President Donald Trump relied heavily on the rural vote for his election, but some of those voters have become increasingly anxious about his actions in recent weeks, especially when it comes to their...

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For all of the incoherent nonsense that comes out of his mouth and all the random rabbit holes that he goes down, the one consistent thing about Donald Trump is that he’s subservient to Vladimir Putin...

Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the legislation. The state's requirement of a Ten Commandments display follows similar laws in Louisiana and Arkansas.

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On the campaign trail in 2024, Trump pledged to improve the economic conditions of the working class.

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The last time Donald Trump was in charge, he screwed up everything he touched. When COVID happened, his words and (non) actions made it worse. Whenever Kim Jong Un piped up, Trump responded to him and...

Elon Musk is not just a liar; he’s a pathological liar. The creation of DOGE was nothing short of a hoax on the American people. To cover his own fraud, Musk deleted his self-given kudos that were not...

Our country has been taken over not by Donald Trump but by a new word that is sweeping these vast lands at lightning speed. It is on every street corner. It glitters at the top of every wave cresting ...

DOGE has been a substantial failure that caused a great deal of damage and suffering as people learned the hard way of the good things the federal government offers just as Elon Musk and his foot sold...

Donald Trump is a notorious con artist and ripoff artist. He lies. He cheats. He doesn’t pay his bills. He’s a convicted felon because of how fraudulently he ran his business empire. But Trump is also...

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The world’s two biggest economies agreed to a 90-day pause on most of their levies after a first round of trade talks in Switzerland over the weekend.

People in rural areas favor the GOP. That’s a fact, just like it’s a fact that people in densely populated urban areas favor the Democratic party. When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, we at Palmer...

Back in August 2020, I wrote about Donald Trump’s dangerous refusal to take his intelligence briefings seriously. At the time, a HuffPost investigation found that Trump received briefings an average o...

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Trump performs worst on inflation/prices (-26 net approval), changes to geographic names (-21), federal workforce reductions (-17), relations with Canada (-16), presidential pardons (-16), and tariffs...

The Covid-19 pandemic and its attendant shutdowns devastated the world economy. Tens of thousands of small businesses, especially the public-facing kind such as restaurants, barbers, small grocery sto...

Donald Trump makes me tired. His incompetence, his lies, his embellishments, and everything else just make me tired. From judges on down, he keeps being informed that he can’t do the things he’s tryin...

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The federal government is treating those who default on their college loans more harshly than those who cheat on their taxes.

To keep control of the House in a midterm cycle that would typically see voters punishing the party in power, Republicans will need to keep the coalition that powered Trump to victory in 2024 — most n...