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The actions of Republican governors—like Texas’ Greg Abbott or Mississippi’s Tate Reeves—who are outlawing mask mandates and insisting that...
Two of North Carolina’s Republican representatives in Washington, D.C., have been in the news lately, giving the state Republican Party a chance...
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, got an almost unprecedented show of support from President Joe Biden on Sunday, when he tweeted a...
The longest vote in Senate history finally ended Friday night at 10:53, ET having started at 11:03 AM. That vote was on Sen. Bernie Sanders'...
The grueling final Senate debate on President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill delivered an unsettling realization to progressives—the...
USA Today: The Backstory: A reporter arrested while covering a protest faces trial Monday. Here's why you should care. "I'm just doing my job as a...
If there has been a silver lining in the Jan. 6 insurrection, it would be this: Law enforcement officials finally appear to be taking far-right...
One of the few silver linings of this deadly pandemic will hopefully be the final death of the myth that the stock market is, in any way, a...
Programming Note : The Voting Rights Roundup will be taking a break the week of March 13 but will return the following week. ● Congress: On...
Last week , Besame introduced us to the Town Hall Project , a volunteer program she’s joined that tracks town halls and other social interactions...
One of the many criminal investigations of Donald Trump may have ramped up to another level this weekend. Specifically, the investigation into...
When the first QAnon posts jumped in to leverage the ugly Pizzagate conspiracy theory with a whole new level of destructive, divisive hate, the...
In the fight for a $15 minimum wage, don’t forget about tipped workers. While the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour since 2009—and...
Sign up for my weekly newsletter to read more content like this! The Texas Democratic Party released an Election Data Analysis last week...
Using Daily Kos Elections' recently completed calculations of the 2020 presidential result by congressional district, the map shown at the top of...
What does it say about Republicans that the two biggest assholes in the multiverse were their No. 1 and No. 2 choice for president in 2016? Of...
America watched the events of the January riot and insurgency occur in real time. They saw Trump supporters pushing down police lines to swarm the...
Across the nation, a number of Republican governors are rushing to drop mask mandates and end social distancing guidelines. It almost seems as if...
After a mammoth afternoon, evening, and night of Senate clerks being forced to read the entirety of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan—10...
Rep. Eric Swalwell filed a new lawsuit Friday in DC's federal District Court against Donald Trump and his closest allies for inspiring the deadly...
It's not particularly surprising that congressional Republicans—desperate for something to paper over their Trump-inspired rifts—would rally...
A federal judge in New York slammed immigration officials at a detention center in the state for continuing to fail to protect detained immigrants...
Now that the report from the Director of National Intelligence confirms Mohammed bin Salman’s involvement in the murder and dismemberment of...
I was hoping the end of Black History Month would mean the end to drive-by reinventions of Black history meant to pacify white people, but oh was I...
Ezra Klein/NY Times: Biden Is the Anti-Trump, and It’s Working If you can dial down the conflict, you can dial up the policy. But the relative...
Have you heard of Robert Brockman? He’s a billionaire. Brockman is the former CEO of Reynolds & Reynolds, a software company based in Ohio. He’s...
Consistency really isn’t the GOP’s thing, is it? In the last election cycle, Tom Norton, a once and future candidate for Congress, challenged...
Congratulations! You have a fresh SpongeBob Band-Aid on your off arm; a dose of Pfizer, or Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson vaccine sunk deep into...
Who needs Republicans like Sen. Ron Johnson to sabotage President Joe Biden's first major and absolutely critical proposal when Democrats have...
Sen. Tina Smith, the first-term Democrat from Minnesota, became the most recent Senate convert to ending the filibuster. "I believe that the...
As an outgrowth of Republicans long history of championing women's issues they have suddenly taken up women's sports as their new hobby horse. But...
The Supreme Court on Friday granted a request from the Biden administration to dismiss several cases around the previous administration’s...
Late on Thursday, Politico reported that the FBI had arrested Federico Klein. The 42-year-old Klein was a former State Department aide under Donald...
Late Night Snark: March Grab Bag Edition "President Biden said yesterday that his goal is that every teacher can receive the first dose of the...
With more than 50 bills threatening to further restrict voting rights in Georgia, state Democrats have taken their fight to protect voting rights up...
Since the start of the pandemic in the U.S., COVID-19 cases and deaths have been severely underreported nationwide. State officials have repeatedly...
On Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott decided to toss a big fat distraction on how Republicans turned that state’s energy market into a scheme that...
On election night, the same party that added some $2 trillion to the national debt in order to deliver a giant tax break to the rich and...
On Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the group that controls the Dr. Seuss legacy, announced it would no longer republish six of the more than 60...
YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse , and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader ! Information here....
Nearly 70 indigenous rights, wildlife, and civil rights groups are calling on the Biden administration to tear down nearly 60 miles of border...
Just one day after he recklessly lifted novel coronavirus pandemic restrictions, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is now trying to blame asylum-...
On Jan. 6, 2021, as the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was under siege from a cast of Qanon characters and predominantly misguided...
With more than 20 anti-trans laws in the works across the nation, we take some comfort in the knowledge that many won’t pass out of the state...
We’re approaching the year mark of everything shutting down because of the coronavirus, and everything remains … well, kinda terrible. Sure,...
A Black prosecutor decided not to charge a Detroit man who flew a Ku Klux Klan flag in his window near a Black family who lived next door. Wayne...
