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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun calls a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries

Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called Monday for state lawmakers to return to Indianapolis for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, escalating a national fight over midcycle redistricting. President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Republican governors to draw up new maps in an attempt to give the party an easier path to maintain control of the House in the midterms. While Republicans in Texas and Missouri have moved quickly to enact a new set of districts and California […]

todayOctober 28, 2025 1

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‘Anti-woke is anti-Black’: California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls out attempts to drag America back to pre-voting rights

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been vocal about the Trump Administration and various policies and decisions since President Donald Trump assumed office for a second term in January. In a new interview with the “All The Smoke” podcast, Newsom isn’t mincing words about his thoughts regarding the conservative-majority Supreme Court and how it appears current government ideology isn’t moving forward but backward. “They’re putting America in reverse, to a 1960s world,” Newsom told Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. “You got […]

todayOctober 27, 2025 4

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Stephen A. Smith apologizes to Jasmine Crockett, calls out ‘trifling’ Trump for attacking Texas congresswoman

Stephen A. Smith apologized to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, after initially doubling down on his criticism of her “rhetoric for the streets.” During a “special edition” of his podcast show “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,” Smith said he now understands why critics called out his remarks about Crockett. He cited his recent discovery of how President Donald Trump has publicly disparaged the Texas congresswoman. “I saw something disturbing in regards to President Donald Trump and how he came at […]

todayOctober 23, 2025 4

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Trump calls for arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

President Donald Trump called for the arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, escalating political tensions as he attempts to send federal troops to Chicago amid continued immigration raids executed by federal agents, as well as accusations of crime and lawlessness in the Windy City. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Trump wrote, “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump did not clarify how Mayor […]

todayOctober 8, 2025 1

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Trump calls on FCC to ‘look into’ Al Sharpton in latest attack on media and free speech

President Donald Trump called out the Rev. Al Sharpton in a social media post, seemingly aiming at his administration’s latest target in what has become a pattern of attacking free speech. On Sunday evening, Trump took to Truth Social to attack Sharpton for his political views and went as far as to call for the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by his appointee Brendan Carr, to “look into” Sharpton’s MSNBC weekend show “PoliticsNation.” “I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 1

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Trump calls Kamala Harris ‘DUMB AS A ROCK’ over claim about the 2024 election

President Donald Trump went on a rant on Truth Social on Wednesday, slamming his 2024 presidential opponent, former Vice President Kamala Harris, as “DUMB AS A ROCK.” Trump took issue with Harris’ repeated claim, while she promotes her new memoir “107 Days,” that the contest between her and Trump was the closest in the 21st century. “Kamala Harris, who is DUMB AS A ROCK, is going around and using, as a standard part of her Speech on why she lost […]

todaySeptember 25, 2025 1

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Nancy Mace tells DC Mayor Bowser to ‘be quiet,’ calls her ‘slick’ in testy exchange over DEI & defining ‘what is a woman?’

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., got testy with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday during a House Oversight Committee hearing on crime and safety in the District of Columbia. On the heels of President Donald Trump‘s federal “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital, which included the deployment of the National Guard and seizing partial control of local police, House Republicans sought to use the hearing to illuminate what they see as ineffective leadership by Democrats. Mace, a controversial conservative firebrand […]

todaySeptember 18, 2025

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Obama addresses Charlie Kirk’s past Michelle Obama insult— calls death a “tragedy” but says it’s okay to debate his ideas

Former President Barack Obama addressed a live audience this week in Erie, Pennsylvania, covering everything from Donald Trump to conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s past attacks on Black women — including his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama. In 2023, Kirk claimed that women such as Michelle Obama, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, MSNBC host Joy Reid, and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee lacked intelligence and only advanced by taking opportunities from others via affirmative action. “You do not have the […]

todaySeptember 17, 2025 3

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‘Political violence is inexcusable’: MLK’s son calls for unity after Charlie Kirk shooting sparks heated online discourse

The shooting of Charlie Kirk has further emphasized the bipartisan reality of America today. As social media timelines are split with people grieving a tragic shooting and others highlighting the irony of Kirk—who was an advocate of the right to bear arms—being a fatal victim of gun violence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s son, Martin Luther King III, took to social media to share his thoughts on the discourse the incident has sparked.  “Violence, no matter the target or justification, is […]

todaySeptember 13, 2025 1