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Biden announces 2024 reelection bid: ‘Let’s finish this job’
President Joe Biden on Tuesday formally announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, asking voters to give him more time to “finish this job” and extend the run of America’s oldest president for another four years. Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is betting his first-term legislative achievements and more than 50 years of […]
Republicans are alarmed about a Mastriano for Senate
The former president has privately conveyed concerns about having the Pennsylvania Republican on the top of the ticket alongside him this cycle. MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano is inducing panic among GOP officials as he inches closer toward a 2024 bid for the Senate after a disastrous showing in his Pennsylvania governor run in 2022. Among […]
Tarrant elections chief quits after meeting with county judge, says he won’t compromise values
Elections administrator Heider Garcia has resigned from his position, according to a letter obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In the letter, dated April 16 and addressed to County Judge Tim O’Hare and County Administrator G.K. Maenius, Garcia cites a meeting with O’Hare and differing ideas for running transparent elections as the reason for his […]
GOP Senators Won’t Help Replace Dianne Feinstein On Judiciary Committee
The 89-year-old California senator’s extended absence has created headaches for Democrats and for President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees. If Democrats believed Republicans would help them easily solve their Dianne Feinstein dilemma, they’re in for some disappointment. A pair of Republicans who serve on the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee made clear they won’t vote to replace the 89-year-old California Democrat […]
DeSantis escalates battle with Disney in new legislative push
Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers ratcheted up pressure on Walt Disney World on Monday by announcing legislation that will use the regulatory powers of Florida government to exert unprecedented oversight on the park resort’s rides and monorail. Lawmakers will introduce a bill in coming weeks that would end an exemption for Disney parks when it comes […]
Trump’s Genius Plan for Fox News to Win Election Lies Lawsuit: Lie More
Fox News is in trouble. The network’s prospects to fend off a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems are so grim that it’s now reportedly trying to settle with the company after falsely pushing on air that it may have rigged the 2020 presidential election. Thankfully for Fox News, Donald Trump has offered up a brilliant new strategy to […]
Dianne Feinstein Refuses To Resign
The senator’s confidants and allies scoff at her detractors and are firing back. Dianne Feinstein is once more displaying the stubborn approach that’s powered her storied career as pressure mounts on her to return to Washington or resign. Confidants and top allies to the 89-year-old Democratic senator are rebuffing calls for her to not just […]
Marco Rubio’s bigoted fight with the U.S. military just got worse
When it comes to LGBTQ Americans, the Republican Party has traded its dog whistle in for a train whistle. This week, for example, during a legislative hearing on a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to use a bathroom that doesn’t match the sex a person was assigned at birth, Florida state Rep. Webster Barnaby called […]
The Depth of the Tennessee GOP’s Disdain for Democracy
“It is a party and it is a super majority that is drunk with power and the world saw yesterday: There’s no democracy in Tennessee. Our legislature is the opposite, it is autocracy and it should scare us all.” These are the words of Nashville-based Rep. Justin Jones (D), a young, Black lawmaker in Tennessee who was […]
MAGA Nutball JR Majewski Launches Congressional Campaign After Losing In 2022
Embattled MAGA rapper J.R. Majewski announced he is running for Ohio’s deep-red 9th Congressional District after losing there in the midterm elections. Majewski, who was dogged by reports that he contradicted his public claims about service in the military, argued that he came close to coming out on top last time and plans to seal the deal in […]
Jim Jordan Takes His Clown Show On The Road
He wants to smear the Manhattan district attorney who is prosecuting Donald Trump. But there are some silver linings. There goes Jim Jordan, the MAGA chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and its “weaponization of government” subcommittee, driving his clown car to a new town. Since February, he has hosted hearings that have flopped harder […]
Ohio GOP businessman Moreno files for Senate bid
Bernie Moreno, a wealthy Ohio businessman, has filed paperwork to run for Senate in 2024 and challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in what’s likely to be one of the most competitive races of the upcoming cycle. Moreno is now the second Republican to officially jump into the race after state Sen. Matt Dolan announced his candidacy in January. Moreno […]
Judges block Tennessee move to cut Nashville council in half
The ruling stymies an effort by state Republican lawmakers to cut the council in half after it blocked the 2024 Republican National Convention from coming to the Music City. The Democratic-leaning city of Nashville’s Metropolitan Council will get to keep all 40 of its seats for now, under a temporary decision issued Monday by three state judges. […]
Tennessee Democrats push to bring second expelled lawmaker back to House
Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday. Justin Jones pumped his fist and declared “power to the people” as he returned to the […]
Fox News settles with Venezuelan businessman in election defamation lawsuit
Fox News said on Sunday it has reached a settlement with a Venezuelan businessman Majed Khalil, ending a defamation case in which Khalil said he was falsely accused on air of helping to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Donald Trump. Khalil had filed a defamation suit against the news outlet and former host […]
Baseless Voter Fraud Allegations Causes An Entire County’s Election Staff To Quit In Virginia
Divide and conquer, that’s what the Russians want in America. In Buckingham County, four people quit their jobs after a feud between local Republicans and the general registrar consumed the small community. Lindsey Taylor loved running elections here. The previous registrar had spent nearly three decades in the job, and Taylor, 37, hoped to do […]
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024
Yes, a nutcase is running against Biden in 2024. It won’t work, he’s polling in last place as “other” and this is just some bullshit by antivaxxers to run a Q-Anon nutbag for President. Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country’s most famous political families, is running for […]