It took a number of years for me to figure out why none of my minority friends saw things the same why I did. Over time, I began to see that because I was so enamored with my own brilliance, I could not see that my own experience of life had colored the way I thought politics in ...read more
Yesterday, Bernie Sanders announced his bid to seek a third term in the Senate this fall. The move has provoked more speculation about his potential run in 2020, and filled many on the left with a sense of hope or dread about the future of liberal politics in America. If Sanders ...read more
After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more
Now that Rudy Giuliani has openly confessed that Trump violated a couple of different campaign finance laws, the right is scrambling to clean up the mess. Since perennial boogeyman Hillary Clinton doesn't appear to have any notable run ins with the FEC, Fox News contributor Ari ...read more
This week, to the shock of absolutely no one, former BernieBro extraordinaire H.A. Goodman, who built his brand on mindless, conspiracy-laden hatred of Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, has come out as a Trump supporter. In a tweet to his followers released Friday, April 20th, ...read more
In the year since Donald Trump's election, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau has become an important voice for the Resistance. With his White House colleagues Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, he started Crooked Media, which produces the popular podcast Pod Save ...read more
Nina Turner, the former Ohio State Senator and head of the SuperPAC Our Revolution, has managed to offend almost every reasonable center-left Democrat in the last two years. One of the only prominent African-American women to endorse Bernie Sanders in the primary, she refused to ...read more
One of the main reasons I became a journalist was to push back against the disinformation I saw coming from Bernie Sanders supporters when he first entered the race for President in 2015. Whenever I would post even the mildest critique of him online, an army of white, ...read more
Last week, Buzzfeed reported that Medium, the popular blogging site, had suspended the accounts of several prominent alt-right figures, including Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec. In response, Mother Jones' reporter Shane Bauer sent out this tweet, saved via screenshot:Bauer was ...read more
The California Democratic Party declined to endorse Senator Dianne Feinstein for re-election, selecting state Senate leader Kevin de Léon by a margin of 54-37%. Although neither candidate reached the 60% majority required to make it official, De León declared victory, calling it ...read more
Last night, I saw this tweet, and variations of it, explode across my social media feeds:To be honest, I blew it off because it sounded like something taken out of context. For most of 2017, there was a very healthy media cottage industry built around keeping the Hillary/Bernie ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Last week, Jimmy Kimmel once again found himself the unlikely spokesperson for the anger Americans feel towards the Republicans who offer thoughts and prayers in the wake of mass shootings, but nothing else. Before 2017, he had been one of the least ...read more
At one point, Elizabeth Lee Beck had a semblance of credibility. In July 2015, the New York Times reported that she and her husband Jared, two lawyers from Florida, had grilled Donald Trump in a foreclosure deposition. When they took a break so that she could pump breast milk for ...read more
Yesterday, Politico reported that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has made his first overture to run for President in 2020, holding a meeting with his top political advisers last week. In attendance at the meeting were Our Revolution President Nina Turner, former campaign manager ...read more
When it was first adopted at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the Unity Reform Commission sounded like a good idea. The primary had been one of the most contentious in history, with the Sanders side accusing the Clintonites of benefiting from party support, and Hillary ...read more
Last night, I read Shaun King's "Atlanta Mayoral Race Shows What Happens When Progressives Don't Compromise" and almost wept with joy. As one of the loudest voices in Bernie's movement, King has spent an awful lot of time playing purity politics. If his preferred candidate didn't ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Democrat Keisha Lance-Bottoms eked out a tight victory this week to become the next mayor of Atlanta, defeating Independent Mary Norwood. This victory, close though it may have been, is another blow to Our Revolution and the Bernie Sanders wing of the ...read more
Bernie Sanders is out campaigning for 2020 and that has a lot of his followers excited. The problem is that his 2020 campaign sounds an awful lot like his 2016 campaign which means he's not going to be the nominee again:He advocated for the policies that are familiar to anyone ...read more
Since she told Chris Hayes that Donald Trump would "bring the revolution," Susan Sarandon has dug herself further and further into a foxhole of crazy, never once backing down from her remarks over this last year. Her unrepentant, strident attitudes would be admirable if they were ...read more
The American Women's Party is a new group that should be on your radar for 2018 and beyond. Differing from groups like She Should Run, which encourage women to run for office, The AWP is dedicated to empower the voices of voters, educate them on their rights, and encouraging ...read more
Matt Taibbi is not having a good month. As American women rise up to defend themselves from the predatory behavior of men in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, every prominent male media figure with a history of misogyny has suddenly become an open target for ...read more
Now that the Purity Left (as well as Trump and his supporters) is all up in arms again over Donna Brazile's "courageous" revelation that the dreaded Hillary Clinton rigged the primary, robbed poor Bernie, kicked a puppy, and stole money from the orphanage, the rest of the story ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Evidence is coming out that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to cheat his way to the presidency, and his attorney general finds himself caught in the lies. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have been indicted; George Papadopoulos has pled guilty; and ...read more
Well, I guess we’re going at it again, folks. The circular firing squad of the Democratic primary has restarted with an astonishingly dishonest excerpt from interim DNC chair Donna Brazile’s new book, Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns that Put Donald Trump ...read more
Even though he campaigned as a populist, Trump has been anything but during his disastrous time as president. Almost every single economic policy proposal (if they can even be called "policy") has been geared exclusively towards benefiting the rich, usually at the expense of the ...read more