Trumpist Republican politicians like Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz appear to be mimicking their role model’s ability to send comforting signals...
Jacob Chansley, who has the gall to call himself the QAnon Shaman, wants you to know that he was only doing his civic duty during the insurrection...
On Jan. 6, a mob of Trump supporters not only stood around the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” they erected a gallows to show how eager they...
In days of testimony before Senate and House committees, three names have come up repeatedly. One of those is former acting Secretary of Defense...
The child care industry and the workers in it—overwhelmingly women, many of them women of color—have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic....
The House of Representatives worked late Wednesday night to wrap up key business before closing on Thursday due to warnings of a conspiracy...
The Senate voted Thursday afternoon to begin debate on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan with the assistance of Vice...
The House stayed in late Wednesday to wrap up a critical week's of work: passing H.R. 1, the sweeping voting and democracy reforms, and a expansive...
It's really hard to wrap one's mind around how hapless House Republicans are, not to mention the astounding failure in leadership Minority Leader...
Wednesday was a big day in the U.S. House of Representatives, with legislators reintroducing two major legalization bills that stand to affect...
C&J Annual Fundraiser: Day 4 When Kos first emailed me back in 2005 about moving C&J from the diaries to the front page, he caught the gist of it...
The shadow of the Jan. 6 insurrection sent a shiver down the backs of everyone working in the U.S. Capitol this week when intelligence turned up...
It’s no surprise that Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis cares more about the rich than the economically vulnerable. Since the start of the COVID-19...
Despite Joe Biden’s promise to increase the number of refugees admitted into the U.S., deportations continue nationwide—along with halts in...
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the business that manages the legacy of the late children’s book author, decided of its own accord to stop publishing six...
More than 1,000 farmworkers in California’s Santa Clara County will have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at pop-up clinics...
One year ago this week, my Kansas Jayhawks were the leading contenders to cut down the nets at the NCAA tournament. Everything on that team was...
As Daily Kos has covered, Republicans in more than 20 states are currently pushing anti-trans legislation. This legislation tends to target...
Thanks to the recent completion of Daily Kos Elections’ effort to calculate the 2020 presidential election results by congressional district, we...
Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, crimes against the Asian community have increased globally. In the U.S.—especially because of...
Three weeks after a closed electricity market that’s designed to turn disasters into windfall profits collapsed in Texas, turning a winter cold...
At a joint Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, an array of intelligence and defense officials—including the commander of the Washington, D.C....
One of the central disagreements between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is coming into focus: voting rights. House Democrats...
The Supreme has decided to hear an appeal from the Department of Justice that would maintain the exclusion of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico from...
Senate Republicans are openly plotting how to make passing vital COVID-19 relief—which is still supported by 77% of all voters, including 59% of...
As Senate Democrats prepare to pass President Biden's wildly popular COVID-19 rescue plan, the race for control of the upper chamber in next year's...
Former U.S. Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III refused to be interviewed for a Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report...
It took the Trump administration about a year to announce their plans to gut the Endangered Species Act. Trump’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
C&J Annual Fundraiser: Day 3 Sorry to pull out the big persuasion gun, but this morning I feel it's necessary to play the country song card in the...
Perry Bacon, Jr./FiveThirtyEight: Why Republicans Don’t Fear An Electoral Backlash For Opposing Really Popular Parts Of Biden’s Agenda Put another...
Emails The Texas Tribune obtained show just how little wealthy alumni donors from the University of Texas at Austin care about Black people, even...
The arrests and indictments in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol are now up to 257 and counting. And as they continue to mount and the...
With Republicans eagerly looking to improve their electoral fortunes in 2022 and beyond, Democratic strategy for the net few election cycles...
"What's the interest of the Arizona RNC in keeping, say, the out-of-precinct ballot disqualification rules on the books?" Justice Amy Coney Barrett...
For the first time in nearly nine months, a national Harris tracking poll found that Americans' fears of contracting the coronavirus and dying...
On Wednesday, House Democrats voted 220-210 to pass H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” which is the most important set of voting and election...
Disparities across the country have increased amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. In terms of food security, those who struggled with food access...
Holy Mother of God, what foolishness is this? As reported by Ed Kilgore, writing for New York Magazine : In a ruling reminiscent of medieval...
Not sure where to slot this among the growing list of Fox News pseudo-scandals. Is this glaring omission worse than Barack Obama’s tan suit? That...
Here’s today’s Republican Party in a nutshell: Arizona Republicans censured Cindy McCain for endorsing Joe Biden for president. When Rep. Paul...
The Senate could kick off floor consideration of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan as soon as Wednesday, and not a moment too soon for the...
The Biden White House has brokered a highly unusual deal among two would-be corporate competitors in an effort to substantially increase COVID-19...
Scientists working out of Yale University and Japan’s Sapporo Medical University have been able to successfully repair spinal cord injuries using...
Daily Kos Elections recently finished calculating the results of the 2020 presidential election for all 435 congressional districts, and one major...
Another day, another piece of anti-trans legislation moving through our systems of government. This Tuesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill...
It’s difficult to gauge the success of any movement aimed at affecting widespread and systematic change. That’s especially true for the Black...
The reason MAGA-loving Republicans lie so obviously and remorselessly is really pretty simple: It works. The two most brazen falsehoods they keep...