If you followed the national political coverage of Tuesday night’s Michigan gubernatorial primaries, you probably think that the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party just got pwned.
The Democratic primary pitted Gretchen Whitmer, a longtime state lawmaker and legislative leader, against Abdul El-Sayed, a young, wonky physician who led Detroit’s health department. An El-Sayed victory, CNN proclaimed, would “upend the conventional wisdom within the party estab...
Month: August 2018
Trump’s first congressional supporter charged with securities fraud and lying to federal agents
Donald Trump’s earliest congressional supporter, Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI and charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to investigators.
According to an indictment filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Collins engaged in insider trading of shares for a company called Innate Immunotherapeutics Limited (“Innate”) that trades on the Australian Securities Exchange. ...
Michigan is set to elect a powerful advocate for environmental justice
Rashida Tlaib is set to be the first Palestinian and Muslim woman elected to the U.S. Congress following a tight race in Michigan on Tuesday. The candidate cinched the Democratic nomination in a win likely to be welcomed by progressives and green groups, many of whom have lauded her campaign’s emphasis on inequality and environmental justice.
After running neck-and-neck with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones late into the night on Tuesday, Tlaib claimed victory with ...
There are more immigrants and their citizen children in the US than Trump voters
The White House plans to propose making it tougher for documented immigrants to become US citizens if they have ever used a range of social services from Obamacare to food stamps, NBC News reports.
Crafted by presidential advisor and white-nationalist ally Stephen Miller,...
Texas governor tweets out fake Churchill quote to own the libs
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) attempted to own the libs early Tuesday with some words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, the British leader who led his nation to victory over the Nazis in World War II, about how fascists of the future will purportedly guise themselves as leftists.
Abbott tweeted a meme reading, “The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists,” under the heading: “CHURCHILL ON THE LEFTWING.”
“Some insights are timeless,...
The Health 202: Medicaid advocates now have two more studies to back them up
The program for low-income Americans is a hot issue on the campaign trail.
Trump’s promised border wall could waste billions of dollars, government watchdog finds
The Trump administration could waste billions of dollars building a wall on the United States’ southern border, one of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) out Monday, the administration has failed to consider costly factors like varying terrain and land ownership in the area.
The report also found that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which is tasked with building the wall, selected lo...
Trump’s Short-Term Health Insurance Policies Quickly Run Into Headwinds
Federal officials got a skeptical reaction from state insurance regulators on the value of the plans promoted by the president as a cheap alternative to the Affordable Care Act.
Meet the lesbian Native American woman running for Congress in Kansas
MISSION, KANSAS — Like mixed martial arts, running for Congress involves patience, determination, and the ability to fight without taking attacks personally.
Sharice Davids, a professional MMA fighter, Native American, openly gay attorney, and first-time candidate made that comparison on Sunday, just two days before she will have face other Democrats in a tightly contested race for Kansas’ 3rd congressional seat. Early this year, Davids said she looked at the field of c...