House Republicans investigating the liberal fund-raising organization ActBlue have asked its chief executive to testify next month to explain how the group vets its donors, a significant escalation in public pressure on the Democratic Party’s biggest financial engine. Hours after the Republican request on Thursday, ActBlue pushed back in a letter dismissing the inquiry as…
On a sweltering night in August 2024, moments before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed then-candidate Donald J. Trump at a packed rally in Arizona, a conservative young wellness podcaster named Alex Clark had a fleeting backstage conversation with the once-and-future president. “I said, ‘Mr. President, please keep talking about food and pharma; this has a…
(RNS) — Though majorities in both groups support abortion being legal, a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that both white Catholics and white mainline/nonevangelical Protestants have demonstrated a small swing toward an anti-abortion position since 2024. In a survey conducted throughout much of 2025 and released Thursday (April 23), 57% of…
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Texas state Rep. James Talarico waves to the crowd before speaking Mar. 4 in Austin. Talarico raised $27m in the first quarter of 2026, leading a pack of Democrats who outraised Republicans in several key Senate matchups. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Stay up to date with our…
Many have been asking if the recent rhetorical kerfuffle between the Holy Father and President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will harm the Republicans’ chances in the midterms. It is a more complicated question than it seems. On the one hand, attacking the pope is clearly a blunder. Why do it? Asking why the…
Shorouk Express Mast accused the Commission of having a “double standard” in election rules that could tilt the balance in favor of Trzaskowski. The first complaint is a May 15 Polish media report about a political advertising campaign favoring Trzaskowski by an NGO, which the report and Mast linked to operatives from the U.S. Democratic…
Shorouk Express Get Nadine White’s Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week’s news Get our free newsletter from The Independent’s Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent’s Race Correspondent More than lowering the price of eggs, extending tax cuts, or launching new tariffs against China, or anything else Donald Trump…
Conservative members of the Home staged a riot over the previous week, opposing bipartisan laws meant to fund the federal authorities and avert a shutdown. Your complete course of has been a mess, exposing fractures between the Republican Celebration’s slim majority whereas additionally catapulting multibillionaire Elon Musk to a place of huge affect inside the…
The Republican-controlled Home of Representatives in the USA handed laws on Friday that will avert a midnight authorities shutdown, defying demand to greenlight trillions of {dollars} in new debt. The Democratic-controlled Senate has additionally accredited the invoice that ensures the federal government is funded past midnight Saturday (native time), when present funding was to run…
Speaker Mike Johnson stated Thursday night time that Republicans will “regroup” and “give you one other resolution” after the federal government funding invoice they negotiated with President-elect Donald Trump that will avert a authorities shutdown did not cross. The invoice failed by a 174-235-1 vote with 38 Republicans voting towards it. Johnson blamed Democrats for…
