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Rep. Laurel Libby is the Maine legislator who stood up for girls by calling out a male competitor who switched genders and went on to win the female pole vaulting competition in the state. The whole situation became intensely political after Maine’s governor Janet Mills pointedly refused to comply with President Trump’s executive order on...

There’s been a battle going on inside the Democratic Party since the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. All of the street protests and campus protests demanding a “Free Palestine” from the river to the sea. put a lot of Jewish Democrats on notice that the party wasn’t necessarily on their side anymore. Yesterday’s election...

I know what you’re probably thinking. Aren’t Democrats already the party of high taxes? Haven’t they always been?  Yes, that’s true but the point of this Vox article is that Democrats no longer have any social welfare goodies to offer because tax cuts have become popular, even among Democrats. Vox calls this the “core contradiction”...

Can Democrats escape the corner they painted themselves into on gender ideology? Survey says: “No!” At least not until the paint dries out completely, and this is slow-drying paint. That reality was demonstrated again on Wednesday, when the Supreme Court ruled that states have the power to ban “gender affirming care” (sterilizing and mutilating) procedures...

It may seem a bit nitpicky of me to compare Democrats’ love and mandating of masks during the COVID tyranny and their about-face on masks for law enforcement today, but it really isn’t, at least not entirely.  First, the point isn’t that masks themselves are the issue, but rather what the Democrats consider the appropriate...

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Over the objections of critics who say a landmark cryptocurrency bill lacks adequate consumer and financial system protections, among other concerns, several Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to pass the legislation that would establish a regulatory...

Democrats learned a lesson from Donald Trump’s return to the White House: getting arrested is good politics.  It’s for good reasons that Americans recoil when prominent political figures are manhandled, put in handcuffs, or have their mugshot taken live on camera. We all love the idea of politicians in handcuffs or being thrown into jail,...

Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. In response to a January executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has implemented new guidelines that permit individual doctors and other health professionals to refuse to...