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Texas Republicans spent years building relationships within the Latino community, in hopes they could pull some of the conservatives over to their side. They were successful, too, until President Donald Trump stepped in. The aggressive immigration crackdown has now become "political kryptonite" for South Texas Republicans, who touted the idea of tough border security before it turned into mass deportations, violence and shootings, Politico reported Sunday. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R‑Texas), who flipped a 120‑year Democratic stronghold in 2022, watched as her district Trump won by 18 points in 2024, has shifted. No one is calling for mass deportations anymore. While Trump pled

A collapsed sewage pipe in January has resulted in over 250 million gallons of raw sewage being poured into the Potomac River. While the Army Corps of Engineers are at work building a new wall to hold back the increase of water in the era of climate change, that same department hasn't even heard from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on the toxic sludge floating by the nation's memorials and monuments. Former CNN Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr commented on X, "Why has @SecWar not called in Army Corps of Engineers for what may be biggest spill in history of US? This is a huge story and a national security imperative!"Inde

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was founded after the Wall Street Crisis and mortgage collapse that happened in 2007 and 2008, with the specific purpose of having a government agency that would regulate the financial industry for customers, not prioritize profits. But the top conversation wasn't the affordability crisis. It was prayer. The president now welcomed prayers at the start of every government meeting. Federal employees are also encouraged to spend an hour each week in prayer while at work, CNN reported Sunday.While Trump may not be focused on it, his all

After citizen rejection of a threatened federal prosecution, what all sides seem to accept is that the very attempt to bring criminal charges against six members of Congress for reminding the military and intelligence officers to question orders they believe illegal has been extraordinary.The prosecution effort led by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after spurring from Donald Trump directly abridges free speech, ignores the responsibility of members of Congress to speak out, and the most obvious – that the actions by the six repeatedly what already is in the law and in military training codes. It is,

Before you get on with your weekend, I want to grab you real quick, and publicly address the chalkboard-scratchers out there, who are making a lot of noise, and our way forward in this country a whole helluva lot harder than it needs to be. I am talking about the doom-and-gloomers, who seem to revel in reminding everybody how hopeless everything is these days. You know the type. They’re the ones who bring umbrellas to fight off a sunny day.For the past three weeks, we have been hearing every other hour or so how Trump is going to interfere with our elections in November. The notion that the America-attacking blowhard would try something like this comes as absolutely no surprise to patriots who have been

President Donald Trump’s cult of personality is reaching a whole new level in his second term.New York Times reporter Peter Baker notes that Trump has always been obsessed with his own image and with slapping his name on buildings; now that impulse is escalating. It’s not just that Trump put his name above the sign for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His supporters are also building a gold‑plated bronze statue version of him. The 15-foot-tall Trump will tower over his Miami golf course. It will be called “Don Colossus,” and while the name sounds like a “Saturday Nigh

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google (owner of YouTube), Meta (Facebook and Instagram), and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing.I’ll save them time. ---Hello? Kristi Noem?Robert Reich here. I hear you’re trying to find the names of people who are making negative comments on social media about ICE enforcement. Look no further. I’ve done it frequently. I’m still doing it. This note to you, which I’

On Feb. 7, 2026, Chasity Verret Martinez won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Louisiana House. That’s an outcome that might not mean very much to people outside of the state or even outside her Baton Rouge-area district.But Martinez is a Democrat who took 62% of the vote in a district that had given Donald Trump a 13-percentage-point victory in the 2024 presidential race. And her win came a week after

Washington Post financial advice columnist Michelle Singletary said echoes of the Republican-era 2008 housing crisis are creeping back into a new presidential administration.“This week, there was yet another warning that many homeowners might be headed for trouble,” Singletary told the Post. Again, like the 2008 ruination, this new brewing crisis is ensnaring moderate- and low-income homeowners first. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data reports that mortgage delinquency rates for lower-income households are surging, according tothe recently released Household Debt and Credit report for the fourth quarter of 2025.“Ac

Guardian writer Eduardo Porter reports President Donald Trump’s purported dedication to U.S. manufacturing is a pointless delusion.“There is an undeniable appeal to the hard hat and the grease-stained overalls; to the sweat on the brow of hard men in vintage posters; to the virtue of a hard day’s labor on the production line. But the American political class would do well to overcome its nostalgia for the past and forget about promises to make manufacturing great again,” said Porter.Objectives to increase manufacturing don’t even work politically, Porter added,