Minneapolis Police deploys tear gas after federal agents killed Alex Pretti.Stephen Maturen/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free [...]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn now [...]

 Johns Hopkins’ US Measles Tracker.Measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000. This was a major public health milestone, as the extremely contagious disease is fatal in as many [...]

New reporting today revealed that Donald Trump’s Border Patrol commander at large, Gregory Bovino, has been removed from his role after federal immigration agents killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on [...]

See below for video of Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11)’s interview yesterday with CNN, in which he talked about the murder of Alex Pretti yesterday in Minneapolis.  [...]

Ukrainians are freezing and dying in the dark this winter as Russian missiles and drones relentlessly pound their power plants and other civilian targets. You’d expect Americans, who fought for eight long [...]

 The New York Times published a seven-day series of editorials (12/8/25–12/14/25) meant to examine, as the initial piece put it, “what’s gone wrong with the US military” and “how we [...]

As Trump’s policies exacerbate the affordability crisis, state Democrats are leading the way to lower costs around health care, housing, and more  WASHINGTON — 2026 legislative sessions are underway, and [...]

Key Point: “The Trump-Vance administration and congressional Republicans’ ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ could strip more than 10,000 Floridians of life-saving HIV medication. … ‘Cruelty is a feature and not a bug [...]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * The latest on the train collision in Spain: “The Spanish authorities on Monday were investigating the cause of a high-speed crash between two trains [...]

Federal agents fired multiple rounds of tear gas, pepper balls, and flash bangs on January 14 in Minneapolis. Dave Decker/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned and [...]

After a decade of promising to put forward a comprehensive health care proposal, Trump has failed to deliver anything but “concepts of a plan” Today — after Donald Trump and [...]

Though many are worried about the potential economic harm of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the independence of the Federal Reserve and impose tariffs based on his impulses, discussion of [...]

Donald Trump and House Republicans have refused to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, causing health insurance premiums to sky-rocket for tens of millions of Americans.  As a result, numbers [...]

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference in New York.Yuki Iwamura/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up [...]

The Georgia Senate is on the DLCC’s 2026 target map as we work to flip GOP seats WASHINGTON — Today, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) announced LeMario Brown as a Spotlight candidate [...]

Led by House Democrats, the House passed a bill extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits after Donald Trump and Republicans allowed them to expire at the end [...]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: In The Wall Street Journal, you recently revealed that ventures launched since Trump’s reelection have generated [...]

Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251226.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). AAPF (10/25)This week on CounterSpin: After every police killing of a Black person, every announced policy singling out Black immigrants [...]

DNC Chair Ken Martin released the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s unconstitutional military operations in Venezuela:  “Trump promised peace, but has delivered war. For months, the Trump administration [...]

President Donald Trump, followed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, arrives to speak at Mar-a-Lago after announcing that US military forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia [...]

In two days, on January 1, 2026, millions of Americans will be hit with skyrocketing health care costs after Donald Trump and Republicans refused to extend the enhanced Affordable Care [...]

Republicans are likely in for a tumultuous new year, if the end of 2025 is any indication. President Donald Trump began his second term on a high, surrounded by a [...]

Even as multiple economists were explaining that the November 2025 Consumer Price Index inflation report was distorted due to the recent government shutdown, MAGA media figures were celebrating the slightly lower than [...]

The DLCC recently announced its 2026 strategy and target map to put Democrats on offense on redistricting WASHINGTON — Indiana Republicans’ gerrymandering schemes just came to a halt as they [...]

Workforce Pell isn’t just a multiyear, bipartisan effort that’s now a policy footnote in President Trump’s sprawling domestic policy bill. It’s a national stress test. And at bottom, it’s a [...]

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the clock struck midnight on Christmas [...]

In response to the Trump Administration announcing today that it will halt the lease for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind – the largest offshore wind project in the entire country – which is [...]

From Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11)’s office: Walkinshaw, Ranking Member Garcia, Members of Congress Demand Answers from OPM as Trump Workforce Purge Triggers Federal Retirement Backlog WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), Representatives Robert Garcia [...]

It’s Monday! Thursday is Christmas! Other days have different names!We started with these tabs.Here’s one of your updates on the Epstein Files coverup to protect Donald Trump from all the [...]

“There was no relationship.”Epstein estate/House oversight committee/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Friday, [...]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. The Trump administration [...]

Deciding that rising unemployment, skyrocketing grocery costs, and climbing utility costs isn’t enough bad news, Deputy Speaker Mike Johnson has decided the American people need another sucker punch to their pocketbook: health care. But [...]

See below for video and highlights from Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) on CNN and on MS NOW earlier today. Rep. Walkinshaw: “Well, look, Republicans have had [...]

Happy Sunday! What posts did we post at the old Wonkette this weekend? Robyn, doing you her regular Saturday service of giving you an item to comment around, celebrated National [...]