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Do you remember Jon Ossoff's fight last year in Georgia? I do. It was one of the biggest election stories out of 2017: a charasmatic, young neophyte took on a rightwing … Read More
Actually, I’m thankful for a lot of things. A lovely wife and loving children. Parents who loved me enough to raise me and my brother right. The fact that I’m … Read More
Steve Schmidt was on Nicole Wallace’s show on MSNBC with Rosie O’Donnell yesterday, tearing into drumpf & company on family separation and it was a thing of beauty… x “This … Read More
No sense makes sense Charles Manson O-tay, somebody is gonna have to walk me through this one. I know we've all been unfairly transplanted to the barren steppes of … Read More
Well, this is a big Fuck You to the Separation of Church & State: Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley supports repealing a provision in the federal tax code that bars … Read More
Does it strike anyone as just bizarre or fantastical that Republicans have compiled a spreadsheet of what they think Democrats are going to investigate about the Trump Administration if Democrats retake … Read More
MoveOn takes our role in elections and responsibility to members and the progressive movement seriously. Last week MoveOn wrongly endorsed Mary Glassman in the CT-05 primary, and we take responsibility … Read More
I've said for months now that the ultimate Democratic secret weapon in the 2018 midterms is the $1 Store Caligula himself. And with his frenzied, vicious response to Omarosa's digs … Read More
Day after day, the Trump administration creates new crises that require a robust and immediate response. And given the daily onslaught, it can be easy to forget to pause and … Read More
Jeff Sessions war on immigration on behalf ot The Tiny Thumbs Diktator just keeps getting worse and worse. And it just led to Session s himself being threatened with being … Read More
Former GOP, and now independent operative Steve Schmidt was blunt and to the point last week. He foresees nothing short of a blue wave in November. One of his strongest … Read More
God/Yahweh has not blessed the Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky with a deluge of visitors. The Ark Encounter sold a little more than 860,000 tickets between July 2017 and … Read More
I have a suggestion. And that suggestion is that the two words “Mission Accomplished” should be permanently stricken from the political discourse dictionary, on pain of being thrown out of … Read More
What, oh what is a fledgling dictator to do when the masses won't just blindly obey what he orders?!? The Trump administration is caught between a rock and a hard … Read More
“I could at the stroke of keystrokes … within seconds could find any child within our care for any parent.” HHS Secretary Alex Azar Forgive me for being skeptical … Read More
After weeks of heartbreaking images, here are some beautiful rays of hope: On Saturday, in Washington, D.C.,, 35,000 demonstrators braved 96-degree temperatures to march on the White House and send … Read More
This Washington Post editorial — “Let the Trump team eat in peace” — provides a useful platform for intelligently discussing the recent instances where Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and … Read More
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac University … Read More
Right now, Rick Scott and Bill Nelson are tied in the polls for a Senate seat. How this is possible after all of the horrible things Rick Scott has done to … Read More
No need for sophisticated computer skills. Just a lot of chutzpah, climbing equipment and paint. x Activist group Indecline has changed a billboard in Emeryville that used to read “we … Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand—someone who is devoutly religious and actually follows the Bible—called it: Trump is doing the devil’s work. His ideas are evil, “from darkness,” and rooted in hate. Trump is a monster. Coincidentally, … Read More
Pantheon of organizations plan massive June 30 mobilization against Trump administration’s family separation policy WASHINGTON — During a television appearance on MSNBC’s ‘All In With Chris Hayes’ this evening, Rep. … Read More
My recent twitter-sparring with a “pro-lifer” jolted me back to my early school years. I must have been about 9 years old when I first learned about WWII. I vaguely … Read More
Defending the indefensible on Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled back in time to deploy the “both sides do it” talking point to explain the Civil War. Providing air cover for … Read More
Today’s sharply polarized and strategically focused political parties fit poorly with a constitutional system that anticipates collaboration as well as competition within and across separated institutions. As we initially wrote, … Read More
Have you heard the wonderful news? Today the state senate in the great state of Michigan passed a bill that would provide religious freedom in schools! That's right, now everyone … Read More
