Fox News didn’t bother airing Trump’s primetime rally in Pennsylvania Wednesday night. Instead, it found more pressing news to cover. This has become a recent pattern at the GOP-friendly network, which not long ago bragged that it was the home of Trump rally programming. Last week, Fox News declined to air three Trump rallies in full. For an egomaniac like Trump, who prides himself on...
Trump team wants to charge for free speech outside White House
Days after activists stormed Washington, D.C. to protest Trump’s nomination of alleged sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the administration is moving to significantly curtail the free speech rights of White House protesters — and even charge them for exercising those rights. “The Trump administration proposes to dramatically limit the right to demonstrate near the...
No wonder GOP lost it: Taylor Swift registered 65,000 voters in 1 day
Fans are heeding pop star Taylor Swift’s political call to action for November. Following an impassioned Instagram post to her army of fans on Sunday night, where she stressed the need for equality, and urged fans to vote Democratic and register to vote, 65,000 people did just that in a 24-hour period. The eruption of activism will likely only further enrage conservatives who lashed out at...
GOP losing women in the battleground districts it needs most
Polls show white, college-educated women in battleground House districts are abandoning the Republican Party, just weeks before the midterm elections. In a new survey of 69 House districts that are in play this November, a Washington Post poll finds Democrats boast a 4-point advantage. By comparison, in 2016 Republicans enjoyed a 15-point advantage in those same districts. Today, Republicans...
‘The country deserves better’: 3 top newspapers say no to Kavanaugh
Newspaper editorial boards across the country have come out against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. They include the three largest dailies in America: the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today. The highly unusual move is the latest indication of just how widely unpopular Kavanaugh has become, as poll after poll shows him losing public support in recent days. Republicans are...
White House hides facts about risks to children’s health
The Trump administration has rejected language from the EPA warning that children are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The shameless move comes as Republicans across the country are working hard to undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and man-made, and that it will have catastrophic effects on human society. Reviewing the EPA’s...
Rigged FBI report clears Kavanaugh, says White House that rigged it
Republicans accelerated the timetable of their Brett Kavanaugh cover-up, demanding a quick vote on his Supreme Court confirmation despite mountainous questions about Kavanaugh’s behavior. Within moments of the FBI delivering summaries of its abbreviated, supplemental background check to the White House, administration officials told reporters for a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper that the...
FBI’s investigation of Kavanaugh doesn’t even include Kavanaugh
The White House seems to be doing everything it can to block the FBI from conducting a thorough investigation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and allegations that he sexually assaulted women in the past. And that includes preventing the FBI from talking to Kavanaugh. To date, the FBI hasn’t interviewed Kavanaugh or Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who detailed her allegations of assault...
Looks like cash-strapped NRA can’t afford as many GOP politicians this year
Republicans trying to fend off a Democrats blue wave this year are going to have do it without much aid from a longtime, deep-pocketed ally, the National Rifle Association. At a time when it’s reeling from falling revenues, the NRA has drastically pulled back its financial support for GOP campaigns during this midterm cycle. To date, the radical gun group has pledged just $1.6 million...
Kavanaugh was ‘loud, obnoxious drunk’ in school, according to … him
One day after it was revealed that “choir boy” Brett Kavanaugh was involved in a booze-fueled barroom melee in college, comes news that he also bragged about him and his buddies being “loud, obnoxious drunks” while in high school. In a letter to his pals in advance of Beach Week in Ocean City, Maryland, during his senior year, Kavanaugh wrote they should “warn the...