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Former Obama Techies Will Fund Startups to Help Dems…

A group of technologists who worked under President Obama have formed an organization—Higher Ground Labs—to fund and mentor early-stage startups focused on politics. The goal is to help make the type of tech tools found in national political campaigns available off-season to left-leaning candidates in local and state elections, co-founder Betsy Hoover told Recode…

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Wasserman Schultz IT Guy Threatened Kidnappings for Cash, Court Docs Say…

A former congressional information technology (IT) aide allegedly threatened to have his stepmother’s Pakistani relatives kidnapped if she talked to U.S. law enforcement authorities, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group. “Imran Awan threatened that he is very powerful and if I ever call the police again…

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Congress Refers Hillary’s Private Server Company to DOJ for Prosecution…

Last September we were among the first to note that Hillary’s “Oh Shit Guy” (a.k.a Paul Combetta), who was responsible for wiping her private server clean with BleachBit despite acknowledging he was aware of a Congressional subpoena demanding the preservation of all records, was looking like he would be the ‘fall guy’ to take the […]

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HEALTHCARE BILL PASSES HOUSE 217 – 213…HEADS TO SENATE…

It wasn’t pretty, but Republicans have finally secured enough votes to pass the American Health Care Act. In a vote of 217-to-213, the House has voted to repeal and replace Obamacare. No Democrats were on board. The legislation passed despite moderate Republicans’ concerns over protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-MI) amendment […]

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Pro-Clinton Probe of 2016 Reveals That, Yes, Democrats Have a ‘Wall Street Problem’…

Underscoring previous assessments that the Democratic establishment, including the party’s 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has “a Wall Street problem,” new polling and focus group data shows that Democrats are perceived as woefully out of touch when it comes to the economy. The pro-Clinton super PAC Priorities USA surveyed 801 voters who backed former President…

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Nancy Pelosi Feels the Bern, Faces Pro-Sanders Primary Challenger…

More than any other Democrat currently holding elected office, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi embodies how out of touch Democratic Party leadership is with voters. Under Pelosi, Democrats lost more than 60 seats in the House of Representatives from 2008 to 2016, and her tenure represents just how corrupt the party has become.

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NYT Chides Obama Ever So Gently for Betraying His Own Words…

The editorial board of The New York Times published a piece Monday under the headline, “The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech.” The piece discusses the $400,000 price tag on the former president’s scheduled speaking engagement on Wall Street. Beginning with a quote by Obama himself on how fundraising disconnected him from the people he began […]

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DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms…

On April 28 the transcript was released from the most recent hearing at a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters against the Democratic National Committee and former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for rigging the Democratic primaries for Hillary Clinton. Throughout the hearing, lawyers representing […]

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FBI Court Filing Reveals Grand Jury Targeted Hillary Clinton…

The T-Room here: So, if the FBI secured subpoena’s via a Grand Jury, then were they ever presented with charges or did Comey short circuit said opportunity when he held his infamous press conference? You’ll recall, Comey laid out the case against Hillary Clinton but stated no prosecutor would file charges for reckless behavior. Why […]

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The DCCC Did an Autopsy of 2016 Election But You Don’t Get to Read It…

Why won’t the DCCC release its autopsy report? Good news: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has prepared a thorough autopsy report about its flaws. Bad news: You can’t read it. According to Politico, the report is the long-awaited result of Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s investigation into the DCCC’s weaknesses, which were evident in the disaster […]

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Obama the Hamiltonian by Matt Stoller…

When former President Barack Obama decided to take $400,000 from a Wall Street investment bank for the first paid speech of his post-presidential career, he accelerated an important debate within the political establishment. As a policy leader, Obama’s Presidency was largely defined by the financial crisis. The government’s response, organized first by Bush and then […]

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Part III – Prediction: Jim DeMint Will Join The Trump Administration…

Former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, now head of the Heritage Foundation has been pushing the organization toward more political activism because it is necessary for the exact reason we have outlined in the previous discussions: “There are almost zero organizational entities within K-Street presenting any legislative constructs or legislative briefs intended to advance any…

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The FBI and Hillary, Again by Andrew Napolitano…

In 2015, a committee of the House of Representatives that was investigating the deaths of four Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, learned that the State Department had no copies of any emails sent or received by Clinton during her four years as secretary of state. When committee investigators pursued this — at […]

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Meet Trump’s Cabinet…

While President Donald Trump still has hundreds of key positions to fill that will shape his next four years in office, he has named everyone he wants to serve in his Cabinet, and they’re getting closer to being entirely confirmed by the day. Trump has 24 official members of his Cabinet, and the Senate has […]

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That Didn’t Last Long: Ann Coulter Cancels Speech at Berkeley Amid Safety Dispute…

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has canceled her speech planned for this week at the University of California’s Berkeley campus after a dispute with school officials, who feared violent protests, over whether a safe venue could be found. “There will be no speech,” Coulter wrote in an email to Reuters on Wednesday in which she also […]

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Senate Trump-Russia Probe Has No Full-Time Staff, No Key Witnesses…

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russia’s election interference is supposedly the best hope for getting the public credible answers about whether there was any coordination between the Kremlin and Trump Tower. But there are serious reasons to doubt that it can accomplish this task, as currently configured. More than three months after the committee […]

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Lawyer for Berkeley Republicans in Coulter Case Slams ACLU for Absence…

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is representing the Berkeley College Republicans in their free speech case against the University of California, Berkeley over failing to allow Ann Coulter to speak on campus on equal terms, slammed the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for ignoring the case.” “I don’t see the ACLU here in this room, which […]

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Why Not a Probe of Israel-Gate? by Robert Parry

The other day, I asked a longtime Democratic Party insider who is working on the Russia-gate investigation which country interfered more in U.S. politics, Russia or Israel. Without a moment’s hesitation, he replied, “Israel, of course.” Which underscores my concern about the hysteria raging across Official Washington about “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential campaign…

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