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The Supreme Court has delivered a significant blow to one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent second-term initiatives, ruling against his executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. The decision reaffirms the longstanding legal interpretation that nearly all individuals born on U.S. soil are automatically American citizens. Notably, conservative-leaning Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney …
The Michigan Democratic Senate primary just got a lot simpler. State Senator Mallory McMorrow announced Sunday she is suspending her campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, trimming the August 4 primary down to a straight two-person contest between U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and former Wayne County health official Abdul El-Sayed. In a video …
John Fetterman has never been a perfect fit for the modern Democratic Party. The Pennsylvania senator votes with his caucus often enough, but he has also broken ranks in ways that matter, backing efforts to keep the government funded and supporting the president’s authority on foreign policy matters involving Iran. Now he’s gone further, publicly …
The National Republican Congressional Committee is going on offense, and it is aiming straight at House Democrats over their unanimous vote against the Working Families Tax Cuts. One year after President Trump signed the tax cut package into law on July 4, 2025, the NRCC is launching a new ad campaign designed to make sure …
President Trump is making history again, this time with a move no Republican has ever tried before. He’s announced plans for the first-ever GOP midterm convention, a high-energy gathering designed to fire up the Republican base and drive voter turnout ahead of the 2026 elections. It’s worth noting Democrats aren’t strangers to the idea. They …
The FBI is throwing significant manpower at its ongoing federal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, assigning hundreds of intelligence analysts to the effort. An unclassified internal memo issued Wednesday directed all FBI field offices to immediately surge support to an FBI Atlanta priority investigation. The memo came from the Directorate of …
President Donald Trump is pointing to a new roadmap for restricting birthright citizenship, this time through Congress rather than an executive order. The pivot comes after the Supreme Court struck down his administration’s earlier attempt to limit the century-old practice of granting citizenship to nearly anyone born on U.S. soil. On June 30, the Supreme …
Kamala Harris marked America’s 250th birthday with a post on X, and it may be the most hollow piece of political messaging to emerge from the holiday weekend. While celebrations were unfolding across the country, the former Vice President offered this as her contribution to the occasion: “When America is at our best, we look …
The Supreme Court has delivered a pair of significant immigration victories for the Trump administration, and the political fallout from the left has been swift and fierce. In back-to-back rulings, SCOTUS sided with the White House on two major fronts. The first was a 6-3 decision in Mullin v. Doe, ruling that Haitian and Syrian …
The Supreme Court handed down a significant ruling this week, striking down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision. The order had sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born on U.S. soil if their parents were in the country illegally or on temporary visas. The court ruled that the 14th …
Donald Trump burned enormous political capital getting his Supreme Court picks confirmed. The battles were brutal, the stakes were high, and the opposition was relentless. So when those justices start siding with the liberal wing of the court on election integrity issues, it stings. That’s exactly what happened in the recent case Watson v. Republican …
Austin’s Central Library was supposed to be a crown jewel. A $125 million, six-story architectural landmark with a rooftop garden, art gallery, café, and dedicated children’s spaces. More than 200,000 square feet of publicly funded community space that took over a decade to complete. Today, it’s at the center of a very different conversation. A …
A flag-raising ceremony in Columbus, Ohio, ignited a wave of criticism this week after city officials hoisted the Somali flag at a public government site just days ahead of America’s Independence Day. The ceremony was tied to Somali Independence Day, observed on July 1, which commemorates the 1960 formation of the Republic of Somalia following …
The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, ruling that the 14th Amendment requires the practice to continue, at least for now. The decision was a setback for the administration, which had argued that birthright citizenship was never intended to cover the children of foreign nationals visiting …
The 2026 midterm cycle is shaping up to be a genuine battle for Senate control. Democrats are banking on the traditional momentum that opposition parties tend to carry into midterms, while Republicans are counting on a favorable map to hold their ground and potentially expand their majority. Of the 33 Senate races on the 2026 …
The Supreme Court has spoken on birthright citizenship. The Fourteenth Amendment protects it. Case closed, right? Not necessarily. Justice Brett Kavanaugh may have quietly handed Congress a playbook for changing the rules, without touching the Constitution itself. In his opinion, Kavanaugh acknowledged something that tends to get lost in the broader debate: large-scale illegal immigration …
The Democratic Party is shifting fast. Socialists are winning elections in left-wing strongholds, pushing out longtime incumbents and pulling the party further from its traditional center. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was supposed to be the untouchable icon of this movement. She launched the modern democratic socialist wave by defeating incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, a seismic …
The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling on transgender participation in women’s sports, affirming that states have the authority to restrict eligibility based on biological sex. The decision draws directly from two pillars of federal law. “Consistent with Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause, we hold that the States may maintain women’s and …
The Supreme Court has handed political parties a sweeping campaign finance victory, striking down limits on coordinated spending between parties and candidates just months before the 2026 midterm elections. The 6-3 ruling, split along ideological lines, found that existing caps on coordinated spending violated the First Amendment. The decision fundamentally reshapes how tens of millions …
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has never been shy about breaking from the Democratic Party line, and he’s at it again. This time, he’s taking direct aim at what he calls a genuine constitutional crisis, and he’s not pointing the finger at the White House. Fetterman has been one of the more outspoken critics of the …
Republicans have been under growing pressure to pass the SAVE America Act, a bill designed to tighten voting rules across the country. And here’s the thing: this isn’t just a conservative priority. Poll after poll shows voters in both parties support stricter voting measures. It should be a legislative slam dunk. President Trump has been …
The word “temporary” apparently means something different to certain politicians in Washington. That debate is front and center this week following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants. TPS is the provision in immigration law that gives a sitting president authority to offer refuge to foreign nationals while their home country …
The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a sweeping victory Monday, ruling that he holds the constitutional authority to fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. In the same breath, the court wiped out a 91-year-old legal precedent that had long shielded certain independent agency officials from White House control. The 6-3 decision fell along …
The United States and Iran have agreed to stop striking each other and will meet this week in Doha, Qatar, for technical talks aimed at defusing a fresh round of hostilities. The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday. According to a report from Axios, citing senior U.S. officials, both sides have agreed to halt all kinetic …
The Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a new voluntary departure program targeting hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti and Syria, following a landmark Supreme Court decision that cleared the way for ending their protected status in the United States. The program offers eligible individuals a free plane ticket plus roughly $2,100 in …
An Ohio Democrat running for state attorney general has sparked outrage after posting a video on social media declaring he wants to “kill” President Donald Trump through capital punishment. Elliot Forhan, a former state representative and current Democratic candidate for Ohio attorney general, posted the video in late January 2026. The timing coincided with widespread …
The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a narrow 5-4 ruling this week upholding a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five business days after election day, as long as they are postmarked by election day. The decision immediately drew a sharp response from President Trump. Taking to Truth Social, Trump …