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Trump’s Attacks on Opponents Spur Surge of Threats

December 14, 2025 at 10:59 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks,” according to an NBC News tally.

“Among those who’ve been targeted with threats after being mentioned in social media posts by the president are numerous Democrats, including Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan — but even more Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers.”

Hundreds Quarantined as Measles Spreads

December 14, 2025 at 10:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine, the AP reports.

Big Majority Satisfied with Their Health Insurance

December 14, 2025 at 10:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“An overwhelming majority of U.S. adults are satisfied with their health insurance coverage overall, including most older Americans and those on Medicare and Medicaid,” according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

“But there is an undercurrent of frustration in the findings, too, with nearly one-quarter of respondents saying they’d been denied coverage or faced a delay from their insurance in the last two years.”


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Trump Remains Deeply Unpopular

December 14, 2025 at 10:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump’s approval rating remains steadily underwater among adults as he nears the end of his first year back in the White House, and he has lost some ground among his “Make America Great Again” base, according to a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

Why Democrats Lost in 2024

December 14, 2025 at 10:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New Republic: “Democrats need to move right to win back voters in 2026 and 2028—that’s the conventional wisdom from a slew of Democratic think tanks and Beltway strategists. To make their case, they’ve released reports and polling trying to prove that voters are more moderate on many social and cultural issues—like trans athletes in school sports and immigration—than the party’s far-left activists.”

“But an exhaustive new report makes a convincing counterargument. More importantly, it provides a road map for Democratic candidates that doesn’t require throwing vulnerable members of their coalition under the bus.”

History Is Against Republicans in the Midterms

December 14, 2025 at 9:21 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Charles Franklin: “In the House, the president’s party has lost seats in all but four midterms since 1862, and one of those, 1902, was a year the House expanded so the Republican gains fell short of Democratic gains that year. After 1934 it wasn’t until 1998 that the president’s party gained seats, then the rare event repeated in 2002. Not since.”

“This regularity over 160 years is hard to attribute to the circumstances of the moment. Likewise the hope that ‘this year will be different’ has been a forlorn one. The size of the seat loss, on the other hand, has varied considerably and is correlated with presidential approval (Clinton in 1998 and Bush in 2002 were unusually popular, as was Roosevelt in 1934) and the state of the economy. Popular presidents lose fewer seats, unpopular ones more. Good times go with smaller losses, bad times with greater losses.”

Americans Overwhelmingly Say Politicians Are Corrupt

December 14, 2025 at 8:18 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Searchlight Institute poll finds many Americans think politicians are corrupt, and most think government serves the interests of the wealthy and businesses over those of the average person.

Trump and Republicans Blamed for Higher Prices

December 14, 2025 at 8:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new Navigator Research poll finds overwhelming majorities continue to say the costs of groceries, housing, utilities, and health care are on the rise.

The share of Americans believing health care costs are rising has increased by 10-points in less than a year.

Key takeaway: President Trump and Republicans in Congress are blamed the most for costs rising by a 21-point margin, though independents say both parties are equally to blame.

Quote of the Day

December 14, 2025 at 8:03 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a marble ceiling.”

— Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an interview with USA Today, on a woman becoming president.

How Trump’s Redistricting in Texas Could Backfire

December 14, 2025 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “Democrats beat Trump’s 2024 results in five US House districts with special elections this year by at least 13 points. Over-performance at that level next year would flip three of the five new Texas seats to the Democratic column, though it’s unlikely that performance will be replicated in every district around the country, and recent polling suggests that Democrats currently have a more modest national advantage.”

Trump Library Could Have a ‘Fake News Wing’

December 14, 2025 at 7:53 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Eric Trump sounded triumphant after Florida officials recently approved giving away a prized piece of Miami real estate for his father’s presidential library,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “I got the library approved yesterday… we just got the greatest site in Florida and I’m going to be building that.”

“Then, speaking on another program, Trump said he would take the host’s suggestion to create a ‘fake news wing’ — paid for with money from lawsuit settlements with ABC, CBS and other sources. It would run clips from ‘60 Minutes’ and other programs that he said were evidence of the media organizations’ animus against his father.”

Zelensky Attempts to Rewrite Trump’s Peace Plan

December 14, 2025 at 7:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the help of his European allies, has carefully crafted a response to President Trump’s peace plan that essentially boils down to: Yes, but…,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Zelensky is prepared to hold elections, but would need a cease-fire. He says Russia can maintain some involvement in Europe’s largest nuclear plant, which it currently occupies, but Ukraine and the U.S. should be in control. The size of Ukraine’s military can be capped, he concedes, but at its current size.”

“The approach has enabled Zelensky to get on board with Trump’s vision of peace—but not at the expense of political credibility at home.”

Financial Times: Ukraine offers to drop NATO membership demands.

What James Carville Got Wrong

December 14, 2025 at 7:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

James Carville lamented in a video that he and the Democratic Party have made some faulty assumptions about young people, the New York Post reports.

Said Carville: “Anybody that’s been around in politics as long as I have, you make monumental mistakes — strategic mistakes. Maybe the biggest one I made is I wrote a book saying the Democrats were destined to win for 40 more years because, look — we had the under-30s, we had non-White voters, and that was a growing coalition that would win elections.”

He added: “It’s what I call ‘political Presbyterianism,’ that elections are ordained and you can just put something in a fucking computer and it’ll spit out the percent you’re going to get. It turned out that that was a really, really stupid assumption.”

Marjorie Taylor Greene Heads Back to ‘The View’

December 14, 2025 at 7:45 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is continuing her media tour with a return to “The View,” the New York Post reports.

The ABC daytime talk show announced Friday that Greene is scheduled to appear Jan. 7, just two days after Greene leaves Congress.

Financial Times: The chutzpah of Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Hong Kong’s Biggest Pro-Democracy Party Disbands

December 14, 2025 at 7:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city ‘s once-diverse political landscape,” Politico reports.

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Trump Isn’t Certain His Policies Will Help for Midterms

December 13, 2025 at 10:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump conveyed uncertainty about whether Republicans would maintain control of the House in next year’s midterm elections because some of his economic policies have yet to take full effect,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“During an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday in the Oval Office, the president touted his efforts to secure multibillion-dollar investments in the U.S., arguing that the money will help transform the American economy. But he acknowledged that he couldn’t predict if that would translate into political gains for Republicans next fall.”

Said Trump: “I can’t tell you. I don’t know when all of this money is going to kick in.”

Team Trump Plots Revenge

December 13, 2025 at 1:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rachel Bade: “A few hours after a band of Indiana Republicans sunk a Trump-backed push to gerrymander as many as two additional House seats, I called up Chris LaCivita to get his thoughts.”

“Trump’s 2024 campaign manager had been advising an outside group supporting the effort and running ads in the Hoosier state. And let’s just say, it’s not often that he loses…”

“LaCivita was pissed, to say the least — but more telling, he was already plotting revenge. Would the nearly two dozen GOPers who bucked the president see primaries or other punishment? Affirmative, LaCivita said.”

Said LaCivita: “We’re not known for making idle political threats. Actions have consequences — ask Thomas Fucking Massie.”

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