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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrat Abigail Spanberger handily won the Virginia gubernatorial race, as…
But what I believe more is that the Democratic Party cannot just be the anti-Trump party. We have tried that, and look where we are. And if we aren’t challenging the status quo…
Waltz attacked the Cuban government as “illegitimate and brutal,” claiming that he was correcting “the fake news, the misinformation, and this false reality the regime seeks to create year…
That’s something Democrats have been slow to entertain: Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and…
Recipients in other states are similarly on the chopping block. More than a dozen states have opened up their Obamacare marketplace for a window-shopping period, including California,…
Granted, the Democrats are out of power, so right now, they can’t do much. But as they make their case heading into 2026 and 2028, asking the voters to return them to power, they need to…
And so I do think that part of what’s driving this is they’re scared. They’re losing. They don’t feel like this stuff is working. They know the economy isn’t going well. So what it’s…
President Trump’s fury at Democrats over the government shutdown is escalating. First he angrily announced that he’s “terminated” the big tunnel project connecting New York and New Jersey,…
Meanwhile, Trumpworld’s propagandistic rationales for its highest-profile operations are collapsing. After the recent massive raid on a Chicago apartment complex, complete with hovering…
Taxpayers deserve better than symbolic compassion backed by shell games and ballooning deficits. Source link
And so here we are now, and this is an argument that I’m having, obviously, live. If we believe that our job right now — and I believe it is — is to blunt the authoritarian assault that we…
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following us on YouTube or Substack. Read the transcript of this episode here. Democratic politicians are overly…
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has taken a lead role in forcefully sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. He’s urged Democrats to use their power creatively to constrain Trump’s…
Shortly after, Vance circled back to “the sombrero thing,” saying, “Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist. And I know that he said that, and I honestly don’t even honestly know what that…
“The other day, it was very interesting, they found $31 billion,” Trump said. “They said, ‘Sir, we’ve found 31.’ I said, ‘You mean positively, right?’ They said, ‘Yeah, $31 million more…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent:This is The Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced…
Over the weekend, President Trump explicitly commanded Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political enemies in a crazed Truth Social tirade. He named the Democrats he wants…
Rep. Nancy Mace's resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar over her comments about assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk failed in a House vote Wednesday. Source link
Bacon: Last question. I guess you, Congressman Crockett, a few others are on this. So the Republicans have this new “we’re going to reinvestigate January 6” committee that that you’re…
Representative Jamie Raskin says congressional Democrats should not vote for any government funding bill that does not extend soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies and prevent Trump and…
Sargent: Well, I want to get at the cruelty dimension of this, because I think it’s really important. I want to point out that unless you had prompted that reaction from Mace, her long…
GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace lost her temper on the House floor on Wednesday. It all started when Mace unleashed a long, vile tirade about transgender Americans. After that, Congresswoman…
“In 1991, there was something that he did when I was there initially training me to do massage, as he had trained a very dear friend who trusted him, spoke highly of him and directed me to…
This week, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to President Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago. Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant,…
