Tell Sen. Schumer to confirm as many judges as possible before the GOP takes over!

Trump confirms he will declare national emergency to carry out mass deportations

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon pick, paid woman after sex assault allegation
Hegseth, the insufferable Fox & Friends talking head, was accused of sexual assault in 2017 after a speaking appearance at a Republican women’s event in Monterey, California. He then paid the woman off in a confidential arrangement to squash an imminent lawsuit, which is definitely normal and something innocent people who engaged in consensual sex totally do all the time. [RETWEET THAT!]

Take Action: Pledge to change America’s deadly gun culture!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Democrats score surprise wins
Brian Tyler Cohen sits down with Marc Elias to discuss some under-the-radar Democratic wins, especially on the state Supreme Court level, that could be critically important further down the line.

Take Action: Reject Matt Gaetz's nomination for Attorney General!

Gun violence holds our communities hostage with fear
Everytown for Gun Safety: This year, American families have suffered through 404 mass shootings — more than one every day. Many of those mass shootings were made so much more deadly by use of an assault weapon, a weapon invented for use on the battlefield, designed to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. A weapon that has absolutely NO business being in the hands of civilians. Sign the petition and tell Congress that we demand an assault weapons ban before we’re faced with yet another preventable tragedy!

Trump picks Project 2025 co-author to lead FCC
We know it's been nearly two weeks since the election, but you may recall Trump repeatedly claiming he knew nothing about Project 2025, the right-wing, fever-dream playbook to take America back to the dark ages, or the people (dozens of whom worked in his first administration) behind it, yes? Yeah, no. The MAGA cult leader has tapped Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, currently a commissioner, contributed to the radical manifesto, and was hailed by Donald as a "free-speech warrior" who would end the "regulatory onslaught" and deliver for "rural America."

Take Action: Stop Trump from killing the Department of Education!

Republicans suddenly think the economy’s great and the election wasn't rigged
Huh. Would you look at that? It's almost as if MAGA world has been, is, and will continue to be incredibly susceptible to its cult leader's incessant gaslighting.

Vivek Ramaswamy pledges to "delete" entire government agencies alongside Elon Musk
Hey, remember when Elon "deleted" entire departments at Twitter, fired thousands of employees, and turned the social media network into a toxic wasteland where quality control tanked AND far-right hate speech spread like a California wildfire? We can't wait to see how that works at out the federal level.

Take Action: End Elon Musk's lucrative defense contracts!

"Time for a new approach": Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reveal "personal" visit with Trump to "restart communications"
The Republican flagship hosts for ostensibly liberal MSNBC traveled to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring and rebuild a relationship with the president-elect, a man who pushed conspiracy theories that Scarborough himself murdered one of his interns and publicly mocked "Low IQ Crazy" Brzezinski's plastic surgery. While they promised viewers that they are not here to "defend or normalize Donald Trump," we know very well by now that any kind of substantial questioning or critical commentary is a one-way ticket to persona non grata status in Trumpworld — which makes it clear that "resistance" is not going to be a top priority for them. Sadly, we're likely to see similar displays of homage across the mediasphere as values and morals are tossed aside in favor of preserving access to power and their own ratings. Didn't they say this guy was an existential threat to our democracy?

American abortion patients put in extreme danger by Trump and his cronies
National Network of Abortion Funds: Abortion rights are under attack by right-wing extremists across the country, and it's about to get a hundred times worse under President Trump and Republican control of the government. That's why Dose of Democracy is working overtime to help raise money for the National Network of Abortion Funds and make sure they have the resources they need to provide care to as many patients as possible before it's too late. Will you make a donation to help those on the front lines of the war for reproductive rights?

Some Arab Americans who voted for Trump are concerned about his picks for key positions
In other news, chickens are increasingly concerned about fox they just hired to protect the henhouse.

GOP senator says chamber should "absolutely" have access to Matt Gaetz House ethics report
Oklahoma's Markwayne Mullin, who has butted foreheads with the Florida gasbag on numerous occasions in the past, pumped the brakes on Trump's reckless pick to lead the Dept. of Justice. The Republican senator told NBC's Meet the Press that the Senate should “absolutely” be able to see the findings from a recently squashed House Ethics Committee investigation into allegations of underage sex trafficking. Gaetz abruptly resigned from Congress last week after Trump tapped him to be his servile attorney general in a craven attempt to render the explosive report moot.

Haitian immigrants flee Springfield, Ohio, in droves after Trump election win
Elections can have devastating consequences. This, sadly, is one of them.

Biden approves Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike inside Russia for first time
President Biden has authorized Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles to strike hundreds of miles inside Russia for the first time, nearly three years into Putin's brutal invasion. The decision marks a major policy shift and comes after Russia warned that Moscow would see the move to allow the use of US-made missiles as an “escalation.” With Biden leaving office in two months, president-elect Donald Trump has indicated he will limit American support for Ukraine and pledged to end the war quickly once he takes office in January — and by "end the war" the MAGA cult leader almost certainly means capitulating to the Russian dictator's imperial demands.