Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back. Both campaigns saw Reading as strategically critical and it happens to be nearly 70 percent Latino.
MAGA’s fast-moving coup is upending the longstanding arrangements that have undergirded domestic politics and the US role in the world. What does this mean for the resistance, and how can the US Left maximize our impact?
Republicans West Virginia helped put in power are preparing to impose savage cuts on a program that has literally been a lifeline for many in the state, in order to help offset the cost of huge tax cuts for high-income Americans... Populism!
The quid pro quo deal between the president and the mayor of New York City will throw open the foreign corruption floodgates. As the Trump administration moves to drop the case and gut any remaining independence out of the DOJ, damn the consequences
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Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.
A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a “revisionist myth.”
The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.
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