This is how authoritarianism starts, with a president who does not respect the judiciary… You can criticize the judicial system, you can criticize individual cases,
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Hillary Clinton clobbers Donald Trump in landmark campaign speech
Denouncing Trump, Clinton declared: “He is not just unprepared; he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility. This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”
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Trump may be doing permanent damage to Washington’s Republican Party
“Was last Tuesday one of the worst moments for local Republicans in recent history? When it comes to their party’s long-term chances in Washington state, it may well have been,” writes consultant and analyst Benjamin Anderstone.
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Rise of Donald Trump tracks growing debate over global fascism
“Americans are used to the idea that other countries may be vulnerable to such movements, but while figures like Father Charles Coughlin, the demagogic radio broadcaster, enjoyed wide followings in the 1930s, neither major party has ever nominated anyone quite like Mr. Trump,” writes Peter Baker.
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Businessweek profiles RNC Chair Reince Priebus Bloomberg’s Joshua Green reports on how the Republican establishment, and the RNC in particular, is coping with Donald Trump’s
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Elizabeth Warren razes Donald Trump in brilliant speech at Center for Popular Democracy
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at the Center for Popular Democracy’s annual gala on May 24, 2016. She discussed Donald Trump rooting for the 2008 housing market crash, his plans to dismantle Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform, and his decision not to release his taxes.
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Jon Stewart joins David Axelrod on “The Axe Files”
On May 9th, 2016, the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics (IOP) welcomed former Daily Show host Jon Stewart for a special live taping of
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Right wing white supremacists hail the ascension of ‘Emperor Trump’ as Republican nominee
“White supremacists, nationalists and antigovernment conspiracists feverishly embrace the Republican candidate as their Great White Hope, not to mention a ‘Patriot sleeper cell’,” David Neiwert reports.
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As Trump clinches nomination, some Republican operatives refuse to get on board
The Republican Party is Donald Trump’s party now, and that has some Republican operatives vowing to vote for Hillary Clinton or stay out of the presidential contest altogether. One despairing operative told his Twitter followers “I’m drinking wine directly out of the bottle right now.
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New York Times editorial board calls on Democratic Party to listen to Bernie Sanders and his supporters
Unlike the voices on the Republican side, Mr. Sanders’s has elevated this campaign. The Democratic Party should listen. — The New York Times Editorial Board:
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President Obama’s complete remarks at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Courtesy of C-SPAN, here are President Obama’s remarks at the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which he skewered himself, the Republican Party, and Democratic
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Desperate Ted Cruz unveils Carly Fiorina as his running mate
An increasingly desperate Ted Cruz, who was shut out on Tuesday as Donald Trump swept five Republican primary states, today named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate, in a move that smacked of Joementum. Cruz has almost no chance now of going into the convention with more delegates than Trump, and so will be attempting to wrest the nomination away from Trump at the convention.
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Bernie Sanders is profoundly changing how millennials think about politics, poll shows
He’s not moving a party to the left. He’s moving a generation to the left… Whether or not he’s winning or losing, it’s really that
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Ted Cruz and John Kasich to coordinate against Donald Trump
“Ted Cruz and John Kasich of Ohio have agreed to coordinate in future primary contests in a last-ditch effort to deny Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination, with each candidate standing aside in certain states amid growing concerns that Mr. Trump cannot otherwise be stopped,” The New York Times reports.
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Elizabeth Warren slams Ted Cruz’s ‘whining’ about 2016 race
Senator Cruz — you chose to run for President. Working people don’t get a choice. Maybe you should spend less time complaining about your ‘significant
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Donald Trump abandons pledge to support Republican nominee; Cruz and Kasich hedge
So much for that “loyalty pledge” cooked up by Reince Priebus and the Republican National Committee last year. Donald Trump says it means nothing to him now, and Ted Cruz and John Kasich are also backing away from it.
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A roundup of mass media coverage of Bernie Sanders’ visit to the Evergreen State
Today, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders embarked on a grand tour of the Evergreen State, holding big rallies in Vancouver, Seattle, and Spokane. Here is
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Timothy Egan on why Bernie Sanders should stay in
He’s done a real service, for the party he only recently joined, and for the country. Clinton is a far better candidate because of him.
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Clinton, Sanders camps say they can unify
“Supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders insist the two rivals will be able to unify in the fall despite the hard edge their race has taken on in recent weeks,” The Hill’s Amie Parmes reports.
LaunchReligious leaders — even evangelical leaders — are horrified by Donald Trump’s Islamophobia
He’s wrong, he’s very wrong… He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He’s just wrong, and what he’s doing is dangerous. He’s spewing fire, and
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Bernie Sanders wins Michigan Democratic primary, stunning the punditocracy
This parody of the famous “Dewey Defeats Truman” scene shows Bernie Sanders holding a screenshot of a tweet by Decision Desk calling Michigan for Hillary Clinton. Decision Desk has since retracted their projection.
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