Initiative 645 has cleared Washington's signature threshold, putting the state's new millionaires tax on the November ballot. The repeal campaign reveals how organized wealth uses direct democracy as a veto on redistributive legislation.
The company suspected in a cyclospora outbreak gave $2.2 million to GOP infrastructure — including $1 million to a Trump-aligned PAC days after the administration delayed the food tracing rule it would have been required to follow. Thousands are now sick.
New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez says the DOJ is withholding unredacted Epstein files from the only active criminal investigation into his network. The federal government says it's following the law. The deadline to explain that position expires July 31.
A 50-46 party-line Senate vote preserved the Trump administration's AI-driven Medicare coverage review program. Every Republican voted to keep algorithms — operated by private contractors — between seniors and their care.
A White House teleprompter operator allegedly used advance knowledge of Trump's speeches to win more than $100,000 on prediction markets. The CFTC is investigating — and the case exposes a structural vulnerability the industry's self-regulatory claims cannot explain away.
A new DHS rule cuts foreign journalist visas to 240 days and imposes stricter limits on Chinese reporters. The policy doesn't ban coverage — it makes sustained accountability journalism operationally impossible for a targeted class of reporters, while giving the government plausible deniability abou
Two-thirds of Rep. Shri Thanedar's campaign cash came through AIPAC bundlers, according to The Intercept — a financial architecture that makes his $600K crypto loss secondary to the deeper question of whose interests a 67-percent-AIPAC-funded congressman actually represents.
The split between Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark on the Massie Israel aid amendment is the news. The bigger story is that House Democratic leadership no longer has the institutional capacity to hold a coherent position on Israel — and has no policy alternative to offer.
Todd Blanche's refusal to rule out armed federal agents at polling places isn't ambiguity — it's a roadmap. The administration has already deployed agents near voting sites in Texas and California. The only thing standing between that precedent and November is a set of pending lawsuits.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr is moving to eliminate a TV ownership cap that Congress wrote into law specifically to stop the FCC from changing it. The companies positioned to benefit are already in the middle of a federal lawsuit over the same rule.
The Election Assistance Commission — the only federal body that certifies voting machines — has lost its last independent Democratic members. The 2026 midterms are 16 months away.
The three eyewitnesses who contradict ICE's account of the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are in federal detention and being pressured to sign self-deportation orders — a move that would eliminate the only independent record of what happened.
States with no income tax still collect heavily — they just do it at the grocery store and the gas pump. The data shows who actually pays.
A Public Citizen analysis finds that 4.8 million ACA enrollees lost coverage because premiums doubled after subsidies expired — not because of fraud. The administration's alternative explanation doesn't survive contact with its own data.
DSA chapters have helped elect more than 300 candidates nationwide — including in Wisconsin, Colorado, and states the Democratic establishment insists are hostile to the left. The coastal fringe story was never a demographic observation. It was a management tool.
More than a dozen House Democrats signed a manifesto positioning themselves against democratic socialism. An investigation traced the money behind the movement — and found a donor list that reads like a Forbes index.