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President Barack Obama called Zohran Mamdani after his Democratic primary win

President Barack Obama called Zohran Mamdani shortly after his Democratic primary win in the race for New York City mayor. For many, the gesture was a nod to Mamdani’s grassroots style of campaigning and his affordability-focused platform, which some say represents the future of the Democratic Party. “We spoke about the importance, in a moment such as this, where politics is often characterized by a language of darkness, of the necessity of hope in how we speak and how we […]

August 18, 2025

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris finally makes decision about her political future-for now

Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made public on Wednesday her long-awaited decision about her political future, announcing that, after careful consideration, she will not run for governor of California. The announcement clears a path for Democrats seeking the office and leaves the possibility for Harris to run for U.S. president again in 2028. “Over the past six months, I have spent time reflecting on this moment in our nation’s history, and the best way for me to continue fighting […]

July 30, 2025

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Former President Obama tells Democrats to ‘toughen up’ and ‘stop looking for the messiah’

Former President Barack Obama expressed some tough love for the Democratic Party as it navigates the political climate of the MAGA takeover under President Donald Trump. America’s first Black president urged his party to “get in there and do something” amid major victories for Trump and the Republican Party, including their “Big” bill that includes $3.8 trillion in tax cuts largely benefiting the rich, increased funding and enforcement of mass deportation and immigrant detentions, and historic cuts to social safety […]

July 14, 2025

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President Trump renews calls to deport ‘bad’ U.S. citizens

During a recent visit to his so-called “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ICE migrant detention center opening in the Florida Everglades, President Donald Trump again suggested the idea that the United States should deport some U.S. citizens who have committed certain crimes. While answering questions from the press at the detention center on Tuesday, Trump suggested that there are immigrants who are now citizens, as well as those born in the United States, who should be deported. He also managed to take […]

July 3, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett says Trump continues to ‘chase President Obama’s shadow’ and push ‘white victimization’

Though former President Barack Obama has been out of office for nearly a decade, his name continues to be a fixture among President Donald Trump‘s MAGA world. Last week, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., evoked the name of America’s first Black president in a gripe over his father not having a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in striking peace deals from the Middle East to East-Central Africa. “Affirmative action is when Barack Obama gets the Nobel Peace Prize […]

July 1, 2025

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Abby Phillip’s calm response to President Trump’s meltdown goes viral

Sometimes the best response is the shortest response. This weekend, CNN’s Abby Phillip exemplified Michelle Obama’s infamous “when they go low, we go high” mantra in her response to President Donald Trump’s rant about her on his social media platform, Truth Social. Last Friday, during “CNN Newsnight,” Phillip raised the conversation about tariffs, quoting economist Jason Furman during a bipartisan panel. “He said, especially when it comes to tariffs, the market is now more confident that Trump will back off […]

June 30, 2025

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Musk says his money elected Trump. Where would things stand if Kamala Harris was president instead?

During the public and nasty breakup between billionaire Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Musk made a shocking claim—in addition to the claim that Trump is mentioned in the sealed FBI files on Jeffrey Epstein—that Trump would not be president if it weren’t for his money. Referring to last year’s presidential election, Musk wrote on X, “Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House, and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.” By public […]

June 8, 2025

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Maryland’s Wes Moore says he’s not running for president but high-profile stops keep chatter alive

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, often mentioned among Democrats as a potential presidential candidate, has been saying for months that he isn’t running for the White House in 2028. That hasn’t stopped persistent talk about his future political plans, especially when he continues to make appearances outside Maryland that raise his national profile. On Friday, Moore traveled to speak at the Blue Palmetto Dinner in the early presidential primary state of South Carolina, where he told a ballroom of Democrats that it’s time for […]

June 2, 2025

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President Trump pardons NBA YoungBoy: ‘This moment means a lot,’ rapper says

President Donald Trump issued a full pardon for rapper NBA YoungBoy on Wednesday as part of a marathon of presidential pardons and clemencies announced this week. “I want to thank President Trump for granting me a pardon and giving me the opportunity to keep building — as a man, as a father, and as an artist,” the rapper, whose real name is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, said in a statement posted on Instagram. NBA YoungBoy, a 25-year-old multi-platinum artist, has been […]

May 29, 2025