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Trump Media outsourced jobs to Mexico even as Trump pushes 'America First'

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members. by Robert Faturechi, Justin Ell

'She stood tall': Harris winds down campaign with moving tribute to her mom

Vice President Kamala Harris gets personal in what is likely the final ad for her 2024 campaign. xMy mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, came to the United States from India at 19. She taught me and my sister, Maya, about courage and det

The Trump campaign is already playing the blame game

Tim Alberta’s weekend story in The Atlantic about the finger-pointing and blame-casting inside Donald Trump’s campaign is must-read.  Let’s take a deeper look into it.  

Cartoon: My country, 'tis of thee

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Campaign Action

The Recap: Trump's running out of steam, while Harris is full speed ahead with hope

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. 'We believe in each other': Harris closes campaign with message of hope When he goes low, we go high. Harris leads in the one Iowa poll that matte

No noise, just policy: Where Trump and Harris stand on guns

This four-part series examines the candidates' positions and policy proposals in an effort to cut through the noise and highlight where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on critical issues facing Americans in this election. Information

Cartoon: Setting back the clock

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Campaign Action

How Trump's hate speech won back the far right and boosted his poll numbers

The former president’s attempts to shift toward the political center this summer angered extremist supporters. To win them back, Trump renewed his attacks on immigrants. It worked. By Eric Pape, for Capital & Main When Kamala Harris&nbs

State of the Race: Leave everything on the field

The polls show the race neck and neck. And congrats to those of you who are more motivated by being behind: If the final election results were to mirror current polling, Vice President Kamala Harris would lose the election to Donald Trump. But what if the po

Harris leads in the one Iowa poll that matters—with major national implications

Ann Selzer’s Iowa Poll for the Des Moines Register came out Saturday, and it’s a political thermonuclear bomb: Kamala Harris: 47 Donald Trump: 44 The previous poll had Trump up 47-43 in September, and leading President Joe Biden 50-32 in June. An

Here's a reminder of how bad Trump is at handling disasters

Donald Trump and his allies have been misinforming the public about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, be it with lies or conspiracy theories.  Trump’s first administration was a disaster for our environment—but he and his friends are far fro

Sally Field reveals chilling story of her own illegal abortion at 17

Sally Field, the Academy Award-winning actress, told her harrowing story of procuring an illegal abortion in Mexico when she was 17, in an Instagram video posted on Sunday.  “I’ve been so hesitant to do this, to tell my horrific story,” the famed

House speaker bashes Biden’s hurricane response while doing nothing

It’s textbook hypocrisy: House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday that he won’t commit to reconvening his chamber to pass additional disaster-relief funding, yet he criticizes the federal government’s response as lacking.  “We’ll be back in s

Cartoon: Tipping the seesaw

A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Campaign Action

The Recap: Harris’ big media week, plus why the right keeps mispronouncing her name

A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Harris is doing tons of media this week, but critics still complain The goalpost-moving continues.  There’s a reason Trump and his minion

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: People of New York v. Trump begins

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin today with María Antonia Sánchez-Vallejo of El País in English describing the fir

Cartoon: Trump on Trial

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Morning Digest: Trump targets one of last two pro-impeachment House Republicans

The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast x Embedded Content Leading Off ● WA-04: Donald Trump on Friday

Trump wants tax cuts for the rich. Biden's making sure voters know it

Talking about tax policy is one of the best ways for President Joe Biden to create a contrast with Donald Trump on who will fight for average Americans. As Trump told a group of wealthy campaign donors earlier this month, one of his signature issues if electe

Live coverage: Donald Trump's first criminal trial, Day Two

Donald Trump has arrived at the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan for the second day of his criminal trial over falsifying business records connected to hush money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. On Monday, Merchan ruled on s

Right-wing fraudsters fined $1.25M for racist election robocall scheme

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the right-wing fraudsters who orchestrated a robocall campaign targeting Black voters in seven states during the 2020 election, have agreed to pay $1.25 million in a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James. 

