If elected, Doug Jones *could* be the 51st vote against GOP tax scam
This is a major development on Capitol Hill, to put it mildly:Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says she may change her vote on the GOP tax overhaul if her amendments are not included in the final...
View ArticleScott Walker using Wisconsin National Guard to promote religious mythology
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author of this story is not an attorney and is not a religious scholar.In the latest battle in the Republican Party’s War on the Constitution, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is using the...
View ArticleOprah is supported by Bill Kristol, supported Iraq War, and has helped...
With media mogul Oprah Winfrey reportedly considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination and a large section of the Democratic establishment being at least interested in supporting her...
View ArticleThe real State of our Union is in peril
This morning, the morning after President Donald John Trump gave the constitutionally-mandated State of the Union address, not since the Civil War has the state of our Union been in so much peril.Trump...
View ArticleMultiple members of U.S. Olympic biathlon team call for gun control
There are only four Olympic sports (not counting sports that are scheduled to debut or re-debut at the Olympics after 2018 or sports that have been discontinued from the Olympics) where the United...
View ArticleDCCC caught pushing some of same talking points NRA-backed politicians use...
At this point, it is becoming almost impossible to tell the difference between the political messaging of the neoliberal Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is an organization...
View ArticleHuge problem for Democrats in 2020: We really don't have anyone who speaks at...
I’m not exactly a fan of political pundit Chris Cillizza by anyone’s imagination, although his piece for CNN’s website about a recent interview Trump did for the Fox “News” Channel program gives you a...
View ArticleTrump claims to put "America first". That's a total lie.
Now that President Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal that is designed to prevent Iran from threatening the United States with a nuclear weapon, it has become increasingly clear...
View ArticleIrish Times exit poll projects huge victory for reproductive rights in the...
The Eight Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which is one of the strictest bans on abortion anywhere in the world, is projected to be repealed, as polls have closed in the Republic of Ireland, and,...
View ArticlePeggy Flanagan hits a musical home run in Minnesota
I should note that I am NOT endorsing a gubernatorial/lieutenant-gubernatorial ticket in the Minnesota gubernatorial/lieutenant-gubernatorial Democratic primary, although I certainly hope that the...
View ArticleJudicial fascism is coming to America...unless we convince the Senate to...
President Trump has appointed Brett Michael Kavanaugh, a far-right federal appeals court judge, to the soon-to-be vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court currently occupied by right-leaning Associate...
View ArticleKylie Oversen, candidate for North Dakota Tax Commissioner, is an AWESOME...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: North Dakota is one of two states, the other being Minnesota, in which the state chapter of the Democratic Party operates under a different name.While most of the attention on North...
View ArticleTrump and Cohen discussed scheme to keep a Trump extramarital affair from...
CNN obtained the Trump-Cohen tape, and it clearly indicates a discussion between Donald Trump and Michael Cohen regarding arrangements for a payoff so that a story about Karen McDougal’s extramarital...
View ArticleKansas City Star/ProPublica report details how Kris Kobach swindled...
You have to read this entire joint report by the Kansas City Star and ProPublica to fully understand the story. I will attempt to summarize the report in less than 50 words: Kansas Secretary of State...
View ArticleKavanaugh signals that he may overturn SCOTUS ruling that made marriage...
I do not like using the word “unqualified” to describe an appointee to a U.S. Supreme Court seat or other federal judgeship, in large part due to the fact that I am not an attorney, and I don’t feel...
View ArticleWhy is Feinstein hiding a document that *may* implicate Kavanaugh in a sexual...
Ryan Grim of The Intercept recently wrote this report on the fact U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is refusing to release a letter, for whatever reason, that may implicate Brett Kavanaugh, Donald...
View ArticleDemocratic candidate in North Dakota running TV ad featuring arrest of her...
TRIGGER WARNING: The following blog post contains a video featuring flashing lights. Although I am not a physician, I strongly recommend against watching the video contained in this blog post if you...
View ArticleCBS affiliate in Champaign, IL pre-empted part of Christine Blasey Ford's...
As I type this blog post, Prof. Christine Blasey Ford is currently testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in regards to Brett Kavanaugh’s act of sexual assault against Ford. However, if...
View ArticleJudicial fascism is coming to America, and Democrats need to start actually...
With U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) giving a speech wholeheartedly supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, it is expected that Kavanaugh will become an Associate Justice of...
View ArticleCNN's smear campaign against Beto and his mother completely falls flat
CNN is at it again with another one of their ridiculous “KFile” smear campaigns against a Democratic candidate for federal office. This time, they tried to smear Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic nominee...
View ArticleGOP white nationalist Steve King claims that "our country is slipping away"...
According to Dave Wasserman, who is a right-leaning election analyst, Steve King, the purveyor of an international white nationalist agenda who is seeking re-election as a Republican to the U.S. House...
View ArticleCindy Hyde-Smith: The Bob Uecker of lynchings
AUTHOR’S NOTE #1: This story does not make or imply any endorsement by Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers, Major League Baseball, or the Miller Brewing Company, and is reflective of the opinions of the...
View ArticleIn response to the NYT's congressional reform proposal, here's my own...
In response to soon-to-be-former U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan (R-NY) losing re-election to U.S. Rep.-elect Max Rose (D-NY), The New York Times (the NYT) editorial board issued a pair of editorials: the first...
View ArticleCongress failed to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
Not only did President Donald Trump shut down the federal government by refusing to back down for his ridiculous demand for a border wall border steel slat barrier boondoggle at the expense of American...
View ArticleTrump runs out of disparaging nicknames for people who oppose him
President Donald Trump became notorious for concocting nicknames for political opponents of him during the 2016 presidential campaign. During the Republican primaries, he gave no quarter to the likes...
