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Last December, Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario was on his way home with a new SUV when the lights of a police car appeared behind him. Rather than pull over on a narrow, darkened street, he proceeded just over one minute, and less than one mile, down the road…

You might think that a site so prominently dedicated to political activism as Daily Kos is would be an unlikely venue for book nerds, but in fact the largest group in our Community is just that: Readers and Book Lovers, a group "where readers, writers,…

You want to know why it matters to everyone that the percent of workers covered by a collective bargaining contract has dropped from 27% in 1979 to 11.6% in 2019? The Economic Policy Institute’s Lawrence Mishel offers three reasons:…

The U.S. is now averaging over 3 million vaccinations a day. That would be enough to vaccinate more than 90% of the population in 100 days, so it’s not surprising that the percentage of Americans who have received at least one jab jumped from 33% on…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, far-right activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, have quite the scheme going. She takes in dark money contributions to her Tea Party-connected nonprofit, Liberty Central, and organizes Republicans on exactly…

The Republican Party, this year more than any other since I've been covering politics, has become a fascination for me. While some readers here say it's all business as usual, it seems anything but to me. Sure, the underlying motivators of racism, misogyny,…

Tucker Carlson has been building quite the record for peddling white nationalist ideas to his supposedly mainstream audience: whitewashing the effects of far-right terrorism, claiming that white nationalism is a liberal hoax, regurgitating ecofascist themes…

President Joe Biden is creating a commission to consider the possibility of expanding or reforming the Supreme Court. The bipartisan commission is created in an executive order being signed Friday, and will have 180 days to report back. The commission is not…

On Friday, the House at last announced a formal ethics inquiry into the actions of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. In a joint statement from Ethics Committee chair Rep. Ted Deutch of Florida and ranking Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski, the committee says it will…

The extension of open enrollment in coverage in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces is proving absolutely necessary. More than 528,000 Americans signed up for coverage in the first six week of the special enrollment period President Joe Biden opened in…

Fox News, the most powerful propaganda arm of the Republican Party, crossed a Rubicon of sorts on Thursday, confirming that it is exactly what many media observers have suspected for some time: an organization dedicated to stoking the embers of white…

Mike Pence. …