The House Republicans who took a leading role defending President-elect Trump during his first impeachment trial in 2020 are reaping the benefits.  Of the eight GOP lawmakers who were part of Trump’s team to push back on allegations he withheld aid to Ukraine for political reasons, three are set to join his Cabinet; one is Speaker of the House and a staunch ally; and one became Trump’s chief of staff in his first administration. The political arc of the eight...

It sounds odd, but the scale of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat may double as a silver lining. By losing all seven battleground states, suffering their first popular vote loss in two decades and, most importantly, watching President-elect Donald Trump prevail with a working-class coalition that was once their own, Democrats have an opportunity to turn despair into action. Unlike 2016, when they won the popular vote while losing by a sliver in the swing states, or 2020, when they...

One way to think about Donald Trump’s victory American politics — indeed, the politics of the entire Western world — continues to be shaped by the dynamics of inside versus outside. Last week’s election results are the latest example. A standard interpretation of the last decade is that Donald Trump and his supporters are a movement of outsiders, an invasive force pushing their way into the sanctum sanctorum of the American political establishment....

The 2024 presidential election was called for Donald Trump on Nov. 6, with the president-elect winning 312 electoral votes and Vice President Kamala Harris receiving 226. The elections also saw Republicans regain control of the Senate and likely keep control of the House of Representatives, although several congressional districts have yet to be decided as of Nov. 12. But social media posts, falsely citing CBS News, have made unfounded claims that the presidential election...

Democratic leaders are increasingly anxious about being left with a big bill from Kamala Harris' campaign, which is likely to end millions of dollars in debt, four people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: Debt beyond a few million bucks could hamper the Democratic National Committee's efforts to rebuild the party over the next four years. The intra-party tension has put scrutiny on how Harris' team — which raised well over $1 billion in less than five months,...

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In his passing observations number 266, Dr. Vernon Coleman informs us in his usually witty prose about what’s happening in the UK and beyond. His friend who erroneously got a knighthood told […]

by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche Organization: U.S. relations with Russia will likely change now that Trump is heading to the White House.   Will they be better, or worse?  There is much at stake.  There are many hard-core neocon war hawks who want to see relations worsen.  Trump’s first picks for his cabinet raise concerns — are […]

by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice: Former Pfizer vice president Dr. Mike Yeadon has warned that COVID jabs were designed to intentionally sterilize 99.9% of male recipients. During a presentation to the Impfopfer Resistance Conference held in Vienna, Austria, on 9 November 2024, Dr. Yeadon explained that the jabs were created by Big Pharma as a means […]