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 [...]
President Donald Trump, having campaigned heavily on anti-trans fear mongering, issued an executive order within days of taking office that banned federal support for gender-affirming care. That same order commanded [...]
WASHINGTON — As Republicans continue creating chaos and dysfunction with their total control in Washington, Newsweek is out with a must-read piece on how statehouses are essential hubs of Democratic [...]
Key Point: “A recent decision by President Donald Trump to deny disaster aid to two electric utilities in rural northern Michigan could cost residents tens of millions of dollars. The [...]
As the Republican-led Pentagon takes the unprecedented steps of threatening to drag Senator Mark Kelly before a military court for telling troops to refuse illegal orders, Juan Ciscomani won’t stand up in [...]
Donald Trump called Minnesota Gov Tim Walz the r-word in a Thanksgiving post.Andrew Leyden/Zuma Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
Last month, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had ordered the Department of Defense—or, as he has renamed it, “the Department of War”—to resume nuclear testing for [...]
After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director. Paramount [...]
Breaking new reporting from The New York Times reveals that vulnerable Virginia Republican Congresswoman Jen Kiggans “once called for eliminating the Affordable Care Act.” Kiggans said in her own words: “A couple of [...]
Gaslighting is all these people have. In yet another edition of every mess Trump makes is Biden's fault, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade try [...]
See below for video of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07), in which he discussed the “2019 phone call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, [...]
The media is puzzling over voters choosing centrist Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey and democratic socialists in New York City and Seattle. Take a step back, though, and this [...]
The struggle for democracy persists as we come into the second half of 2023. As the year progresses, we face lies, corruption, and violence. And so the fight for America [...]
Dark Day You have likely seen the news by now, but a quick recap of today’s dark events: a group of Democratic lawmakers who have served in the military or [...]