No longer able to sit on the sidelines and remain silent about the battle raging in North Dakota over Indigenous rights to clean water and sacred land, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released a statement on Thursday about the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) fight—and it says “literally nothing.” The statement was delivered via email to Read more about 'What a Crock': Clinton Breaks DAPL Silence With Statement That Says 'Literally Nothing'[…]

President Trump reassured three GOP Senate incumbents this week that he would back their reelection bids against any primary challengers. Politico reported Thursday that Trump called Sens. John BarrassoJohn Anthony BarrassoGOP senators urge Trump to back off Murkowski threat House Democrats roll out 0B green transportation infrastructure bill IRS proposes guidance for expanded carbon capture tax Read more about Trump called GOP senators to offer support as Bannon targets them: report[…]

Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Tom PerezThomas Edward PerezClinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s ‘wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE on Saturday vowed to make the party’s 2020 presidential nominating contest more transparent, after a book authored by the committee’s former interim chairwoman revealed a series Read more about Perez vows to make 2020 transparent amid Brazile revelations[…]

Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) appeared side-by-side in Denver on Sunday evening to once again make the case to progressive voters that a vote for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is still a vote for “political revolution.” “To every person who ‘felt the Bern’ during during the primary, America and the Democratic Read more about Sanders and Warren: First Vanquish Trump, Then Mobilize for 'Political Revolution'[…]

More than 50,000 donations have been made to Planned Parenthood in anti-choice Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s name, in another show of creative resistance and organizing against the incoming Republican administration. “We’ve seen an unprecedented outpouring of support, with more than 200,000 people donating in the week following the election—a quarter of whom pledged to be Read more about Planned Parenthood Gets More Than 50,000 Donations in Mike Pence's Name[…]

Powers that went largely unchallenged during the Obama administration are now in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump—and that’s a frightening prospect. From expanding mass surveillance to justifying drone kill lists, President Barack Obama “not only retained the controversial Bush policies, he expanded on them,” as commentator and law professor Jonathan Turley wrote in 2011. Read more about Obama Went Unchallenged, Now Donald Trump Will Have a 'Kill List'[…]

Fast-food executive Andrew Puzder, who opposes raising the federal minimum wage and “has championed every aspect of right-wing trickle-down economics,” is expected to be President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, news outlets reported Thursday. Puzder is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which includes the burger chains Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. among its brands. Read more about Trump's Fast-Food CEO Labor Pick: 'Anti-Family, Anti-Worker, Anti-Jobs'[…]

The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released a heavily redacted, declassified version of its report on National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden, and Snowden charges that the “parade of falsity” contained in the report is “accidentally exonerating.” The report was several years in the making. A summary of it was published in September of Read more about House Intel Report Is 'Accidentally Exonerating,' Says Snowden[…]