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When it comes to the border, Trump has been treating the troops as his own personal army. With Democrats in the House, that has to change.
By Lisa Needham - February 01, 2019
Nevada tried to tell the federal government not to ship weapons-grade nuclear material across the state, but the Trump administration did it anyway, and secretly.
By Lisa Needham - January 31, 2019
Mitch McConnell thinks that increased access to the ballot box is a bad thing, of course.
By Lisa Needham - January 31, 2019
State GOP officials in Texas should have checked their math before alleging a massive voter fraud scheme that doesn’t exist.
By Lisa Needham - January 30, 2019
The country is facing historically low temperatures, but Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin thinks it’s wrong to close schools to keep children safe.
By Lisa Needham - January 30, 2019
William Barr, Trump’s pick for attorney general, is looking worse than ever.
By Lisa Needham - January 29, 2019
Republican senators are proposing another startling tax cut for the extremely wealthy.
By Lisa Needham - January 29, 2019
In a wildly inappropriate move, Trump took a meeting with Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas. They even discussed issues that are soon to be before the Supreme Court.
By Lisa Needham - January 28, 2019
Nancy Pelosi put Trump in his place last week, so naturally he took to Twitter to soothe his ego.
By Lisa Needham - January 28, 2019
The rejection was overruled in a seriously sketchy fashion.
By Lisa Needham - January 25, 2019
As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are turning on one another — and Mitch McConnell is getting an earful.
By Lisa Needham - January 25, 2019
In just one day, House committee chairs announced three new investigations into Trump.
By Lisa Needham - January 24, 2019
Sarah Huckabee Sanders probably didn’t count on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knowing her Bible verses quite so well.
By Lisa Needham - January 24, 2019
Trump thinks he’s going to deliver his State of the Union speech in the House chamber, even though Nancy Pelosi already told him no.
By Lisa Needham - January 23, 2019
Republicans might change the rules so that Trump’s unqualified nominees can sail right through the Senate.
By Lisa Needham - January 22, 2019
Over the last two years, Trump has solidified the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and today they handed him a major win: allowing his transgender troop ban to go into effect.
By Lisa Needham - January 22, 2019
Pence twisted MLK’s words to say he would have supported a wall to keep immigrants out.
By Lisa Needham - January 21, 2019
Mitch McConnell called bills to end the shutdown ‘absolutely pointless’ — but he was happy to bring forward an anti-choice bill that had no chance of passing.
By Lisa Needham - January 18, 2019
Turns out that Trump talked a lot more about his Trump Tower Moscow deal than he has ever let on.
By Lisa Needham - January 17, 2019
Rudy Giuliani continues his incredibly ineffective representation of Donald Trump.
By Lisa Needham - January 17, 2019
A government watchdog found that the agency that said Trump’s D.C. hotel lease was just fine never bothered to look at the Constitution.
By Lisa Needham - January 16, 2019
Neomi Rao, Trump’s pick to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, thinks women are at fault if they are sexually assaulted after drinking. And that’s only the beginning.
By Lisa Needham - January 16, 2019
Private companies and individuals are stepping up to help Coast Guard members get through the Trump. shutdown, but it’s simply not enough.
By Lisa Needham - January 16, 2019
It took Steve King proudly proclaiming himself to be a white nationalist and a white supremacist before House GOP leadership finally took some action.
By Lisa Needham - January 15, 2019
William Barr has gotten off to a disgraceful start.
By Lisa Needham - January 15, 2019
Trump flew off the handle and swore at his own chief of staff when Mick Mulvaney tried to suggest a compromise position with Democrats during shutdown negotiations.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2019
Both the New York Times and the Washington Post ran blockbuster stories on Trump’s Russian entanglements over the weekend — and Trump imploded in spectacular fashion.
By Lisa Needham - January 14, 2019
Trump’s choice for attorney general has started to make the rounds on Capitol Hill, but he really doesn’t want to talk to Democrats.
By Lisa Needham - January 11, 2019
In his quest to build his racist border wall, Trump is seeking to divert disaster funds from places like California and Puerto Rico.
By Lisa Needham - January 11, 2019
Trump wants new presidential powers that would let him intensify his catastrophic trade war.
By Lisa Needham - January 11, 2019