Month: September 2020

In a Democratic primary race that has provoked comparisons to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s shocking victory over longtime Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in June, voters in Delaware “Next Test for Progressive Democrats as Kerri Harris Aims to Oust Corporate-Friendly Tom Carper in Delaware”

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) was driving at “a high rate of speed” when he was arrested for drunk driving in 1998 and then tried to drive “Witness said Beto O’Rourke tried to drive away during 1998 DWI arrest: report”

The National Republican Congressional Committee released an ad Friday labeling Antonio Delgado, the Democratic candidate for New York’s 19th Congressional District, a “big city rapper.” “New NRCC ad calls black New York Dem candidate ‘Big City Rapper’”

With the nation’s attention rightly transfixed by the Senate GOP’s monstrous efforts to ram through a Supreme Court nominee who has been credibly accused by “With Nation Transfixed By Kavanaugh Monstrosity, House GOP Votes to Give Rich Another $3 Trillion in Tax Cuts”

Animal rights and conservation advocates are outraged over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)—Aurelia Skipwith, a former executive “Trump Nominates Ex-Monsanto Exec to 'Help the Most Anti-Environmental Administration in History Do Even More Damage'”

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.) joined with Senate Republicans on Thursday to confirm Jeffrey Bossert Clark—a climate-denying former attorney for the “'The Guy Who Defended Company That Caused Worst Oil Spill in US History' Just Confirmed to Head DOJ's Environmental Division”

Within just moments of major news outlets declaring that Democrats will retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Ari Melber “Retaking Control of House, Democrats Will Demand IRS Hand Over Trump's Tax Returns: Report”

CNN requested an emergency hearing Monday after the White House warned reporter Jim Acosta that it would again suspend his press pass after a two-week “White House Threatens All Journalists With Vow to Still 'Throw Acosta Out'”

A major gun control group is investing $5 million in digital ads focused on 15 Republican House districts that could turn blue in the upcoming midterm elections, Politico “Gun control group focusing on 15 Republican House districts: report”

A pro-Josh Hawley super PAC on Thursday released a poll showing the Missouri attorney general with an eight-point lead in his Senate race against incumbent Sen. Claire “Republican PAC releases poll showing Hawley with wide lead over McCaskill”