It's still the Trump era and you can't shame Republicans. They used the filibuster again (3 times this year!) to prevent a debate on...

Today, a lumbering, generally incapacitated Senate, filled with elderly men and women barely able to think clearly, and notable for an...

People For The American Way has been an ally to Democratic presidents. Tuesday night the new president of the progressive advocacy group,...

Last night California Blue Dog Jim Costa couldn't be bothered to show up and vote on the John Lewis Voting Voting Rights Advancement Act....

Reminder: Biden Is Jim Clyburn's Fault Last last week, Pew released some very ominous data about the state of American democracy....

And the bad is really bad. In a meeting yesterday with the Texas legislators who are in DC to save voting rights in their state, Manchin...

When Ted Cruz fled down to the Yucatan's beautiful, balmy Mayan Riveria with his family, it was to get away from the Climate...

-by a friend of Howie's You know exactly what's going to happen now-- after that horrendous anti-democracy party-line Supreme Court...

There isn't a Republican or a Democratic position on Big Tech. That's why it seems so bipartisan. There will be lots of Democrats and...

First of all, Manchin's voting rights compromise-- is just a compromise between the 49 Democrats who are, at least on paper,...

Of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, the most surprising was South Carolina arch-conservative and knee-jerk Trump-toadie Tom...

A first encounter with extraterrestrials would probably be a big deal-- even bigger than the machinations of Senate conservatives like...

Was Miss McConnell laughing at Manchin today? Or was he actually laughing at all of us? Miss, to reporters who asked him about supporting...

Former 2-term Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods was never a big campaign donor. He gave modest sums to generic Republicans like...

Today, Trump endorsed Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) for reelection in a nasty slam against Louisiana's other senator, Bill Cassidy, who is...

Today, worried about how effective the dead Capitol police officer's mother was in trying to get senators to vote for the sedition...

Right-wing aggression has America's democracy hanging by a thread. The Democrats control the White House and both branches of Congress....

When Republicans and their conservative allies in the Democratic Party like Joe Manchin whine about breaking up the Infrastructure and...

Progressives have always been for expanding the franchise and conservatives have always been for restricting it. It's been a hard and...

Arizona's 23rd state legislative district in eastern Maricopa County doesn't have an awful lot of Democrats.44.4% of the registered...