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President Donald Trump’s plan to build a missile defense system is not going so well. Indeed, it seems stalled out at the “ concepts of a plan ” stage.� The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” ...

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UPDATE TACO MONDAY: White House postpones Monday’s expected unveiling of new health care cost proposal Trump Embraces Democrats' ACA Extension after causing a shutdown to end it. Trump is expected to propose Two-Year ACA Subsidy Extension as people are...

Robert Reich, in a Substack article describes and links to, a Montana Initiative limiting Citizens United. The idea is as beautiful as it is simple; Limiting the money corporations may spend on elections in the State of Montana. And it would apply to...

The breaking news comes via PBS NewsHour correspondent Nick Schifrin who tweeted it on X.com. According to Schifrin, Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) told him that Rubio called him and other lawmakers to make it very clear that the recently leaked 28-point...

Vladimir Putin, aided and abetted by his venal and uncurious minion, Krasnov are at it again .. shoving ransom notes disguised as “Peace Proposals” at Ukraine under the threat of American abandonment(as if there has been any substantive American aid...

In 2017, members of Congress Mike Johnson and Charlie Crist introduced a resolution marking July 12th of each year National Day of Civility. The date was in reference to the Biblical passage from Mathew 7:12: "So in everything, do to others what you...

He strode onto the world stage with the confidence of a man who believed the arc of history could be bent to his will. Calm, urbane, courteous—at least on the surface—but beneath that veneer was an arrogance so complete that he assumed no challenge...

Musk and MAGA are suffering a self-inflicted injury... The Daily Beast Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually...

I thought I was way past being shocked by anything Trump does, but this story that broke yesterday will go down in history — and not in a good way. First, we have a bipartisan group of senators saying that they were told by Marco Rubio that the plan...