September 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) verbally eviscerated Kathy Kraninger, President Donald Trump’s “unqualified” nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), during a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday in which her role in the administration’s cruel child detention policy was a focus. Unsatisfied with Kraninger’s responses to questions about her role in implementing the Trump…

The Senate Majority PAC, the top outside group aligned with Senate Democratic leadership, is out with a new ad accusing Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley of looking the other way when a campaign donor was faced with an ethics complaint.  The group is also putting an additional $800,000 of television spending into the state to…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE is scheduled to attend a fundraiser later this month in support of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley (R), who…

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE’s approval rating stayed range-bound at 45 percent in July from the previous month, though his approval on foreign affairs fell,…

“If the President decided he was going to pardon himself, that’s almost self-executing impeachment.” —Preet Bhahara, former federal prosecutor”He has no intention of pardoning himself, but that doesn’t say he can’t.” That’s what President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday morning on ABC‘s “This Week” after he was asked directly by host George…

Speaking to hundreds of grassroots organizers at the We the People Summit in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers displayed their shift to the left on a number of causes that progressives say politicians must embrace and fight for, in order to win enthusiastic support in upcoming elections. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.),…

Footage, audio, and photos from inside a children’s detention center in New York show a child crying and asking to speak with her mother and an employee ominously warning children that speaking to the press could endanger their immigration case. A former employee of a facility in New York shared the material with “The Rachel…

Previous attempts by Wall Street financiers and government officials to privatize Puerto Rico’s water system have produced “disastrous results,” but private equity vultures are exploiting the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Maria to plow ahead with yet another privatization effort—one that environmentalists warn could further imperil the island’s public water infrastructure. “With the privatization…

After Thursday night’s final gubernatorial debate in Michigan’s Democratic primary race, voters and political commentators alike pronounced progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed the clear winner, praising his universal healthcare plan and refusal to take corporate donations. El-Sayed denounced former state Senate minority leader Gretchen Whitmer for campaigning on health care reform while allowing health insurance executives…

  Confirming the fears of legal experts and immigrant rights advocates, undocumented immigrants are declining to testify against their abusers in domestic violence cases, for fear that they will be apprehended and potentially deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who make arrests at courthouses. One city attorney, Kristin Bronson of Denver, reported to…