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Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday he is dumping Trump on Twitter. “I’m unfollowing the President of the United States today on Twitter, because his feed is the most hate-filled , racist , and demeaning of the 200+ I follow, and it regularly ruins my day to read it,” he wrote.

The Intercept reports that a super PAC affiliated with a bipartisan caucus in Congress, which has se

The Intercept reports that a super PAC affiliated with a bipartisan caucus in Congress, which has several moderate Democratic members, is backing a Republican primary challenger to the center-left Democratic Rep. Katie Hill. I eagerly await the tweet from @HouseDemocrats about this!

The Democrats Love Amazon More Than Any Other Institution Which...Yikes

Every year, various polling organizations put together a list of the most and least-trusted institutions in the United States, teasing out the results based on respondents’ political affiliations and other demographics.

Last year, for example, a Gallup poll found Americans trusted the military more than any other government institution. This year, the Baker Center for Leadership and Governance...

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Top New Iowa Poll 

While it’s still early in the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, a new Iowa poll that is being closely watched shows former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders well ahead in the state in a crowded field of Democratic candidates.

The CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll published on Saturday surveyed 401 likely Democratic caucusgoers from March 3-6....

Keith Ellison Wins Race to Become Minnesota Attorney General Despite Abuse Allegations

Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison has won his bid to be his state’s next attorney general following a bitter, months-long campaign during which Ellison was accused of domestic abuse by a former girlfriend.

Ellison, who also serves as the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee and was seen as an icon of progressive politics before the allegations, had been considered by many to be a...

The GOP Learned Nothing After Getting Its Ass Kicked in the Midterms

It’s been nearly a month since the 2018 midterm elections, and in that time the Democrats have only extended their massive margin of victory in the House, gaining at least 39 seats to handily wrest the majority away from congressional Republicans.

Given this historic ass-whupping, you might think the GOP would be, I dunno, a little curious as to why they were so thoroughly routed. That,...

Claire McCaskill Mad Radical Democrats Forced Her to Repeatedly Shoot Herself in the Foot

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill got voted out of the Senate this month, and she is not going quietly. Instead, she wants to play the blame game, and her target is her own party’s left wing.

As NPR reported today:

In an interview with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin, McCaskill characterized her loss as a “failure” of the Democratic Party “to gain enough trust with rural Americans,” and she...

Democrats have a very good shot at winning the House and are competitive in Senate races in Texas an

Democrats have a very good shot at winning the House and are competitive in Senate races in Texas and Tennessee, and yet, HuffPost reports, they’re playing defense in New Jersey—one of the bluest states in the country—because they stuck with the hilariously corrupt guy.

Democrats Are Hell-Bent on Taking a Texas Senate Seat in 2020

According to the Texas Tribune, Texas Democrats already allocating millions of dollars toward a “war room” aimed at taking down Texas Sen. John Cornyn in 2020. Cornyn, meanwhile, already appears scared shitless at the onslaught of Blue Wavery coming for him over a year and a half out from the general election—especially because more than half of Texas supposedly don’t like him, or haven’t the...

The Democrats Failed Us

Let’s be clear: Republicans are to blame for the fact that Brett Kavanaugh is about to become the next justice of the Supreme Court. But that doesn’t mean that Democrats don’t have anything to apologize for.

Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault by a string of women. The evidence of his excessive drinking, his temper, his elitism and snobbery, and his sheer personal repulsiveness grows...

GOP Reportedly Panicking That Voters Are Buying Trump's 'Red Wave' Bullshit

To hear President Donald Trump tell it, Republicans are in great shape ahead of November’s midterms, despite poll after poll after poll favoring the Democrats. In fact, he’s predicting a “red wave” that will keep the GOP in power. And now, much to the Republican National Committee’s dismay, the president’s most diehard supporters are starting to believe him.

While most voters expect Democrats...

House Democrats Want to Revive One of the Most Destructive Rules in Congress

House Democrats assume their first majority in eight years tomorrow, but already, they’re hard at work to limit the usefulness of anything they might pass over the next two years.

The Intercept’s David Dayen reported on Tuesday that the House rules package for the next Congress, which will be voted on tomorrow, includes a pay-go (short for “pay-as-you-go”) provision which requires all new...

Stop Trying to Make 'Jexodus' Happen

President Donald Trump kicked off his Tuesday by continuing his quixotic attempt to drive a wedge between Jewish voters and the Democratic Party—this time by quoting Elizabeth Pipko, a former model, Trump staffer and public face of the newly created astroturf organization “Jexodus,” who appeared on Fox & Friends earlier that morning.

Get it? Jexodus. Like exodus, but for Jews—which most...

NO COVER-UP COLLUSION MUELLER PELOSI IMPEACHMENT YELLING

President Donald Trump surprised White House reporters on Wednesday with an impromptu rant in the Rose Garden, where he yelled about Democrats and Robert Mueller and insisted that “I don’t do cover-ups.”

Reeling off a litany of complaints, Trump—standing at a lectern adorned with a “no collusion, no obstruction” poster—offered his “bottom line” saying, “the crime was committed on the other...

Man Trying to Oust Nancy Pelosi Says There Are Lots of 'Competent Females' Who Can Replace Her

Here’s a word of advice for any men in the House of Representatives who would like to weigh in on the gender dynamics of the Democrats’ ongoing battle over who will be the Speaker of the House: shut the hell up.

Specifically, I’m looking at Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. As the New York Times reported on Thursday, Ryan—who is trying to undermine Nancy Pelosi’s “she’s got it in the bag, but actually maybe...

Brett Kavanaugh Is Washington's New Golden Goose

Both Democrats and Republicans are claiming huge fundraising spikes after the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle. According to a Tuesday report by Axios, the DCCC says it raised $4.38 million “from the end of September to Oct. 5 — the day it was clear Kavanaugh would be confirmed,” while the NRCC says it “saw a 418% increase in online donations in the first week of October compared to the...

In a Crucial Reform Vote, Democrats Move to Weaken the Power of Superdelegates

A two-year effort to unite the Democratic Party after the divisive 2016 presidential election has resulted in a key vote Saturday to significantly reduce the influence of superdelegates.

At the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Chicago, most of the approximately 400 members decided to prevent superdelegates from voting on the first ballot at a presidential nominating convention...

Neera Tanden Is Simply Too Online

On Tuesday, the New York Times published a truly bonkers story about the head of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden, and her many ongoing feuds online with anyone who has ever been mildly critical of Hillary Clinton.

Less logged-on folks might remember Tanden for her suggestion that Libya ought to use its oil reserves to pay the U.S. back for the cost of bombing it. Here, however,...

Barr Brawl

Now that Attorney General William Barr has both testified and not testified to the Senate and House, respectively, the time for political spin is upon us.

In one corner, we have congressional Democrats, eager to skewer Barr for seemingly lying during his April testimony before the House; admitting he hadn’t actually read the underlying evidence submitted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as...

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Sen. Kamala Harris’ body blow to former Vice President Joe Biden this week has translated into a fresh infusion of campaign cash. Harris raised $2 million online within 24 hours of Thursday night’s debate, mostly from first-time donors, The Daily Beast reported.