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House Democrats PAC Adds Million to Cleveland Spending After Ohio’s Miller Opts to Stay in Race

House Democrats PAC Adds $6 Million to Cleveland Spending After Ohio’s Miller Opts to Stay in Race

Published by Sam Flores

A super PAC affiliated with U.S. House Democrats plans to increase its campaign advertising reservations in Cleveland, Ohio, by roughly $6 million on Friday, in response to Republican Rep. Max Miller’s decision to proceed with his reelection campaign despite allegations of abuse by his ex-wife Emily Moreno. House Majority PAC’s move is expected to raise the group’s campaign advertising in the Cleveland area to roughly $7 million, the group announced in an email obtained by The Associated Press. Miller’s decision to press on even after calls from within his own party to step aside also prompted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ main campaign arm, this week to move Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter on to the group’s list of priority candidates. President Donald Trump won Ohio’s 7th District in 2024 by 11 percentage points, though Democrats see the swath of suburban Cleveland and rural northeast Ohio as within reach in light of the renewed accusations from Moreno, the daughter of Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno. Miller, whose deadline to drop from the race passed …

Democrats demand Trump reveal stock managers, explain certain trades

Democrats demand Trump reveal stock managers, explain certain trades

Published by Sam Flores

US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. Bonnie Cash | Bloomberg | Getty Images Two top Democratic lawmakers are pushing President Donald Trump for answers on the mountain of stock trades made in his name since he returned to the White House. In a 17-page letter sent Wednesday and seen by CNBC, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Robert Garcia of California asked Trump to reveal the money managers he says are in charge of all his investment decisions. They also pressed him to disclose his involvement in or awareness of numerous individual stock trades that have raised concerns due to their potential overlap with government policy, or their proximity to market-moving statements made by Trump himself. “The appearance of numerous conflicts of interest from a President trading in individual stocks – including the potential for insider trading, market manipulation, and policy decisions that benefit the President’s stock portfolio rather than the public interest – …

USS Abraham Lincoln: Senate Democrats press Hegseth for answers on reports of attempted suicides

USS Abraham Lincoln: Senate Democrats press Hegseth for answers on reports of attempted suicides

Published by Sam Flores

Senate Democrats are pressing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration for more information about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed since November, amid reports that sailors have attempted to jump overboard. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has written a letter to… Source link

Democrats Are Gathering to Give Final Approval to Their 2028 Presidential Primary Calendar

Democrats Are Gathering to Give Final Approval to Their 2028 Presidential Primary Calendar

Published by Sam Flores

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats are gathering to finalize their 2028 presidential primary calendar this week, setting the stage for a wide-open contest to succeed President Donald Trump and chart a path ahead as the party’s voters oscillate between progressive and more moderate candidates. The Democratic National Committee is expected to vote at its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, on the new order that frontloads states with more diverse populations. The meeting comes ahead of bitterly contested midterm elections that will decide control of Congress later this year. Democratic voters have delivered mixed messages on the direction they want to see the party go — backing candidates viewed as more left-wing as well as moderates in consequential primaries across several states. The group also is convening at a time of internal turmoil, with some members calling for DNC Chairman Ken Martin to be replaced. Critics have questioned Martin’s leadership decisions and the party’s fundraising, which lags well behind that of Republicans just months before the crucial midterms. Martin had his defenders, though, on Thursday. William …

House Democrats demand answers from Trump’s VA on vets struggling to access mental healthcare

House Democrats demand answers from Trump’s VA on vets struggling to access mental healthcare

Published by Sam Flores

What Happened: More than 60 House Democrats are pressing Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins for answers about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The lawmakers sent the secretary a letter last week asking questions about the state of VA care, citing a ProPublica investigation from this spring that revealed the agency’s mental health workforce has been plummeting and veterans have been left in the lurch. What They Said: The letter was spearheaded by Rep. Judy Chu, who is a psychologist and represents a district in Southern California. “Caring for our nation’s Veterans is a fundamental responsibility,” the letter says. “That includes ensuring access to high-quality mental health care.” The lawmakers demanded that the VA disclose details about its shortage of mental health providers and the impact on veterans. It also pushed the agency to lay out how long veterans have to wait for care. As ProPublica has detailed, while the VA has long had a shortfall of mental health providers, the situation has gotten …

