Florida man facing 91 felonies wins Iowa caucus

Maddow Melts Down Over Trump In Iowa, Blames Results On ‘Radicalized’ Republicans

“If we are worried about the rise of authoritarianism in this country, if we are worried about the potential rise of fascism in this country, if we are worried about our democracy falling [into] an authoritarian and potentially fascist form of government, the leader who is trying to do that is part of that equation, but people wanting that is a much bigger part of that equation and the American electorate is made up of two major parties,” Maddow told a panel.....Read More

Marco Rubio Endorses Trump For President in 2024

Matt Gaetz Runs to Trump (Again)

WATCH: Trump Makes Bonkers Off-Script Claim About Magnets

Former president Donald Trump claimed that magnets don't work underwater at an Iowa rally. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.

DOG WHISTLE: Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ as Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado ballot case

Former President Trump warned Friday that there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot.

“I just hope we get fair treatment,” Trump said at an Iowa rally Friday. “Because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying?”

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Newsom warns efforts to keep Trump off California ballot could be ‘political distraction’

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) warned efforts to prevent former President Trump from getting on the ballot in his state could be a “political distraction” Thursday.

“There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy,” Newsom said Friday in a statement, which was first reported by Politico. “But, in California, we defeat candidates at the polls.”

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Trump Tries To Deliver Death Blow To Ron DeSantis' Campaign

Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from the state's 2024 ballot, citing Constitution's insurrection clause

Colorado's highest court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause and removed him from the state's presidential primary ballot.....Read More

BAN: Here’s how Trump plans to keep Muslim immigrants out of the USA

Today, Trump announced that he intends to limit immigration to people who believe in “our” religion. Trump says that he’ll implement a religious test for immigrants if he is elected:  “If you don’t like our religion…then we don’t want you in our country.”....Read More

‘Other than day one’: Trump supercharges concerns of dictatorship in second term

Former President Trump has supercharged concerns that he would lead an authoritarian government if reelected to the White House after he refused to shy away from the notion in front of a friendly crowd in Iowa this week.

The remarks did little to bother his allies and supporters as he dominates primary polls and appears on track to be the party’s nominee in 2024, while simultaneously triggering alarm bells for Democrats and some Republicans who have argued Trump isn’t bothering to hide his plans to approach a potential second White House term in ways some recent media reports have cast as a dictatorship.

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Trump’s mounting legal troubles intensify with rough week in court

Former President Trump endured a series of legal setbacks in recent days, underscoring the mounting risks he faces as his various legal cases intensify.....Read More

Poll finds support for exploring alternatives to democracy, using violence to stop opponents

A University of Virginia Center for Politics survey found that American voters have a mutual mistrust of the other side and are open to exploring alternatives to democracy, and that a share of both Democrat and Republican voters believe it is acceptable to use violence to stop the opposing party from achieving its goals.....Read MORE

Will Trump’s loose lips sink his ship?

News reports last week revealed that, in April 2021, former President Trump told a member of his Mar-a-Lago club, an Australian billionaire named Anthony Pratt, the number of warheads carried on U.S. nuclear submarines and how close they can get to Russian subs without being detected. Pratt shared this sensitive and probably classified information with at least 45 people, including Australian officials, journalists and employees of his company.....MORE

Trump’s supporters are quietly living among us

Many Democrats dread Donald Trump’s sprint to the Republican nomination and console themselves that his voters are almost exclusively coonskin cap-wearing, Capitol-invading, racist, supremacist deplorables.

But be afraid, my fellow progressives, because the real Trump voters are nothing like that.

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Trump appeals ruling stripping him of New York business certificates

Former President Trump on Wednesday appealed a court ruling that found he committed fraud and ordered his New York business certificates be stripped.....MORE

Biden takes it to Trump on Michigan picket line

President Biden on Tuesday joined the ongoing labor strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW) in Michigan — sporting a ball cap and a bullhorn — marking a first-of-its kind moment for a sitting president that shows the White House embarking on offense against his likely 2024 opponent, former President Trump.....MORE

SCREW THE 1st AMENDMENT: Trump plans post-election media purge

One of the cornerstones of this country is the First Amendment guarantee of a free press, and one of the cornerstones of fascism is control of the media.

Donald Trump put the nation on notice today that he is prepared to ignore the First Amendment and control the media — specifically, of course, media critical of him — in complete contravention of the vow of any government official to uphold the Constitution.

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TERRIFYING: Why top military leaders consider Donald Trump so dangerous

The Atlantic has a terrifying new article about Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who for his entire 18 months under Trump worried about our nuclear arsenal every day.

You see, Milley worked under unprecedented pressure because — according to James Dubik, a retired three-star general and former colleague of Milley’s — “For more than 200 years, the assumption in this country was that we would have a stable person as president.”

The assumption didn’t hold true for Trump, presenting Milley “unique challenges” that didn’t end until January 20th of 2001.

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DeSantis says left will ‘weaponize’ Trump’s abortion comments

In a Saturday interview with conservative media personality Glenn Beck, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said those in left-wing politics will “weaponize” recent comments by former President Donald Trump on Florida’s 6-week abortion ban.....MORE