The Trump gerrymandering tour has not been going well. So far, it has succeeded in Texas, where new districts could dislodge up to five Democrats, and Missouri, where lawmakers voted to muscle out Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) by splitting up Kansas City. But Texas is under a legal challenge and, more importantly, still gives Democrats […]
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As Shutdown Wears On, Trump’s Getting Blamed
There haven’t been any shutdown talks for a week, just public posturing. Both sides think they are winning the shutdown, giving them no reason to initiate talks rather than just wait for the other side to buckle.
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Donald Trump to Trump Country: Drop Dead
One of the most baffling themes of Donald Trump’s second term is how he is specifically ruining the cities and lives of his most loyal voters—taking their factories, their jobs, their health care, their hospitals, and their future. The first knife Trump drove into the backs of red economies was to repeal almost all of […]
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To Win the Shutdown, Democrats Need a Big Switch
Democrats have positioned the shutdown as about health care, which is very easy for Republicans to dismiss.
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The ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Phase of the Shutdown
These haphazard funding cuts and firings will only continue, because they are manifestly not tied to a shutdown
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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months
Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.
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Left, Right, and Free Speech
With the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, the right pretends to champion free speech while the left supposedly promotes censorship. It’s a classic Big Lie.
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From Democracy to ‘My Way or the Highway’ in Missouri
State legislators have embraced norm-shattering techniques to boldly crack one House district. Voters may have the final say about that.
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Russ Vought’s Empty Shutdown Threat
Today on TAP: The OMB director says that if Democrats don’t cave, he will do mass layoffs. Imagine that.
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The Method in Trump’s Madness
Despite Trump’s impulsive inconsistencies, his attempted progression toward fascism is all too systematic. He has not yet succeeded.