Republican lawmakers in North Carolina announced a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts, setting up a bitter fight with Democrats. Redistricting reentered the national dialogue in August when Texas unveiled an aggressive plan to strip Democrats of five House seats, threatening a nationwide gerrymandering arms race. Several red states followed suit when Gov. Gavin […]
A New Jersey county that could play a decisive role in the next month’s statewide elections will be reprinting its general election ballots after the Republican National Committee successfully argued that a ballot redesign unlawfully favored Democrats. The dispute began late last month when Democratic County Clerk James Hogan replaced Gloucester County’s legally required party-column ballot format, where each political […]
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has not shied away from the cameras as negotiations to reach a funding deal stalled, leaving the government shut down. Both parties have rushed to blame the shutdown on the other side, but Johnson has been busy making TV appearances, holding press conferences, and even joining C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to […]
President Donald Trump cannot be accused of resting on his laurels, and Ukraine is hoping to ride his momentum to its own ceasefire agreement. Following a celebratory address at the Knesset and stopover in Egypt to kickstart the formation of an international “Board of Peace” to govern the Gaza Strip, Trump is already shifting his […]
Angel Studios is partnering with Wonder Project to bring the early years of former President George Washington to the big screen next year, just in time for the United States’s landmark anniversary. The film, Young Washington, explores Washington’s involvement in the French and Indian War at 22 years old, and how he finds the courage […]
The White House press team sent an automatic reply to all press inquiries amid the government shutdown. Monday was the 13th day the federal government went unfunded. The Senate Republicans have presented a clean continuing resolution that would fund the government until Nov. 21, but it has failed to pass the 60-vote threshold six times […]
Recently indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James will headline a rally for New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani on Monday night. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia indicted James, who has long clashed with President Donald Trump, on a bank fraud charge on Thursday. Monday night’s rally in the […]
CNN is so addled by its Trump derangement syndrome that its lead hosts couldn’t give the president a break for a day after he made history in bringing the Israel-Hamas war to an end. Consider CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash’s knife-twist on Sunday while her panel discussed Trump and his hope for […]
The campaign arm of Senate Democrats appeared to move forward with a scheduled fundraising retreat on Monday and Tuesday in California wine country despite the government shutdown. The timing of the Napa Valley event made for poor optics and an easy target for Republicans, who have blamed the shutdown on congressional Democrats for opposing a “clean” short-term funding […]
Oceans of ink have been spilled attempting to pinpoint the Democrats’ problem in the Trump era. Democratic partisans insist they have a mere “messaging” problem, not a policy or character problem. A smaller contingent believes the party needs new ideas and a willingness to compromise. But the truth is simpler than all that. The reason […]
