It has finally happened. Despite months of public outrage and protests, despite overwhelming antipathy in polls, despite every commitment made by Republicans to prevent deficit spending and protect their constituents — Republicans in the House and Senate have passed their tax scam. The bill now heads to Donald Trump’s desk for his inevitable signature, just […]

At least 19 women have made credible allegations that Donald Trump either sexually assaulted them or made unwanted sexual advances toward them, but Speaker Paul Ryan has callously dismissed their plight as “other stuff” he can’t be bothered with. Ryan appeared on NBC’s “Today Show” to take a victory lap after the passage of the Republican […]

Donald Trump did not enter into office with high approval or trust from voters. The past year of chaos and right-wing assaults on our institutions and principles from both the White House and his allies in Congress has led to him becoming the least popular first-year president since modern polling began. And a new poll […]

It looks like Senate Majority Mitch McConnell needs to start looking for a new line of work. Because by his own admission, if Republican leaders can’t sell the GOP’s tax bill to voters as a gift from Washington, D.C., then they have failed miserably. From CNN’s Phil Mattingly: McConnell: “If we can’t sell this to […]

In a matter of hours, Republicans’ tax scam is all but certain to sail through its final vote in the GOP-controlled House, and head to Donald Trump’s desk. And it is already clear that no one is buying House Speaker Paul Ryan’s breathless claims about how much it will grow the economy. Appearing on the “Today” […]

West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is very proud that she and her fellow Republicans passed their tax scam in the dead of night, without the support of a single Democrat or the majority of the American people. But as for what the bill will actually do? She’s not sure. Capito told CNN’s Bill Weir […]

Welcome to your daily roundup of good news about good people, how you can help make a difference — and a picture of President Obama to get you through the day. EMILY’s List announces latest amazing numbers: 25,000 women are interested in running for office in 2018 Talk about good news: one story that just […]

Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to massively cut the size of two national monuments has provoked outrage. One of the most prominent opponents of the move has been the outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia, which filed a lawsuit and took out a public notice titled “The President Stole Your Land.” And Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard […]

The Trump administration’s attempt to ban government agencies from using terms like “evidence-based,” “science-based,” and “diversity” backfired spectacularly Tuesday night, when activists projected the banned words across the front of Trump’s hotel in downtown DC. The projection on the Trump International Hotel in DC included the seven words that the Trump administration reportedly told the […]

As the unofficial propaganda arm of the Trump White House, Fox News has played a key role in the escalating smear campaign against special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators. Nearly every week, Fox pundits like Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Greg Jarrett, and Lou Dobbs invent a new scandal in a coordinated effort to try to […]

Last month, Democrats secured a major victory in Virginia, electing Ralph Northam governor in a blowout and picking up over a dozen seats in the House of Delegates. But the House races are not done being counted. And on Tuesday, an unexpected reversal during a recount gave Democrats yet another pickup. Republican Del. David Yancey […]

The Republican tax scam bill represents a laundry list of broken campaign promises from Donald Trump. Instead of “draining the swamp” of special interest connections, he has flooded it with more pariahs. Chief among the empty reform promises Trump made was his campaign vow to do away with the luxurious, so-called carried interest tax loophole, […]

Wells Fargo, a company that earns billions of dollars, is about to get billions more thanks to the new Republican tax bill. And the bank’s CEO has just bluntly explained that enormous handout won’t be used to help average workers. The admission flies in the face of Republican leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan, who, like […]

Now that the House has passed the GOP tax scam — with only 12 Republicans voting against it and zero Democrats supporting it — and it is heading to the Senate Tuesday night for a final vote, it is worth considering how shockingly little Republicans know about their own bill. Nothing better exemplifies this than […]

It’s bad enough that nine million low-income children may soon have their health insurance taken away because the Republican-controlled Congress has refused to fund a critical support program for them. Now we can add diabetes patients to the list of victims of GOP indifference. The Special Diabetes Program (SDP) is an initiative dedicated to funding […]

Republicans keep insisting their tax scam will benefit average working families, but that’s because they have no idea how much average working families actually make. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman described middle class as “about $150 grand for a family.” And the official GOP talking points describe $450,000 a year as “low- and middle-income.” (The median household […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson infamously called Donald Trump a “moron,” but he may have been throwing stones in a glass house. Tillerson had to have the concept of allies and adversaries — the sort of concept American children learn in grade school — explained to him in his third month on the job as […]

Heading into a treacherous midterm election season with a historically unpopular Republican president who is repelling suburban voters, it looks like the GOP will have to deal with another electoral anchor in 2018: special counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling probe into possible criminal wrongdoing by Donald Trump’s campaign. Shattering the White House happy talk about Mueller’s […]

As Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress continue to distort, slander, and undermine all the democratic institutions, norms, and principles Americans once took for granted, many wonder where we as a nation will go from here. Former Justice Department official Sally Yates laid out her thoughts on the matter in a stirring op-ed in USA […]

Welcome to your daily roundup of good news about good people, how you can help make a difference — and a picture of President Obama (and Santa!) because you deserve it. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf makes good on his promise to defend abortion rights Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf promised that he would veto an […]

Republicans are planning to ram through the final version of their tax scam this week, voting in the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday. But activists are refusing to back down. Enraged by the attempt to raise taxes on the middle class and destroy health insurance markets to pay for tax breaks for […]

In her short tenure as Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos has confirmed all of her critics’ worst fears about her. A longtime billionaire GOP donor and school privatization advocate with no experience in education whatsoever, DeVos has decimated her department, and federal oversight of education generally. She has rescinded civil rights protections for disabled students […]

During Donald Trump’s speech Monday outlining his new national security plan, he acknowledged Russia as a “rival power.” But the speech was notable for its murkiness regarding the clear consensus of the intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Further, Trump’s remarks once again contained unsettling praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking to […]

The American people aren’t taking the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of Obama-era net neutrality regulations lying down, and neither are Democrats. Shortly after the party-line vote to repeal the regulations, which prevent internet service providers from blocking or slowing content, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer promised to force a Senate vote on blocking the decision, […]

As speculation increases that Donald Trump will take the daring and desperate step of firing special counsel Robert Mueller to shut down the Russia investigation, perhaps the better question is, will Trump sack Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who effectively controls the future of Mueller’s probe? To that end, word is leaking out that Trump is […]

Considering Donald Trump is the least qualified person to ever attain the presidency of the United States, perhaps it makes sense that he keeps nominating people for the courts who are equally ill-equipped for the job. But that doesn’t make it any less embarrassing that a third nominee has now dropped out of the running […]

Donald Trump has consistently proven himself to be a disaster during a tragedy. Whether hawking guns immediately after a mass shooting, congratulating himself for his self-declared prescience, calling a Gold Star widow a liar, or tossing paper towels at Puerto Rican hurricane victims, Trump always manages to make the situation worse. So it is not a […]

In addition to all the help Donald Trump got from Russia, he was propelled to an electoral victory by the narrowest of margins in key “Rust Belt” states, where he promised to bring back jobs that everyone else knew were never coming back. Now, with his first year in office nearly complete, people in those […]

The political news media are crowing about Donald Trump’s assurance that he’s not considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller, but new reporting suggests that condition could be very, very temporary. During a brief talk with reporters upon his return from Camp David Sunday, Trump was asked if he is considering firing Mueller, to which he […]

Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky has never been known for his patience with political opponents. A hard-right extremist who dismantled a functional Obamacare marketplace in his state and wants to force poor people to do community service to earn Medicaid coverage, Bevin regularly blocks people who disagree with him on Twitter, a practice that has […]