They’re widely, and rightly, perceived as weak. The shutdown fight is their chance to shock us for a change.

Now that the president has admitted he’s a Project 2025 fan, he’s given the Democrats a huge target. Do they have the guts to hit it?

Trump and his lieutenants are taking sadistic glee in slashing projects in blue states. Guess they’ve forgotten that their supporters live in them too.

Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.

Donald Trump apparently no longer has an issue with being associated with Project 2025.

Amid the shutdown fight, Donald Trump is increasing pressure on states with two Democratic senators.

The head of the Office of Management and Budget is using the shutdown as cover to push his agenda.

The Trump administration is going after New York amid the government shutdown.

Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.

Russell Vought’s agenda clashed with Musk’s.

The person poised to take over DOGE from Trump’s pet billionaire is the guy who’s actually been running it all along.

Donald Trump plans to make massive cuts to spending—after Congress decides on the budget.

It’s risky, for sure, but the politics are much better for Democrats than some chin-strokers in Washington believe.

Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway.

A Senate committee this week will almost surely push forward the FDA and NIH nominees. Neither one has the public interest at heart.

Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.

Turns out that when you paralyze government agencies, it only makes it harder to undo Biden-era regulations.

Trump and Musk can’t imagine a government that actually does positive things for citizens. So they either weaponize it or destroy it.

Donald Trump is being sued again—this time, by a union.

Senate Democrats are finally taking a stand against Donald Trump’s government rampage.