‘Having the president of the United States speaking out loud and with confidence about abortion access is a great thing’

Bills that would allow trained pharmacists to prescribe birth control were approved Thursday by the Michigan House Health Policy Committee.

Planned Parenthood clinics in California are bracing for an uptick in patients crossing the state line for abortions, after the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a nearly total prohibition on the procedure.

Josh Powell, a candidate for a special Michigan House election this month, said during a GOP event that he opposes all abortion “without exception” — and, if elected, is open to repealing the state’s landmark abortion law.

The campaign said it hopes to get more than 750,000 to ensure it qualifies for the November ballot

At least one IVF service said the Legislature’s protective measure doesn’t go far enough.

On a call with reporters ahead of former President Donald Trump’s speech to a National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said the choice between President Joe Biden and Trump is clear when it comes to guns.

With longtime incumbent Ileana Ros-Lehtinen retiring, Republicans are starting to concede that Florida’s 27th Congressional District is unwinnable.

The political world scrambled in the wake of Donald Trump’s new nuclear threat against North Korea on Twitter, boasting that he has a “bigger & more powerful” nuclear button on his desk, in the latest sign of his total instability and recklessness. But it is important to note that Trump and his “bigger button” would not […]

Demolishing the White House’s choreographed spin that the Russia investigation into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign is a hoax and that special counsel Robert Mueller is engaged in some sort of rogue witch hunt, Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon clobbers the Oval Office team in a new book due out next week. Specifically, Bannon throws […]

Donald Trump kicked off the first week of the new year by watching a Fox News clip on North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and then casually threatening to nuke him on Twitter with his “bigger button.” It was a stupefying moment that once again revealed Trump has absolutely no concept for the scale or […]

The country, and likely the entire world, was abuzz Tuesday night over Donald Trump’s childish, Freudian nuclear threat against North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. That threat was followed by a pair of unsettling bizarre and unrelated tweets: One previewing his announcement of “THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR.” Another inexplicably […]

Republicans have kept a stranglehold over North Carolina politics for nearly a decade. And Democrats in the Tar Heel State are ready to strike back. A report from the Associated Press reveals that Democrats are recruiting candidates for the North Carolina General Assembly at a frenetic pace. “Democrats already have already fielded an unusually large […]

Donald Trump has never been known for his emotional restraint in anything, let alone in foreign policy. But his continued escalation with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is a particularly terrifying spectacle. Trump has repeatedly referred to the nuclear-armed strongman as “Little Rocket Man” and warned that he would be met with “fire and […]

Donald Trump kicked off the new year with a flurry of absurd and reckless distractions, but the Russia investigation continues to be an existential threat to his presidency. And he just lost one of his favorite deflection tactics. While Trump was enjoying his golf vacation and throwing a lavish for-profit New Year’s Eve party in […]

Twelve months ago, angry Democrats gathered at the Atlantic County Board of Freeholders meeting in New Jersey to denounce Freeholder John Carman, a local Republican who had mocked the Women’s March. Carman posted a meme on Facebook that asked, “Will the women’s protest end in time for them to cook dinner?” This week, some of […]

A second act was added to the White House’s preposterous production Tuesday, where Donald Trump took credit for the fact that no commercial passenger planes crashing in 2017. The additional absurdity came when a Republican congressman thanked Trump for safety regulations that President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats actually passed into law. Worse, these are regulations that […]

Veterans are slamming Donald Trump for shamefully blocking them on Twitter and ignoring their comments after his administration criticized the Iranian regime for clamping down on social media in that country. Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein, referring to Iran’s decision to block Instagram and other social media sites as protests raged in the streets, said the […]

For all of his attention-seeking, Donald Trump has spent most of his time as president hiding from accountability by refusing to hold a solo press conference. His last such event was on Feb. 16, 2017, which was 320 days ago. It was the only one of his presidency so far. At Tuesday’s first White House […]

As Donald Trump’s popularity has cratered and public fury against Republicans in Congress begins to generate signs of a wave election, prominent GOP politicians all around the country have been bowing out of runs for office. But on Tuesday, Republicans faced an absolute bloodbath. First, Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, declared […]

Democrats need to flip 24 seats in the House this year in order to gain control from Republicans, and right now it looks like at least half of those wins could come from California alone. That’s where the GOP is currently clinging to life under the historically unpopular Donald Trump. And California is where Trump […]

Days after helping to shepherd through a tax bill loaded with benefits and giveaways to the ultra-wealthy, Mike Pence spent the holiday amongst the well-heeled who stand to benefit from the legislation. But he also helped to kill holiday business for a struggling small business. In direct contrast to their purported support for the average […]

Under the guise of helping businesses, Donald Trump and his inner circle have been relentlessly slashing even the most basic, sensible environmental protections. Now, according to the Washington Post, Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke are moving to eliminate rules for natural gas fracking on public lands. The Burea of Land Management issued the rescission […]

While Donald Trump spent Tuesday morning posting delusional and self-serving tweets, reality continues to intrude on his failed presidency. Facing the prospect of a Democratic wave in the 2018 midterms, Trump has now taken to insisting that Hispanic voters will “fall in love” with him, and with Republicans who support Trump’s bigoted rhetoric and policies: […]

The Trump administration tried to use money that has been earmarked to help people prepare for wildfires to pay for a helicopter ride for one of his cabinet secretaries, Ryan Zinke, who heads the Department of the Interior. Zinke’s helicopter tour of Nevada last July cost $39,295, which was slated to come out of the […]

Foreign governments are openly funneling millions of dollars to Donald Trump and expecting favors from his White House by using his international hotels and resorts as a cover for bribery. McClatchy has uncovered a series of transactions between foreign governments and the Trump Organization that have occurred over the first year of his presidency. The […]

After a lengthy golf vacation and a lavish for-profit New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump immediately set the tone for 2018 by sending White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Fox News to target the most vulnerable Americans for political attack. In an interview with “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Conway discussed some of […]

Donald Trump rang in the new year with the abject failure of one of his bigoted policy goals. In July, Trump made a callous move to ban transgender soldiers from the military, seeking to undo a partially implemented directive made by President Barack Obama’s Department of Defense, which would let them serve openly after years […]

2017 taught us a few important lessons: President Donald Trump is just as bad as we predicted. The craven soullessness of the Republican Party literally knows no bottom. The White House is staffed with incompetent racists. Mike Pence is complicit. The other lesson we learned is the one that frankly I was terrified we couldn’t […]

One year ago, the Democratic Party and liberal activists were devastated. They had been wiped out at every level, President Barack Obama was on his way out, and Donald Trump was assembling an administration of terrifyingly extreme and unqualified right wing crusaders, ready to break down and all but demolish many of our civil institutions. […]