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Vying for least surprising news of the day are two extremely unsurprising news stories, both about the pandemic. Try to contain your non-surprise, please, no matter how difficult it may get.…

Fresh off promoting a return to fiscal austerity principles, members of the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) met with Donald Trump last week to talk midterms. …

If white nationalists who engaged in acts of thuggish violence at protests during the Trump years were hoping they could escape culpability with the help of the Trump-appointed courts, then that gambit is not looking very solid right now, courtesy of the U.S.…

The Associated Press (AP) reports that the Biden administration has said it is permanently shutting down the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, the notorious anti-immigrant propaganda arm…

Over the span of six hours, mass shootings in four different U.S. cities left 38 people wounded and six people dead. Beginning around 9 PM on Friday and ending early Saturday morning, mass shootings took place in Austin, Cleveland, Chicago, and Savannah.…

Mitch McConnell has once again told the world precisely who he is. Remember, this is the guy who happily embraces his nicknames: the Grim Reaper and Cocaine Mitch. He brags that he called himself "Darth Vader" during his efforts to kill campaign finance reform…

Over the past year, militia groups stormed state capitols wielding guns and making political demands. Following Donald Trump's election loss, his supporters routinely resorted to making death threats to election workers in order to get the 2020 results…

The Biden administration has announced that it will return more than $2 billion in funds swindled by the previous administration for its stupid border wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for. In a statement Friday, the White House said “[b]uilding a…

It's infrastructure week in the Senate! Go figure. It's actually going to mostly be judicial nominations on the floor in the early part of the week—which is good and important—while the latest "gang" of Democratic and Republican "centrists" continue to…

Guillermo Garcia, a soccer coach, was fundraising for his daughter's soccer team outside of an El Paso, Texas, Walmart on Aug. 3, 2019 when a white supremacist opened fire, killing him and 22 others in what The New York Times called "the deadliest…

Attorney General Merrick Garland is meeting with leaders from CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and he’s going to have some explaining to do. All three media organizations have recently learned that, under Donald Trump, the Justice…

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.…