This week, outgoing Congressman Beto O’Rourke said he would not rule out running for president in 2020. While a tantalizing prospect, should Beto run, he may be missing an opportunity to build something else far more powerful in the long run.... To continue reading this article, ...read more
According to tax records obtained by The Daily Beast, the NRA's income dropped $55 million, from $367 in 2016 to $312 million in 2017, ending in the red for the second year in a row after spending a substantial amount to elect Donald Trump. The lack of revenue comes from a ...read more
On Election Night, networks called California's 21st congressional district for incumbent Republican David Valadao over Democratic challenger TJ Cox. The district, which encompasses parts of Fresno as well as the Central Valley, the state's largest agricultural region, has not ...read more
Yesterday Democrat Gil Cisneros finally took the lead over Republican Young Kim to become the next representative from California's 39th district. The district, which encompasses Yorba Linda - home of the Nixon Library - had been held by retiring Republican Ed Royce since 2013 ...read more
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ruled in a lawsuit filed by Common Cause Georgia that the Georgia Secretary of State's Office must count provisional ballots in the ongoing governor's election, citing "substantial likelihood" that Republican candidate and former ...read more
Photo: Jeff Mitchell/Getty Images Bernie Sanders lost the 2016 Democratic primary because black women - the Democratic Party's most reliable voting bloc - voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton during the early Southern primaries, giving her a delegate lead he could never ...read more
In the year 2000, a Democratic candidate with the initials "A.G." conceded a close election in Florida only to find that the results were closer than he thought and demanded a recount. Now, 18 years later, a Democratic candidate with the initials "A.G." conceded a close election ...read more
Fox News is reporting that the Democrats will take over the House in the 2018 midterm elections: Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years, Fox News projects, dealing a major setback to President Trump’s legislative agenda and ...read more
Let's just be clear about this. If you support Donald Trump or enable his agenda, you have no business talking about Jesus or Christianity. None whatsoever. The sexual predator turned political demagogue is about as far from Jesus Christ as Ted Cruz is to Miley Cyrus. Since ...read more
As a man of conscience, decency and a freedom fighter against racism, there is one group of Americans that I have low expectations for going into the midterms: A majority of white Americans. And when I see media fixated on trying to validate their dangerous allegiance to Trump, ...read more
Over the past few days, president Trump has threatened to repeal the 14th Amendment, run one of the most overtly racist, dishonest political ads in history, pledged to hold migrants at the border indefinitely, and accused the Democrats of wanting illegal immigrants to overrun ...read more
This week, New York Magazine posted an article called "12 Young People on Why They Probably Won't Vote," that profiled a group of millennials under the age of 30 who have either never voted before, or are so fed up with politics that they won't start now. Here are some of these ...read more
Last month, the Supreme Court voted 6-2 to uphold a North Dakota court of appeals ruling requiring an ID with a physical address to vote - a P.O. box simply won't do anymore. This law effectively disenfranchises at least 5,000 members of the state's Native American community - ...read more
Last night on CNN, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach got a taste of his own medicine when legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told him the truth about the draconian voter ID laws he has pushed that have made Kansas the ninth-hardest state in which to vote. Kobach, who is currently ...read more
With the polls confirming that the GOP is almost certainly about to lose the House come November 6th, president Trump is trying every strategy he can think of to motivate his base. Predictably, this largely consists of vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric he knows his racist ...read more
Texas, the second-biggest state in the nation, is a tantalizing brass ring for Democrats. It has not voted for a Democratic President since Jimmy Carter in 1976 and has not elected a Democrat to statewide office since 1994. Its heavy Latino population makes it one of five ...read more
After Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, I decided to channel my anger into activism, vowing that for every day from now until the election I would either canvas or phone bank for Democrats and if I couldn't do either of those things, I would just give $5.00 to a candidate I like. ...read more
One of my least favorite traits about Democrats is that we tend to get dissatisfied with our leaders pretty quickly. In the year following Obama’s inaugural, major news outlets were already writing articles saying Obama was disappointing them, despite the fact that he hadn’t ...read more
Yesterday, NBC News ran a story that threatened to send fervent election-watchers into a downward spiral. Using data provided by TargetSmart, reporter Adam Edelman and the NBC News Data Analytics Lab said that Republicans were outpacing Democrats in early voting, which is now ...read more
Former Vice President Joe Biden told "CBS This Morning" that he hopes Democrats do not try to impeach Donald Trump if they retake the House of Representatives after the midterm elections in November. "I hope they don't. I don't think there's a basis for doing that right now," ...read more
Mitt Romney has been a firm critic of president Trump since the reality tv show host declared his candidacy for president. He was the danger Trump represented and did his best to speak out about it. "There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake," Romney said ...read more
Yesterday, the Associated Press and Talking Points Memo revealed that Georgia Secretary of State and Republican candidate for governor Brian Kemp has prevented 53,000 applicants from being added to the voter rolls - 70% of whom are black and may not even know they have been ...read more
Republicans are flailing going into the midterms and they can't blame it all on Trump. They've done nothing for the past two years but repeal regulations that kept corporations from preying on the middle class and working poor, tried and failed to repeal Obamacare, making a hash ...read more