Morning Digest: GOP establishment rallies behind challenger to indicted Nebraska congressman

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James …

President Biden visits tornado-ravaged Kentucky as Gov. Beshear opens parks to those left homeless

Each year around Christmas, my family rents a cabin at Lake Barkley State Park in Kentucky. The lake is beautiful, the park is beautiful, the cabins are spacious, and if I reserve in time, it’s …

Republican hypocrisy on disaster relief is a guide for how we should hear anything they say

The tornado that tore through Kentucky, leaving 64 dead and more than 100 missing, is a disaster that will require significant emergency aid. Federal emergency assistance is already on the way, but …

A terrible night of storms brings destruction and death across the central U.S.

On Saturday morning, many parts of the central United States are reporting temperatures over 30 degrees cooler than they stood on Friday afternoon. On Friday night, the energy of that difference was …

Ministers of death: Republican governors leave kids 100% defenseless against delta surge

Kids will die because Republican governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas are using the pandemic to score political points with a radicalized minority of Americans.

Their No. 1 job …