Progressive Democrats Face More Major Tests in Key Primaries

Progressive Democrats Face More Major Tests in Key Primaries

Published by Sam Flores

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Contributor: How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court

Contributor: How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court

Published by Sam Flores

It’s no secret that the Supreme Court has become an extension of our partisan politics over the past decade. The decisions handed down in the 2026 session prove just how broken the court has become and how unrepresentative it is of the views of the American people. Reactions show how little confidence the public has in its fairness. Future Democratic majorities in Congress — perhaps starting as soon as January — should make repairing the court and reforming the judicial branch a priority to make sure it does not continue to operate as a partisan and retrograde institution. One need look no further than the court’s recent decisions for evidence of its partisanship and dysfunction. President Trump’s handpicked court continued to gut the Voting Rights Act, greenlighting Republican gerrymandering to tip the scales of this upcoming and future elections, and undermining a half century of precedent and the hard-fought battles of the civil rights era. After professing their abiding respect for precedent during confirmation hearings, a partisan majority of the court has no trouble striking …

The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1’

The Democrats Can’t Just Laugh Off ‘Woke 1’

Published by Daniella Wilson

On Sunday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made two striking remarks that seem related. First, she barely demurred when ABC News asked whether she aspired to run for president. “I haven’t ruled out the possibility,” she eventually said. Second, she tried to laugh off stances that progressives in her wing of the Democratic Party had taken in the preceding years: “‘Woke 1 was crazy,’” she said, echoing a comment that one of her allies had made about the heyday of ideas such as “defund the police.” Ocasio-Cortez represents an extremely liberal congressional district in New York City. The fact that she is declining to defend—and indeed wishing to move past—these positions shows how radioactive they have become. If only things were so easy. Over the past decade, Democratic politics have been reshaped by an ideology centered on systemic oppression and the radical policies ostensibly needed to correct it. The most common name for it is “wokeness,” which attained its cultural apogee in 2020—after the murder of George Floyd brought millions of people out to the streets to …

46 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act. For some, it’s a liability

46 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act. For some, it’s a liability

Published by Sam Flores

This story was originally reported by Mel Leonor Barclay of The 19th. Meet Mel and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second election, voting for legislation to boost immigration enforcement could have seemed like a safe choice to some Democrats, who tied Donald Trump’s second presidential victory to a rejection of their party’s handling of immigration.  Forty-six Democrats broke with their party to support legislation named after the murdered Georgia college student Laken Riley. Now, for some, that vote is a potential liability, as primary opponents say the votes cosigned Trump’s mass deportation agenda.  In Minnesota’s Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan has made Rep. Angie Craig’s vote in favor of the Laken Riley Act a key focus of the campaign, calling it “disqualifying,” even after Craig walked back support of the law. Democrats in primary races in Maryland and Arizona have also faced attacks based on their support of the law this cycle, while others have expressed regret over …

US House Democrats press Anthropic, OpenAI about rogue AI agents

US House Democrats press Anthropic, OpenAI about rogue AI agents

Published by Sam Flores

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 : A coalition of U.S. House Democrats is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to explain how their AI systems escaped containment during a security test, adding that Congress should hold hearings about the incidents, according to letters the lawmakers sent to the companies on Monday. OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed in July that their AI agents had broken out of their environments and hacked into the systems of other companies during cybersecurity tests. Twenty-nine lawmakers, led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui, pressed OpenAI to explain how its AI agents are monitored during testing, and whether the rogue models evaded the company’s safety controls. The lawmakers cited a Reuters report that said there were cases when monitoring systems had been disconnected during earlier tests of the OpenAI models. In a separate letter, 22 lawmakers asked Anthropic to detail any safety protocols that the company has implemented since its agents broke into the systems of three companies. “These deeply troubling cybersecurity incidents could have serious implications for …