“Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost,” said one Democratic Senate candidate. “And Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.” Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday led calls for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson’s resignation after the House January 6 committee revealed […]
“We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society,” said the head of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday warned that the court’s right-wing majority had further eroded the nation’s bedrock laws separating church […]
“Trump and the alt-right already showed us that ‘trolling’ can incite violence,” wrote one critic. “So what the hell is up with this ad?” A Republican candidate for the United States Senate was roundly rebuked Monday after releasing a violent campaign ad showing him “hunting” so-called “Republicans in name only” and inviting supporters to purchase their […]
Fifty years ago, Frank Wills, a 24-year-old, $2-an-hour, black security guard at D.C’s posh Watergate office building, was working the midnight shift when he noticed a piece of duct tape on the lock of a basement door leading outside. Assuming a careless worker had left it, he removed the tape, closed the door, and went back […]