2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (601+ words) The Contrarian Sanity in Missouri and Trump’s Cheesy Convention Don’t hold your breath for that $5,000 he promised. Sanity in Missouri. Well, will wonders never cease? The U.S. Supreme Court, without dissent, restored the Missouri Supreme Court decision restoring the…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (319+ words) How did your members of Congress vote on ICE funding? I will show you how to look it up. Go to congress.gov and type in Secure America Act. This is the bill earlier this year that funded ICE with…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (396+ words) So back in March, Trump issued an executive order which told the Department of Homeland Security to make a list of everyone in every state who is a citizen and at least 18 years old by election day, and those lists…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (338+ words) First and foremost, Jeffries made a cardinal error in meeting with Kushner, a non-government employee whose self-promotional antics — aided by his family connection — have no doubt made Hunter Biden blush. (If you can imagine Speaker Mike Johnson meeting with Hunter…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (544+ words) Texas has the most counties (254), most farms (231,000), and most square miles (268,000) of any continental U.S. state. And now, a new claim: The most public school classrooms required to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (804+ words) The Contrarian Why Fighting Trump’s Vanity Projects Matter He’s using whatever he can to expand presidential power. Given the chaos and destruction the Trump administration has caused over the past year and a half, it’s fair to ask why we…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (240+ words) In some ways, this is good. A competent pro-Trump majority would have enacted laws codifying his tariffs, his cancellation of foreign aid, his mass deportations without due process, and voter-suppression schemes. Instead, federal courts have stymied him again and again…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (539+ words) On July 18, Jose Chajon-Raxon, an Guatemalan immigrant, sat in New Jersey’s Delaney Hall Detention Center after being arrested by ICE agents. On July 19, he was hospitalized after experiencing “seizure-like activity.” On July 22, he disappeared after being released from the hospital....

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (844+ words) By Kim Rogers and Eric Ming As the midterms approach, Donald Trump and his allies are escalating their attacks on fair elections — pressuring the Supreme Court to give them near-total control over mail voting, threatening elections officials, and firing federal…...

1+ mon, 7+ hour ago   (956+ words) The Democratic Party has been dogged by problematic candidates in this election cycle, chief among them the secret–Nazi tattoo haver, racist shitposter, and accused rapist Graham Platner. (Platner denies the rape claim.) But while Democrats have rightly put Platner…...