State House legislator Gretchen Driskell, candidate for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District seat, began airing her first ad today. The ad, titled “Zero”, hits Republican tea partier Tim Walberg for his support of job-killing trade deals. The title refers to the number of trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Walberg has opposed. Walberg has supported every trade deal that […]

Trump’s anger at Obama and immigrants make up for his total lack of policies, knowledge, and consistency It should have been the last episode of the The Rush Limbaugh Show  — the big reveal with the “surprise” ending everyone saw coming. On Monday, Rush explained why he didn’t consider Trump’s decision to de-emphasize deportations in his immigration “policy” a flip-flop. […]

Republicans have been trying to sort out why black people tend not to vote for their presidential candidates since they got annihilated in 2008 and then again in 2012. Nowhere is their deficit more pronounced than in Detroit which has a population that is 83% African American. In 2008, 98% of Detroit voters voted for Democrat Barack Obama. In 2014, […]

How GOP austerity helped create Trump The conservative media can’t stop complaining that we’re in the midst of the worst recovery since World War II — despite the fact that it’s likely that more private sector jobs will be created in President Obama’s second term than have ever been created in four years under any Republican. But conservatives aren’t complaining, […]

This bold musical depicts the dark side of the American Dream and reflects the work yet to be done to ensure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. “I did it to bring down the government of Abraham Lincoln and to avenge the ravaged South…” “I did it to prove to her my everlasting love…” “I did it […]

It has now been 328 days since Gov. Rick Snyder publicly admitted that the drinking water in the city of Flint, Michigan had been contaminated with the powerful neurotoxin lead. This admission came months and months after the problem had been brought to light and, in the 328 days since then, no lead water service lines have been replaced through […]

Here’s a subtle way to point out that Trump is the least qualified candidate for president we’ve ever seen You can’t see it in the polls — which show Hillary Clinton leading by more than 10 percent in states that would give her 298 electoral voters — but Donald Trump’s campaign has done one very smart thing recently. Trump has […]

Unlike “Conservatism,” the “alt-right” has a natural constituency beyond billionaire donors You probably lost your ability to be shocked by the time a man whose only political credential was demanding the first black president’s ID won his first Republican presidential primary. But we have to take a moment to register some outrage over a moment that will go down in […]

A USA Today/Rock the Vote poll reminds us that the phrase “young Republican” is an oxymoron: In the new survey, half of those under 35 say they identify with or lean toward the Democrats; just 20% identify with or lean toward the Republicans. Greg Sargent points out that you can’t blame this entirely on Donald Trump (though Republicans probably will […]

I really don’t know how to respond to this. Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of New York City on the day of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, literally claimed that … well, here are his words from a pro-Trump rally this morning featuring Trump’s running mate Mike Pence: Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we […]

As part of the Code of Laws of the United States of America – 39 U.S.C. § 3210(3)(a) to be specific – “It is the policy of the Congress that the privilege of sending mail as franked mail shall be established under this section in order to assist and expedite the conduct of the official business, activities, and duties of […]