• CNN

    Pelosi on Trump: ‘You wouldn’t even allow him in your house, much less in the White House’

    Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi tells CNN’s Dana Bash that if Donald Trump gets intelligence briefings as the GOP nominee, “hopefully those advising him would say, grow up, live up to your responsibilities” and don’t share any of it.

  • There never was a Republican House majority

    You might be forgiven for thinking that the Republican Party had a majority in the House of Representatives. After all, it secured slightly more seats than the Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections. But believing that the GOP had a majority in the House would be a mistake. Since the 118th Congress convened in January […]

  • Donald Trump Says Republican Party Isn't His

    Former President Donald Trump on Sunday attempted to spin a recent electoral analysis in which a strategist suggested that the GOP is "Trump's party."Trump made the comment on Truth Social, his social media platform, in response to a Fox News article that was published Saturday tying into the recent primary elections in Ohio. In the GOP race, businessman Bernie Moreno handily secured the party's nomination for a U.S. Senate race that will see him face off against the long-serving incumbent...

  • Republican Control of the House Dangling by a Thread

    Republicans' control of the House of Representatives is continuing to slip, with Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher announcing on Friday that he intends to leave the chamber next month.In a statement shared to X, formerly Twitter, Gallagher, 40, wrote that he will resign from his position of representing Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District on April 19. The GOP representative is serving his fourth term in Congress and announced early last month that he did not have plans to run for...

  • Movie Review – Road House (2024)

    Road House, 2024. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.K. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Travis Van Winkle, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Bob Menery, Hannah Love Lanier, Kevin Carroll, J. D. Pardo, Jonathan Kowalsky, Catfish Jean, Adam Rivette, Chad […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered....

  • The House Republicans’ math problems and the country’s

    House Republicans face a basic math problem: With just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big. That means that if they try to pass legislation along party lines, they can afford basically no defections, at most a single holdout. If House Republicans cannot pass legislation by themselves, they will need to rely on Democratic votes House Republicans face a basic math problem: with just 219 votes, their majority isn’t very big.

  • Letter: Trump has alarming grip on Republican Party

    Republicans abandon principals to make their leader happy.

    • Snopes

    Did Trump Once Say Republicans Are the 'Dumbest Group of Voters'?

    We've seen this quote spread across the internet for years.

  • Trump tried to destroy these Republicans. Now they're backing him?

    Trump tried to destroy these Republicans. Now they're backing him? (First column, 13th story, link) Related stories:The Don makes radical overhaul of RNC at furious paceHow Orban Conquered HERITAGE FOUNDATIONNavarro begs Supremes to keep him out of prison

  • House Republicans give up on caring what their leader has to say

    If you’re looking for an encapsulation of just how much of a mess the House Republican conference is, go no further than this headline from The Washington Post on Friday: “A majority of House Republicans retreat from their retreat.” It seems the one thing the majority of them can agree on is just how much they don’t want to have to deal with each other. Or maybe they just didn’t want to be subjected to more of House Speaker Mike Johson’s sermons. Johnson was able to get less than half of his...

    • MSNBC

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    Donald Trump faces an over $400 million judgment for his civil fraud trial Monday while he’s in court with Stormy Daniels in his criminal hush money case. Former Senior Trump White House Official Omarosa Manigault Newman joins Alex Witt to discuss what can be expected on Trump’s busy day.

    • MSNBC

    All House Republicans do is lose. That doesn't necessarily mean Democrats are winning.

    Ahead of the 2022 midterms, I predicted that a Republican majority in Congress would result in two years of “mind-numbing, gut-churning inanity, the kind that becomes a weariness seeping into your bones.” That prediction has been largely vindicated, and yet somehow reality has proved even worse for the House GOP. Everywhere you look in the halls of Capitol Hill is a string of failures for the supposedly ascendent MAGA Republicans. Victories for the far-right have been few and far between, even...