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The House voted 420-0 to adopt Rep. Thomas Massie's resolution forcing the release, within 60 days, of the names and amounts of taxpayer money used to settle sexual misconduct claims. The names are not yet public.
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DOGE ended July 4 on its built-in sunset date. Now the IRS, State Department and NEH are scrambling to rehire the workers lost under Elon Musk's cuts.
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Canada, France, and South Korea all bar corporations from funding candidates. As unlimited money shapes U.S. elections, should America follow?
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Morning Consult has Democrats up four on the generic ballot and Emerson had the gap even wider, putting the polling average near D+7 heading into the 2026 midterms. Will the lead hold?
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Rep. Jamie Raskin's Protecting Our Democracy Act, introduced May 14, 2026, would ban presidents from taking money from people they pardon, void self-pardons, and require tax-return disclosure.
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The House voted 420-0 on June 30 to force disclosure of every lawmaker who used taxpayer money to settle sexual misconduct claims, giving the Ethics Committee 60 days to name names and amounts.
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Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1 in November 2025, the Senate cleared it, it became law, and the DOJ began releasing files in December. But should every single page be public - no matter whose name is inside?
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Justice Samuel Alito has given no indication he will step down. He is hiring clerks for the 2026-27 term and plans to serve into 2027 and beyond, after NPR retracted a false retirement report.
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Multiple impeachment resolutions against President Trump - including a 7-article measure and a 13-article filing - are now formally filed in the 119th Congress. But filed is not passed: none have been voted on. Do you support impeaching him?
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Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a budget imposing a three-year moratorium on new data-center sales-tax exemptions — the longest such pause of any state.
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Speaking near Mount Rushmore around the America 250 events, Trump argued that Mamdani-style socialism is a greater danger than the World Wars, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11 - his opinion, not fact.
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After the record 43-day shutdown left about 670,000 federal workers unpaid, the Senate voted 99-0 to escrow senators' own pay during future shutdowns.
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