Trump publicly blasts Jack Smith's "wife and family" in clear threat to their personal safety
With a clear pattern of Trumpers physically targeting the subjects of Trump's ire — from Mike Pence on January 6 to Paul Pelosi last year to Georgia election officials last week — there's no way to see a public, verbal attack by the disgraced ex-president as anything but a serious threat. So when Trump called out Jack Smith's wife at a campaign pep rally in New Hampshire yesterday, he was putting her life in danger — and he knew it. After months of slapping Trump on the wrist for intimidating witnesses and endangering prosecutors, it's past time to muzzle the dangerous narcissist.
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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Nancy Pelosi takes on new MAGA Speaker in Brian Tyler Cohen exclusive
INTERVIEW: Brian sits down with Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss revelations about Mike Johnson's policy positions, the Democrats' stellar election performance, and her relationship with Trump when the cameras were off.
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Republicans salivate at the thought of stealing a battleground Senate seat
Bob Casey for Senate: Stung from their humiliating defeat in 2022, McConnell and his cronies have now set their sights on defeating Bob Casey and flipping the Senate back to red. Can you chip in to help re-elect Sen. Casey and protect our critical Senate majority?
RNC threatens candidates with debate ban if they attend hate group's forum
The innocuously named "Family Leader" is an Iowa-based conservative activist group affiliated with the national Christian hate group “Focus on the Family,” and they hold a forum for conservative candidates every election cycle. The Republican National Committee has all but banned its candidates from attending this year, but not over the group’s troubling policy positions or affiliations. The RNC has been unable to generate interest in their own official candidate town halls and debates, and they simply can't handle any competition.
Take Action: Demand Congress reject Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill to take away Pete Buttigieg’s salary!
Speaker Johnson's proposal to fund government dead on arrival in both parties
Republicans' philosophy of empowering hatemongers and morons has not so shockingly hit another wall. With one more self-imposed, easily avoidable shutdown crisis looming, new Speaker Johnson responded with a true compromise that both sides agree on — in that they agree it's terrible. The White House released a statement calling the two-step short-term funding proposal "a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns” and the GOP's dominant chaos caucus of extremists rejected it for essentially not causing enough human suffering.
Take Action: Defend the right to read and fight GOP book bans!
CNN's Kaitlan Collins destroys ex-Trump lawyer live on-air
The popular CNN anchor cut her teeth as a White House correspondent jousting with the 4-times-indicted former president and his revolving door of press secretaries, and so she made minced meat of former Trump attorney Jim Trusty over whether the ex-grifter in chief is “trying to influence witnesses” by paying for their lawyers. Spoiler alert: It does not go well for the ironically named "Trusty."
Take Action: Tell the media to start covering Trump like the threat he is!
Biden slams "racist, cruel" immigration policies planned for 2nd Trump term
The New York Times published a story Saturday revealing Trump's plan to bypass congress and relocate millions of undocumented people to detention camps while they await deportation. The plan also calls for using reassigned federal law enforcement and National Guard members to help with the sweeps. In response, the Biden campaign released a statement capturing what they described as "the horrifying reality that awaits the American people” if Trump and his MAGA henchmen like Stephen Miller return to power in 2024.
Republicans' extreme move BACKFIRES (Live from Wisconsin!)
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: They finally went too far...
Ohio GOP plots to strip judges of power to review new abortion law cases
After a clear majority of Ohioans – reflecting the views of an equally clear majority of Americans – voted to enshrine reproductive rights into their state constitution, Republicans faced the tough reality that they were deeply out of step with the people they are supposed to represent. Predictably, Republicans in the Buckeye State responded by looking for ways to thwart the will of the people and are now fast at work undermining the fundamental principle of the separation of powers with a plot to replace the courts with the Republican-controlled state house as the body with the sole authority to interpret the new constitutional amendment. Cool, plan, GOP! That'll show the people you work for who's boss!
Pope Francis forcibly removes ultra-conservative Texas bishop
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas emerged as a harsh critic of Pope Francis in recent years for his largely symbolic outreach to the LGBTQ community. Strickland accused the Pope in a tweet earlier this year of “undermining the deposit of faith" for saying at a meeting on the future of the Catholic Church that LGBTQ+ Catholics needed to feel welcomed. A one-line statement from the Vatican Saturday said simply that Francis had “relieved” Bishop Strickland of his post. Good riddance.
Netanyahu breaks with Biden on vision for post-war Gaza
A day after US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken took Israel to task for causing unnessecary suffering and deaths, reviled Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (76% of his own citizenry say he should resign) defied the international community, including President Biden, with a pronouncement that he, not the Palestinian Authority, would take control of Gaza temporarily after the war. It’s time for everyone to consider that standing against the actions of the most hated man in Israel — the man most responsible for sabotaging the two-state solution, who has the blood of innocents on his hands — isn't anti-Jewish or even anti-Israel. It's just pro-peace.
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