Republicans confront massive drop-off in online fundraising

It's hard to know if it's just Republicans' terribly sub-par candidates or the foul smell wafting off the GOP more generally, but whatever the reason,...

Democrats poised for pitch-perfect series of legislative wins heading into the fall

It's been a slog, but after more than a year of tedious legislative wrangling, the Biden administration and Democrats are on the cusp of potentially...

Trump returning to D.C. for first time since Jan. 6 to deliver forward-looking keynote address

Donald Trump is returning to Washington, D.C. Tuesday for the first time since he fled town following his failed Jan. 6 coup attempt, according to...

Two-thirds of Americans now favor term limits for Supreme Court justices

In case the Supreme Court's right-wing majority was sitting around wondering whether it has jolted awake a sleeping giant, a new AP-NORC poll released...

GOP in disarray on LGBTQ rights: State Republicans double down on bigotry as national lawmakers flee

When House Democrats put a bill on the floor last week protecting same-sex marriage rights, something astonishing happened—nearly 50 House...

With huge cash advantage, Democrats gain in generic ballot while Republicans flounder

The fundamentals of the 2022 midterms increasingly reveal a cycle that is departing from the historic norms most pundits have relied on as touch...

Bannon found guilty!

After a little under three hours of deliberation, a jury found former Trump aide and coup co-conspirator Steve Bannon guilty Friday on two counts...

Republicans increasingly viewed by Americans as the party of violence

A new poll from the progressive consortium Navigator Research finds that a plurality of Americans agree that “people who support the Republican...

Arizona GOP censures one of their own: Jan. 6 witness who dared to tell the truth

Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers is "no longer a Republican in good standing" after the state party's Executive Committee voted to...

Democrats rallying to codify interracial, same-sex marriage rights as Senate Republicans flail

Just before House Democrats ushered a marriage equality bill through the lower chamber Tuesday evening, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York offered,...

As House Democrats work to codify marriage equality, contraception rights, Senate Republicans cringe

As House Democrats vote to preserve privacy rights most Americans never imagined would be on the chopping block, Senate Republicans twisted...

Post-Roe, Republicans try to morph their radical culture warriors into inflation wonks

Republican strategists are of two minds on the issue of abortion: 1) the first rule of abortion politics is you don't talk about abortion politics;...

'Fake Lake,' Trump's Arizona gubernatorial pick, hits rough waters in GOP primary

No surprise here, but Donald Trump managed to sniff out yet another fraudster in Arizona's gubernatorial race to put his substantial weight behind,...

Nothing is normal about these midterm elections. Analysts are slowly figuring that out

Here's a line that caught my eye in a June write-up of one of the first high-quality horse race polls of a battleground state taken after the Dobbs...

'Oh, god no': Republicans finally realize they caught the car after 10-year-old rape case blows up

Because so many Republicans are sick people, GOP lawmakers immediately worked to discredit the story of a young Ohio rape victim being forced to cross...

Rep. Adam Schiff sounds alarm at Justice Department's 'unprecedented' lack of action on Jan. 6

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, expressed "great concern" Wednesday over the slow pace at...

Trump plots October surprise for September

Why wait? The proverbial October surprise is just as good—perhaps even better—in September, when voters really have a chance to let it sink in and...

McConnell tries to paper over GOP extremism ahead of midterm to woo suburban voters

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republicans' supposed master tactician, has a new scheme to win over the critical bloc of suburban swing...

Move over, Trump: DeSantis has plans

Donald Trump has reportedly been quite flummoxed and angry about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ maneuvering as he eyes mounting a potential 2024...

Cheney says Trump engaged in attempted witness tampering. If true, he should be in cuffs

Donald Trump is now committing crimes in real time as the Jan. 6 select committee investigates the crimes he already committed while in office....

Liz Cheney doesn't fear Trump one bit as she rips him limb from limb

After a strategic misfire by House Republicans, Donald Trump has been left twisting in the wind as Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, vice chair of the...

Democrats can go to war with army we have and beat expectations this fall

Remember when there was no way Democrats could win two Senate seats in Georgia to take control of the upper chamber? Remember when Ukrainian...

Finally sinking in for Republicans that their Senate candidates stink, including some incumbents

After months of sharpening their knives in anticipation of the midterms, Republicans' glee has turned gloomy as the election cycle's contours shift. ...

Biden delivers passionate post-Roe rallying cry, denouncing Republicans' 'extremist' agenda

President Joe Biden on Friday finally delivered the passion and fury many abortion rights activists have been longing to see from the White House...

Supreme Court favorables hit new lows after hitting new lows

Biden has given many forceful speeches this year. Here's why they're not breaking through

In a piece titled "Give Biden a Break," Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank makes the case that Democrats' harsh critiques of President Biden...

