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Back to SearchAugust 6, 2025: The next big gerrymandering fight
The White House is turning the screws on red-state elected officials to gerrymander new electoral maps and squeeze more GOP seats into existence ahea…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
August 5, 2025: August heats up
Today, the biggest story in Washington is about what’s happening everywhere else: from redistricting fights in Texas and California, to town halls in…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
August 4, 2025: The mess with Texas
Today, you can find Texas’ Democratic state legislators in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts. Where you won’t find many of them is Texas. That’s b…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
From 'The Conversation': Rep. Sarah McBride Won’t Be Baited by GOP ‘Provocateurs’
Freshman Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) is the first out transgender member of Congress. Within days of her election this past November, she faced attac…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
August 1, 2025: Liberation Day, Part III
With the markets closed and the August 1 deadline having passed overnight, President Donald Trump followed through on his pledge to impose a wave of …
7 months ago
July 31, 2025: Joe Biden’s next act
For more than five decades, Joe Biden led an incredibly public existence. But now, in his post presidency, he’s entered a quieter, lonelier stage of …
7 months ago
July 30, 2025: How to gerrymander your way to a House majority
We’re halfway between the usual once-in-a-decade redrawing of congressional maps. So why are we talking about redistricting in 2025? As the White Hou…
7 months ago
July 29, 2025: Trump’s turning point on Gaza
For a decade, President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has bulldozed through GOP orthodoxy on everything from the national debt to immigration to trade…
7 months ago
July 28, 2025: JD Vance’s stealth-mode approach to being VP
Vice President JD Vance’s first six months in office have been an exercise in stealth. Yes, he has a very public role. But to understand how Trump’s …
7 months ago
From 'The Conversation': FDA Head Marty Makary on Food Dyes, Ultra-Processed Foods and the MAHA Agenda
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary is getting lobbied by the MAHA movement to restrict food dyes and ultra-processed foods, as w…
7 months ago