For all the scathing criticism she has received from liberals, progressives, Democrats and Never Trump conservatives, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) has become a prominent figure in the U.S. House of Representatives' Republican majority. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) hailed her as an ally, and Fox News has often treated her like a mainstream conservative and a credible source of information rather than a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist who once claimed that "Jewish space lasers" were causing wildfires in California. But in an op-ed published on April 24, the New Yo ..read more

A major legal bombshell came out of Arizona on Wednesday, April 24 when Democratic State Attorney General Kris Mayes announced the criminal indictments of 11 Donald Trump allies who tried to overturn the 2020 election results in her state and were part of the "fake electors" scheme. Some of the defendants are also facing criminal charges in Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference/RICO case, including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and former Trump lawyers John Eastman and Jenna Ellis. Unlike Eastma ..read more

Next to gerrymandering, the biggest institutional driver of dangerous and destructive political misrepresentation in Ohio and across America is the U.S. Supreme Court’s disastrous 2010 Citizens United ruling allowing unbridled, dark money, pay-to-play corruption, which has now led to the biggest political bribery scandal in state history. The central feature of that criminal racketeering scheme was the use of 501(c)(4) dark money groups by FirstEnergy and now-imprisoned former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder to launder campaign donations and prop up the candidacies of politicians who wo ..read more

In 2018, Elon Musk got the richest pay package in U.S. corporate history, then worth some $56 billion. Nearly three months ago, a Delaware court voided that pay package, finding that the process to decide on it was “deeply flawed” because Tesla’s board didn’t properly disclose it to investors and had “barely any evidence of negotiations at all” with Musk. Musk effectively decided on his own that he’d be paid $56 billion. Last Wednesday, Tesla’s board said it would ask shareholders to vote again on that same pay package (now valued at about $47 billion) at its annual meeting on June 13. READ ..read more

Less than a month after a key abortion pill hearing, the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments for another major reproductive rights case—one out of Idaho that could impact healthcare for pregnant women and people across the country. Idaho is among the over 20 states that have tightened restrictions on abortion since the high court's right-wing majority reversedRoe v. Wade nearly two years ago with Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Since August 2022, abortions have been banned in the state except for reported cases of rape or incest or when "necessary to prev ..read more

The leadership of a union that represents more than 3 million building trades workers in the U.S. and Canada endorsed President Joe Biden's reelection bid on Wednesday, slamming presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump for catering to the needs of billionaires like himself during his first four years in the White House. "When Trump was elected, we took him at his word that he would have a worker-centered agenda and deliver on long-stalled issues such as infrastructure investment," said Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU), whose governing board voted to endo ..read more

A campaign finance watchdog on Wednesday filed a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, affiliated political groups, and an accounting firm of violating U.S. law in a scheme "seemingly designed to obscure the true recipients of a noteworthy portion of Trump's legal bills." The Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center (CLC) said that "evidence appears to show an illegal arrangement between several Trump-affiliated committees and a compliance firm named Red Curve Solutions that is designed to obscure the identities of those providing l ..read more

Like good fascists throughout modern history, Donald Trump and the RNC are rolling out a program to try to intimidate minorities and Democratic voters so badly they’ll leave polling places without voting. Hugh Jackson writes about it for the Nevada Current: “Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee on Friday announced a ‘100,000 person strong’ program designed to harass election officials and their employees and discredit democracy in Nevada and a dozen other states. “In a statement announcing its Orwellian named ‘election integrity program,’ the RNC said it is ‘establishing a robu ..read more

A slew of Donald Trump allies were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury in Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes' probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. While former Trump lawyers and Georgia co-defendants Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis were among the 18 people indicted, the former president was not. During a conversation with MSNBC's Alex Wagner, NBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin explained the reason why Mayes likely hasn't indicted Trump. READ MORE: Trump allies indicted in Arizona: report "Lisa, what do you foresee as the handshake between the Georgia case and the Arizona case, giv ..read more

The conservative Washington Examiner's Samantha Jo-Roth reported last week that US Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) "raised $8 million in the first quarter, outraising likely Republican opponent Tim Sheehy by a 3-1 ratio." She noted, "The haul was the most raised in the first quarter of a Montana Senate election ever, and Tester's campaign reported ending the first quarter with about $12.6 million in cash on hand." However, according to a Wednesday, April 24 Axios report, "Republicans are pouring money into the race and are painting Tester as a lawmaker who says one thing to Montanans and then ..read more