View ArticleThe pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz's independent presidential bid
This headline from The Daily Beast summarizes the pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz’s planned independent presidential bid:xHoward Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to...
View ArticleIf Lake Placid could host the Winter Olympics, then Milwaukee can host the DNC
Twice, most recently in 1980, the tiny village of Lake Placid, New York, which has fewer people than my hometown of Westville, Illinois, hosted the Olympic Winter Games. The Winter Olympics are a...
View ArticleYear-round Daylight Savings Time would negatively impact Americans
Earlier today, President Donald Trump said that year-round daylight savings time (DST) in the United States “is O.K. with me!”:xMaking Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!— Donald J. Trump...
View ArticleFact-checking two Tulsi Gabbard claims about the Barr Letter and the Mueller...
Republished from Apollo CornerYesterday, U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, claimed that now-former Special Counsel Robert “Bob” Mueller...
View ArticleFor your convenience, I've created a Twitter list of every major 2020...
Earlier today, I created a Twitter list of every major candidate who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. I’m defining “major candidate” as being eligible for being listed on Wikipedia’s...
View ArticleDespite not much media attention, Elizabeth Warren surges into 2nd nationally...
Even with Joe Biden’s entry to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination being the subject of most of the media coverage of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in recent...
View ArticleA major Democratic leader is fundraising for one of the most anti-abortion...
Even after state legislatures in states like Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama have passed draconian anti-abortion laws designed to criminalize women and attempt to convince a far-right U.S. Supreme Court...
View ArticleI believe that she can win - An endorsement of Elizabeth Warren's...
Today, I announce that I endorse Elizabeth Warren for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States!America needs a strong leader with strong political morals and support for democracy,...
View ArticleMissouri House Minority Leader accurately describes how horrible...
Missouri State Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield), who is the Minority Leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, issued this brutally accurate statement in response to Gov. Mike Parson (R-MO)...
View ArticleBreakthrough poll for Elizabeth Warren: she LEADS in two hypothetical...
Before I begin, I should note that there are two major caveats to the polling data that I’m about to share:The pollster that conducted this poll, HarrisX/Scott Rasmussen (note that HarrisX/Scott...
View ArticleIllinois TV meteorologist RAILS AGAINST Sinclair Broadcast Group's weather...
You may be familiar with Sinclair Broadcast Group as that company that owns a lot of TV stations and forces its stations to run right-wing, pro-Trump propaganda segments like the controversial Boris...
View ArticleSinclair-owned TV station loses advertisers over pulling truth-telling...
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is an update to a previous story I published here.According to the Springfield (IL) Journal-Register, at least four advertisers have pulled their funding from Sinclair Broadcast...
View ArticleYesterday, I came out as polysexual
A little less than 36 hours ago, I revealed my true colors. No, I didn’t go to Finland to betray my country in the presence of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. I came out as a polysexual man, and, for...
View ArticleParticipant in Charlottesville counter-protests calls for Joe Biden to end...
Emily Gorcenski, a data scientist who was assaulted by white supremacists while participating in the counter-protests against the infamous Unite the Right fascist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Pushes Back Against "Corporate Wing of the Democratic Party"
Original diary title was click-bait, needlessly inflammatory and did not accurately reflect the contents of the diary. Title edited by Admin.As someone who supported Bernie Sanders’s failed 2016...
View ArticleI wrote a lesbian sports fiction eBook!
I haven’t written a full story here on DailyKos in a while, and that’s because I’ve been busy writing an eBook under my full legal name, Aaron Apollo Camp. I can now say that my eBook has been...
View ArticleIs there an Equal Protection Clause argument against IA's and NH's...
DISCLAIMER: The author of this story is not an attorney and does not claim to be an attorney.Recently, former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary and active Democratic presidential candidate...
View ArticleSouth Dakota Governor Kristi Noem: “…I’m on meth.”
Republished from Apollo Corner, aside from a non-scientific poll that has been added to the DailyKos version below.To be clear, Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) is, to the best of my knowledge, not actually a...
View ArticleBiden falsely accuses fellow Democrats of wanting to abuse the power of the...
At an event in Knoxville, Iowa, which is best-known for being the home of the annual Knoxville Nationals winged sprint car automobile race, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticized other...
View ArticleVideo surfaces of Pete Buttigieg making racist remark about the racist...
It’s no secret that Pete Buttigieg has a white privilege problem. But, to paraphrase a certain former FBI director, Lordy, there is now a tape:xSo Buttigieg made the racist birther joke more than once...
View ArticleFlorida man thinks he's on Fox News while being interviewed on CNN
At the end of an interview by CNN’s Christopher Charles “Chris” Cuomo, U.S. Representative and Trump sycophant Matthew Louis “Matt” Gaetz II (R-FL-1) addressed Cuomo as “Sean”, referring to Sean...
View ArticleLike a total loser, Donald Trump just made Elizabeth Warren's electability...
In this article by multiple reporters for The Washington Post, the Post reported that Trump doesn’t have a plan to relieve millions of Americans of crushing student loan debt and fears that Warren...
View ArticlePOLITICO reporting that Biden may not seek a second term if elected to a...
The last time that a sitting President of the United States willingly chose not to seek a second term after being elected to either a first term or first full term as President was in 1968, when Lyndon...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg caught using prison labor for his presidential campaign
John Washington of The Intercept recently published this report about the use of prison labor by Mike Bloomberg’s presidential bid to make phone calls on behalf of the Bloomberg campaign:FORMER NEW...
View ArticleBiden floats the idea of picking a Republican running mate
CBS News’s Bo Erickson is reporting that Joe Biden, one of over a dozen candidates seeking our party’s nomination, is open to the idea of picking a Republican to be his vice-presidential nominee if he...
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