Connect with us

Politics

‘This is not trivial stuff’: Project 2025’s plan to ally the U.S. with authoritarians worldwide

Published

on

‘This is not trivial stuff’: Project 2025’s plan to ally the U.S. with authoritarians worldwide
  • UP NEXT

    Eddie Glaude: ‘We can’t capitulate’

    09:29

  • ‘We will not be cowed’: State AGs prepare to steer the anti-Trump resistance

    11:41

  • Imani Perry: ‘We have to live according to our ethics as opposed to our fears’

    09:05

  • Velshi: We must confront our history

    03:24

  • Why not here? What’s holding us back from putting a woman in the White House

    08:21

  • Almost everywhere but here: the American problem of women and the highest office

    06:58

  • Jon Meacham: History isn’t comforting, ‘it should be inspirational’

    08:28

  • Velshi: History has taught us that defeat paves the way for triumph

    09:05

  • Timothy Snyder: ‘You have to be in the moment in order to get through the moment’

    07:32

  • Velshi Banned Book Club: how Maulik Pancholy got his book unbanned

    09:45

  • Laurence Tribe: It’s not over. The resistance is about to ignite

    11:54

  • West Wing cast: ‘It’s ok to expect more from our leaders’

    11:28

  • Maddow: Abortion is affecting voters ‘viscerally’ and ‘gutturally’ in ways we have yet to understand

    11:16

  • Maddow shows how Trump abortion bans are hurting women: ‘This is the fact of post-Roe American life’

    24:31

  • Believe him the first time: The pandemic proves Trump can’t handle a crisis

    09:26

  • Tim Snyder: Voting is what makes America ‘exceptional’

    08:42

  • AG Keith Ellison: ‘It is important to see through our tears’

    05:02

  • Historian on protest votes: ‘Consider what you’re doing very carefully’

    05:32

  • ‘I give us the edge’: WI Dem Chair calls out the GOP’s ‘strategic mistake’

    04:35

  • ‘Betrayal’: Marty Baron, former Washington Post editor, slams paper’s non-endorsement

    06:21

  • UP NEXT

    Eddie Glaude: ‘We can’t capitulate’

    09:29

  • ‘We will not be cowed’: State AGs prepare to steer the anti-Trump resistance

    11:41

  • Imani Perry: ‘We have to live according to our ethics as opposed to our fears’

    09:05

  • Velshi: We must confront our history

    03:24

  • Why not here? What’s holding us back from putting a woman in the White House

    08:21

  • Almost everywhere but here: the American problem of women and the highest office

    06:58

Read More

Continue Reading
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Politics

Clyburn’s seat survives for now as South Carolina Republicans buck Trump on redistricting

Published

on

South Carolina Republicans defied President Donald Trump and blocked a redistricting measure that would have drawn out the state’s lone Democrat, Rep. Jim Clyburn.

The move Tuesday all but kills their chances of flipping that seat for 2026. It’s possible the GOP will still draw out Clyburn before 2028.

A procedural vote to end debate on the map early failed in the state Senate 24-20, with 12 Republicans joining all Democrats. The state Senate then voted to adjourn until June 10, effectively ending any hope of redistricting before the midterms.

It’s a massive pivot from just two weeks ago, when GOP Gov. Henry McMaster chose to call a special season to redraw after pressure from Trump and the White House. Now, Republican lawmakers who defected in South Carolina could face the same fate in 2028 as Indiana lawmakers who rebuked Trump — and then lost their primaries to MAGA-aligned challengers.

But because of the timing of the elections — the timing they refused to change — the South Carolina Republicans will likely be safe until the 2028 primaries, as early voting has already begun for this year.

The rebuke from fellow Republicans came as a shock to Trump’s political operation, according to one person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss the internal dynamics. McMaster never gave the White House a heads up that the vote was on track to fail, the person said.

McMaster’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The state’s Senate GOP leader, Shane Massey, had long opposed a redraw, giving a fiery speech during a procedural vote earlier this month that received national attention. Despite earlier votes in the Senate looking on pace for a redraw, a number of Republicans flipped on Tuesday, citing the start of early voting as reason for doing so.

Even without the extra seat from South Carolina, Republicans have an overall edge in the redistricting war. But many of those wins came from the courts.

The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year to narrow the Voting Rights Act has led to swift redraws across other Southern states, and the Virginia Supreme Court erased a four-seat Democratic gerrymander that was approved by voters.

There are still some states outstanding before November. Alabama Republicans are trying to use a 2023 map that eliminates a Democratic-held seat, but it’s jammed up in court. And Louisiana Republicans are still working to pass a map before the midterms.

Continue Reading

Politics

Shapiro weighs in on Trump, Harris and 2028 over South Philly pizza

Published

on

Shapiro weighs in on Trump, Harris and 2028 over South Philly pizza

lead image

Continue Reading

Politics

How to take the asymmetry out of asymmetric war

Published

on

How to take the asymmetry out of asymmetric war

On this Memorial Day, it is particularly relevant to make the case again as to why the terms asymmetric and hybrid are misplaced in examining war. …
Read More

Continue Reading

Trending