“California, the whole nation is counting on you,” the former president reminded voters on social media. “Democracy is on the ballot November 4th.”

“Instead of playing with people’s lives, Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress need to sit down with Democrats and have a serious negotiation to fix healthcare and reopen the government at once,” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer argued. “We need to end this shutdown as soon as possible.”

To avoid a shutdown, Republicans must agree to protect every American's right to affordable healthcare

Donald Trump’s sadistic healthcare policy threatens the dignity of every single American. If Republicans want our help to keep the government open, they must reverse their deadly cuts to Medicaid.

Once again, the White House is urging Republicans to choose party over country.

After his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump seems especially eager to borrow pages out of the dictator’s playbook.

Commandeering the police and National Guard for political purposes is an unmistakable page out of the authoritarian playbook, and a giant leap toward establishing martial law.

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit aimed at releasing the Epstein files was passed to a district judge who has emerged as a major source of frustration for the felon president and his unending legal battles.

“The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in the Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it,” the removed section read.

By expediting their summer vacation plans rather than giving answers to the American people, MAGA Republicans have once again abandoned their congressional duties.

In a truly deplorable Independence Day ceremony, Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen commemorated the 4th of July by signing their “Big, Beautiful Bill” into law — defunding Medicaid, cutting SNAP benefits from hungry children, and granting ICE an inflated budget comparable to foreign armies.

In a horrid act of MAGA sycophancy, Senate Republicans voted to approve a modified version of Trump’s big, ugly wealth transfer — a monstrous budget that makes huge cuts to Medicaid, starves food assistance programs, and raises the federal deficit by three trillion dollars, all to give billionaire oligarchs a historically unprecedented tax break.

Within the first five months of Trump’s second presidency,  the Republican-led administration has already entered America into another war in the Middle East, this time against Iran.

In a gruesome act of targeted political violence, two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot inside their homes by a masked assassin the same day millions of people would later take to the streets to protest MAGA authoritarianism.

Trump and his fascist enablers have capitalized on infrequent scenes of burning cars and property damage to justify advancing to the next state of their authoritarian plot: deploying armed soldiers against the American people.