How Worried Should Dems Be About the GOP’s Huge Cash Advantage?
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View ArticleJasmine Crockett Quietly Yanks Offer of Lobbying Services From Website
Texas Representative and former Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett tried to jump-start her lobbying career before even leaving office. Reporting from Zeteo showed that Crockett, who lost a contentious...
View ArticleTrump Begs Europe to Help Him Bring Down Diesel Costs He Drove Up
The Group of Seven Nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil from its stockpiles—following a desperate plea from the White House.The G7 held an emergency meeting Friday morning to...
View ArticleDon’t Worry, Everyone! Trump Says He Can Walk Up Ramps and Stairs
The bar for America’s highest elected office keeps sinking.The nation’s totally healthy, very fit, 80-year-old president gave himself a little pat on the back Thursday after he managed to climb on the...
View ArticleVance Says People Are Too Focused on “Little Things” Ahead of Midterms
Vice President JD Vance thinks that Americans are too worried about the “little things” ahead of midterms—like gas prices, debt, Immigration and Customs Enforcement killings, and war. “This is not the...
View ArticleTrump Claims Iran Was Also Making Drugs in Nuclear Facilities
Donald Trump is attempting to retcon his rationale for attacking Iran.Speaking at a rally in Durant, Oklahoma, Thursday evening, the president suddenly claimed that part of his impetus for launching an...
View ArticleTrump Trashes Ken Paxton All Night, Then Tells People to Vote for Him
President Donald Trump went all the way to Texas to trash Ken Paxton in front of his own constituents. The president offered these comments during his rally at the Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton on...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump Midterm Tirade Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleReal Climate Solutions Versus “Greenwashing Tricks”
The biggest news during last week’s Climate Week NYC came not from the United States but from Germany, where the government of the world’s third-largest economy committed to phasing out fossil fuels by...
View ArticleHow the Supreme Court Caused a Botched Execution in Tennessee
For the first time since the Supreme Court revived capital punishment in 1976, a death-row prisoner has survived an execution. The state of Tennessee administered two lethal injections to Christa Pike...
View ArticleEveryone Hates Private Equity. Trump Is Bailing It Out.
President Donald Trump picked an odd political moment to remove guardrails from the private equity industry. A July poll commissioned by Americans for Financial Reform found that a 65 percent majority...
View ArticleHow Manchester City Got Away With Historic Fraud
Most cheating scandals in sports boil down to numbers: Barry Bonds’s 73 home runs in 2001 (or Mark McGwire’s 70 home run campaign three years earlier); Lance Armstrong’s six Tour de France titles; the...
View ArticleTrump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness
This week, GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton privately admitted that Donald Trump’s midterm convention in Texas was a serious problem for the state’s Republican candidates. Asked about this, Trump...
View ArticleTwo Men Spared From Border Patrol Arrest By Upstate NY Protesters
Collective action spared two men in Oswego, New York Wednesday following a multi-hour standoff with federal immigration agents.For seven hours, two men were trapped on the roof of a house in the...
View ArticleTrump Is Spending Millions on America250 Repairs
The Department of the Interior is paying more than $3 million to repair grass on the National Mall that was damaged during President Trump’s poorly-attended America 250 celebrations this summer,...
View ArticleTrump Sneaks Massive Blow to His Allies Into Latest Executive Order
In the past, members of the Republican Party have accused Democrats of waging a war on meat. Now, it appears that the bleeding-heart environmentalists at the Trump administration won’t stop sabotaging...
View ArticleTrump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want
Whatever beef Donald Trump had with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems to have been buried. The two had dinner on Sunday, followed by a luncheon with other CEOs who then stood together with top...
View ArticleTrump Makes Delusional Claim About Iran War’s Effect on Midterms
President Donald Trump doesn’t seem that concerned over whether the ongoing Iran war will hurt his party in November’s midterm elections. At the White House Thursday, a reporter noted to Trump that his...
View ArticleThe Three Billionaires Trying to Buy Wisconsin’s Governor’s Race
Republican Representative Tom Tiffany has raised more than $26 million in his bid to become Wisconsin’s next governor, the vast majority of which appears to have come from three billionaires.Between...
View ArticleTrump to Host Dinner Just for Top Buyers of His Crypto Coin
President Donald Trump will be hosting the “most EXCLUSIVE DINNER IN THE WORLD” to the top purchasers of his cryptocurrency. The Washington Sun reported Thursday that the website for Trump’s meme coin,...
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