Five years ago, The Onion posted this: I bring this up because yesterday it went viral after the organizers for this month's Women's Convention (the same group who organized last January's Women's March) announced that their headline speaker will be...Bernie Sanders.Yes, the man ...read more
I've written many times about HA Goodman, the gadfly on the progressive movement. Before he became Bagdad Bob for Bernie (as Bob Cesca so aptly put it), Goodman supported Rand Paul, Jim Webb and Martin O'Malley, all the while insisting that Clinton couldn't win the primary ...read more
The Young Turks never met a Democrat they couldn't find fault with, since their Republican-funded network exists to sow dissent among the left. One of the worst offenders is Jordan Chariton, the thirty-one year-old "bro-gressive" reporter with the most punchable face this side of ...read more
Last week, I wrote about Susan Sarandon's retweeting a meme made by Queen Bravenak, an African-American woman, that led the Purity Left to turn her mentions into a garbage fire. The same thing happened to me - after my article went live, I spent 24 hours blocking and reporting ...read more
The worst members of the Purity Left love insisting that they're being victimized (see: the Nina Turner donut incident) and then deny all wrongdoing when they're caught releasing the hounds on anyone who calls them out for exactly who they are. This happened yesterday when ...read more
Somehow, with Republicans in complete control of the government, there's been a fundamental shift in the conversation around healthcare that shows just how badly Republicans have lost control of the message. In the last couple of weeks, as anticipation for Bernie's doomed ...read more
Even though it doesn't have a chance of passing (there's not an elected Republican in America that would vote for it), the Democrats are embracing Bernie's "Medicare for All" bill. Emboldened by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat, and the Republican effort to dismantle former ...read more
The Banter Long Read: Last week, a tempest brewed when Democratic consultant Peter Daou launched Verrit. Billed as “Media for the 65.8 million,” the site offers its users Hillary Clinton-related facts called “Verrits,” which are linked to authentication codes that can then take ...read more
There's still a brutal fight, 10 months after Election Day 2016, for control of the narrative of what happened. On one side, you have Hillary and her supporters pointing to the media's overt hostility, Russian interference, 25 years of Republican smears, James Comey's ill-timed ...read more
UPDATE: I changed the title because apparently I'm the only one that appreciates nerd humor. Alas....A common refrain from the Purity Left is that the Democratic Party is hopelessly corrupt and pure evil. In fact, they're controlled by the very same billionaires and corporations ...read more
The Banter Long Read: You may remember the name Elizabeth Lee Beck from a New York Times story in 2015. She and her husband were questioning Donald Trump in a deposition and she left in the middle to use her breast pump to feed her child. (Word count: 1231)To continue reading ...read more
Perhaps you've heard of Nina Turner, one of the few notable women of color to endorse Bernie Sanders, and one of the only women in politics the alt-left doesn't have a problem with. Find something in Kamala Harris's record that they don't like and they'll gleefully try to tear ...read more
Editor's note: Initially we didn't want to publish this on the main site due to the attention we'd be giving Ms. Johnstone and conspiracy theorists like her. But it seems that the far left has now become so deranged, so devoid of human empathy and so vindictive that we felt ...read more
Not that this is important, but I've never been a big fan of Hillary Clinton. I've written about this numerous times..To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine and all our Members Only content. Your membership also ...read more
Recently, Teen Vogue continued its tradition of not treating America's youth like fragile spun glass and published the following article..To continue reading this article, please go here. A Banter Membership gets you access to the magazine and all our Members Only content. Your ...read more
Take a few minutes to look over Jill Stein's Facebook wall and Twitter feed. If this was your primary source of information, you would literally have no idea that Republicans are on the brink of taking healthcare away from 24 million Americans to pay for a one Trillion dollar tax ...read more
There are many ways to look at what happened in the special election for a Georgia house seat on Tuesday night. Republican Karen Handel beat her Democrat opponent Jon Ossof in the traditionally red district for the seat vacated by current Health and Human Services Secretary Tom ...read more
In the wake of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's victory over Theresa May and her Tories in England, some liberals who either sided with, or had sympathy with, the American far left, were quick to re-litigate the Democratic primaries:Corbyn and Labor gained 29 seats in ...read more
Shaun King is upset with the Democratic Party because, dammit, people keep voting for candidates he doesn't like. You see, Ralph Northam, the decisive winner of last week's Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary, just isn't progressive enough for King despite having run on a ...read more
As of this writing, the identity of the man that allegedly opened fire on a group of Republicans in Alexandria, Virginia is believed to be James T. Hodgkinson, a 66 year old from Illinois.A quick scan of his Facebook page (currently being overrun with furious conservatives) shows ...read more
In the aftermath of Jeremy Christian stabbing three men - two of them fatally - on a Portland train after they bravely stood up and told him to stop hurling anti-Muslim hate speech at female passengers, the media and police were quick to scour Christian's history for clues to his ...read more
This weekend in Portland, Oregon, Jeremy Christian murdered Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namaki Meche, and wounded Micah David-Cole Fletcher. Christian had been shouting hate speech at two women (one of whom was wearing a hijab) and the three men wanted him to stop, ...read more
It’s not hyperbole to call the healthcare repeal that Republicans in Congress passed today a travesty, ripping away coverage from millions of Americans with “pre-existing conditions” that range from ADD (which I have) to rape and sexual assault survival. House Democrats sang a ...read more
Not that I consider him a friend, but I've had a couple of friendly interactions with Cenk Uygur over the years and have always found him to be polite and courteous in our interactions. He even did an interview with the Banter a year or so ago, so despite the disagreements some ...read more