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Gonzales’ interview on CNN infuriated members of the House Freedom Caucus, causing one to endorse his primary opponent. By Matthew Choi , The Texas Tribune U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, ripped into his party’s right flank for voting against billions in foreign aid for U.S. allies last week, castigating his ultraconservative peers as “scumbags” and klansmen. “These people used to walk ar…

Things got spicy at a Republican county campaign event in Perryville, Missouri, last Friday, in an expletive-filled confrontation that was caught on video. State Sen. Denny Hoskins cursed out Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, calling him“chicken shit” numerous times, as well as “a fucking coward.” Hoskins is running for Ashcroft’s office in the GOP primary, and is also a member of the ext…

As Donald Trump's campaigning is confined to a Manhattan courtroom, the never-Trump political group Republican Voters Against Trump launched a new six-figure ad campaign Monday designed to highlight the 88 felony charges lodged against him. The ad, which will air nationally on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and “Fox & Friends” and run digitally in blue wall swing states, uses hidden-camera footage to foll…

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with alleged conman and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” show Monday. The interview was what anthropologists might call … bananas . Greene, who is hopping mad about everything, always, is almost incoherently angry that over the weekend, Congress finally passed long-delayed foreign aid funding for our allies in Ukraine . Greene characteri…

The Senate is finally set to pass Ukraine aid, with the first procedural vote Tuesday afternoon and final passage expected as soon as Tuesday night. Now that Republicans are forced to do the right thing, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has found a way to justify his previous monthslong blockade of the aid package. “There’s a loan component to it. This would not have passed without President Trump,” Graha…

They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion. There were utterances posted a few seconds after they left a lawyer’s mouth. Observations on how Donald Trump is reacting. Tidbits on what testimony is causing jurors t…

It doesn't get nearly enough attention, but Democrats have some key opportunities to go on offense this fall as they fight to retain their narrow majority in the U.S. Senate. Embedded Content It's all about exploiting GOP vulnerabilities. And it so happens that one of the worst Republicans up for reelection this year is also one of the weakest: none other than Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. And even better…

Happy bleachiversary, non-dead Americans! If you’re reading this, you likely didn’t listen to Donald Trump four years ago while COVID-19 was ravaging the globe. And you certainly took his words with a grain of salt—if not the entire punchbowl of tequila—four years ago today when he suggested disinfectant injections might turn out to be the silver bullet for ending the pandemic. Of course, it’s ap…

Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. siphoning more support away from Trump than President Joe Biden. The potential emerging trend was first spotted by The Washington Post's Aaron Blake . In the NBC poll , Biden trailed Trump …

On Monday , the first criminal trial of Donald Trump began with both prosecution and defense delivering their opening statements, followed by the first witness in the case, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, taking the stand. Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo gave the opening statement for prosecution. "This case is about a criminal conspiracy,” said Colangelo. “Trump orchestrated a crim…

A week ago, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote a letter to colleagues in which he declared that the House was facing “a Churchill or Chamberlain moment” as far as providing desperately needed military aid to Ukraine. “The time has come for the House of Representatives to act, and act decisively in America’s national security interests,” Jeffries, flanked by his House Democratic leadershi…