As Republican Zach Lahn launched his campaign for Iowa governor, the private school he founded in Kansas quietly scrubbed the names of controversial right-wing figures from its website.The effort to paint over the influence of Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson, two men widely credited with mainstreaming…
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) hid his effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his fellow Republicans until he unveiled it on the House floor Tuesday, fearing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would gavel the House out of session to avoid taking up the measure.“Frankly, I was concern…
Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool described as an “anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa.”Jennica Pounds, a Pentagon special gover…
When news broke that a Navy officer’s sexual assault claim was dismissed as a workman’s compensation issue, Dawn, a retired Marine, took a bat to a tree in rage.Dawn is one of the survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) who is fed up with the direction of the armed forces under Secretary of Defens…
When MAGA supporters fueled by conspiracy theories angrily protested Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona, it fell to Recorder Adrian Fontes to certify the results in Maricopa, the state’s largest county surrounding Phoenix.“I’ve been through the fire in Arizona at the very basic gestation of el…
WASHINGTON — After taking their annual monthlong August break, members of the U.S. House of Representatives worked three and a half days this week. That was enough for Speaker Mike Johnson. Once the House passed a measure funding the government through December, he decided to give Congress an extra …
Dozens of Proud Boys showed up at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting in North Carolina over the weekend in a play for relevance by an aging fascist street gang amid a right-wing backlash against socialism as the GOP braces for heavy losses in the midterm elections.An estimated 51 members of …
President Donald Trump got a stern warning from members of his own party as he was lambasted for shrugging off an issue fast snowballing into a major crisis.Trump’s refusal to admit Americans are hurting economically — in fact, calling affordability worries a “hoax” and claiming they’d been fixed — …
When ICE agents smashed their vehicle into a pick-up truck last week and detained a man on a Chicago highway, protests erupted — and an impromptu action meeting was called to hit what the community is calling a “shadow surge.”The urgent ICE Watch and Community Defense session came together on Friday…
MAGA Rep. Nancy Mace hurled an expletive Tuesday as she learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bragged on live TV that he manipulated Donald Trump into attacking Iran.Viewers were left gasping as Netanyahu revealed he ran an “influence” campaign he claimed helped drag America into th…