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…
CNN Goes There, Tells Don Jr His Dad’s Ad Is Racist
Joshua L. Jones/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you want to understand the relationship between the Trump administration and CNN, you could start with this exchange Saturday morning between the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and the network’s corporate PR staff, about a racist video tweeted by the…
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…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Stumps for Congresswoman Who Said Mass Shooters Are “Democrats”
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is in western New York on Saturday to campaign for Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, a first-term congresswoman who is facing a strong challenge from Democrat Anthony Brindisi, a state assemblyman. Though Trump carried…
Map of the Day: Automatic Voter Registration
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oregon gets a lot of attention every election year because it’s gotten rid of polling places and gone to 100 percent mail-in ballots. That’s great, but Oregon’s real contribution was its leadership in something much more important: automatic voter registration. If you have a driver’s…