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“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.…

Inside Indivisible’s Plan to Take Over Democratic Primaries

Indivisible OC members protest out California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s district office.Matt Masin/Orange County Register via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since its inception in late 2016 as a crowd-sourced Google Doc offering tips for how activists can fight back against Trump, Indivisible has grown into a hyper-active, multi-million-dollar operation with…

California’s “Jungle Primary” Could Turn Democrats’ Enthusiasm Into a Fiasco

vesmil/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since Donald Trump’s election, liberal activism has exploded across Southern and Central California, including in traditionally Republican bastions such as Orange County. In response, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has drawn up an aggressive battleground map that targets 10 districts as part of its effort…

Mueller’s Indictment of 13 Russians Strikes Fear Into the Trump White House

Andrew Harnik/AP; Dmitri Lovesky/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the ongoing investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller issued an astounding 37-page indictment charging 13 Russians in a broad conspiracy to sabotage America’s 2016 elections. By Saturday, President Donald Trump and White House officials responded by tripling down…