Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson raised concerns Friday about the integrity of US elections in a joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago that featured false claims about voting, immigration and other topics. Trump’s team billed the event as being about “election integrity”– a phrase he often uses to describe the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, as well as his unfounded claims about future mass voter fraud. Here’s a breakdown of some of the false claims from their...
Fox News host Howard Kurtz on Sunday corrected a conservative journalist's claims about pro-abortion Democrats supporting infanticide, a claim he has frequently corrected on-air in recent months.During a Sunday edition of his Fox News program, Media Buzz, Kurtz hosted journalist Caroline Downey, of the conservative magazine National Review, for a discussion about abortion laws in the wake of the recent Arizona Supreme Court decision. The ruling from last week allowed a law banning abortion from...
The headline at The Daily Caller read: Whoopi Goldberg Says Republicans ‘Want To Bring Slavery Back’ Some version of that headline and Whoopi’s remark on ABC’s The View was all over the media world on Wednesday. The Daily Caller version reported this: The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Wednesday that Republicans “want to bring slavery back” as she raged against Arizona’s reinstatement of an 1864 abortion ban. ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that...
The headline at The Daily Caller read: Whoopi Goldberg Says Republicans ‘Want To Bring Slavery Back’ Some version of that headline and Whoopi’s remark on ABC’s The View was all over the media world on Wednesday. The Daily Caller version reported this: The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Wednesday that Republicans “want to bring slavery back” as she raged against Arizona’s reinstatement of an 1864 abortion ban. ABC News's Whoopi Goldberg openly claims, without evidence, that...
The Claim: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Democrat "This isn't a Republican speaker we have right now; this is a Democrat speaker. There is zero daylight between what Nancy Pelosi did and what Mike Johnson is doing." – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) The Facts Greene's claims at first glance seem difficult to square with reality. A 2016 sample ballot from northwestern Louisiana indicates that Johnson ran on the Republican line when he first sought and won a seat in Congress....
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence falsely claimed that guns "are rarely used successfully in self-defense."
The party also said that it will roll back “draconian provisions” of the Telecommunication Act 2023 related to surveillance and interception, internet shutdowns, weakening of encrypted services.
Democrats have a chance to corner Republicans on an unpopular issue – and defend a modern and egalitarian societyThey don’t need Congress. The anti-abortion movement is preparing to ban abortion nationwide as soon as a Republican takes the White House, and under a bizarre legal theory, they don’t think they even need congressional approval to do it. That’s because anti-choice radicals have begun to argue that an 1873 anti-obscenity law, the Comstock Act, effectively bans the mailing, sale,...
For the longest time, it was generally assumed that high-turnout elections would benefit the Democratic Party. But recent polling and election data suggest that this conventional thinking is disconnected from reality. According to a recent poll of the 2024 presidential election, those who had voted in multiple elections since 2018 were more likely to vote […]
When Biden took office, inflation was running below the Fed's two percent target. It only took off after he pushed through his $1.9 trillion stimulus package. | Economy
Almost 1,900 prisoners voted. Who did they pick?
The critic and literary firebrand joined Steven Phillips-Horst to discuss her new book of essays, "No Judgment"—plus irony, elitism, and the beauty of English.