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Missouri has a long and proud history of ballot initiatives. There are always opportunities for voters to put items on the ballot and pass them beyond the state legislature, making direct changes to Missouri law. The Missouri legislature has fought back a...

Afghan refugees will now be able to apply to reunite with family members still in Afghanistan, under a new process announced by the Biden administration. The State Department last week rolled out a family reunification landing page that allows eligible Af...

Just when you thought they couldn't get any more out of touch with reality, along comes a Republican lawmaker from Texas who proposed a bill outlawing something that doesn't exist. Sen. Bob Hall has put forth a bill to force companies to properly ...

The problem with Trump-related scandals is they have a definite half-life. Remember Stormy Daniels? She's the adult film actress whom Donald Trump allegedly slept with (after waxing rhapsodic on the incontrovertible perfidy of sharks , natch) and then...

From nearly the day that 31 neofascist Patriot Front marchers were arrested at the scene of the annual Pride in the Park event in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in June, there have been concerns about whether the consequences for their planned riot would be co...

Guess who's back? Donald Trump is back, back on social media. After being blocked out of his account two years ago following the U.S. Capitol insurrection, Trump finally has access to his Twitter account again. His campaign is now formally petitioning...

In November, the cryptocurrency markets took a major hit when FTX (short for "Futures Exchange") and its many connected companies took a nose dive, filed for bankruptcies, and the seeming Ponzi scheme of it all unfolded online and in public view. ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul saw a remarkable defeat Wednesday in her ongoing judicial nomination self-own. Hochul's nomination of Hector LaSalle, a conservative appeals court judge, to the state's highest court, was voted down in the state Senate&#...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who once imagined he would presently be Majority Leader McConnell, is nervous. After what Senate Republicans viewed as a solid 2022 map to retaking the upper chamber, McConnell is also already telegraphing a bit of ...

Seditionist coup leader Donald Trump has been waging a thoroughly ridiculous legal battle against CNN because he's irate that news network talking heads at several points compared Donald Trump's actions to those of Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitle...

Republicans are kicking off 2023 with a slew of anti-trans and anti-queer bills—and if this sounds like a broken record, I'm sorry to tell you it is, but for good reason. Conservatives are working hard to ostracize and delegitimize marginalized ...

Despite the horrific impact COVID-19 had on Florida, a state with one of the highest rates of infection, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is still not convinced that there are risks associated with the novel coronavirus. Infections are back on the rise , yet DeS...

It's not often that an article in Golfweek sets the tone for the actual week, but on Saturday the premier journal of hitting small balls with sticks noted continuing problems for the nascent LIV Golf tour. The schedule of tournaments isn't full. T...

Republicans appear to have taken to heart their underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterm elections, pushing out of the way extremists in favor of more moderate candidates—I'm just kidding. They've learned absolutely nothing, in Virginia...

At the end of December, a serious cold front hit the country and battered the east coast. Areas like Boston and Buffalo saw temperatures drop quickly as a severe storm hit. Dozens of deaths have been reported , ranging from people stuck in homes without p...

The deals Kevin McCarthy cut to become speaker of the House are coming into clearer view as the House moves forward under his "leadership" and committee assignments are doled out. Now we know at least part of the price Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ...

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, according to new ice core data. Until now Greenland ice cores...

Cause and effect is the simplest, the most basic, element of any system. Add heat to water, get steam. Release the apple, it falls. Swing the bat, and the ball goes flying. But there are aspects of this most basic relationship that Russia still seems to b...

Stephen Paddock massacred 60 and wounded nearly 500 people at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas in 2017. In response, amazingly, Donald Trump ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to ban "bump stocks," the fire...

Almost immediately after Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans announced that Rep. George Santos would get committee assignments despite having been elected to Congress under a largely false identity, news broke that is low even by Santos' terr...

The Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial continues Wednesday. The Daily Kos liveblog picks up from inside the federal courthouse around 9:30 AM ET. UPDATE: Wednesday, Jan 18, 2023 2:41:33 PM +00:00 Brandi Buchman U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly is now on t...

Janitors at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters weren't the only cleaning staff fired en mass after the company was purchased by "thin-skinned billionaire" Elon Musk. Roughly a dozen janitorial workers at the social media company's Ma...

An attorney for Derek Chauvin is planning to ask an appeals court Wednesday to throw out the former Minneapolis police officer's convictions in the murder of George Floyd, arguing that numerous legal and procedural errors deprived him of a fair trial....

