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With President Donald Trump suffering low approval ratings in poll after poll, Democratic strategists are felling increasingly optimistic about flipping the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms. And Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) Chair Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) is saying that the U.S. Senate isn't out of reach for Democrats.But Salon's Chauncey DeVega, in an article published on January 18, warns that Democrats are facing "a coordinated effort by Trump and the anti-de

Tomorrow we honor the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.Trump has removed MLK Jr.’s birthday from the National Park Service’s fee-free days and substituted his own birthday of June 14 as a fee-free day.I write this more in sorrow than in anger.All told, I feel profound sorrow for America. Sorrow for the people of Minneapolis who are enduring this Trump-made hell. Sorrow for Renee Good’s three children and wife.I also feel sorrow for Greenlanders and Venezuelans and others around the world fearing what the sociopath in the Oval Office may do next. Sorrow for everyone justifiably worried about the future of America and the planet because of him.I’m old enough to remember whe

President Donald Trump's former attorney, Michael Cohen, penned a column on Friday that detailed coercion from the New York Attorney General's Office. Writing on his Substack, Cohen said that he has witnessed firsthand being "leaned on.""I experienced a similar dynamic in the Attorney General’s civil case. Letitia James made it publicly known during her 2018 campaign for attorney general that, if elected, she would go after President Trump. Her office made clear that the testimony they wanted from me was testimony that would help them do just that. Again, I felt compelled and coerced to deliver what they were seekin

This week, Mayor Jacob Frey basically took a Fox “News” host down, pointing out that Trump’s own federal prosecutors just quit their jobs rather than investigate and prosecute Renee Nicole Good’s wife for “domestic terrorism.”Which raises the question: what is ICE really doing in Minneapolis?Well over a decade ago, the very Anglo daughter of a friend of mine fell in love with a Hispanic fellow who owned a Mexican restaurant he’d started in her little northern midwestern town. They got married, she got pregnant, and everybody in the family was delighted. Until the feds visited the restaurant and discovered her new husband wasn’t a US citizen and had no legal permission to be her

President Donald Trump is deploying old-school tactics against some of his enemies: using FBI files to target them.The New York Times reported Sunday morning that FBI Director Kash Patel is helping Trump target his foes using the information it has collected. Now, the report said, "the bureau has added payback to its portfolio." While Trump spent years alleging the “weaponization” of law enforcement against political foes, the new administration is “using federal law enforcement to carry out a partisan opposition research operation.”The report said that Patel has b

Many economists, from the University of Michigan's Justin Wolfers to former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and ex-Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich, are warning that if President Donald Trump succeeds in compromising the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the results will be disastrous for the American economy. And they typically cite Argentina and Turkey as glaring examples of countries that suffered severe economic crises and devalued currencies when t

Liz Oyer, a former Justice Department pardon attorney, told Jim Acosta that the DOJ is participating in a massive cover-up over the shooting of a Minneapolis woman in Minnesota.Among the revelations reported this week, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot by an ICE agent, still had a pulse when first responders arrived on scene. ICE denied a doctor access to Good who wanted to render her aid. Oyer said that it may mean that there are other ICE officers who could be culpable in Good's death.Bo

President Donald Trump met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado this week, who election monitors said was the rightfully elected president in the 2024 election. But after arresting Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, Trump allowed Vice President Delcy Rodríguez take over. The Associated Press revealed that she has a history of investigations with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), topping nearly a dozen. Documents obtained show that in 2022, Rodríguez was rated a “priority target,” a level that is typically reserved for suspects the DEA believes have a “significant im

President Donald Trump continues to repeat the claim that undocumented people are being allowed into the U.S. to vote illegally.During a panel discussion on CNN Saturday, host Abby Phillip reported that Trump’s apparent hunt for evidence is coming up empty."The New York Times reports that a review shows no widespread fraud," she read. "Of the nearly 50 million registrations checked, just 10,000 cases were opened. Now, that is 0.02 percent. And by open, that might not even be evidence of fraud. It could be that the system that they use mistakenly flagged people who are citizens."Phillip cited one Florida case in which a woman submitted more than 100 names she claimed were fraudulent voters."T

While President Donald Trump is threatening military action to takeover Greenland, he'll be issuing tariffs on items from NATO countries until Denmark agrees to sell the Arctic island to him. In a very long post to Truth Social, Trump complained the U.S. has been subsidizing Greenland and many other countries in the European Union. He claims that unless Denmark gives over the island then "world peace is at stake." "Only the United States of America, under PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, can play in this game, and very successfully, at that!" Trump said.NATO pledges protection for Greenland and the United Stat