“JD is the most irritating of Trump’s acolytes because he spouts absurd MAGA bullshit, knowing full well how stupid it is,” said one critic. As Republicans struggle to convince Americans to vote for the party whose policies have made workers’ lives more difficult and expensive, they’ve increasingly invoked the tried-and-true bogeyman of socialism—a word for […]
“This is a sick man who thinks it’s a joke to push over a million Texans into poverty by stealing their hard-earned benefits.” Ken Paxton, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Senate in Texas, expressed a willingness to cut programs such as Social Security in a leaked recording published by The Texas Tribune on […]
“With each passing election since the Citizens United decision, billionaires have systematically bought up our democracy.” An analysis released Wednesday shows that 172 billionaire families in the United States have collectively spent more than $1.7 billion on the 2026 elections—a record-shattering sum for a midterm cycle. The analysis by the Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) […]
“The role of a president is to protect the country, not to actively threaten it and encourage attacks on American lives,” said the mayor of Los Angeles. “Keep our city out of your reckless war talk,” said San Diego’s mayor, Todd Gloria, Monday night after President Donald Trump’s rambling speech at a rally in Nebraska […]