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It's a relatively slow news week with Congress not in session. Meanwhile, somewhere, the debt ceiling looms... Bulwark : There's Nothing "Conservative4; About Reneging On the Debt Plus: The latest lies of George Santos, or whoever he is ...

Donald Trump was president of the United States in large part because people distrusted Hillary Clinton's handling of sensitive government materials. Let that sink in. The same guy who walked around with an unsecured cellphone , blurted out intelligen...

As the fight for reproductive rights continues across the country, health care facilities are seeing the most violence. Anti-abortion supporters are not only picketing outside of pharmacies and reproductive health facilities but setting some clinics on fi...

The Biden administration said that 10 migrants entered the U.S. while more than 600 others have received approval under the new parole program announced by officials earlier this month . Under the program, approximately 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, a...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee has been somewhat adrift since losing his old identity as the only person in Washington who could stand Ted Cruz. On Monday, however, he prodded the public with a new challenge based on his malleable-libertarian beliefs: "Please (1)...

As we embark into 2023, the general American public—and the world at large, really—is still navigating how to live amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is true for the obvious folks, like those who work in hospitals and clinics, but also f...

Not only does the gun industry not care about mass shootings in schools—or synagogues or grocery stores or churches or anywhere for that matter—now they appear to be targeting kids. A gun trade show in Las Vegas is hosting a manufacturer calle...

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The Washington Post is out with a post-mortem on one specific part of the Jan. 6 insurrection that the House select committee investigating the coup attempt conspicuously chose to underplay. Committee staffers had at one point put together a 122-page memo...

There are lots and lots of reasons why the nation is looking down the barrel of a catastrophic debt default, in which for the first time ever one of the major political parties is actively working to make it happen . There's also a lot of blame to go ...

A newly elected Republican legislator in Idaho has come under fire after comparing women's reproductive rights to milking cows. Elected to his first term in the state's lower house in November 2022, Rep. Jack Nelson said that he has "some defi...

Embedded Content We're not gonna lie: Holding the Senate in 2024 is going to be hard . Democrats are defending 23 seats to just 11 for Republicans, and three of those are in states Trump won. Several more are in swing states. But Democrats have defied...

The red wave that was supposed to thunder through America was reportedly going to be driven by a shoddy economy. Inflation was at record highs and, in the telling of Republicans and much of the media, Democrats simply could not escape its gravitational pu...

Undocumented workers who witness or are themselves victims of labor-related abuses can now more efficiently access crucial protections against deportation, the Biden administration has announced. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said workers can ...

Maybe because "political correctness" has too many syllables and "reverse discrimination" was too obviously ridiculous, the new term the conservative movement (with a big media assist from libertarian millionaire influencers like Glenn Gre...

Former President Donald Trump seems like he's getting a bit nervous about a 2024 presidential run against Gov. Ron DeSantis. During a recent interview, he issued what seems like a mild threat against the rising fascist Florida lawmaker. We all know th...

Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two high-profile South Carolina supporters — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Gov. Henry McMaster — at his first public 2024 presidential campaign event in the early voting state later this month. Tr...

One element of that secret deal Kevin McCarthy made with the Freedom Caucus for his speakership has emerged, and it is absolutely bonkers. The plan is to allow the debt ceiling to be breached , and then to direct the Treasury Department on how to prioriti...

Questions about Republican Rep. George Santos are not going away, in part because Santos and other Republicans are so conspicuously not answering them—but equally because new damaging information about Santos just keeps coming out, from his lies to ...

Where does one begin with these two congresswomen? Once close friends, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado proudly jumped on every MAGA bandwagon in lockstep. The former besties once voted together against a bill to ...

For more than a week, Russia has been claiming to have captured all of the town of Soledar. On Monday morning, that was still not completely true. However, during the day on Monday, Ukrainian forces either withdrew from or were pushed out of the Silj area...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is still dodging questions about Republican Rep. George Santos and his many, many lies—but being McCarthy, he's not dodging very effectively. "I never knew all about his resume or not, but I always had a few questions ...

We're on the tail end of a news cycle that featured conservative "alpha males" complaining that "these female M&M's are a slap in the face to men everywhere," among other hot take atrocities, but the great gas stove freakout of 202...

We begin today's roundup with Kira Lerner 's piece in The Guardian outlining the continuing attack on voting rights in America: Republican lawmakers across the country have already filed dozens of bills that would restrict voting, including propos...

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In December and January, the homes of Democratic officials in New Mexico have been the target of no-so-random shootings. State Sen. Linda Lopez and Antonio Moe Maestas had shots fired at their home and workplace respectively. Three bullets entered the roo...