A Democratic candidate won a key Pennsylvania state House seat on Tuesday, flipping the district from red to blue for the first time in decades. Representative-elect Helen Tai won a special election for Pennsylvania House District 178, a suburban Philadelphia seat that Republicans have held since 1983, according to liberal news website Daily Kos. Tai…
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) will not get behind either of the leading Republican candidates for governor, his spokesman said Friday. Daniel Ketchell told The Los Angeles Times that Schwarzenegger will not vote for either John Cox, a San Diego businessman, or Travis Allen, a state lawmaker. “He won’t support any candidate that plans to take California backward and…
Democrats hold a 6-point advantage over Republicans on a generic House ballot just a few months before the November midterms, according to a new poll from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP). The polling firm found that 46 percent of Americans say they want to see Democrats retake the House in the fall, while 40 percent said they would…
Despite Blue Dog Democrat Dan Lipinski’s conservative record, the anti-choice congressman narrowly defeated primary challenger Marie Newman in Illinois’s 3rd District on Tuesday in a race that has been closely watched at a national level. “Can the progressive wing of the party mount a powerful enough challenge to entrenched, well-funded incumbents that it can threaten…
In a victory for activists who shut down a tar sands pipeline as part of a multi-state protest in 2016, a Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the “valve turners” can present a defense that their action was necessary because of the threat that fossil fuel production poses to the planet. On Monday, the Minnesota…
In what appears to be a tacit admission that “massive tax cuts to the wealthy, rich CEOs, and big corporations don’t resonate with voters,” vulnerable congressional Republicans up for reelection in 2018 have drastically curtailed promotions of their tax law in digital ad campaigns and on social media ahead of the November midterms, according to…
Anti-war advocates and progressive national security experts are praising Sen. Jeff Merkley’s (D-Ore.) challenge to a proposed Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) that critics warn would expand the executive branch’s military authority and “further entrench the United States in endless war.” Ahead of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday to discuss…
Global trade tensions are soaring just days ahead of the upcoming G7 summit with top U.S. economic partners like China and France both issuing fresh warnings that import tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration run the serious risk of creating a trade war in all directions: East, West, North, and South. “We still…