ArchiveAugust 2018

A new memo circulating in GOP circles shows Republicans are “getting ready for hell” if Democrats take control of the House of Representatives. What has Republicans so scared? Democrats are planning to investigate the rampant scandals of the Trump era. In other words, Democrats want Congress to actually do its job. “Thanks to their control of Congress, Republicans have blocked...

First Lady Melania Trump has now become a full partner in her husband’s war against the free press. Melania Trump signed her name to a GOP fundraising email that read: “Democrats and the opposition media are doing everything they possibly can to discredit Donald with false accusations by spreading their fake news and making it appear that he does not have the support of...

Americans in all 50 states came together at rallies Sunday to “Unite for Justice” and call on senators to block the appointment of Donald Trump’s radical Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. At over 200 events across the country, from Portland, Maine to Anchorage, Alaska, thousands of progressives stood up to defend women’s rights, Obamacare, and even the rule of law...

Trump seems determined to be as graceless as possible this week as preparations begin for the funeral of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). On Monday morning, the American flag over the White House was once again flying at full staff, after having been lowered Saturday night following news of McCain’s death. Traditionally, when a sitting U.S. senator dies, the White House issues an effusive statement...

Decency was in short supply in Trumpworld after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) passed away this weekend. Several conservatives on Fox News even tried to favorably compare Trump to McCain by invoking Trump’s own disgusting attacks on the late senator. On Sunday afternoon’s edition of “America’s Newsroom,” Fox News anchor Eric Shawn correctly noted that Trump has been...

Leaders from across the political spectrum have been mourning the loss of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — but one of the Republicans running for senate in McCain’s state actually suggested that the timing of his death was a plot to hurt her campaign. The day before McCain’s death, he and his family announced that he would be stopping treatment for his brain cancer. After hearing this, a...

As the country learned of Senator John McCain’s (R-AZ) passing Saturday evening, Trump made one last shameful contribution to his petty vendetta against a war hero who served our country for 60 years. About an hour after McCain passed away, Trump tweeted a message to the late senator’s family — but very conspicuously said nothing about McCain himself. “My deepest sympathies and...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) died in his home state of Arizona after a long battle with brain cancer. McCain was 81 when he passed away. A statement from the McCain family read, “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28pm on August 25, 2018. With the Senator when he passed were his wife Cindy and their family. At his death, he had served the United States of America faithfully for sixty years...

Lawyers for parents who lost their children in the Sandy Hook Massacre had to ask Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to stop defending far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Cruz recently criticized Jones’ recent removal from social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube for violating their terms of service, using hate speech and inciting harassment of others. He wrote, “Am no fan of Jones —...

At least 528 migrant children remain separated from their families, and in U.S. government shelters without their parents, despite court orders that the Trump administration reunite them. The latest status report the government turned into the court showed that as of Aug. 20 — almost a month after the initial deadline of July 26 — the job remains woefully unfinished. Twenty-three of the children...