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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...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Zohran Mamdani’s win in Tuesday night’s Democratic primary for mayor of New York City has delivered a shock to the political establishment nationwide, forcing media pundits and...
Editor’s note: This syndicated column was written and published before Donald Trump ordered US strikes on Iran’s nuclear-weapons development facilities.     When it comes to criticizing President Donald Trump — and refusing to give credit for virtually anything — it’s full speed ahead for Democrat politicians.     On the...
    Pro-crime Democrats are propelling New York toward anarchy and financial ruin.     The seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Gotham’s mayor unanimously oppose increasing penalties for farebeaters. That includes frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani. Their refusal to crack down on farebeaters — all by itself...
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”...
As Hot Air readers know, the reapportionment of congressional seats is based on the census which happens every ten years. States that lose population also lose seats while states that gain population gain seats. Back in January when Democrats were still reeling from the fresh loss in the 2024 election, the AP published a story...
Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. New polling finds that most Democratic voters want the current leaders of the Democratic Party to be replaced, as current leadership has failed to...
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...
L’Affaire Padilla was clearly a stunt, intended to create outrage that the Trump administration knew no limits in its authority and was perfectly willing to use force against its political opponents. As I wrote earlier, it is part of their strategy to define responses to the chaos, riots, and provocations as proof that Trump is...