Senate Republicans are ramming through their plot to raise taxes on working families to pay for massive breaks for billionaires and corporations at a breakneck speed, in defiance of all Senate tradition and proper judgment. With a final vote planned for Friday, the bill is reportedly only getting worse for middle-class America. But no Democratic […]

Still searching for votes to pass a once-in-a-generation tax scam along entirely partisan party lines, some Republicans are belatedly conceding that the legislation does far more and far worse than reward millionaires, donors, and corporations. It also sets America on a path toward massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare — in order to pay […]

In the wake of the initial allegations that Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore stalked, assaulted, and molested teenage girls, a number of Republicans expressed outrage, and many claimed to be studying ways to prevent him from serving in the Senate. Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, even floated the idea […]

The GOP’s corporate tax scheme is getting worse every day. It slashes taxes for millionaires and large corporations. It cruelly eliminates credits and deductions used by working families. It has Obamacare repeal baked into it. And many senators are hoping to add a provision that triggers harsh cuts to public programs if — as is inevitable […]

On Monday, Alabama Senate candidate and accused child molester Roy Moore held a campaign rally in which he called the allegations against him “completely false,” and impugned the integrity of his accusers. The threat of that response might have been enough to silence the women he stalked and assaulted as teenagers in a previous era. […]

Republicans were rocked earlier this year by their failure to repeal Obamacare amid a wave of protest from the American people. Desperate to walk away with at least one major legislative success this year, they are now struggling to pass a tax scheme which is nearly as unpopular. But Republicans have much bigger problems now […]

Outside of the fevered swamps of the far-right media, Alabama Republican Roy Moore is in short supply of defenders, even after Donald Trump endorsed the accused child molester for Senate on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Ed Martin, the president of the conservative Eagle Forum Fund, appeared on CNN with John Berman and Poppy Harlow, and tried […]

There is seemingly no end to the horror stories emerging about GOP Alabama Senate candidate and twice-fired chief of the state Supreme Court, Roy Moore, who’s accused of serially stalking, molesting, and sexually assaulted teenage girls. And his Democratic challenger, former U.S. attorney Doug Jones, is coming out swinging in defense of Moore’s victims. In a powerful […]

Republican leaders have largely gone silent in the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning decision on Tuesday to endorse an alleged child molester, Roy Moore, in the Alabama Senate race. Never dreaming that Trump, who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by more than a dozen women, would endorse Moore after a floodgate of […]

A stunning number of Republicans are still backing disgraced ex-judge Roy Moore in the race to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat in Alabama, even though the accusations of serial child molestation and sexual assault continue to mount. And on Tuesday, Donald Trump proclaimed his unconditional support for Moore, giving his seal of approval […]

The allegations of sexual predation and pedophilia have continued to pile up against Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore. Donald Trump initially tried to stay agnostic, but on Tuesday, after a week of his officials taking an increasingly pro-Moore stance, he gave an enthusiastic and repugnant defense of the candidate. “Well, he denies it. Look, […]

Alabama Democrat Doug Jones  is experiencing a massive surge of donations to his Senate campaign. The grassroots support comes as his opponent, Roy Moore, continues to lash out at the media and at his fellow Republicans. Moore stands accused of child molestation and sexual misconduct with several women. NBC News reports that Moore was collecting […]

With the House successfully passing its scheme to give corporations and the mega-wealthy billions in tax breaks at the expense of the middle class, all eyes move to the Senate. Unfortunately, the Senate bill is just as bad, and strips people of health insurance for good measure. But when Republican senators are faced with criticism, […]

As more accusers have come forward in the Roy Moore child molestation and sexual assault scandal, the GOP candidate has gone to extreme lengths to deflect the attacks. Moore has used every dirty tactic in the book to muddy the waters, first accusing both Democrats and Republican elites of trying to railroad him, then sending […]

Speaking at a press conference Thursday, GOP Senate candidate and accused sexual predator Roy Moore insisted that he won’t get out of the race because what the nation really needs is a man like him to restore our moral values. Moore, who has been accused of sexually harassment and assault by nine different women over […]

