Politics - Part 20

Official reveals a right-wing militia plot to ‘blow up the Capitol’
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman revealed disturbing details about multiple right-wing militias that participated in U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6. Not only were they contemplating harming lawmakers but, according to Pittman, intelligence indi ...[Read more]
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FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack
FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions. Using special emergency powers and other measures, ...[Read more]
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Romney Says Trump Will Be GOP Nominee If He Runs in 2024
Speaking about the future of the Republican Party on Tuesday, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said it’s very likely that former President Donald Trump would win the nomination for president if he decided to run again in 2024. “I don’t know if he’ll run ...[Read more]
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Why QAnon followers have become fixated on a new date: March 4
The startling impacts of former President Donald Trump's presidency and conspiracy theories reach deep into the lives of many families. With the disgraced president out of office, many people are sharing how the QAnon conspiracy theory — built with h ...[Read more]
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The Nazification of the Republican Party
After World War II, the Nazis who helped Hitler rise to power and murder millions of people, including at least 6 million Jews, were put on trial to send a warning to the world. Not all of them faced a judicial process, but enough were not protected by th ...[Read more]
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Failed State: Texas Power Grid Collapse Impacts Millions. Black & Brown Communities Are Worst Hit
Millions of people in Texas were plunged into freezing cold and darkness as a major winter storm overwhelmed the state’s power grid. More than 12 million Texans face water disruptions and have been ordered to boil tap water for safe consumption, and ...[Read more]
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Ted Cruz reportedly flies to Cancun as millions of Texans freeze in the dark
A hunt was taking place on Thursday morning for Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, who appears to have been photographed lining up for a flight to the sunny Mexican tourist resort of Cancun as millions of his constituents endure deadly power out ...[Read more]
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GOP voters are deeply dissatisfied, driving support for a third party in the US to all-time high
Americans' support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup's polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation's two parties are adequately representing the inte ...[Read more]
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Pelosi announces plans for 9/11-style commission to examine Capitol riot
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the US Congress will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in the wanin ...[Read more]
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The Capitol Siege Was White Supremacy in Action. Trial Evidence Confirms That.
New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event. What we witnessed was ...[Read more]
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Impeachment trial sends Trumpworld into a frenzy: report
For Republican lawmakers, former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial appeared to be a relatively easy acquittal but the latest vote in favor of subpoenaing witnesses reportedly has his base in an uproar. On Saturday, Feb. 13, when the impeachment t ...[Read more]
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