Local editorial: GOP senator sacrificing ‘every last shred of integrity’
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) spends his time in the U.S. Senate bowing ‘to partisan expediency above reason and truth.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 08, 2019Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) spends his time in the U.S. Senate bowing ‘to partisan expediency above reason and truth.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 08, 2019Trump encourages a culture of dangerous extremism.
By Oliver Willis - April 25, 2019The United States military had to step in after Trump started spouting baseless conspiracy theories and threats against Mexico.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 24, 2019Republicans keep making videos to show how serious the border issue is, but they end up making themselves looking very silly.
By Emily Singer - April 22, 2019If Rep. Duncan Hunter had actually stepped onto Mexican soil — instead of just pretending he had — he could have been in very serious trouble.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 19, 2019A group of Republican lawmakers claimed they were watching Trump’s wall being built at the border. They weren’t.
By Oliver Willis - April 16, 2019In a virulently racist speech at the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump falsely said that the U.S. is ‘full’ and cannot accept any more immigrants.
By Emily Singer - April 05, 2019Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen admitted that Trump’s Friday visit to the border wall is a stunt.
By Emily Singer - April 05, 2019Trump backed down from his promise to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border after almost everyone told him how catastrophic that closure would be.
By Emily Singer - April 05, 2019Trump is facing yet another lawsuit for yet another egregious abuse of power.
By Emily Singer - April 04, 2019No one thinks this is a good idea.
By Lisa Needham - April 04, 2019Trump is committed to his plan to shut down the border. Too bad no one around him knows what that actually means.
By Lisa Needham - April 03, 2019Trump’s latest threat to shut the southern border could be a disaster for the US economy, but he’s just fine with that.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 02, 2019The American auto industry would shut down ‘within a week’ if Trump closes the U.S.-Mexico border, a leading auto industry expert said.
By Emily Singer - April 02, 2019Trump hasn’t built a wall on the border. But he is spending tax dollars to visit a plaque that says he did.
By Oliver Willis - April 02, 2019Trump’s friends on Fox News are trying to stop him from causing another economic mess.
By Oliver Willis - April 01, 2019Trump just threatened billions of dollars in American business with a whiny rant about shutting down the border.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2019It’s ‘a dollar-for-dollar theft from other readiness needs of our Armed Forces,’ members of the Senate Appropriations Committee said.
By Oliver Willis - March 26, 2019Trump is harming the women and men who serve in the Marine Corps.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 21, 2019Despite claiming to care about human trafficking, Trump is forcing more victims back into danger and prosecuting fewer of their traffickers.
By Caroline Orr - March 21, 2019GOP senators voted to let Trump rob millions of dollars from military families in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and North Carolina.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 19, 2019Trump used his first veto to override Congress’ decision to repeal his fake emergency.
By Emily Singer - March 15, 2019The Denver Post called their 2014 endorsement of Sen. Cory Gardner “a mistake.”
By Dan Desai Martin - March 15, 2019The Trump administration is exploring sending a volunteer force to the southern border. No one knows who those volunteers will be or what they would do.
By Lisa Needham - March 15, 2019Sen. Thom Tillis was blasted as ‘spineless’ for caving at the last minute to support Trump’s fake ‘national emergency.’
By Dan Desai Martin - March 14, 2019Still, roughly 80 percent of Senate Republicans voted to let Trump’s fake emergency stand, siding with Trump over the Constitution.
By Emily Singer - March 14, 2019Trump got a surprise visit from a trio of GOP senators who pleaded with him to change his mind about his fake national emergency.
By Emily Singer - March 14, 2019The Senate will vote this afternoon to smack down Trump’s fake national emergency.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 14, 2019Senate Republicans are laying the groundwork to let Trump’s unconstitutional fake emergency declaration stand.
By Emily Singer - March 13, 2019Some Republicans are ‘queasy’ about Trump using a fake emergency declaration to build a wall along the southern border.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 12, 2019