On Thursday, KABC Radio news anchor Leeann Tweeden published a story accusing Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of “aggressively” kissing and groping her, without her consent, during a USO tour in 2006. The kiss was part of a comedy skit he had written for the two of them, and according to Tweeden, he repeatedly insisted that […]

The unanimous decision of Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Brett J. Talley to a full Senate vote is looking worse by the day. Talley, who is up for a lifetime appointment to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, is laughably unfit. He has […]

Josh Mandel, the Republican Party’s leading candidate running for Senate in Ohio, has avoided weighing in on the molestation accusations facing Roy Moore. Mandel is hoping to defeat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who currently holds the seat. Mandel unsuccessfully challenged Brown in 2012. But now a prominent member of Mandel’s team is speaking up, and […]

The Republican tax scheme is now officially also a health care scheme. Despite the fact that Obamacare is more popular than ever, with record numbers of signups this year, Senate Republicans are adding provisions into their tax bill that would gut the individual mandate and Medicaid expansions — basically stripping health care from people to […]

Roy Moore has been desperately trying to throw the spotlight off his sexual assaults and abuse of teenage girls ever since the story broke last week, which at this point is starting to injure him in polls. On Wednesday afternoon, Moore’s attorneys held a press conference in Birmingham, AL, during which they defended Moore and […]

Republican politicians continue to scramble in the wake of the shocking allegations against Alabama senate candidate Roy Moore. While several U.S. senators have called for him step aside, convinced that the claims that he sexually pursued and assaulted underage girls make him unqualified for the job, some Republicans in local districts are caught trying to […]

The bombshell story that Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore pursued five teenage girls, sexually assaulted two, and preyed on countless others at the local mall and YMCA has sent shockwaves through the political world. But numerous voices have wondered whether even this would be enough to affect a Senate race for the seat previously […]

The revelations that Roy Moore is accused of sexually assaulting two teenagers and aggressively preying on several others has prompted a wave of condemnation from GOP leadership. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both said that Moore should bow out of the race. Fellow Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby believes Republicans should […]

Much attention has been given to the fact that even in the wake of Roy Moore’s pedophilia accusations, the religious right — a dominant political force in Alabama — remains steadfastly loyal to him. And polls have indeed shown that white, conservative evangelical support for him is still disturbingly high. However, Moore’s support within religious […]

Alabama Senate nominee Roy Moore is rapidly losing ground in the polls to his Democratic opponent Doug Jones, as voters in the deep red state signal their patent disgust with Moore’s alleged pedophilia. Immediately after the Washington Post published its bombshell report about Moore having preyed on teen girls when he was in his 30s, […]

As soon as the Washington Post published allegations that Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore sexually preyed on four teenage girls 40 years ago, Alabama Republican officials began defiantly circling the wagons, blaming the victims, insisting there is nothing wrong with pedophilia, and even comparing Moore’s advances on a 14-year-old girl to Joseph and the […]

The explosive allegations of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s predatory behavior toward teenage girls in the late 1970s and early 1980s has thrown the Republican Party into chaos. Some Republicans, particularly state and local officials in Alabama, have chosen to stick with him, asserting there is nothing wrong with a 32-year-old man pursuing teenagers at custody […]

On Thursday, the Washington Post released a bombshell story alleging that Alabama Senate candidate and twice-fired state judge Roy Moore had preyed on four teenage girls in the late 1970s and 1980s, sexually molesting one of them. Moore frantically tried to have Breitbart scoop the story in a last-ditch attempt to control the narrative, but […]

Roy Moore, the Republican Party’s senate candidate in Alabama, went to Steve Bannon’s Breitbart in an attempt to head off accusations of child molestation that are now surfacing. Moore has been an icon of the conservative movement for years. He has beat the drum in opposition to marriage equality between consenting adults, claiming it would lead […]

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken absolutely demolished Facebook for its role in disseminating Russian propaganda and disinformation during the 2016 election during a congressional hearing on the topic. Specifically, Franken grilled Colin Stretch, general counsel for Facebook, on why the social media giant failed to flag payments for political ads attacking Hillary Clinton, even though […]