Ben Ray Luján Democrats Have An Open Senate Seat in New Mexico. Will They Elect A Progressive, or the Former Head of the DCCC?The Intercept - Ryan Grim In 2018, Democrats were able to not only take back the House but also bring in a wave of outspoken progressives by taking full advantage of safely …
Amy McGrath Amy McGrath’s Senate Campaign Manager Helped Get Her Potential Primary Opponent FiredThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAkela Lacy The manager of Amy McGrath’s Kentucky Senate campaign was behind the recent firing of McGrath’s potential rival in the Democratic primary, according …
Portland Police Bureau Riotlandia: Why Portland Has Become the Epicenter of Far-Right ViolenceThe Intercept - Arun Gupta Portland, Oregon is bracing for a storm of far-right violence. In July, Joe Biggs, a former staffer at the far-right conspiracist site Infowars …
AIPAC To Appease Trump, Netanyahu Blocks Tlaib and Omar Visit to Israeli-Occupied PalestineThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Under pressure from President Donald Trump, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced on Thursday that Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan …
U.S. Politics Progressive Candidates Are Carving a Path to the Senate in 2020 — No Thanks to Chuck SchumerThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAkela LacyAída Chávez It’s hard to imagine things going much worse for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2019. As he preps for the election he has long hoped will …
Bobby Rush 26-Year-Old Gun Violence Prevention Activist Is Taking on 26-Year Incumbent Rep. Bobby RushThe Intercept - Akela Lacy A 26-year-old organizer in Chicago is mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who has been a member of Congress for 26 years. Robert …
U.S. Politics How Voice of America Persian Became a Trump Administration PR MachineThe Intercept - Jordan Michael Smith As an Iranian American journalist covering the Iran-U.S. relationship, Negar Mortazavi is accustomed to receiving vitriol on social media. Still, she …
Koch Industries The Kochs Funded Third Way to Push Free Trade to Democrats, New Book SaysThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAndrew Perez In the fall of 2007, the tide was beginning to turn against free trade, as the ongoing hollowing out of the American middle class was becoming …
U.S. Politics Former Beto O’Rourke Organizers Rally Behind New Texas Senate CandidateThe Intercept - Aída Chávez In April, Becky Bond and Zack Malitz left Beto O’Rourke’s staff, less than a month after they’d helped the former Senate candidate rake in $6 million …
U.S. Politics HBO’s “Succession” Is a Masterful Demolition of the Absurdity and Cruelty of Our One Percent OverlordsThe Intercept - Peter Maass If you had to sum up decades of financial dystopia in America, you could go with the phrase “Money wins.” The accumulation of insane amounts of …
GEO Group Denver’s City Council, Led by Democratic Socialist, Stuns For-Profit Prison Operators by Nuking ContractsThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Two for-profit prison companies have lost major contracts in Denver over their work in immigrant detention, as backlash to President Donald Trump’s …
U.S. Politics Democrats Are Resurfacing a Gun Control Bill That Contains an Anti-Immigrant AmendmentThe Intercept - Aída Chávez This weekend, there were back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The accused shooter in El Paso, who appears to have …
U.S. Politics These 7 Prominent Conservatives Have Nothing in Common With White Supremacists, Nothing at AllThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan In the wake of the El Paso massacre, the prominent conservative commentator Ben Shapiro — aka the “cool kid’s philosopher” — took to Twitter to …
U.S. Politics Business Group Spending on Lobbying in Washington is at Least Double What’s Publicly ReportedThe Intercept - Andrew PerezAbigail LukeTim Zelina Influential corporate trade organizations and nonprofits spent $535 million on lobbying in 2017 and as much as another $675 million on unregulated …
U.S. Politics El Paso Gunman’s Fear of a Migrant “Invasion” Echoes Donald Trump and Fox NewsThe Intercept - Robert Mackey The white supremacist who killed at least 22 people in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday appears to have been driven by a racist conspiracy theory — that …
Texas Senate Texas Democratic Senate Candidate M.J. Hegar in 2017 on Gun Control: “You’ll Have to Take Mine First”The Intercept - Aída Chávez Beto O’Rourke has surged back into the national spotlight in the wake of a massacre in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, prompting calls for him to …
Marianne Williamson We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson’s Message. It’s Ominous That We’re Only Getting It From Marianne Williamson.The Intercept - Jon Schwarz Marianne Williamson has been a surprisingly valuable voice in the 2019 Democratic presidential debates. She’s been radical in the real meaning of the …
U.S. Politics Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers’ RightsThe Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen Public-sector employees in states with Democratic majorities have made significant legislative gains in recent months, despite the U.S. Supreme …
U.S. Politics After El Paso, We Can No Longer Ignore Trump’s Role in Inspiring Mass ShootingsThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan On Saturday morning, a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, shot and killed at least 20 people before surrendering to the police. By all accounts, …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Chief of Staff and Communications Director Will Depart Her OfficeThe Intercept - Akela Lacy Two of Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez’s top staffers are leaving her office. Saikat Chakrabarti, her chief of staff, and Corbin Trent, her director of …
U.S. Politics As Trump Fans the Flames of Anti-Abortion Rhetoric, Kansas Offers a Cautionary TaleThe Intercept - Jordan Smith A sheriff’s deputy was waiting in his car along Interstate 35 just outside Kansas City, Kansas, on the afternoon of May 31, 2009, when the …
U.S. Politics Candidates, Your Views on the Middle East? You Have 30 Seconds.The Intercept - Alex Emmons Across the five hours of Democratic primary debates split between two nights this week, the Democratic presidential hopefuls discussed the future of …
U.S. Politics Hacked Emails Show GOP Demands on Border Security Were Crafted by Industry LobbyistsThe Intercept - Lee Fang Rep. Chuck Fleischmann often strikes a Trumpian tone on border security, stoking fears during television appearances and on social media about a …
Joe Biden Protesters Target Joe Biden on Deportation and Bill De Blasio on Eric Garner During Democratic DebateThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Activists disrupted and energized the Democratic debate in Detroit on Wednesday, calling on New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, to fire the police …
Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Dominate Democratic Debate Set Up to Ambush ThemThe Intercept - Robert Mackey The most progressive candidates on stage at the Democratic presidential primary debate in Detroit on Tuesday, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and …
Kamala Harris Kamala Harris Receives Donations From Big Pharma Executives Despite Claim She Rejects ThemThe Intercept - Lee Fang Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, while releasing a new health care proposal yesterday, balked at criticism that private industry interests …
John Ratcliffe Trump’s Pick for Top Intelligence Job Bragged of Experience as Terror Prosecutor — But He Doesn’t Have AnyThe Intercept - Trevor Aaronson John Ratcliffe, President Donald Trump’s selection to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, has often touted his experience as a …
Bernie Sanders 19 Questions They Should Ask Democrats at the Second Presidential DebateThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan The second round of Democratic presidential debates kicks off tonight, this time on CNN, with moderators Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Don Lemon. Ten …
Trump Administration Mike Pompeo Is Donald Trump’s De Facto Intelligence CzarThe Intercept - James Risen Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is still heavily influencing the U.S. intelligence community, more than a year after he left the CIA for the State …
