Killing the social safety net is the wet dream for the GOP and while Trump will not mention it in 2020, there is evidence that he’s made that second-term promise to the GOP. It’s the same playbook we’ve seen — raise deficits and loot the treasury
Here’s the latest news out of Texas: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is backing Eliz Markowitz in the special election runoff for state House District 28, her highest-profile endorsement yet in the battleground race. Markowitz faces Republican businessman Gary Gates in the Jan. 28 race
As we all know, U.S. Senator Martha McSally (R. AZ) is one of the most vulnerable Senators this cycle and Democrats have a strong recruit in Mark Kelly (D. AZ) and are spending big to attack McSally’s record: A new super PAC is targeting GOP
I’m liking this: The former campaign manager for Gov. Andy Beshear is forming a political action committee to raise money for former Marine Corps pilot Amy McGrath, signaling support for McGrath from the Kentucky Democratic establishment as she attempts to unseat U.S. Senate Majority Leader
OK, it’s not Kabuki as much as it is Shadow Puppetry. What makes anyone think Trump won’t run to court to get an injunction against Bolton, claiming executive privilege and national security, if Bolton receives a subpoena? Any competent court would rule against Trump, but
Here’s the latest news out of South Carolina: South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison on Monday announced that he raised more than $3.5 million in the last three months as he campaigns to unseat Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Harrison faces a tough challenge against the three-term senator, but the
First off, I hope everyone’s 2020 is off to a great start. We might be going to war with Iran but at least The Patriots aren’t going to the Super Bowl sooooooo…. off to an ok start? I’m currently in New York for work but
Received two e-mails today from U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D. NM). The first one is in support of Rep. Ben Ray Luján’s (D. NM) U.S. Senate campaign: Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D. NM) Back in 2008, Ben Ray Luján and I were both part of the
Received this e-mail today from Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) in support of U.S. Senator Tina Smith’s (D. MN) re-election campaign: Friend, Donald Trump barely lost Minnesota in 2016 — in fact, he was just 1.5 percentage points from flipping it.
Been playing catch up with my e-mails due to the holidays and I have also been recovering from a sinus infection. Received this e-mail from former Congressman and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): “I’ve spent these last two days in Fort Bend county, Texas
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D. NM) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Next year, we have the unique ability to flip the Senate and wrestle control away from Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans. Today, I wanted
Received this e-mail from Governor Tim Walz (D. MN) in support of U.S. Senator Tina Smith’s (D. MN) re-election campaign: Folks — Tina Smith is a good friend of mine, which is why when she asked me to reach out to this incredible team today,
Received this e-mail from former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D. WI): A hyper-partisan Republican judge in Wisconsin just ordered the state to suppress more than 200,000 voters. Mere weeks later, a top Trump advisor said, “Traditionally, it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes” — then he promised “it’s
Received this email from U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: We can flip the Senate in 2020. The path to victory hinges on Sara Gideon’s race in Maine. Will you split a contribution between her
Received this e-mail from Democracy for America in support of Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: x YouTube Video Lindsey Graham is the most spineless politician that we’ve ever seen. Graham ignores everyday families in favor of his special interest-backers. He along with the
A new Chuck Todd interview with Rolling Stone in advance of a special program on disinformation also demonstrates MSM complicity. Bothsideism writ large, and Jay Rosen takes Todd to task. Chuck Todd: “So look, whether we’d liked it or not, our platform has been used,
The FBI has received Spanish wiretaps from an investigation of Russian money laundering through NRA that implicates Donald Trump Jr. Then there’s the money that GOP leadership received including the transfers made during the GOP convention. x Oligarch Len Blavatnik in 2016 gave Trumps pac
In a plea to get the media to cover something else than the damning impeachment vote, a Denver conservative radio show host, Chuck Bonniwell, literally said on the air that he wished “a nice school shooting” would interrupt the coverage. Right up the road is Columbine High School,
With yesterday’s big news about impeachment, I wanted to highlight another big thing that happened yesterday: Hundreds of veterans of Barack Obama’s campaigns and administration have signed on to endorse Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president, as multiple Democratic presidential candidates compete to claim the popular former president’s political coalition
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D. IL) in support of Sara Gideon’s (D. ME) U.S. Senate campaign: Sara Gideon (D. ME) Susan Collins just officially launched her reelection campaign for U.S. Senate. If Democrats are going to take back the Senate in
