“If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention.” Trump administration officials on Thursday hyped up plans to carry out mass political arrests and prosecutions of people whom it deemed far-left terrorists. In a speech given at the US State Department, Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, described left-wing political violence as a “fatal cancer […]
Trump has threatened to deploy the military against the “enemy within” and has recently promoted the idea that “democratic socialism must be criminalized.” As he pushed for Congress to approve $350 billion in new spending requested by the Pentagon, House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Tuesday that some of the funds were needed for “fighting communism on our […]
“Why does Democratic leadership continue to oppose a measure supported by 74% of Democratic voters?” asked one commentator. With a key amendment to a 2027 spending bill expected to come up for a vote in the US House of Representatives in the coming days, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries had what one organizer called “a real opportunity… to show he’s listening” […]
“Simply throwing more money at an out-of-control military operation is not strategy,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth. Senate Democrats appeared set to block President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s sprawling, $1.15 trillion annual military policy bill in a procedural vote scheduled for Tuesday after the White House formally notified lawmakers of an extension of its illegal Iran war. Sen. […]