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...
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Progressive Democrats Attempt to Resurrect FDR’s Second Bill Of Rights
Most Americans do not realize it but January 11th 2019 marks 75 years since President Rosevelt, proposed free college education,...
American democracy seems rigged because it is: Robert Reich
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
The GOP Reboots Its Old Tax and Budget Scam
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
Koch Brother’s Attempt to Upend Democracy & Make Americans Pay for the Damage
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
Boycott Urged After San Francisco Giants Owner Donates to Neo-Confederate Candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
Major Victory for a Million Workers: Minimum Wage Increases Pass in Arkansas and Missouri
Voters in Arkansas and Missouri have approved a ballot initiative that would significantly raise the minimum wage in their states,...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Three states just voted to expand Medicaid and give more than 300,000 people health care
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage...
Gov. Scott Walker, who rose to prominence attacking teachers unions, unseated by a former teacher
Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin’s state superintendent of public education and a former teacher, won the governor’s race against incumbent Scott...
National TV News Stations Drop the Ball on GOP Georgia Voter Suppression
Georgia’s secretary of state and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Brian Kemp, is blocking the voter registrations of tens of thousands of...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Proposal to Go After Washington DC’s Culture of Corruption
We are in the midst of a corruption crisis. In the past few weeks alone, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney,...
Vote Against Teacher Pay Comes Back to Bite Six More Oklahoma Republicans
Six more Oklahoma state House Republicans lost their primary run-offs on Tuesday after having voted against raising taxes to give teachers their...
New ‘Medicare for All’ House Caucus Formed to Promote Single Payer Healthcare
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Senate Report Finds Russia Used the Corrupt NRA to Help Elect Trump
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Trump’s Erratic Behavior Rekindles Theories About Untreated Neurosyphilis
The cause of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior has been the subject of rampant speculation for years. Some have pointed to the hair-loss drug...
‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon and the White Supremacist Mercer Family Caught Rigging Elections Worldwide
For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the...
Biggest Koch Whore In Congress Is New US Secretary Of State
Of all the congressional representatives who have suckled themselves at the breast of the Koch brothers and their friends, Mike...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 GOP Tax Plan Tells Us That It Is The Rich Who Matter To Republicans
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Republicans Are Refusing To Give Healthcare To Kids Until Billionaires Get Tax Cuts
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires...
Republicans Finally Admit That Trump Is Unfit For Office
Republican Senator Bob Corker unloaded on Trump in a recent interview with The New York Times, where he said that...
Trump Throws 1 Million Americans Off Of Their Health Insurance By Ending CSR Payments
Trump’s decision to stop making the ACA’s cost-sharing payments to help people get access to affordable healthcare will result in...
White Supremacist Steve Bannon Declares War on the Republican Establishment
After calling on Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) to resign over his criticism of President Trump, former White House Chief Strategist...
VP Mike Pence Spends $240,000 to Attend NFL Game to Make a Political Point
Vice President Mike Pence spent more than $200,000 to attend the 49ers-Colts game he left on Sunday after players knelt during the anthem, according...
Fascist Trump Hides Behind The Troops As Criticism of His Handling of Puerto Rico Grows
Saturday, President Trump conflated criticism of him with criticism of our soldiers and first responders. In fact, the U.S. territory...
Trumpcare Is Back, and It’s Even More Disgusting
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduce the latest proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act,...
Alt-Right Fascist Trump Goes Off The Rails With His Moral Equivalency Rant
President Donald Trump spoke again Tuesday on the white supremacist conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, defending his much-criticized initial statement on the protests and...
Obama Raises $10.8 Million To Combat GOP Election Rigging
The Obama backed, and Eric Holder chaired, National Democratic Redistricting Committee has raised $10.8 million in six months in their...
Bernie Sanders To Propose New Rule Requiring Fair Prices For Taxpayer-Funded Drugs
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to propose a new rule Monday that would require pharmaceutical companies to charge fair prices...
The Wrong President To Tout ‘Made in America’ Week
You might have missed “energy week” at the White House. It followed “transportation week.” And who can forget the unbridled...
Bernie Sanders Celebrates Trump’s Crushing Healthcare Defeat In The Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) celebrated the collapse of the Republican health care bill and called it a great victory for...
Tobacco Companies Tighten Hold On Washington Under Trump
Tobacco companies have moved swiftly to strengthen their grip on Washington politics, ramping up lobbying efforts and securing significant regulatory...
Deluded Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks Says Universal Healthcare Too Expensive, Tax Cuts For Wealthy Are Necessary
Republican Congressman Mo Brooks from Alabama told CNN that enacting a universal healthcare program in the United States is just...
After Slashing Medicaid, Republicans Take Aim At Food Stamps
After taking a meat ax to Medicaid – a program that more than 70 million American rely on – in...
Sen. Orrin Hatch Plays Dumb and Claims He Hasn’t Seen The Secret GOP Trumpcare Bill
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) doesn’t know what’s in the Senate health care bill he’s going to vote for either, so...
White House Admits Trump Lied About Bringing Back Coal Jobs
The White House’s real position on bringing back coal jobs was revealed after Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn made it...
Catholics Petition The Senate To Stop Trump From Taking Health Care From Americans
The group Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (CACG) is calling on US Senators to stand up and stop...
Nate Silver Reveals How The Corporate Media Cost Hillary Clinton The Election
The media doesn’t talk about how Hillary Clinton really lost, because it implicates their judgment. Nate Silver pointed out that...
Attempting to Boost His Dismal Poll Numbers, Donald Bombs Syria
In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees...
Senate Republicans Vote To Take Retirement Accounts Away From Low Income Workers
By a 50-49 vote, Senate Republicans have rolled back an Obama-era regulation that allowed states to create retirement accounts for...
