Trump signs law giving immigration enforcement $70 billion
President Trump signed a law giving roughly $70 billion to federal immigration enforcement agencies, intended to cover their budgets for three years, with little congressional oversight. We discuss ho...
10 Jun 18min
California counts votes slowly. Trump falsely cries fraud.
California counts votes very slowly, maybe slower than any other state. This is normal for California, but President Trump and some other Republican leaders are claiming, without evidence, that a dela...
9 Jun 17min
Will the controversy surrounding Platner deter primary voters?
Democrat Graham Platner is the frontrunner in his party’s primary contest to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate, but Platner’s campaign has been dogged by controversy. Unseating longtime incumbent Rep...
8 Jun 18min
Do political scandals matter anymore?
As recently as a few days ago, it looked like President Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund might prevent Congress from passing funding for immigration enforcement agencies. Even though it pa...
5 Jun 30min
Voters reject the establishment in this week’s primaries
Voters in several of this week’s primary races rejected incumbents and politicians backed by Washington leaders in favor of outsiders. We discuss that and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries, plu...
4 Jun 18min
Why did Governor Polis release election denier Tina Peters?
Former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters was released from prison this week, after Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence. Peters was convicted of tampering with voting machines af...
3 Jun 17min
Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization fund’ is a problem for the GOP
A federal court put President Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” on hold, but Republican leaders on Capitol Hill say they would like to see the president back away from the fund permanently. We discuss...
2 Jun 16min
Democrats target working-class voters in Iowa and Montana
To win control of Congress, Democrats need to win rural and working-class voters in traditionally Republican strongholds. We discuss the party’s strategies in two states with primary elections on Tues...
1 Jun 18min
