The Untold Story of the Progressive Insurgency That Is Remaking Congress
Mother Jones illustration; GettyIt was like the first day of camp, but with blazers and better snacks. Three dozen of the most liberal lawmakers in the House of Representatives were gathered on the fifth floor of a House office building on the afternoon of January 10. New members, sworn into office just one week earlier as…
“It’s a Slap in the Face”: Liberal Organizers Are Not Happy with Pelosi Dissing AOC
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee markup on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.Tom Williams/AP On Wednesday evening, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made headlines when she called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “outright disrespectful” for the criticism she’s lately flung at the New York congresswoman and…
Pelosi Condemns Trump’s 9/11 Attack on Ilhan Omar: His “Rhetoric Creates Real Danger”
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday denounced President Donald Trump’s recent video attack against Rep. Ilhan Omar, which combined remarks given by Omar during a Muslim civil rights event with graphic images of the attacks on September 11th, and demanded that the president remove the video from his social…
Trump Is Spoiling for Yet Another Big Fight Over Border Wall Funding
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before leaving for Alabama to survey areas devastated by powerful tornadoes, in Washington D.C., on March 8, 2019. Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, President Donald Trump will again plunge the nation into a bitter fight and more uncertainty…
Critics of the Green New Deal Dismissed It as a Marketing Ploy. AOC Just Showed Them It’s For Real.
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly, Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Green New Deal has officially graduated from a vision for mobilizing young activists to occupy Democratic lawmakers’ offices to a document attracting a number of powerful co-sponsors from both houses of Congress. Freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has teamed up with a veteran of the…
No One Likes the State of the Union Address. So Why Bother?
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The annual State of the Union address: What exactly is the point? On the one hand, Nancy Pelosi’s Shutdown Smackdown put President Donald Trump in a corner by threatening to deny all that attention and adulation during a prime-time slot. On the…