‘A disaster’: Vulnerable Arizona Republicans panic over abortion ruling

Arizona Republicans got just what they wanted Tuesday when the state’s Supreme Court upheld a 160-year-old abortion ban—enacted before the state was even a state—that criminalizes abortions and mandates prison sentences for providers. That ruling cement

Cartoon: How to make a plane

Cartoon by Pedro Molina. Campaign Action

House GOP is so over Marjorie Taylor Greene's antics

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene welcomed Republicans back to work Tuesday with a five-page broadside attack on Speaker Mike Johnson, making sure everyone knows that she’s serious about her threat to try to oust him. Greene’s trying to foment more anger and di

Abandoned GOP minority outreach center gets a sexy makeover

A GOP minority outreach center in suburban Atlanta that was once devoted to artificially creating buzz, giving people the shaft, and taking an unusually keen interest in what happens in other people’s bedrooms is now a sex shop. In other words, th

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Battlegrounds

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup is a long-running series published every morning that collects essential political discussion and analysis around the internet. We begin today with Rex Huppke of USA Today asserting that the shoe salesman cares

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Morning Digest: Rich ex-ambassador hopes to derail GOP's preferred Nevada Senate candidate

The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast x Embedded Content Leading Off ● NV-Sen: Republican Jeff Gunter

Trump and his allies find a new way to be extra racist

As his legal woes have mounted, Donald Trump has taken to casting himself on the campaign trail as a victim of discrimination at the hands of “racist” Black prosecutors engaged in “massive election interference.” Trump has called N

'Serious blow': Florida's abortion ballot measure has the GOP on the run

As recently as two weeks ago, Donald Trump told the conservative radio show “Sid & Friends in the Morning« that he was warming up to the idea of backing a national abortion ban. “The number of weeks, now, people are agreeing on 15, and I’m th

'Enough of their price gouging': New Democratic ad slams 'greedflation'

Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, facing a tough reelection against Republican and former hedge fund manager David McCormick, is signaling to voters that he's on their side in the fight against inflation. Casey's first ad of the cycle centers on «greedlf

From the 'big lie' to the big grift, Trump’s destroying the RNC

If Donald Trump knows how to do anything, it’s destroy a business. And while the Republican National Committee might not be a “business” in the conventional sense, Trump and his family are doing their level best to bring their special magic to the opera

GOP's latest pitch: Everyone hates us. Please send money!

For the most part, political fundraising pitches skew alarmist, bordering on histrionic. That's true of both major U.S. parties, of course. But only one of those parties is currently led by a black hole of iniquity who, when it comes to donor cash, is like a

Cartoon: NBC's pundit search

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ICYMI: Trump’s Bible-hustle backlash, new House map is trash

Trump's pretending to be president, with an 'envoy' and everything Trump is conducting shadow diplomacy, and the facts of it are terrifying. The House map was already skewed to the GOP. Now it's even worse Can Democrats reclaim the House against the odds?

Cartoon: Fun with ethno-nationalist dog whistles

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Federal appeals court temporarily delays new state-run court in Mississippi's majority-Black capital

A federal appeals court has temporarily delayed Mississippi officials from creating a state-run court in part of the majority-Black capital city of Jackson starting on Monday. The ruling came just before U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate dismissed

Judge rules former clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses must pay $260K

Former county clerk Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses in Kentucky to same-sex couples, must pay a total of $260,104 in fees and expenses to attorneys who represented one couple, according to a federal judge's ruling. That's in addition to $10

Republican primaries are coming. So are Trump’s trials

Donald Trump’s trial on conspiracy and obstruction charges in the 2020 election is slated to begin in Washington, D.C., on Mar. 4. That’s a Monday. The next day is “Super Tuesday,” when 16 states and territories are set to hold their Republican presid

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Everyone was texting Mark Meadows to get then President Trump’s attention on January 6, 2021 in the hopes that he would get his violent supporters to stop their attack on the capitol. Alas, that gamer took 187 minutes to stop playing games.
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