Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, along with more than 100 Democrats and one Republican, called for President Donald Trump‘s removal after a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, leaving four dead and injuring multiple members of the Capitol Police. “This man is deadly. …
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Now what? After four years of manias and catastrophizing, with constant warnings about the “existential threat” posed by Donald Trump, the monster is dead. Trump, the democratic Saddam, has lost, and his metaphorical statue will soon be dragged out of the White House, to the cheers of nearly every pundit …
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Last month, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) formally requested six years of President Trump’s tax returns from the IRS. Federal law holds that the the IRS, which is overseen by the Treasury Department, must comply with the request. But Trump maintained that his administration would not …
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The chorus of prominent liberals and progressives demanding the resignation of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is resounding. Last Friday, images circulated from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook page showing two people in racist garb, one in blackface and the other in a Klansman costume. After initially apologizing for the image, …
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In a year when the progressive Democratic platform is coalescing around variations of Medicare-for-All, free college and the Green New Deal, presidential candidate Andrew Yang stands apart — with a bold proposal to provide a “Freedom Dividend” of $1,000 a month to every adult in America. Yang — a lawyer, …
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Heidi Heitkamp sat in a meeting the other day with some surprised insurance lobbyists — they hadn’t expected her to take the appointment. The North Dakota Democrat told them: “How I was raised is, when you’re hired to do a job, you do the job until you’re done doing the …
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has earned praise for her efforts to lift the veil and show what Congress is really like on social media, had another revelation to share with her followers on Monday. “This week I went to dive spot in DC for some late night food. I chatted up …
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