Stunning Hypocrisy
Stunning, breathtaking hypocrisy. Those are the words that come to mind as Tom McClintock once again expresses his full support for Donald Trump’s power-grab. During the Obama administration, McClintock railed …
A Campaign for the Future
Stunning, breathtaking hypocrisy. Those are the words that come to mind as Tom McClintock once again expresses his full support for Donald Trump’s power-grab. During the Obama administration, McClintock railed …
Thank you for all you did in our effort to replace Tom McClintock with a representative in Congress who is not beholden to Donald Trump, corporate donors and far-right ideology. …
Go home and get in line. That’s this writer’s most stark memory of a Tom McClintock town hall early last year. And that’s one of the reasons I’m so committed …
West Virginia is showing the country what happens when you try to find solutions in the past, instead of investing and building for the future. Although the country generally is …
In a well-functioning government, our representatives would evaluate policy based on facts and experience, and enact laws designed to actually improve people’s lives. But we do not have a well-functioning …
A few years ago, the answer to this question from both sides of the political divide would have been the same. We had different truths – our news sources have …
The Trump administration likes to talk up the economy, consistently claiming credit for the recovery that started during the Obama administration and has remained on track through the first two …
This administration has found a way to bring to life the caricatures of evil that we previously believed could never happen here. And Tom McClintock is fully on board. With …
During the last administration, Tom McClintock – like every other Republican – talked a lot about the deficit, and the U.S.’s increasing debt. He warned of doom for all of …
Tom McClintock knows that one of his jobs as a U.S. Congressman – arguably, his most important job – is oversight. The Constitution is built on checks and balances, and …
The United States of America is one of the richest countries this world has ever known. Yet, every day millions of people across this country suffer because the GOP fights …
Tom McClintock consistently declares his opposition to the Affordable Care Act, insisting that an unrestrained health insurance market would better serve us. He’s just ignoring the many problems that led …
This week, Trump unleashed his latest attack on the Nation’s workers, citing authority given to him by Congress to adjust pay due to “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting …
In a vibrant democracy, the vote is critical and precious, and our elected representatives have a solemn duty to protect that vote and ensure that elections continue to be free …
This Administration’s unrelenting attacks on the rules and guidelines put in place to protect people from corporate greed – and the harm that some businesses may cause when they have …
Tom McClintock pretends that he follows our Constitution in all that he does. But this week, we were reminded that McClintock is a Republican first and an American second (or …
This week, Trump is renewing his push for his own private army. And we should all be afraid about the possibility that he will succeed. As a country, we invest …
Most of us can agree that when government assumes the responsibility for a child, it has an overriding commitment to care for that child and ensure the child’s safety and …
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” We are beginning to see a president finding his power, and feeling even less restrained by the norms that have governed …
GOP politicians talk a lot about states’ rights, but as we’ve seen time and again, they invoke states’ rights when it suits their purposes, and ignore them when it doesn’t. …
Every industry has some wrongdoers, and one of our federal government’s most important jobs is enforcing laws against businesses that defraud consumers, or simply try to cut corners and shift …
We talked a lot about the corruption and grifting of Tom Price and Scott Pruitt while they were pretending to work for us, but Wilbur Ross might have been Trump’s …
As Trump increases his threats to shut down the government if he doesn’t get his wall, it becomes more clear that he knows he’s about to lose this fight. The …
We need to elect representatives who care about facts and policy. Until we do, we will never be able to take on the challenging issues we face – like controlling …
The media and pundits like to toss around the question of whether Trump colluded – conspired – with Russia in its crimes. But as this article points out, those debates …
Sanctuary cities are safer. Undocumented immigrants aren’t afraid to report crime and engage with police and other government officials because they know that those officials won’t report them to ICE. …
Every 10 years, the government conducts a census, as required by the Constitution. And by long-standing law, everyone is counted – citizens and non-citizens. But the Trump Administration doesn’t like …
The Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy toward immigrants has led to the imprisonment of thousands of children in impromptu detention centers across the Nation, in what has now become a billion-dollar …
The GOP promised that its massive tax cut would boost the economy and lead to wage hikes. It didn’t. The evidence now seems clear that it just shifted more of …
Government is hard but immensely important work, affecting the lives of people across the Nation in large ways and small. The Trump administration is giving us yet another example of …
Trump has shown us, time and again, that he has no regard for the rule of law. And now he’s stepping up his attacks, trying to convince his base that …
Trump has spent his presidency complaining about our allies, and flattering the murdering dictator who leads the country that continues to attack us, and he is slowly training his base …
It’s little surprise that Trump chose to elevate to the Supreme Court a Judge with a shockingly expansive view of executive power – that Trump is using his right to …
Trump’s lies have escalated over the past couple of weeks, going from a previous high of 60 lies per week, to 103 and 100 lies each of the last two …
In any normal administration – one that actually cared about corruption, and the rule of law – Scott Pruitt would have been ousted long ago. But this is not a …
Our President wants us to believe that his policies are designed to keep us safe, but he’s lying to us. And he’s doing his best to build a government based …
Facts matter, and as the President continues his near-constant scapegoating of and lying about the U.S.’s immigrant population while a complacent GOP watches and shrugs, we think it’s important to …
The President of the United States is doubling down on his constant scapegoating of the undocumented immigrant population in the U.S., but he is lying to us. Study after study …
Once again, GOP politicians in the House were asked to choose between corporate profits and kids, and once again they chose wrong.
Wages have been flat for decades, and last year was even worse. Despite the continuing trend of low unemployment, workers in key sectors – production and non-supervisory – saw their …
Don’t let them fool you. They’re not backtracking now because they realized their policies are cruel. They’re reversing course because we spoke out against their cruel policies. The Trump Administration …
The brazen corruption and unrepentant conflicts of interest that are running rampant in the Trump administration aren’t limited to Trump and his family, Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke. We need …
Donald Trump has never been a man who worried about truth, or following the rule of law. Now, with his brazen dupery, he has exposed a real danger in our …
“[F]ederal regulations prevented them from touching or holding the child to soothe her,” they were told.
Over the past week, the Trump administration has doubled-down on its claim that it has no choice but to separate parents and children who come to this country seeking refuge, …
During the Obama Administration, we heard a lot about the U.S. debt from people horrified about the burden we are leaving for our children, and grandchildren.
The Trump Administration seems determined to increase the abortion rate in the U.S.
The President of the United States has many powers and a few mandates. Perhaps the most important one – the reason the President controls a vast and varied administration – …
We are a Nation of laws. Nobody, not even the President, is above the law. This foundational principle keeps us from sliding away from democracy into a government like the …
Bit by bit, part by part, the Trump Administration is trying to do piecemeal what it could not do through legislation – destroy the Affordable Care Act. On June 7th, …