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According to a survey of mothers in swing states, things are not going well during President Donald Trump's second administration. Citing high prices and a constant onslaught of bad news, they report that they’re feeling “overwhelmed” and question who “you can trust these days.”This insight comes via Navigator Research, a polling firm that gathered mothers between the ages of 27-48 from seven key swing states to discuss their feelings on how the country is faring. The results were not optimistic, with the mothers reporting high levels of angst and little confidence that either polit

President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2026 midterm elections is in trouble, at least if the most relevant election results are to be believed.“After Democrats snagged a likely House seat in Salt Lake City County, Utah, in February, the GOP was furious,” The New Republic’s Finn Hartnett reported on Thursday. “Republicans control all four House districts in Utah, and despite about 40 percent of residents voting Democrat in 2024, they considered losing even one unacceptable.”Then when Republicans tried to use a local referendum to overturn the gerrymand

President Donald Trump won his second term in 2024 thanks to a volley of battleground states swinging unexpectedly in his direction. Critical so-called “blue wall” states fell to Trump in the wee hours of the November 2024 ballot count.But next time around, Wisconsin does not look like it will be among them, reports The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.“

Vice presidents are traditionally the heir apparent when the president prepares to leave office, but a new report suggests President Donald Trump has soured on Vice President JD Vance.Based on a report by Zeteo, Trump repeatedly makes “snide, annoyed comments” about both Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard for being less openly supportive of the Iran war than others in the administration. Vance in particular is described as “skeptical,” and his reluctance to publicly support the war as much as he has other administration initiatives has apparently rubbed Trump the wrong way.“Some in the White House were taken aback by Trump’s comments about his VP, ‘if only because they had not heard the presiden

CNN reports right wing figures and influencers are gathering at one of the biggest conservative conferences of the year in Texas — but what's gathering with them is fear.This year, CNN anchor Boris Sanchez reports President Donald Trump's poll numbers are in a dumpster, along with the Republican party's chances of holding on to both the House and Senate in the midterms. Government debt is also on a steep rise and the war with Iran is grievously unpopular and breaking the Republican Party into pieces.“This isn't, you know, what I voted for,

President Donald Trump and his administration are “really freaked out” as it becomes increasingly clear that the US could lose hundreds of billions in Gulf Arab investments as a result of his unprovoked war against Iran.“What has really freaked people out is that the Gulf Arabs have warned that they’re a couple weeks away from having to repatriate tens of billions of dollars in investments from the United States,” someone f

President Donald Trump has bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, he's rebuilding the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he wants to build a giant arch and now he's floating the idea of a new project in what is known as the Treaty Room in the historic mansion of the White House that is over 200 years old, The New York Times reported.The Treaty Room sits next to the yellow oval room on the third floor, if the basement is counted as the first floor. It sits next to the yellow oval room, whic

Today, while discussing the ongoing battle over election reform, CNN host Brianna Keilar got into it with Senator Jon Husted (R-MI), arguing over whether his proposed voter ID law would do more to prevent fraud or disenfranchise voters. This came shortly after the Senate voted to reject Husted’s amendment to the SAVE America Act, which if adopted would have required voters to show photo ID when casting ballots. The amendment needed at least 60 votes to move forward but lost 52-47, with no Democrats voting in favor of it.Appearing just after the defeat on CNN, Husted attempted to argue that Democrats are “unwilling to say yes to the most simple p

The Washington Monthly reports the Republican super-majority is taking President Donald Trump’s lead in putting independent judges under Republican control.Trump has called for the impeachment of judges when he disagrees with their decisions, creating the “kind of partisan screed against the independent judiciary that has infected Trump’s presidency, undermining the public’s faith in judges and the rule of law,”

Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration, the United States has attacked partners with tariffs, shredded its ties to NATO, threatened to invade unhostile nations like Canada and Greenland, and launched a war against Iran without the support or approval of allies. For these and other reasons, says Harvard professor of international relations Stephen M. Walt, the U.S. has become a “rogue state" and now “every country in the world is having to figure out how to deal” with it. “The second Trump administration has been far more disruptive, damaging and dangerous” than just about anyone predicted, writes