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USA Today writer Rexx Huppke says it’s time for Republicans and President Donald Trump to put up or shut up because blaming Biden is no longer a winning strategy.“That excuse ain’t working anymore,” said Huppke, citing a May 12 CNN poll showing an eye-watering 70 percent of Americans disapproving of Trump’s handling of the economy.U.S. inflation is

Top Colorado Democrats and democracy advocates were among those outraged and puzzled Friday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who aided Trump in his scheme to derail the 2020 election. Those critics now include Colorado’s own state secretary Jenna Griswold, who spoke to MS NOW’s “Weekend” panel in terms of treachery.“Tina Peters was no political prisoner,” said Griswold. “She compromised

New York Times opinion columnists EJ Dionne and attorney Sarah Isgur are catching hints that President Donald Trump is turning American voters off to the kind of loud and stupid personalities willing to “eat a cockroach” for money.Dionne began his assessment with a comparison to Civil Rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer claiming to be “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” “I think a lot of Americans, beyond their partisanship even — especially normie Republicans, who aren’t MAGA — are just tired of this. And so, these states will be a test of that,” said Dionne, speaking to voters forced to vote in freshly mangled districts that Republicans are gerrymandering. Isgur pointed out that po

Reuters reporter Brad Brooks reports that many rural MAGA still embrace President Donald Trump’s policies, no matter how it hurts them.Colorado resident Amy Van Duyn knows the price of gasoline has doubled to $4.34 per gallon since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year."I used to fill my tank for $36," Van Duyn, 42, told Reuters. "Now $36 gets me half a tank."Her co-worker Tonyah Bruyette told Reuters that when it's time to buy groceries, she's left wondering where all h

More often than not an online influencer will remind his or her audience that they are being paid for their services, even if the announcement isn’t completely overt. That’s the case with progressive influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina and others, said New York Times writer Ken Bensinger.“[Espina] revealed a surprising endorsement to his 14.5 million followers on TikTok: He would support Tom Steyer, the billionaire running for California governor as a Democrat. “I really believe Tom Steyer is different,” Espina said in a posted speech. “He could be traveling around the world or doing whatever he wants, but he wants to serve the people of this state.”Bensinger

“Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.” — Edward S. Herman, “Manufactured Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media”In a number of articles on its website, PEN America explains in striking detail the right-wing Trojan horse of “parental rights,” illuminating the threat caused by policymakers focused on this theater in the culture war.PEN — which has gained a global reputation for standing “at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide” — argues that “parents’ rights” is not a source of freedom as claimed, but the crux of an ideological rigidity exercised by MAGA Republicans

Top Colorado Democrats and democracy advocates were among those expressing concern on Friday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier backed by President Donald Trump.“Today, Gov. Polis delivered a victory to every person urging President Trump to seize control of elections in 2026,” said Aly Belknap, executive director of the advocacy group Common Cause Colorado, in a statement. “By commuting Tina Peters’ sentence, Gov. Polis dealt a massive blow to Colorado’s ability to run its own elections and uphold it

Whenever a new poll comes out showing Trump’s abysmal ratings, public reactions follow a pattern. Public comments don’t question Trump’s disapproval rating. Rather, millions of people question the flip side:

Former MAGA adherent Rich Logis says more and more Americans are getting turned off by the sheer overtness of President Donald Trump’s corruption and self-enrichment.His confession arrived on the heels of an MS NOW anchor comparing Trump’s modern Republican Party to the corruption-obsessed Republican Party of the Clinton years, wherein the Republican Congress dedicated four years of investigation to President Bill Clinton’s Whitewater scandal. That incident involved Clinton incorporating the Whitewater Development Corporation with the purpose of building vacation properties while Clinton was state governor.“It lite

Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how racked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness.“I don't know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he's fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.“I don't trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negoti