Donald Trump and the GOP repeatedly declared that Hillary Clinton should not be president because of an FBI investigation into her email practices. Now that James Comey has revealed an investigation exists into the possibility of collusion between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, we should hold the Trump administration and the GOP to their words that an FBI investigation […]

Rep. Rob Blum (R-IA) had an on-camera meltdown with a reporter, in front of a room filled with young children, days after changing his vote and supporting the American Health Care Act. Blum was one of several Republicans who initially opposed the bill supported by Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, but who later […]

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) began fumbling as MSNBC’s Katy Tur quickly pointed out his weak attempt to use a false equivalence as she asked him about the ongoing FBI investigation of the Trump administration. Tur pointed to statements from Trump, his campaign underlings, and others who had accused Hillary Clinton of being under an FBI […]

The special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District continues to heat up, with massive grassroots organizing and outside groups pouring money and resources into the race. Neither Democratic underdog Jon Ossoff nor pro-Trump culture warrior Karen Handel shows any sign of pulling away with a strong lead, with still more than a month to go […]

The Trump budget’s draconian cuts for services for the poor and middle class target popular government programs like Medicaid and Social Security, as well as funding for groups like PBS and Special Olympics that are supported by a large swath of Americans. So Republicans have responded by attempting to distance themselves from the budget, fearful […]

During his first week in office, Donald Trump scrapped a reported executive order that would have overturned President Obama’s ban on torture. It looks like he may want to continue staying away from that policy change. At the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made a […]

Rev. William Barber appeared on MSNBC’s AM Joy and tackled the flip-flopping positioning of Donald Trump and Republicans in favor of bombing Syria for humanitarian goals. Barber is behind the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina that have been a bulwark in enabling progressive change. He expanded the program as part of the resistance, pushing […]

Donald Trump’s proposed budget is a despicable attack on America’s most vulnerable citizens: women, the working class, children, and even people on disability. In a shocking exchange with Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, revealed a stunning contempt and lack of compassion for struggling everyday Americans, including the 44 million Americans who […]

At a recent town hall in Hinsdale, New York, Republican Rep. Tom Reed displayed both cruelty and dishonesty when he lied right to a young constituent’s face about the disastrous GOP bill to repeal Obamacare, which the House passed on a strictly partisan vote last week. At the event in Hinsdale, 14-year-old Robert Shuryn explained to […]

Even after FBI Director James Comey testified that his agency and the Department of Justice “looked carefully” at Donald Trump’s lie — that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — and found no evidence to support it, the White House still refuses to withdraw the claim, and most Republicans still won’t call on Trump to apologize. Prior […]

Donald Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney smeared beloved children’s television icon Big Bird while defending a budget that would deny children access to PBS. Testifying before the House Budget Committee, Mulvaney discussed the proposed cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) by claiming, “Big Bird makes more money than everybody in this room.” MULVANEY: […]

There were several bombshells during the House Intelligence Committee’s hearing on the “Russian Active Measures Investigation,” the most crucial of which was FBI Director James Comey’s confirmation of an ongoing investigation into “any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s […]

FBI Director James Comey confirmed there is an existing and ongoing investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government, saying: “I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential […]

In a week already packed with explosive news about the ongoing Russia investigation and Trump’s monstrous budget, Democrats celebrated an incredible — and perhaps prophetic — victory in special elections on Tuesday night. Democrats won control of two Republican-held state legislative seats that should never even have been in contention. The first victory of the […]

Even as the ink (and beer) dried on the House Republicans’ destructive and unpopular healthcare repeal plan, Republicans in the Senate began plotting a way to shine it up enough to get it past fifty votes, let alone sixty. Their first questionable step was to announce a working group composed entirely of men, to the exclusion […]

Donald Trump’s budget director put the final nail in the coffin of the myth of “compassionate conservatism” in an op-ed he wrote, published by the Charleston Post and Courier. Under the specious claim of “putting taxpayers first,” Mick Mulvaney defended Trump’s budget and attacked the very character of those who receive government benefits. “Taking money from […]

Donald Trump and his administration have yet to acknowledge the sacrifice of Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Kyle Milliken, a 38 year-old Navy SEAL who was killed in action Thursday while repelling an attack by al-Shabab fighters. Two other U.S. servicemembers were wounded in the attack. Chief Milliken is the first U.S. casualty in Somalia […]

Even as White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney baldly stated that he hoped people would lose their Social Security Disability benefits under Donald Trump’s proposed budget, he also described the proposal as “the definition of compassionate.” But responses from prominent Catholic religious leaders prove the mendacity of such a claim. NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social […]

House Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare this week and replace it with a hastily cobbled together mess of a bill that nobody supports. And they did it without even reading the bill or waiting for the Congressional Budget Office to calculate exactly how much this monstrosity will cost the country, which many of them admitted even while […]

Donald Trump cited Syria’s use of chemical weapons against civilians — especially children — to defend his decision to launch airstrikes against the country without Congressional approval, and that argument is receiving broad support from his fellow Republicans. They cite the horrific photos and videos of suffering and dead children exposed to what appears to be sarin […]

Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a budget blueprint that makes cruel and dangerous cuts to discretionary federal spending, in favor of unnecessary and wasteful increases in defense and Homeland Security spending. Soon after, Trump once again jetted off to his Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend, which reminded many of an explicit promise that Trump made during the […]

House Republicans may have been too busy laughing it up in the Rose Garden with Donald Trump and Mike Pence, or knocking back beers in celebration, to have spent much time thinking about the untold harm they are attempting to deliver to millions of Americans. But with the GOP’s bill to repeal and ostensibly replace […]

There are few in Congress more desperate to repeal health care for the poor than Idaho Republican Raúl Labrador. The founder of the ultra-right-wing House Freedom Caucus, Labrador has previously claimed health care is not a “basic human right,” despite the fact that the government pays most of his own health care costs — something he […]

Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes on a Syrian airfield demands answers, as lawmakers in both parties criticize Trump for failing to seek authorization from Congress for the strike, as required by the Constitution. One particularly disturbing fact to emerge in the wake of the attack is that Trump not only failed to seek authorization, but […]

Shortly after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told reporters that it was “very possible” Donald Trump had been directly swept up in intelligence community surveillance, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged from their own classified briefing with FBI Director James Comey looking visibly shaken. Now, Nunes has ratcheted up the intrigue, with an […]

Donald Trump has done vanishingly little actual work thus far in his presidency, but his administration made sure to find time to attack reproductive rights and women’s health care between the renaming of buildings and the many, many rounds of golf. And now they have taken that antagonism to reproductive care even further. Not just […]

Representative Steve King (R-IA) drew scant condemnation from Republicans with this tweet about the need to “restore our civilization,” which he said cannot be done with “somebody else’s babies”: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017 The […]

The working group selected by the Senate Republican leadership to draft their answer to the House Republicans’ health care repeal bill is composed of 13 men — and not a single woman. 13 Senators in health working group so far:Alexander Lee CottonGardnerPortmanCruzToomeyEnzi HatchMcConnellCornynThuneBarrasso — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) May 5, 2017 13 men at the table — […]

House Republicans dealt a serious blow to tens of millions of Americans when they passed their cruel and haphazard health care repeal bill, then celebrated with cases of beer and a triumphant, blindingly white photo op in the Rose Garden of the White House. Nearly as galling as their celebration of so many Americans’ misery, […]

The health care repeal bill that the House of Representatives passed Thursday on a strictly partisan vote contains a provision that will make life worse for military veterans. Paralyzed Veterans of America warned Republicans about the provision, but Republicans ignored the warning, passed the bill, and then went to celebrate with Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of […]