Back in 2010, I coined a term to describe a specific kind of political threat: the Insidersaurus. From its very inception in my 2010 U.S. Senate campaign ad, the term was engineered to target the corrosive reality of insider politics: the insulated class of career politicians, consultants, and political elites who operate in a vacuum […]
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne hides a rock hammer inside a hollowed-out Bible. In Everett, Washington, school officials decided the Bible itself was the contraband. On Oct. 13, the Everett Public Schools board approved a settlement with LifeWise Academy, a privately funded, off-campus Bible program. The district agreed to pay $275,000 in attorney’s fees, […]
We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide. Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent […]
President Trump’s growing list of promised “goodies” if Republicans win has become more niche the closer the country gets to the midterm elections. Trump and the GOP are hoping his big promises to voters will get them out to the polls on Election Day in less than two weeks. From payment of a $5,000 dividend to...
Canada has allegedly barred its diplomats from interacting with U.S. midterm candidates to avoid any allegations of election interference from the Trump administration, according to multiple reports. Written guidance issued earlier this week reportedly ordered Canadian officials based in the U.S. not to meet with candidates — or even be in the same room with...
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled New Hampshire’s top election official can fully stop voters from using their student IDs when showing up to the polls in the midterms — a request backed by the Republican National Committee (RNC). A lower judge ruled officials had improperly gone further than a new state law placing restrictions on...
President Trump said Thursday that he has “no idea” why the Justice Department is investigating Corey Lewandowski for misconduct, but that anyone working for him has to be honest. Those that are not honest, Trump went on to say, will face the DOJ. "I want my people to be honest, and if they're not going...
Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Healthcare The Big Story MAHA leader resigns from administration Calley Means, a top adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a leader in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, resigned from the Trump administration Thursday, less than two weeks before the...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Senators urge Hegseth, Rubio to release funding for Baltic Security Initiative A bipartisan group of senators are urging Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio to release the remaining congressional-approved funds for the...
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson (R) is sharing his concerns about rural turnout in his election, as early voting is underway across the Peach State. “I am concerned that rural Georgia still thinks we’re red and therefore they look at somebody like myself and my opponent and just say, ‘Well, there’s no comparison,’” Jackson said...
SpaceX investor Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, said he is “disgusted” by the recent events surrounding the slowdown of Starlink services in Ukraine, which impacted the country’s military capabilities. “As a SpaceX shareholder I am disgusted,” Gerber said Wednesday during an appearance on CNN. “I think that these decisions were strategically horrendous and from...
The controversy over Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s mother is pitting President Trump and Vice President Vance against Ohio’s Republican establishment less than two weeks out from Election Day. A number of Ohio Republicans, including Gov. Mike DeWine and Sen. Jon Husted, have denounced the ad, which...
Top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee demanded answers Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the agency’s funding of a controversial hepatitis B clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau. The CDC awarded $1.6 million last year to Danish researchers to conduct the study in Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West...
In today’s issue: Candidates in some of the most critical Senate and governor's races took to the stage for a final time Wednesday as voters have already started casting their ballots, with less than two weeks to go before Election Day. While President Trump is not on the ballot, he was at the center of the conversation...
