As the inauguration ceremonies were underway on Friday, I detailed the compelling case for the impeachment of President Donald Trump as of the moment he took the oath of office. Because of his vast foreign dealings, holdings, and entanglements, and his refusal to adequately divest or separate himself from his businesses and assets before assuming the […]

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers reportedly told both President Obama and President-elect Trump that Russia is saying it has compromising personal and financial information about Trump. According to CNN, the brief synopsis containing this information was not included in the […]

Anyone who followed the last weeks of the presidential campaign that saw now-President-elect Donald Trump badly beaten in the popular vote and eking out a 70,000-vote margin in key states knows that any undue interference would have been enough to swing the election in Trump’s favor. There were two major things that have been cited as […]

Just minutes after Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court seat that was stolen from Merrick Garland, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke took to Twitter to engage in a repugnant celebration of the pick — explicitly because Gorsuch is not Jewish: https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/826606635225325568 Of course, of […]

44 years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down an immensely important and controversial decision which reproductive justice activists have been working to protect ever since. In the case of Roe v. Wade, the court declared that a person’s decision to have an abortion was protected by the right to privacy guaranteed by the Due […]

As Shareblue reported, prominent Ku Klux Klan alum David Duke tweeted his approval of Donald Trump’s bizarre and troubling press conference, at which Trump attacked and harassed Jewish reporter Jake Turx and Black journalist April Ryan. And on his radio program the morning after the press event, Duke had even more to say about Trump’s […]

At a White House briefing last week, Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked where Donald Trump was during the operation in Yemen that tragically resulted in the death of U.S. Navy Seal Chief William “Ryan” Owens, as well as other injuries to service members and, reportedly, double-digit civilian casualties that included children. Spicer gave this stunning […]

Donald Trump continues to cling to his lie, contradicted by his own lawyers’ past statements, that he only lost the popular vote because upwards of 3 million people illegally cast ballots in the 2016 election. And plans to launch a full investigation into these baseless claims on the taxpayers’ dime. After dodging press questions to provide evidence, […]

Donald Trump may have secured his victory thanks to the Electoral College, but he cannot claim a mandate as he enters office, having lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by over 2.8 million votes. And in furtherance to that statistical fact, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Trump receives absolutely dismal approval ratings for an […]

Donald Trump is creating havoc with our European alliances by virtue of his radical diplomatic shift that favors Russia, and stands to leave the United States isolated and much less safe. His abrupt departure from the “One China” policy, followed by a continuing, reckless escalation of such provocations, has also risked the delicate relationship with […]

No applause. Just resistance. Watch: Inspiration would not come from the podium. So it came from the audience.

President Donald Trump raged about coverage of his tiny inaugural crowds during his speech at CIA headquarters Saturday, then sent his new White House press secretary out to command reporters not to cover the larger crowds at the massive Women’s Marches: TRUMP: I get up this morning, I turn on one of the networks, and they […]

As Donald Trump takes the oath of office, thousands of women across the United States are preparing protest signs and readying their go-bags. In what promises to be the largest inauguration protest in history, women across the nation will be taking to the streets to protest a man and a presidency that promises to be […]

Sebastian Gorka currently serves as Deputy Assistant to Donald Trump, advising him on terrorism issues, and is also a member of the national security advisor staff. Previously, Gorka was perhaps best known as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist who wrote for Steve Bannon’s Breitbart News. Apparently distressed by a series of critical tweets from terrorism expert […]

Days after being sworn in, Donald Trump enacted a hiring freeze in the federal government. At the time, outlets like The Military Times reported that the decision could cause unintended consequences and disruption in the armed services. As usual, Trump did not listen. Now we are learning that these decisions, made to make a splash […]

The full range of Donald Trump’s bigotry, bluster, and dishonesty was on display at his recent press conference in the East Room of the White House, where Trump stepped all over his own announcement of his pick of Alexander Acosta for labor secretary, in order to engage in an hour-plus circus with reporters. And throughout that long […]

Moments after Donald Trump announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, Senate Democrats and progressive organizations reacted with vigor, denouncing Republicans for stealing the seat and promising to fight the nomination based on Gorsuch’s troubling record. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) immediately noted “very serious doubts” about […]

During a fiery interview with MSNBC’s Tamron Hall, Rep. Maxine Waters did not hold back about her profound reservations about Donald Trump. She passionately urged for further investigation into Trump’s sinister affinity for Vladimir Putin, his advisors’ ties to Russia, and whether there was collusion with Russia to interfere in the election to affect its […]

The “alt-right” movement remains a huge part of Donald Trump’s base of support. But some conservatives seem to be uncomfortable with their president’s close ties to a movement led by white nationalists, and are now attempting to deny the connection. Enter Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual […]

Many familiar with politics and government on both sides of the aisle are discussing among themselves, and even asking publicly, if we will have a fully functioning Executive Branch starting from the moment Donald Trump is sworn into office, raising the specter of unanswered phones and briefing memos on top of empty desks: Will the […]

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) seems to always know the right thing to say. Before Donald Trump’s inauguration, he channeled what many of us were (and still are) feeling: “I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.” Now, as the resistance builds against a presidency that gets worse with every passing day, Lewis fortifies us for the fight ahead: And I […]

In an interview with Reuters, Donald Trump said he wants to increase America’s nuclear arsenal so that it can be “top of the pack,” because it has fallen behind Russia in its atomic weapons capacity. Trump said, “I am the first one that would like to see everybody — nobody have nukes, but we’re never going […]

Donald Trump recently visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., accompanied by Alveda King, niece of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr. (and something of a right-wing pundit herself). According to King, when Trump saw a stone auction block where slaves would stand before they were sold as […]

On Fox and Friends, Mike Pence told host Brian Kilmeade that “it’ll be my honor” to lead an investigation into Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud — which are wholly baseless — but conspicuously skirted the question that Kilmeade actually asked (emphasis mine): KILMEADE: You know you have got another job today. He put you in […]

In the two months since I observed that Donald Trump won the Electoral College, but is losing by every other metric, his then-terrible 42 percent favorability rating has dropped to an even worse 40 percent in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Trump will enter the Oval Office on Friday with his image upside down. […]

President-elect Donald Trump has a long list of disastrous nominees awaiting confirmation, but pressure from Democrats has succeeded in putting the brakes on at least one of them. Originally scheduled for Wednesday, January 11, the confirmation hearing for Trump Secretary of Education-designate and public education opponent Betsy DeVos has been postponed until January 17. Senate Committee […]

Donald Trump’s former campaign chief executive and now White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon once declared, “Politics is war.” He appears to have meant it. Bannon is on the board of a little-known consulting company called Cambridge Analytica, to which the Trump campaign paid millions of dollars during the election. In a groundbreaking report in the Guardian, journalist […]

Even before Donald Trump announced the nomination, Senate Democrats vowed to put up a solid front against the confirmation of Colorado appellate judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on the grounds that Republicans stole the seat from Merrick Garland — a sentiment echoed by some legal scholars. But new questions are starting to emerge about whether Gorsuch […]

It has long been clear that the corporate media did a disastrous job covering the presidential election. And despite a reputation as the “paper of record,” the New York Times was one outlet that exemplified this journalistic malpractice, particularly in their wildly unbalanced coverage of the main stories dogging each candidate. The Times’ coverage of […]

For the first time, a sitting Senator will testify against another sitting Senator when Cory Booker (D-NJ) appears before the Judiciary Committee during Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) nomination hearing for Attorney General. Booker explained his remarkable decision to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: .@CoryBooker will testify against his colleague @SenatorSessions: “These are extraordinary times” #inners https://t.co/7uhCLf8PaX — All […]