Lindsey Graham is momentarily defying Trump on his Jan. 6 pardon pledge. That's a tell

When GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina displays something resembling a spine, something is clearly up.

That’s what happened this week in an exchange between Graham and his latest man …

McConnell fighting losing battle to keep Republican racism in check on Biden's Supreme Court nominee

The Senate was rocked Tuesday afternoon by the announcement from the chief of staff to New Mexico Democrat Sen. Ben Ray Luján that the senator had suffered a stroke last Thursday, which required …

Fulton County D.A. asks for special grand jury to hear evidence of Trump's election tampering

It’s well over a year since the 2020 elections and the subsequent Republican attempted coup, and there have still been zero consequences for even the most outrageous of attempts to satisfy …

Peter Doocy tries to bring the War on Christmas into White House press briefing—it doesn’t go well

Every once in a while we like to check in on the strange self-flagellation of Fox News’ coat hanger Peter Doocy. Doocy is their White House reporter and is tasked to take the GOP and ultra-right-wing …

Democrats should take a lesson from Obamacare, and frontload the popular Build Back Better stuff

The latest NPR/Marist poll, not to mention their very own recent experience, should make Democratic lawmakers and President Joe Biden reconsider their approach to Build Back Better (BBB) and the …

Senate Republicans really want Trump to stay away, but won't say so on the record

Some Senate Republicans apparently want it known that they’re opposed to the former guy running for president again, or at least want him to hold off on announcing if he’s running until after the 2022 …

Republicans' silence on memo that proves Trump's Big Lie was a lie is deafening—and telling

The New York Times reported Tuesday that, as part of a filing in his defamation suit against much of the deplorable ecosystem, former Dominion Voting Systems executive Eric Coomer entered into the …

Coverage of Afghanistan may be more chaotic than evacuation as Biden prepares to address the nation

On Friday afternoon, President Joe Biden will speak to the nation on the still-unfolding situation in Afghanistan. Daily Kos will carry live coverage of Biden’s address beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern …

COVID-19 hits Senate, potentially complicating already fraught infrastructure work

The Senate finally got around to consideration of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, on Monday afternoon and approved a couple of uncontroversial …

Biden outplayed Republicans on infrastructure, but it only counts if he gets a reconciliation deal

“We have a deal,” President Joe Biden announced Thursday, celebrating the framework of a bipartisan infrastructure deal worth $1.2 trillion, only about $580 billion of which would be new …

Right on cue, McConnell attacks bipartisan infrastructure deal

This wasn’t at all predictable. Minutes after President Joe Biden finished his press conference announcing the skinny bipartisan infrastructure deal, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell attacked, …

Senate Republicans set to filibuster voting rights bill

The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on the For the People Act, but, with Republicans already enacting one vicious voter suppression bill after another in the states, a federal voting rights bill will …

GOP does its racist best, branding Manchin's voting rights proposal the 'Stacey Abrams substitute'

The outline of a Democratic consensus on critical voting rights legislation is taking shape, and it sure has Senate Republicans in a hissy. As Spectrum News Congressional Correspondent Eva McKend …

Why do Republicans think this stupid argument absolves Trump of anything?

Republicans are still trying to excuse Donald Trump’s deadly mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. As such, they’ve fixated on the “lab leak” theory of the virus—that the Chinese either …

Lindsey Graham makes it clear: Pushing the 'lab escape' theory is an effort to improve Trump's image

On Jan. 15, less than a week before Donald Trump was set to unceremoniously depart from the White House, someone used the website of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia to publish a “fact sheet” about the …

How's this for a rallying cry? If we lose the midterms, Trump will run again and (could) steal 2024

I never thought a fascist takeover of the galaxy could ever be less entertaining than the one depicted in The Phantom Menace, but here we are. One major American political party remains tethered to …

Prosecutors investigating Giuliani seized wider array of materials than previously disclosed

Oopsies. Looks like the investigation into personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is broader than what was previously reported. A court document unsealed Tuesday revealed that federal prosecutors …

Cartoon: Liz Cheney: Now she’s done it!

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Whoever thought a Cheney would be a pillar of principle and democracy? Okay, so she hasn’t always been a pillar, but it is nice that one House Republican is trying to push back against …