Texas Republican Tells Beto O’Rourke, “My AR Is Ready for You”
Brian Cahn/ZUMA A Texas state representative is under fire after tweeting, “My AR is waiting for you” at Beto O’Rourke, shortly after the Democratic presidential candidate endorsed mandatory buybacks of assault-style weapons during the third Democratic debate Thursday night. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” O’Rourke declared to the audience in…
Inside the Pro-Andrew Yang Influence Machine
Win McNamee/Getty Images After the first set of Democratic presidential debates in June, Andrew Yang dominated several online surveys asking who won the contest. He came in first in one run by the conservative news aggregator Drudge Report, another run by the Washington Examiner, and second in one on NJ.com. The results seemed like a…
Report: More than 1600 Polling Places Have Closed Since the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted a core provision of the Voting Rights Act: The requirement for certain states with a history of voter discrimination to “preclear” changes in their election rules with the federal government. For decades, the 1965 law helped secure the right to vote for hundreds of thousands…
Mark Sanford Announces Long-Shot Primary Challenge to Trump
Jeff Malet/ZUMA Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Sunday announced his bid to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, adding his name to a small group of long-shot campaigns aimed at unseating the president. In a string of tweets detailing his candidacy, Sanford focused heavily on fiscal responsibility, or the lack…
The 2020 Dems Have No Serious Plan for Addressing the Single Biggest Source of US Pollution
CNN, Zuma The CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall made it clear that Democrats are encountering a much stronger appetite than ever before from their base for substantive action to address climate change. Even though the baseline for what constitutes a strong climate action plan has changed, there are still rifts among the candidates on the…
“Our President Is Unstable”: Sen. Jeff Merkley Makes the Case That “It’s Getting Worse”
© Zach Roberts/ZUMA Wire Senator Jeff Merkley has witnessed some atrocious scenes at migrant detention centers along the Texas-Mexico border. He described one where “hundreds” of children were ripped out of their parents’ arms and sorted into chain-link cages, standing in single-file lines from shortest to tallest. “The shortest one was in front and he…