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Georgia resident Chuck Hand is among the many Donald Trump supporters who faced federal charges after breaking into the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. Now, the MAGA Republican is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.In 2022, Hand and his wife, Mandy Robinson-Hand, pled […]
New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ruled on the tenth allegation of Donald Trump violating his gag order, finding the ex-president in criminal contempt of court and warning the presumptive Republican nominee for president directly that he may put him jail if he again violates the gag […]
During a November 2023 interview, Michael Cohen — Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer and one of the prosecution's star witnesses in Trump's hush money/falsifying business records trial — told ITV in the U.K. that he will "absolutely" seek political asylum in another […]
Calling the Republican Party the “party of fertilization,” former President Trump continues to make false claims in a recent interview with a Detroit TV station, while simultaneously taking credit for the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. In an interview last week with FOX-2 Detroit […]
Kari Lake, the far-right MAGA Republican who is likely to be running against liberal Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego in Arizona's 2024 U.S. Senate race, has recently been trying to soften her image.Lake criticized the Arizona Supreme Court's ruling in favor of a draconian anti-abortion law from 1864 […]
During his opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money/falsifying business records trial, defense attorney Todd Blanche tried to paint the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee as a family man. Blanche told jurors, "He's not just our former president. He’s a husband. He's a father. […]
Mainstream journalists and politicians have engaged in a campaign of mass slander against U.S. college students protesting the Gaza genocide. Their “antisemitism” Big Lie echoes the racist hate campaigns of the past, inciting hostility toward young people whose only crime is their […]
Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive to safeguard “election integrity,” even though noncitizens are rarely involved in voter fraud. Ahead of November’s presidential election, […]
Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows around the country. Tests have detected the virus among cattle in nine states, mainly in Texas and New Mexico, and most recently in Colorado, said Nirav Shah, principal deputy […]
Plato of Athens (429-347BC) may be one of the most famous philosophers of all times. He was the thinker who came up with the “theory of forms” and founded the first academic institution. Yet we know little about his life, such as how he died, or where he might be buried, even. But […]
Just over six months ahead of the US election, the world is starting to consider what a return to a Trump presidency might mean. While Americans might be weighing up the difference between the two candidates domestic policies, the rest of the globe is more interested in what foreign policy […]
Changes in personality following a heart transplant have been noted pretty much ever since transplants began. In one case, a person who hated classical music developed a passion for the genre after receiving a musician’s heart. The recipient later died holding a violin case. In another case, […]
During an early May interview with NBC News, Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) — who is being mentioned as a possible running mate for presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — refused to say whether or not he would accept the election results if incumbent President Joe […]
Recent polls suggest half the country may vote against their own self-interests in November. The self sabotage is head-turning: Christians who defend Donald Trump’s debauchery, poor people who give their money to a billionaire with rotating Ponzi schemes, pensioners who don’t understand […]
Wealth and power are inseparable. Democracy depends on the support of a large and growing middle class that shares a nation’s growing wealth — and through that wealth, its power. But for the last four decades, even as the American economy has tripled in size, the wages of most Americans […]
There’s a direct link between a sociopathic killer in 1927 and the GOP’s willingness to embrace a sociopathic president like Trump. That link runs through the work of Ayn Rand.When Donald Trump first ran for the GOP nomination in 2016, he told USA Today’s Kirsten Powers that Ayn […]
Donald Trump along with the Republican National Committee and the Nevada Republican Party, both wholly owned Trump subsidiaries, sued Nevada Friday saying any mail ballots that are not received by or on Election Day must not be counted. Nevada law requires mail ballots to be counted as long as […]
America has driven more than 650 species to extinction. And it should do the same to billionaires. Why? Because there are only five ways to become one, and they’re all bad for free-market capitalism: 1. Exploit a Monopoly. Jamie Dimon is worth $2 billion today… but not because he […]
The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals. Should we be concerned? Particularly since Trump is polling so well after he totally botched our response to Covid?Keep in mind, Trump shut down the offices of […]
David Pecker, long-time publisher of the National Enquirer and Donald Trump’s bosom buddy, spent hours on the witness stand in Manhattan last week. With the relaxed demeanor of a jovial grandfather, Pecker described how he, candidate Trump and Michael Cohen met in 2015 to plot how […]
Are you a lobbyist itching for a fishing trip with Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID), the top Republican on the powerful Senate Finance Committee?How about skiing and face time with Crapo?For years, Crapo has brazenly given donors to his political action committee a veritable menu for the access that their […]
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is expected to survive a challenge from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other far-right Republicans next week, but the goal isn’t to elect a new speaker. At least not this time around. The goal is to move today’s GOP even […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is back playing the stock market after an extended absence — and she just purchased stock in two companies whose business dealings potentially conflict with her congressional committee assignments.In a public filing released today and reviewed by Raw Story, […]
A Donald Trump-nominated Federal Election Commission leader wants to make it easier for political donors to hide their identities — a major impediment to post-Watergate interpretations of political transparency that allow anyone to see where politicians are getting their money.The proposed […]
Golden sneakers.Nonfungible tokens.Jingoistic Bibles.Much ado has been made about the baubles and bibelot a cash-strapped Donald Trump keeps peddling to MAGA-heads.But one can wear a Trump shoe, auction a Trumpy digital asset and ponder Matthew 19:24 and 1 Timothy 6:10 while reading the Lee […]
As the United States witnesses the unprecedented criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump, it’s time to ponder how these events will affect the upcoming presidential election. While some Americans might expect the negative publicity of the court cases to diminish Trump’s […]
Grover Cleveland is the historical standard among American presidents who lose or leave office then seek to regain it. The reason is simple: he achieved his goal. Cleveland, however, is hardly the only commander-in-chief who tried to win back what was lost. The difference is that the historical […]
The 2024 presidential election is expected to be another extremely close contest, with the winner of the Electoral College likely eking out a victory with just tens of thousands of votes across a handful of swing states. But control of the White House could come down to who wins Nebraska's 2nd […]
Reacting to recent comments from Donald Trump that he may not accept the results of the 2024 presidential election if he loses to President Joe Biden, former RNC chair Michael Steele went on an extensive tirade on Saturday morning accusing the former president of weakness.Steele, who now co-hosts […]
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (R) is almost certainly out of consideration in the 2024 veepstakes due to the story of her shooting her 14 month-old puppy, Cricket.Rolling Stone journalist Asawin Suebsaeng recently reported that former President Donald Trump is reportedly "disgusted" by the […]