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A union machinist just won a Texas State Senate seat Trump carried by 17 points. He was outspent four to one. How did he do it? By tossing out the Democrats’ playbook and running a grassroots economic populist campaign with a strong pro-labor message

While menacing Venezuela and Greenland, an “unbound” Trump has unleashed the empire on itself in Minneapolis.

Defense of ICE has become a political loser, and the deal to trade reforms for continued funding is off the table.

The escalation comes two weeks after 31,000 nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other professionals in California and Hawaii began the strike in late January.

In the wake of an ICU nurse’s murder by federal agents, National Nurses United has joined calls to abolish ICE.

Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.

Katie Paris founded Red, Wine & Blue to harness suburban women's political power — now more than 600,000 members are deploying it to oppose ICE in their communities.

As the only place in the continental US where it almost never freezes, South Florida can support fruits usually only found in the tropics; thanks to new advances in plant breeding and growing interest from consumers, the industry here is booming.

As always, the ads said the most about the state of the world today. The NFL appeared keen to welcome the sport’s non-Maga contingent back. But this Super Bowl offered a powerful advertisement for the theater and violence of capitalism as usual.

The deal is still pending a vote by the union membership and includes modest raises for nurses through 2028 and preserves their healthcare and retirement benefits.