
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Trump’s new coronavirus vaccine czar owns $10 million in stock options in company developing vaccine
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
Trump Wanted Less Testing Because Jared Kushner Said It Would Spook Wall Street
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
Facebook’s Double Standard on Political Ads
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
Fossil fuel firms linked to Trump get millions in coronavirus small business aid
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
Trump Campaign Secretly Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
How the Republicans are stealing everything for the 1 percent
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it’s still the Donald-and-Jared corrupt clown show
The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they’re on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local...
Republican’s sabotaged Florida’s unemployment system putting Trump’s re-election bid in jeopardy
Republicans are furious that Florida’s broken unemployment system was working exactly as former Gov. Rick Scott intended — and it...
Rand Paul’s Office Won’t Say How He Got Coronavirus Tested Before Sick People
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
Trump Taps Former Attorney Of Trophy Hunting Group For Key Wildlife Job
The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International,...
Virus Relief Bill Would Allow Mnuchin To Hand Out $500 Million ‘Slush Fund’ To Secret Corporations
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
It’s morally repulsive how corporations are exploiting this crisis. Workers will suffer: Robert Reich
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
Trump Is Taking Bribes And Selling Access To The White House
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
How Big Pharma twists the law to its will and leaves Americans worse off
Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re...
Robert Reich: The biggest business con of 2019 — fleecing workers while bosses get rich
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Robert Reich: How Trump has betrayed the working class
Trump’s corporate giveaways and failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Trump...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
‘Tax Dodger-in-Chief’ Trump Changes Permanent Residency From New York to Florida
In the midst of a heated court battle with Manhattan over his tax returns, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night...
Swamp Gets Larger: Report Details 281 Lobbyists in Trump Administration Over First Two Years
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Holding Secret Meetings With Conservatives
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
Trump’s Business Holdings in Turkey Sets His Foreign Policy For The Region
Trump Towers in Istanbul is a major part of Trump’s business portfolio. “The Turks are also the top patrons of...
Off by $1 Trillion — Two-Year Anniversary of Mnuchin Lie That Trump Tax Cuts Would Slash Deficit
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Trump Breaks The Law Every Time Taxpayer Money Is Spent At One Of His Properties
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
Warren Unveils “Most Sweeping Set of Anti-Corruption Reforms Since Watergate”
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
Crook Trump: Air Force Planes Diverted to Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort
There have been so many Trump scandals that it seems impossible to keep them straight without a scorecard, but the...
NRA Gives Mitch McConnell $1.6 Million To Block Expanded Background Checks
If you’re wondering why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to advance a bipartisan bill to expand background checks...
Republicans’ Refusal to Expand Medicaid Results in Over 15,000 Deaths
The decision of 14 states not to expand Medicaid under Obamacare cost more than 15,000 lives, according to a new...
Donald Trump’s Big Infrastructure Lie
Bad news about infrastructure is as ubiquitous as potholes. Failures in a 108-year-old railroad bridge and tunnel cost New York commuters thousands...
Robert Reich: How Wall Street Enables Racist Trump
It started with Donald Trump’s racist tweets demanding that four Democratic congresswomen – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar...
Park Service Directed To Shift $2.5 Million To Help Pay For Trump’s July 4 Celebration To Himself
The National Park Service will divert about $2.5 million in fees gathered from park-goers to help pay for the hefty...
Trump’s Golf Has Cost Taxpayers $102 Million
President Donald Trump’s golf habit has cost taxpayers $102 million and counting, HuffPost estimated in a Wednesday report, based on an analysis...
Republicans Take $400K From Casino Mogul Accused Of Sexual Assault
The national Republican Party has accepted nearly $400,000 in donations from disgraced ex-casino mogul Steve Wynn — a move that...
Ocasio-Cortez backs CEO into a corner over why he charges Americans $2000 for drug that costs $8 in Australia
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday cornered the CEO of biotech firm Gilead Sciences about why his company charges nearly...
Profligate Preacher Wants to Upgrade to a $54 Million Dollar Jet
Pastor Jesse Duplantis zips around in a Dassault Falcon 50 jet paid for by his church. Inside Edition found him...
Former Chief of Staff John Kelly Now Profiting Off of Migrants
The former Trump administration official who first proposed separating migrant children from their parents with the specific intent to deter...
Whistleblowers Shine Light On The Fraud & Corruption In The Pentagon
Via America’s Lawyer: Trial Magazine’s Editor Farron Cousins and Lee Camp, Host of Redacted Tonight discuss the reasons behind why Pentagon has silenced nearly...
Insurance CEO Whines That Medicare For All Would Disrupt His Profits
UnitedHealth Group CEO David Wichmann is warning investors that the healthcare market could come crashing down thanks to the push...
Big Oil Invested More Than $1 Billion On Misleading Climate Lobbying
The globe’s five largest publicly-traded oil and gas majors — ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total — invested...
Robert Reich: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism, unless of it’s the banks that need a government bailout
In his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it...
Heath Insurance Industry Tries To Buy Off Democrats To Stop Medicare For All
According to a new analysis by Think Progress, healthcare groups are ramping up their spending and giving to Democrats on...
The Republican party is the political arm of the fossil fuel industry
For Republicans, the climate crisis is a joke. On Tuesday in the Senate, Mike Lee, a Republican senator for Utah,...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
AOC Exposes The Dark Side Of Politics In 5 Incredible Minutes
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) exposed some of the biggest flaws and loopholes in campaign finance laws this week ― and she...
Trump’s Vacations To Mar-A-Lago Cost Taxpayers $13.6M, Government Report Finds
President Trump and his entourage cost taxpayers a combined $13.6 million for just four trips over one month to his...
