Democrats won the House on Tuesday night. Within hours, the man in line to run its main investigative committee had a message for the White House, and it wasn’t about grocery prices. “Lawyer up,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said in a two-word statement also posted on X. Garcia is the ranking Democrat on the House […]
Washington, D.C., has its first democratic socialist mayor. Council member Janeese Lewis George won Tuesday with 126,932 votes, or 84.0%, according to the DC Board of Elections’ unofficial results. Independent Rhonda Hamilton took 10.3% and Statehood Green Robert L. Gross 3.6%. She succeeds Muriel Bowser on Jan. 2, 2027. She was not alone. In Providence, […]
Abdul El-Sayed will be the first Muslim to serve in the U.S. Senate. The Associated Press called Michigan’s open-seat race for the Democrat at 2:27 a.m. Wednesday. With 96% of the expected vote counted, he led Republican Mike Rogers 52.4% to 45.6%, a margin of about 325,600 votes. The seat belonged to retiring Democratic Sen. […]
On a night when Democrats flipped Texas, Florida held. Republican Rep. Byron Donalds won the governor’s race, and Sen. Ashley Moody kept the U.S. Senate seat she was appointed to in January 2025. The Florida Division of Elections shows Donalds with 4,132,112 votes (50.02%) to Democrat David Jolly’s 4,024,180 (48.71%), a margin of about 108,000 […]
Texas did not just wobble on Tuesday. It flipped. The Associated Press called the governor’s race for Democratic state Rep. Gina Hinojosa over three-term Gov. Greg Abbott, making her the state’s first Democratic governor in more than 30 years. Former teacher James Talarico beat Attorney General Ken Paxton for the open U.S. Senate seat, the […]
If Democrats take Congress today, President Trump already knows what he will do. “I guess I’ll become Mr. Veto,” he told Miranda Devine on the New York Post’s Pod Force One, the Post reported. “I’m not going to let them ruin it.” He described the plan in plain terms: “They’ll be sending stuff up. You […]
The Supreme Court on Monday night turned down the Justice Department’s last-ditch request to make California set aside mail ballots from roughly 20,000 people the federal government flagged as likely noncitizens. The order in United States v. California (No. 26A624) is one sentence long: the application, “presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to […]
This article is adapted from B.J. Dichter’s segment on Coffee with BJ, Episode 329. Watch the full segment below. Everyone is mad that JD Vance won’t condemn Tucker Carlson. I think that’s the strategy. What happened At a CBS News town hall on Oct. 17, a father whose two young children survived the March attack […]
“Minnesota is the epicenter for fraud in America.” That is not a talk-radio line. It is the Justice Department’s own words, from Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter, in a release dated Oct. 30. The headline number: about $29.1 million in fraud uncovered in newly charged Medicaid and SNAP cases. Counting convictions and sentences, DOJ […]
Two days before Michigan picks a senator, the Democrat who nearly won the party’s nomination has endorsed the Republican. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) backed former Rep. Mike Rogers on Sunday, Nov. 1, over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who beat her in the August primary by less than a point. On Sunday TNT reported that El-Sayed’s […]
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