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Ex-Vikings punter Chris Kluwe lit up a city council meeting in Huntington Beach by condemning the MAGA movement as an “explicitly Nazi movement” and was subs...

Congressional Integrity Project creates initiative to counter growing ‘authoritarianism’ and defend progressives

It's time to break up with the Republicans

A bill to give Donald Trump power to kill nonprofits is still supported by dozens of Democrats — giving the GOP plenty of breathing room.

We need to be ready to help each other

Trump’s victory is a referendum on feminist progress

Democrats should not dismiss Trump’s win as the result of sexism and racism alone.

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What I learned about Trump's landslide victory from one night in New York City.

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8.7K votes, 338 comments. 1.1M subscribers in the LeopardsAteMyFace community. 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for…

Legal scholars expect a bitter fight over what evidence may be redacted from the public.

669 votes, 97 comments. Leonard Leo was architect of effort to secure conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court The conservative activist who…

It’s tempting to write off Bernie Sanders’s speeches and interviews as he campaigns for Kamala Harris this year as a

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz formally accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president at the DNC on Wednesday. A former public school teacher, high school football coach and National Guard member, Walz spent six terms in Congress before his successful run for governor in 2018. We take a look at his record, including his “moderate” record on police brutality following the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, with two guests: Jacobin staff writer Branko Marcetic and Minneapolis City Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison, who is the son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Walz’s progressive wins in Minnesota appear to have swayed Kamala Harris’s selection, says Marcetic, as Harris hopes to mirror parts of his agenda on the federal level. “I think that he’s sincere in his efforts to see change,” says Jeremiah Ellison, who is also an “uncommitted” delegate and goes on to discuss the uncommitted movement’s strategy at the DNC.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytAs Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing pol...

The pro-Trump Zoomer sees the 2020s as a degenerate age and the ’80s as a time when men were men. It’s why their homemade videos are filled with VHS scan lines, old Gillette commercials, and Van Halen’s “Jump.”

From claiming he doesn't know what race Vice President Kamala Harris identifies as, to nicknaming the 2024 Democratic nominee "Kamabla" — former President Donald Trump has yet to hold back on using racist tropes in an effort to intimidate his opponent. On Tuesday, an X (formerly Twitter) account called Trump War Room — which calls itself "The Offic...

Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign issued a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump's Thursday press conference — which was mostly an hourlong rant from the former president consisting of numerous jabs at his opponent and countless false claims. USA Today White House correspondent Joey Garrison shared screenshots of a press release di...

Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee M.D. is concerned that Americans are being "blocked from receiving the most critical education" about Donald Trump and possible "dementia." After a lengthy press conference at Mar-a-Lago Thursday, questions surfaced again about Trump's purported decline. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich penned a column on his Substack ...

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