Group of 'bedrock' Pennsylvania Republicans break ranks to endorse Democrat for governor

A group of nearly a dozen mostly former Republican leaders in Pennsylvania is breaking with their party to endorse Democratic Attorney General Josh...

Republicans aren't worried about the midterms ... as long as no one says the word 'abortion'

Veteran Republican strategist Mike Madrid gets points for being honest about the current political landscape after the GOP’s radical Supreme...

GOP's 'island of misfit toys' candidates a gift to Senate Democrats looking to expand majority

After months of assuming Democrats would suffer epic losses at the polls this November, journalists are now catching on to the idea that candidates...

GOP extremism on abortion opens new lane for Democrats in November

The number of registered voters who believe the country is now headed in the "right direction" has fallen to an excessively dismal 10%, according to...

Trump is seeming less alpha all the time, the potential beginning of the end

Donald Trump's star is not moving in the right direction... if you're Donald Trump. Two recent polls suggest Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis might be...

Supreme Court bleeds credibility among college women, suburbanites, independent women, young voters

Multiple polls have now found Americans’ opinion of the Supreme Court plummeting in the wake of recent decisions expanding gun rights and...

House Democrats go on offense, attacking GOP extremism on abortion, Jan. 6

The House Democratic campaign arm is charting a course to hold Democrats' slim majority in the lower chamber by targeting extremist Republicans on...

Midterm generic ballot moves toward Democrats as independents move away from Republicans

As the seismic Supreme Court ruling stripping Americans of abortion rights ripples through the country, multiple polls are now seeing movement toward...

After sabotaging the Supreme Court's reputation, McConnell calls Biden a danger to the court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has often bragged about singlehandedly blocking consideration of Obama Supreme Court pick Merrick...

White House and Democrats start to key in on midterm abortion strategy

President Joe Biden stepped up his response Thursday to the Supreme Court's radical ruling overturning a half century of a constitutional right to...

Republicans either believe in peaceful transfer of power or they don't. All should be forced to say

Stuffed into the middle of the transfixing Jan. 6 testimony Tuesday from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson were several little-noticed...

As Republicans weaponize government, Democrats must take up the mantle of personal privacy, liberty

When 19-year-old Lisa suspected she was pregnant and wound up at a so-called "crisis pregnancy center," the anti-abortion activists did more than...

As Jan. 6 hearings pound Trump, some supporters sour on him running in 2024

As the select committee investigating Jan. 6 focuses like a laser on indicting Donald Trump in the court of public opinion, many Americans have...

After Roe falls, Democratic base overwhelmingly more likely to vote in November

For the last several months, nearly all political analysts have predicted November would be a blood bath for Democrats based on historical trends,...

Pennsylvania poll offers glimpses into how abortion might boost Democrats in key races

Pennsylvania is giving us a view into how an impending Supreme Court ruling gutting Roe v. Wade could cost Republicans precious votes in November. In...

DeSantis gives Trump the heave-ho on seeking a reelection endorsement

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is privately sending a flagrant signal that he is eyeing a 2024 presidential bid, regardless of whether Donald Trump runs. ...

Oz suddenly trying to deep-six his Trump ties after winning Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary

When TV huckster Mehmet Oz secured Donald Trump's endorsement in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary, Trump became the dominant feature of nearly...

Today on The Brief: Hashing out 2022's post-Roe, post-insurrection midterm amid record inflation

The word “unprecedented” has practically become a Trump-era punchline, but it's quite simply the perfect word to sum up the November midterms....

Democrats gear up for post-Roe political battle no one could have imagined five years ago

Amid a handful of unprecedented issues that will drive the 2022 midterms is an impending ruling from the Supreme Court that is likely to overturn 50...

Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say the Jan. 6 probe is fair and Trump should be charged

A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds that 58% of Americans believe Donald Trump bears a good or great amount of responsibility for inciting the Jan. 6...

Craven Republicans marvel at Liz Cheney's lonely stand for American democracy as we know it

The GOP colleagues of embattled Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming just don't get it. Why would anyone decide to stand for something bigger than themselves at...

Trump isn't done trying to get Pence killed: 'Mike did not have the courage to act'

Mike Pence survived the Jan. 6 insurrection, but Donald Trump isn't done with him yet. At an evangelical political conference in Nashville on Friday,...

Plurality of voters call Biden a 'good person,' but most say they don't like or trust him

There's no way around it—voters aren't particularly taken with President Joe Biden. This month's Daily Kos/Civiqs poll surveyed whether voters...

By the time the Jan. 6 panel concludes, they'll have Trump dead to rights on criminal intent

Among the various failings of the Mueller investigation into 2016 was the fact that the probe never managed to establish Donald Trump's clear intent...