The special election for Montana’s at-large Congressional District was a strange and unpredictable affair from the beginning, with Democrat Rob Quist, a celebrity folk singer, facing off against Republican Greg Gianforte, a tech millionaire with ties to white nationalists, hate groups, and Russian oil companies. Gianforte carried the night, as expected, given that Montana has […]

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) broke with every longstanding norm, and possibly with the law, when he briefed Donald Trump in private and held two press conferences, without briefing his own committee, in a failed attempt to “vindicate” Trump’s wiretapping lie about President Obama. Trump has been under investigation for possible “coordination” between his […]

Beth Fukumoto has been on the outs with the Republican Party of Hawaii since the beginning of this year. Initially elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives in 2012, Fukumoto was promoted just a year later to House Minority Leader, and showcased by the Republican National Committee in their Women on the Right Unite initiative. By all […]

Reproductive freedom has been under assault in America for a very long time, but it has escalated recently with relentless Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and with the seating of an ill-gotten Republican majority on the Supreme Court. If it was not clear enough already, recent remarks by a pair of Republican state legislators in […]

Former Texas governor Rick Perry has a lot of work to do as Donald Trump’s new Secretary of Energy, not the least of which is guarding our nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons — something he did not even know was the Energy Secretary’s job until he applied for it. For some reason, however, Perry feels […]

One of the key obstacles to the success of the Affordable Care Act was the sheer volume of lies that were fed to the American about the bill, often abetted by the press. This time around, though, those lies have failed to weaken support for the now-popular Obamacare, or to garner any support for the […]

Donald Trump is still basking in the afterglow of the positive media coverage that immediately followed his decision to militarily disable a Syrian airbase for a day, but a new report from The Associated Press could, and should, put a damper on all that. In the hours following the horrific chemical weapons attack on civilians […]

In their desperation to gain votes for their unpopular plan to repeal Obamacare, House Republicans inserted a raft of “improvements” to the bill, including one that could harm up to 7 million veterans by making them ineligible for the bill’s tax credits. Former Policy Advisor for the House Republican Conference under Chairman Mike Pence Chris Jacobs […]

Physically assaulting a reporter is no big thing if it means holding on to political power, according to public statements from multiple Republicans. These men have gone on record to minimize the behavior of Montana congressional candidate Greg Gianforte, who according to multiple eyewitnesses and an audio recording, physically attacked Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by […]

Donald Trump’s outrageous and abusive firing of FBI Director James Comey is just the latest demonstration that he wields presidential power like a clumsy, Godzilla-sized toddler. That move stunned even those critics of Trump who have come to expect almost anything from this administration. But new video from the recent Milken Institute Global Conference provides […]

This week has seen the crisis surrounding Donald Trump’s Russia ties reach a progressively hotter fever pitch. After FBI Director James Comey confirmed that his agency has been investigating “coordination between” the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to tilt the election in Trump’s favor, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) committed what may amount to […]

The White House shocked the nation Tuesday night with the announcement that Donald Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey. But the announcement is only the beginning. The supposed justification for the firing — that Comey mishandled the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails by publicly trashing her — is not ringing true with anyone, […]

The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare has been a miserable failure with the public, and a public relations disaster for Republicans. But even among Republican lawmakers who have long dreamed of kicking Americans off health care, the plan cannot make any headway. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has scheduled a Thursday vote on the […]

Montana’s Republican congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, has been charged with assault. On the night before Election Day, he “body slammed” a reporter who asked him to comment on the GOP health care repeal bill following the release of the CBO score revealing that it would leave 23 million people without health coverage. Three local newspapers have rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte, […]

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is no stranger to callous and ignorant comments regarding our health care system, and particularly the vulnerable Americans it serves. He recently argued that “healthy” people who “lead good lives” shouldn’t have to pay into the insurance pool in order to help others with costly pre-existing conditions. Now he has renewed those […]

Donald Trump’s unilateral airstrikes to temporarily inconvenience a Syrian airbase have effectively distracted the corporate media from the bombshell developments in the investigation of his campaign’s collusion with Russia, but they don’t appear to be working with everyday Americans. The town hall resistance that has characterized much of Trump’s early presidency continued this past weekend at Rep. […]

It is disgusting, but not exactly surprising, that a Republican candidate would think it appropriate to physically assault a reporter for asking questions. After all, Donald Trump spent his entire campaign attacking the press and encouraging violence against those who criticized him. And on Wednesday night, Greg Gianforte, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in the special election […]

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, slammed Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the committee, for his bizarre attempt to provide cover for Donald Trump and the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election. Schiff said that Nunes’ behavior had raised “grave” concerns about the committee’s ability […]

Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee met with Donald Trump at the White House, even as his committee is supposed to be engaged in oversight of Trump, his team, and their connections to Russian government attempts to influence the election. Nunes served on Trump’s presidential transition team. The congressman held a media […]

Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and most of their Republican colleagues are still enthusiastically championing their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, despite the fact that it has proven to be an utter mess from the very beginning. And the updated review of the plan by the Congressional Budget Office does nothing whatsoever […]

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates put on a tour de force performance at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. She faced down intimidation from Donald Trump, connecting the dots in key elements of the Michael Flynn scandal, and repelling several Republican attempts to derail the hearing with extraneous issues. […]

Buoyed by the backlash against Donald Trump’s presidency, Democrats around the country are mobilizing for special elections, including in states where Republicans are accustomed to dominating the political field. Over the past few months, for example, Georgia has received national attention as Democrat Jon Ossoff has broken open a race in a solidly Republican congressional district, raising […]

Things took a dramatic turn at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, the nominee for the Supreme Court seat that was stolen from President Barack Obama, and given to a man who is under FBI investigation. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was recounting Gorsuch’s record of siding against disabled children, […]

Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate for the open House seat in Montana, allegedly just physically assaulted a reporter. Ben Jacobs of The Guardian tweeted, “Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses.” In a follow-up, he noted that a television crew was present. Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses […]

In a move that should certainly alarm the White House, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is now calling for an investigation into Donald Trump’s business ties to Russia. CNN reports that Graham, who chairs Senate committees on armed services, foreign relations, and terrorism, wants to dig into Trump’s finances. Graham’s call comes after testimony from former Director of National […]

The Senate hearing on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election revealed some terrifying and ugly truths about the very serious threats to our democracy — including from Donald Trump’s own team. During her testimony, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates repeatedly asserted that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was compromised and vulnerable to blackmail […]

Donald Trump and the Republicans have engaged in a progressively more disastrous campaign to try to sell their plan to repeal Obamacare, and despite some desperate 11th-hour revisions, will likely fail to pass it through the House of Representatives on Thursday. Part of that effort has involved rather absurd attempts to spin their way out […]

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has decided to push a vote on the Republicans’ health care repeal plan for Thursday, but even with some desperate 11th-hour changes, the plan is still unlikely to pass. That desperation took shape on the eve of the scheduled vote when House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Pete Sessions […]

Coverage of Donald Trump’s largely ineffective  attack on a Syrian airbase has gone from glowing to something a fair bit more skeptical, but it has unquestionably crowded out a scandal that would completely derail an ordinary presidency: The recusal of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) from that committee’s investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia. […]

Republicans took a massive gamble by forcing a vote on their health care repeal bill before the Congressional Budget Office had time to review it. Some commentators wondered whether the bill might in fact have so many budget flaws that it would no longer even reduce the deficit, meaning it would violate Senate rules and the House […]