GOP Praise For Insurrectionists, Extremists, Recipe For More Violence: Critics
“When you convince people that politicians are rigging elections, drink babies’ blood … you will get violence,” warned GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
“When you convince people that politicians are rigging elections, drink babies’ blood … you will get violence,” warned GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
Nancy Pelosi’s statement comes one day after a man broke into her San Francisco home and beat her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer.
“There is no place in a functioning democracy for anyone to resort to the use of terror,” said the head of the local League of Conservation Voters.
The warning came the same day a man broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her husband.
Public health experts in the United States are warning of a possible “tripledemic” of respiratory illness this winter: an increase in COVID cases, an early flu season and a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Hospitals in some parts of the U.S. are already seeing a surge in cases of RSV, which usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but can be very serious for infants.
The former president also torched the Donald Trump-backed GOP candidate with a reworked version of his iconic slogan.
“I have no jury and no Civil Rights!” Trump complains about $250 million suit.
“Every person of good conscience needs to unambiguously stand up against the violence in our politics,” Biden urged after House speaker’s husband is assaulted.
“I like it better, I like the way it works. I like Elon, but I’m staying on Truth,” Trump told Fox News Digital.
We speak with Florida voting rights activist Desmond Meade about how Republicans like Governor Ron DeSantis are attempting to scare formerly incarcerated people with felony convictions from voting. DeSantis launched an election police force to arrest people on trumped-up voter fraud charges.
With Republicans set to make major gains in the November midterms, we speak with reporter Ari Berman, who says Republican control of the Legislature in Wisconsin is a preview of the damage the party could do if empowered in Washington. Berman’s latest piece for Mother Jones is titled “How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy.
Former President Barack Obama is in Georgia Friday to campaign for Democrats in the closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races. This comes as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday saying the race between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Trump-backed anti-abortion Republican nominee Herschel Walker is “going downhill,” and recent polls show Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is trailing Republican Governor Brian Kemp.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis urged top court to reject senator’s plea to block testimony while he appeals the order to appear before special grand jury.
The former president may try to go to the U.S. Supreme Court next.
Don Bolduc, a far-right candidate, appeared to call out members of the crowd for their response to his claim about busloads of illegal voters in New Hampshire.
The legendary Watergate journalist has never heard a president talk about the office that way, Woodward said in an MSNBC interview.
The man had items missing from Hobbs’ office with him when he was arrested for the unrelated burglary, police said.
Public health experts in the United States are warning of a possible “tripledemic” of respiratory illness this winter: an increase in COVID cases, an early flu season and a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Hospitals in some parts of the U.S. are already seeing a surge in cases of RSV, which usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms but can be very serious for infants.
Peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and rebel forces in Tigray began Monday in South Africa, where the African Union is mediating the highest-level effort so far at ending the bloodshed. The war began in November 2020 when Ethiopian troops, backed by soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, launched an assault on the northern Tigray region against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front.
We speak with Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, about the growing crisis in the occupied West Bank as Israel escalates its daily military raids. At least 120 Palestinians have been killed so far this year, including dozens of children. U.S. President Joe Biden met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog Wednesday but neither mentioned Palestinians in public remarks. “There has to be a change to acknowledge that U.S.
A group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives this week sent, then retracted, a public letter urging the Biden Administration to engage in direct diplomacy with Russia to end the war in Ukraine while continuing to arm and support the government in Kyiv. The letter was signed by 30 lawmakers from the Congressional Progressive Caucus and saw an immediate and fierce backlash, as critics said it undermined Ukraine’s position and downplayed Russian atrocities.
But the former president claimed the real problem was not himself, but the media.
The Republican first said in August that the FBI seized his phone while he was traveling with family.
Joe Cunningham, a former congressman, said the Republican governor is taking the state backward.
Trump continues to insult the Republican Senate leader but has failed to come close to his level of spending, instead hoarding most of his political money for himself.
The L.A. City Council formally rebuked two members and its former president for their involvement in a racism scandal that has shaken public faith in City Hall.
As Republican-led states clamp down on voting rights, we look at how Black voters are helping to organize unprecedented voter turnout ahead of midterms. “We are literally fighting for democracy,” says LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, who says organizing voters is “the winning strategy” despite the resolve of the “consulting class” to invest campaign funds primarily in TV ads.
As the midterms draw closer, we speak with journalist Will Bunch about how extremist Republican candidates increasingly look like they could win. In Pennsylvania, the Republican gubernatorial candidate is Doug Mastriano who attended the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally and helped arrange buses for pro-Trump protesters to come as well. He later worked with former President Trump’s legal team to overturn the 2020 election results.
Hundreds of Penn State students protesting a speaking event with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on Monday night were showered with pepper spray by men who appeared to be with the hate group. Penn State, which abruptly called off the talk on Monday, had resisted earlier calls from students, faculty and community members to cancel the event, citing free-speech rights. We speak with one of those students, Sam Ajah, president of the Penn State College Democrats club.