Donald Trump Jr. Is Basically Tweeting About White Genocide Now
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) isn’t going to lose on Tuesday, but that’s not why this comment from Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son and of his most popular surrogates, is so important: Angus King is a Fake Independent who…
It Takes More Than a Hurricane to Sway Some Voters In This Texas Election
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. John Culberson, a United State congressman who represents west Houston, has long questioned “the data” on climate change, which scientists say contributes to more intense and frequent storms. When…
Midwestern Democrats Have a Secret Weapon—It’s Called Chicago
Demonstrators gather across from Trump tower in Chicago to celebrate the GOP’s failed repeal of Obamacare on March 24, 2017.Max Herman/Sipa via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Early in 2017, in the depths of a bitter Midwestern winter, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee deployed a staffer to Illinois’ 6th…
Even If Democrats Win New Jersey, They’ve Already Lost
Julio Cortez/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New Jersey, which went to Hillary Clinton by 14 points in 2016, is a state Democrats should have had locked up months ago; instead they’ve been forced to embark on a rescue mission to save embattled incumbent Sen. Bob Menendez, who is…
How Thousands of Already Cast Florida Ballots Could Be Tossed Aside Without Voters Knowing
Rejected mail-in ballots sit in a box as members of the canvassing board verify signatures at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, in Miami. Lynne Sladky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since moving to Florida in 2007, Paul Cauchi has voted in person in his Miami-Dade…
Here’s Why You Should Keep an Eye on the Effort to Repeal California’s Gas Tax
But nationally, the group reported in October, with about half the roads in as poor a condition as California’s, the average motorist is losing $599 annually—a total of $130 billion nationally—as a result of driving on bad roads. That’s $244 less than the average Californian is paying. So, even if California is only able to…