Former congressional candidate Jon Ossoff (D) is testing the waters for a possible run against Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in 2020. Ossoff raised eyebrows this week after he was invited to attend a town hall meeting in Habersham County, a rural enclave in northeast Georgia that is closer to the South Carolina border than it […]
A year after President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE won the White House, voters in Virginia delivered a startling rebuke to Republicans, choosing a […]
New Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has unveiled a shadow cabinet that he says will not only take the fight to Liberals but show Canadians the Tories are a “government in waiting.” O’Toole announced his 43-member team of critics in a press release Tuesday, a few days after unveiling his House of Commons leadership team. The […]
The super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership is targeting two first-term Democratic congressmen in a new pair of ads tying them to the so-called Green New Deal. The pair of digital ads from Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) signal that Republicans are eager to hinge their 2020 effort to recapture control of the House on the […]
In a move anti-war critics warned will “greenlight more atrocities” by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, U.S. President Donald Trump late Wednesday vetoed three congressional resolutions that aimed to block billions of dollars in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. “The blood of Jamal Khashoggi and the innocent people of Yemen […]
Shortly after joining fellow members of “the Squad” at a press conference condemning President Donald Trump’s racist attacks, Rep. Ilhan Omar said during an interview on MSNBC Monday night that she and her progressive colleagues will not allow the president’s abusive and dangerous rhetoric to distract from efforts to hold him accountable and pursue a […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders told MSNBC Thursday night that perhaps Israel should not be receiving billions of dollars in U.S. military aid after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barred Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country. “I wish I could tell you…that I am shocked. I am not,” Sanders, a […]
The rapid and dangerous decline of the insect population in the United States—often called an “insect apocalypse” by scientists—has largely been driven by an increase in the toxicity of U.S. agriculture caused by the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLOS One. “We need to rapidly shift our […]
President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to open Alaska’s 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest—the planet’s largest intact temperate rainforest—to logging and other corporate development projects, a move that comes as thousands of fires are ripping through the Amazon rainforest and putting the “lungs of the world” in grave danger. The […]
After President Donald Trump announced on Friday night the resignation of Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, immigrant rights advocates vowed that “we will not forget his cruelty.” Families Belong Together, a national coalition of nearly 250 organizations, tweeted that McAleenan “was never fit to lead” the department and, as its chief, “has […]