Charles and David Koch are two of the Republican Party’s biggest billionaire donors, supporting an agenda of endless, multinational free trade agreements and open borders that keep U.S. wages stagnant. The Koch’s network of organizations — Americans for Prosperity, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce and the LIBRE Initiative — now say they will be spending […]
The New Republican Group That Just Entered the Battle for the House…
Another Republican big-money group is entering the battle for control of the House, as AR2 moves to upend Democratic candidates by digging up damaging information and feeding it to local media. The political nonprofit is affiliated with America Rising, an established super PAC that specializes in opposition research. “AR2,” federally prohibited from overt politicking, aims […]
YOWZA!: House GOP Congressional Leadership Fund Receives $30M Thanks to Sheldon Adelson…
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has cut a $30 million check to the House GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, a massive cash infusion that top Republicans hope will alter the party’s electoral outlook six months before Election Day. The long-sought donation was sealed last week when, according to two senior Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan […]
Not to Be Outraised: Major Democratic NY Donors Seeking to Raise $10M to Inject in House Races…
Major Democratic donors in New York have discreetly formed a new political alliance to raise roughly $10 million that would be injected into as many as two dozen key House battlegrounds in an effort to wrest control of Congress from Republicans. Admission to be an official partner in what’s being called the House Victory Project […]
Pelosi: ‘Accurate’ to say I want to roll back GOP tax cuts…
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Tuesday that it is “accurate” to say she wants to roll back the Republican tax law. When asked by Politico about an ad released by the National Republican Congressional Committee, which claimed that Pelosi wants to institute a single payer healthcare system and raise taxes, the House Democratic […]
Why the Democrats Just Lost the Senate…
For Democrats, the Don Blankenship dream is over. The coal-mining baron and ex-con was a pleasant diversion—the prospect of yet another train-wreck Republican candidate was exactly the kind of opponent that Sen. Joe Manchin needed in his dicey reelection campaign in West Virginia—but now it’s back to the reality of a merciless map that offers […]
Americans Complain About Washington But Won’t Inform Themselves About It…
The Fox News poll released last week is one of the latest to suggest that public opinion has settled in with respect to President Donald Trump. His job approval rating continues to bounce around in the low to mid 40s, while his disapproval rating is in the low to mid 50s. This stability is based […]
The CIA Democrats…
An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history. If the Democrats capture a majority in […]