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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is showing signs of growing frustration with President Trump after 18 months of walking in lock-step with the president's agenda. With few exceptions, Thune has maintained Trump's demands, but as the midterm elections approach, it is becoming increasingly clear that the president is out of touch with his own voters. Axios reported Wednesday that Thune is beginning to break with the president publicly, showing that Trump's influence over congressional Republicans may be coming to an end as the primary campaigns come and go. Trump has invested some effort in eliminating his GOP o

A bloc of voters once staunchly loyal to the Republican Party is being left "frustrated" by the pains of President Donald Trump's failures, and according to The Hill, they might be reaching their breaking point in the upcoming midterms.As the outlet laid out in its Wednesday morning report, farmers in the Midwest have been hit brutally hard by Trump's economic policies and the fallout of his war with Iran, all of which have sent the cost of agri

In New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. now knows who he will be competing with this year in the general election: Rebecca Bennett, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot who, in a Tuesday primary, defeated three other Democrats. And Never Trump conservative George Conway used the outcome to take a swipe at the "missing" Kean.Political Polls

The US Supreme Court late Tuesday gave Alabama a green light to use an aggressively gerrymandered congressional map that a lower court said was “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”The unsigned decision, from which the high court’s three liberal justices dissented, enables Alabama’s Republican-dominated government to replace its current congressional map, which has two majority-Black districts, with a map that the US Supreme Court struck down in 2023. That map has just one majority-Black district.In her dissenting opinion, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that “just as Alabama doubled d

Donald Trump is wasting no time on legal niceties in pushing for quashing of mail ballots for the November election.Last Friday, one day after a federal judge declined temporarily to block the provision in Trump's election-related executive order, the U.S. Postal Service essentially announced that it would only deliver mail ballot applications to voters that the federal government recognizes, stopping the delivery of applications to tens of millions or more.What the Postal Service rules made public last Friday was that it would strictly follow new mail-in ballot rules that require states to submit vote

President Donald Trump's return to the White House was once hailed as a shot in the arm to the global right-wing movement, but now, a report from Politico has revealed that he is becoming a lead weight on one of his biggest European allies.Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician often described as far-right with past connections to neo-fascist groups, and since 2022, she has been Italy's prime minister, making her one of the most prominent right-wing leaders in the world. She is also a staunch

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a recent series of GOP primaries, unseated one prominent Republican after another — including Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), none of whom will be competing with Democratic candidates in the 2026 midterms' general election. But on Tuesday, June 2 in Iowa's GOP gubernatorial primary, Trump suffered what the New York Times' Reid J. Epstein describes as a "shock defeat."Trump, four days before th

After wiping the lack of sleep from my eyes, and pouring some midnight-black coffee into my overused mug, I fell into my office chair, flipped on my computer, and cautiously waded into my morning newsfeed. It took me but three seconds to sadly realize that I hadn’t gotten the news I’d hoped for, so I sighed, and hit The New York Times front page to assess the overnight damage.Here are the gruesome headlines that greeted me:-Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline-Extreme Water Shortages in the West-Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List

The corporate media is brimming with headlines after acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was rushed to Capitol Hill to claim that the Trump administration will not move forward with a terrorist slush fund—$1.8 billion for January 6th insurrectionists and others. “We’re not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said to the House Appropriations Committee. But there are few details of how this will play out. And unlike the announcement of the so-called “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” Blanche refused to put it in writing, nor does its demise appear on the DOJ website. “You started it; you established it in writing, so it just makes sense to rescind it in writing,”

Spencer Gear told a judge that he is not a killer by nature, despite his disturbing threats. He’d merely caught a virus, reports The New Republic.“The 34-year-old Nevadan was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for threatening to murder federal judges who handled cases involving Trump and January 6ers,” reports TNR. “His messages, which were mostly delivered by way of phone calls between November 2023 and July 2024, were explicit: ‘This is a death threat,’ he told one victim. ‘I’ll spill your blood,’ and ‘You can’t do s—— to Donald Trump,’ Gear warned targets.But TNR reports the seeming MAGA fanatic changed his tune as he sat across from the judge handling his criminal ca