I don’t want to overstate the importance of all of these moves. Some of this is simply political posturing, with Democratic politicians seeing that the wind is blowing against ICE right now and acting accordingly. They might backtrack from these stances, as they did when momentum around police reform dampened a few years ago. Even […]
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Source: simon’s photo / Getty While the Virginia redistricting effort is currently in the midst of a legal battle, that didn’t stop Virginia legislators from unveiling a proposed congressional map that aggressively gerrymanders the state in favor of Democrats. According to The New York Times, the proposed map could give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in […]
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The EEOC’s chair, Andrea Lucas, who first joined the agency as a commissioner after being nominated by Trump in 2020, filed a discrimination charge against Nike in 2024 under President Biden, when the commission still had a Democratic majority. Last year, Trump fired the agency’s chair, Charlotte Burrows, and appointed Lucas to the position. In […]
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Source: PAUL J. RICHARDS / Getty Virginia’s redistricting effort is facing a legal setback after a federal judge ruled the Grand Assembly’s process was illegal. According to AP, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley Jr. found that the Virginia Grand Assembly didn’t follow the proper procedures when introducing the constitutional amendment that would allow them […]
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With Trump in office, those board members joined with Trump appointees at the Department of Justice and the Youngkin administration to shift the university right. Trump appointees threatened to cut federal funding from UVA unless it ended diversity and inclusion programs and made other changes: the same playbook they used against schools across the country. […]
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Source: PAUL J. RICHARDS / Getty On Friday, Virginia lawmakers approved a redistricting plan that could net Democrats four seats in the House. According to the Washington Post, the proposed constitutional amendment would temporarily shift control of the state’s maps from an independent, bipartisan committee to the Grand Assembly until 2030. Virginia Democrats said the […]
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“Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car.… My 6-month-old can’t even breathe. This was flipped over,” Shawn told Fox9, referring to his child’s car seat. “My car filled with tear gas, I’m trying to pull my kids from the car.” As bystanders rushed the children […]
Read MoreMcCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Last year, McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board of directors before leaving in December. McCormick is married to Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania, who was elected as a Republican to the Senate […]
Read MoreMcCormick, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump’s first term, is now joining the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Last year, McCormick briefly joined Meta’s board of directors before leaving in December. McCormick is married to Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania, who was elected as a Republican to the Senate […]
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Source: The Washington Post / Getty On Dec. 16, a statue honoring Barbara Rose Johns—a Black teenager whose courage reshaped American education—was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. In 1951, Johns led a student walkout at her segregated Virginia high school, a bold act that helped dismantle school segregation nationwide. The unveiling marked a powerful shift […]
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Republicans and Democrats alike have long attacked the court over its investigation into Israel’s conduct in Gaza, and those efforts only increased after the court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif last year. In March 2020, ICC prosecutors opened an […]
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The suit further argued that the punitive policy violated the First Amendment by seeking “to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done—ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.” Under Hegseth’s new rules, credentialed Pentagon reporters were required to pledge that they […]
Read More“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]
Read More“My sister said, ‘How is she going to get deported if she’s a Native American?’ and ‘We have proof,’” Jacobo’s sister Maria Nunez told the Arizona Mirror. “They said, ‘Well, we don’t know because we’re not immigration and we can’t answer those questions. We’re just holding her for them. So, when they pick her up […]
Read MoreSo Zohran won 75 percent among those 18 to 29; he won 65 percent among those 30 to 44. Among those with no college degree, he won 42 percent compared to Cuomo’s f47—so about a tie. Among those whose income was below $30,000, Zohran won 47, Cuomo 44—so about a tie. Among renters, which is […]
Read MoreHere is a clear and simple way for Democrats to transform their party’s brand to appeal to working Americans who are being crushed by high costs and angry at a system that feels rigged against them. Because, as electorally compelling as an anti-AI position is today, it will become politically essential in the years ahead—for […]
Read MoreBut the only one attempting to control the media is Trump. Just moments earlier, the president hadn’t even let Ingraham get through a list of products that had seen price increases during his time in office. As she listed beef, coffee, and auto repairs, Trump actually tried to shush her. “So, are you saying that […]
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Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Over the last several months, Republican state legislatures have begun rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts to protect their narrow majority in the House. Tuesday’s elections in California and Virginia gave Democrats a massive win in countering the GOP’s attempt to gerrymander their way to a midterm victory. California Gov. Gavin Newsom […]
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Some pundits and consultants saw this as a statement on the effectiveness of this as a wedge issue rather than as a reflection of a poorly run Democratic campaign and declining poll numbers for President Biden. Trump leaned even further into this strategy in 2024, and the same people attributed the outcome to these ads, […]
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Republicans were left reeling on Wednesday after voters swung decisively against them, setting off fears that President Trump and his low approval ratings would again drag down the party’s midterm candidates. As the scale of their electoral defeats set in, Republicans sought to find culprits, blaming their candidates, the government shutdown, a misguided focus on […]
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“We should start, tonight, with ‘the country’s open,’ congratulations, then we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass all of the things we want to pass to make our elections secure,” Trump continued, calling for an end to the government shutdown. “All we want is voter ID, you go […]
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“We should start, tonight, with ‘the country’s open,’ congratulations, then we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass all of the things we want to pass to make our elections secure,” Trump continued, calling for an end to the government shutdown. “All we want is voter ID, you go […]
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Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the New York City mayoral race—in which he broke 50 percent against two serious opponents—also illustrates the point. Mamdani’s campaign was famously focused on affordability and costs. But as I’ve detailed, he also went hard at Trump’s authoritarian abuses of power while running the most explicitly pro-immigrant and even pro-cosmopolitan […]
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“We should start, tonight, with ‘the country’s open,’ congratulations, then we should pass voter ID, we should pass no mail-in voting, we should pass all of the things we want to pass to make our elections secure,” Trump continued, calling for an end to the government shutdown. “All we want is voter ID, you go […]
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It seems that many of those voters thought Trump’s deportation crackdown would only target violent gangs, not their friends, family, and neighbors. In May, an Equis poll came out that showed that 15 percent of Latinos who voted for Trump completely disapproved of his presidential actions by that point. An additional66 percent of all Latino […]
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It seems that many of those voters thought Trump’s deportation crackdown would only target violent gangs, not their friends, family, and neighbors. In May, an Equis poll came out that showed that 15 percent of Latinos who voted for Trump completely disapproved of his presidential actions by that point. An additional66 percent of all Latino […]
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Erie County, Pennsylvania, which narrowly supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Christina Vogel in its county executive race by 24 percentage points. In Virginia’s 66th state House district, Nicole Cole defeated 36-year Republican incumbent Bobby Orrock, who usually coasted to victory in every state election and was the longest-serving Republican […]
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Now: Inside a normal White House, they’d read these tea leaves and say, “Geez, we’d better cool it.” But this president will of course double down. Triple or quadruple down. You think it’s in Stephen Miller’s nature to moderate? You think it’s in Trump’s? Of course not—they’ll just get more extreme. Remember: All that ICE […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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It’s a nonsensical comparison held together by sheer force of racism. Are they suggesting that 9-year-old Mamdani was in cahoots with Al Qaeda? Do they think he, somehow, would welcome this type of attack on the city he’s worked so hard to get a chance to govern? Laura Loomer, the self-described “proud Islamophobe” who has […]
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