Does Trump Stand a Real Chance to Repeat 2016?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Well-placed Republican insiders are mobilizing to block Donald Trump from winning the GOP presidential nomination. For instance, Trump is conspicuously excluded from the roster of potential 2024 candidates whom the Club for Growth has invited to speak this weekend at a retreat the conservative group is hosting for its biggest donors in Palm Beach, Florida—Trump’s backyard. Likewise, the sprawling network of donors associated with the Koch brothers declared last month that it would work in the 2024 GOP primaries to elect a…

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Monumental Disappointments in Our Public Spaces

Monuments and memorials by nature long have stood, quite literally, in the public square. But within a few short years, radicalized Americans have turned on these taciturn forebears like Moses on the golden calf. The year 2020 witnessed great anguish on this subject among part of the U.S. population. Realizing that our nation was dotted with monuments commemorating sinful men rather than angels, it was imperative for these iconoclasts that the likenesses of bronze and marble be cast down from their pedestals. The magnitude of the crimes was irrelevant: Defenders…

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Analysis: Swing District Republicans Vote in Lockstep with Marjorie Taylor Greene

An analysis of key votes from the first two months of the 118th Congress shows that the 18 House Republicans from swing districts that Biden carried in 2020 have voted in lockstep with Marjorie Taylor Greene. While they pass themselves off as moderates to their constituents and the media, they are in fact pushing the MAGA agenda in Washington. They are the Complicit Caucus, voting with the radical right wing and causing real damage to our families, our communities, and our country.  The 18 House Republicans Representing Swing Districts That…

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House investigators demand answers from Buttigieg over response to East Palestine train derailment

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is launching a probe into Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s response to the train derailment that caused a toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, amid bipartisan criticism over the federal government’s response to the incident. The Washington Times stories: White House

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Sen. Markey calls for ‘glitchy asylum app’ to be shutdown at the border

Another military services CIO is on the move. The Air Force has made it a trifecta of military service chief information officers heading out the door. Lauren Knausenberger joined her counterparts at the Army and the Department of the Navy in deciding now was the right time to leave. The Air Force confirmed Knausenberger will be departing in June after more than two years on the job. The Air Force hopes to have a new CIO in place before she leaves. Knausenberger’s decision comes just days after Navy CIO Aaron…

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‘We Used to Be Called Moderate. We Are Not Moderate.’

Early this summer, the federal government will, in all likelihood, exhaust the “extraordinary measures” it is now employing to keep paying the nation’s bills. As the country careens toward that fiscal abyss, Congress will face a now-familiar stalemate: Republicans will refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agree to cut spending. Democrats will balk. Markets will slide—perhaps precipitously—and the economy will swiftly turn south. When that moment arrives, the most important people in Washington won’t be those who work in the White House, or even the party leaders who…

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