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 [...]
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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 [...]
We have late word this evening that the Department of Justice has launched a “criminal investigation” of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Mayor Jacob Frey over a purported “criminal [...]
It’s hard to know which is more pathetic—Trump coveting the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, or Machado giving the framed Nobel medal [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ In the 48 hours since ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, the Trump administration has [...]
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 [...]
A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances of [...]
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 [...]
National Guard troops still patrol non-state Washington D.C. after President Trump announced the end of deployments (or attempted deployments) in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles. “We are removing the National [...]
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 [...]
Published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On Friday, November 21, as most Americans were prepping for Thanksgiving, President Trump went on a tirade on his Truth [...]
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 [...]
A Plan for the Resistance Credit: Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo The return of Donald Trump dominated the news and the news media this year, and I was compelled to do [...]
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 [...]
This summer, as President Donald Trump signed a new industry-friendly “Genius Act” for cryptocurrency, he deferred to White House “AI and cryptocurrency czar” David Sacks to explain why crypto companies [...]
“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 [...]
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. The Destruction: NCAR Edition The Trump White House isn’t really doing much to disguise [...]
The $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which has now passed the House and Senate, attempts to push Pete Hegseth to release the full “double-tap” video of the summary execution [...]
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 [...]
The federal Pell Grant program is the cornerstone of college aid for low-income undergraduates, providing roughly $39 billion in fiscal year 2025 to help students pay for college. Those dollars go almost [...]
The Indiana Senate’s Republican supermajority had a choice Thursday. They could acquiesce to the White House’s demands that they approve a new congressional map and potentially turn the state’s entire [...]
A protestor holds a sign opposing gerrymandering during a rally at the Indiana state House, Indianapolis, September 18, 2025.Michael Conroy/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and [...]
All Eyes On Indiana Republican members of Indiana’s state Senate are expected to take a vote as soon as tomorrow that could mark the conclusion of a months-long drive by [...]
Within just the past week, two of Donald Trump’s most fundamental priorities have shared the spotlight. The first is his white nationalism, or more precisely, his white global nationalism, embodied [...]
Donald Trump is heading to Northeastern Pennsylvania tomorrow, where he will appear alongside vulnerable Republican freshman Congressman Rob Bresnahan. Looking to catch up quickly on Bresnahan? Start by reading just [...]
See below for video and highlights from a great intervivew by Bill Kristol of The Bulwark, with Sen. Mark Warner saying a bunch of interesting stuff [...]
Lordy, Trump has released a “national security strategy” manifesto and it is no mere white supremacist dog whistle, somebody freebased the Daily Stormer, pulled an all-night circle-dong-honk with Vlad Putin, [...]
Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, he did not mince words. “I’ve been on the [...]
The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander, a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from [...]