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  • Cartoon: Shades of green

    A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Campaign Action

  • ICYMI: Kari Lake's abortion confusion, Jimmy Kimmel's Trump trial musings

    Stormy Daniels is an expert at trolling Trump. Her testimony will be a treat Her ability to reduce her critics to dust is a thing of beauty. Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert make comedy of Trump’s criminal trial “Like making an 8-year-old go to six weeks of church." Cartoon: Trump's version of 'fair' It’s quite the cast of characters. Kari Lake’s 7 steps to complete confusion on abortion The last step is the one that matters most. Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a mess of House GOP's big...

  • Cartoon: The running mate

    A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Campaign Action

  • Trump's new grift: Charging GOP candidates to use his name

    Poor Donald Trump. It seems he isn’t selling enough $399 high-tops or $60 Bibles, and his Truth Social stock is in the toilet, so it’s time for a new, new, new, new grift: charging his fellow Republicans for uttering his name. The Trump campaign announced in a letter Politico obtained that Republican candidates and committees are now expected to pay “a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC” for using his “name, image, and likeness in fundraising...

  • Jimmy Kimmel's late-night digs are driving Trump bonkers

    Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has been using “yabba dabba doofus” Donald Trump as a comedic punching bag for a long time. On Tuesday night, Kimmel continued this routine, poking fun at Trump Media & Technology Group’s plummeting stock prices. "If you bought Trump stock two weeks ago, and shame on you if you did, you lost half your money,” Kimmel said. “But if you hold on just a little bit longer, you might be able to lose all of it."  He buttoned up the joke with a clip of...

  • New poll shows when Republicans talk about abortion, they're losing

    A new Civiqs poll for Daily Kos shows why the issue of abortion is so perilous for the Republican Party, with voters viewing themselves as significantly more aligned with Democrats on the matter. By 15 points, registered voters say their opinion on abortion is closer to that of Democrats in their states than Republicans, at 48% to 33%, according to the poll released Wednesday. President Joe Biden also fares 8 points better than Donald Trump on the question of how voters think the...

  • Senate decides not to bother with House GOP's dumb impeachment stunt

    House Republicans really wanted an impeachment of someone. President Joe Biden, preferably, or his son Hunter, or maybe Hunter’s laptop, or perhaps Hunter’s dog walker. They decided on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who didn’t commit any high crimes or misdemeanors but did attempt to execute the policies of the administration in which he serves.  On Wednesday, the Senate took one look at the articles of impeachment oh-so-solemnly delivered by a hard-right House faction just...

  • Cartoon: Puppet show

    A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Campaign Action

  • Fed-up Republicans could help Democrats force vote on Ukraine aid

    Republicans’ frustration with House Speaker Mike Johnson over aid to Ukraine is giving steam to Democrats’ efforts to force the Senate aid bill to a vote. What was previously a procedural long shot is looking more probable by the day, as Johnson muddies the waters with a likely doomed and convoluted process. House Republicans are now talking openly about signing on to Democrats’ discharge petition, a procedural move that would allow Ukraine backers to bypass House leadership and force a vote on...

  • Kari Lake’s 7 steps to complete confusion on abortion

    If you’re confused by Arizona MAGA Senate candidate Kari Lake’s position on abortion, don’t feel bad. So is she. Since the Arizona Supreme Court decided that a 160-year-old ban on abortions works just fine in 2024, Lake has made so many 180 degree turns in her position on the issue, she can’t help but be addled. Step 1. Go back to 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Lake said she was “incredibly thrilled” that Arizona’s “great law that’s already on the books” could now be...

  • New poll reveals what's really motivating voters in November

    President Joe Biden appears poised to benefit from a reverse enthusiasm gap, with Democrats being more motivated than Republicans to vote against the opposing candidate. A new Civiqs poll for Daily Kos posited: Regardless of who you are voting for for president, how motivated are you by voting against the other candidate? Overall, nearly 8 in 10 registered voters said they were "extremely" motivated by voting against the rival candidate, with Democratic voters besting Republican voters by 7...

  • Colin Allred’s fundraising for US Senate race surpasses O’Rourke’s early 2018 pace

    "Colin Allred’s fundraising for U.S. Senate race surpasses O’Rourke’s early 2018 pace" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. By Matthew Choi, ">The Texas Tribune U.S. Rep. Colin Allred raised over $9.5 million for his U.S. Senate campaign in this year’s first quarter, surpassing the campaign of his rival Sen. Ted Cruz. Notably,...