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Analysis: Bannon case and stalled voting rights bill show how GOP has given up on democracy

Two disparate events this week — Steve Bannon’s willingness to risk criminal contempt of Congress to protect a twice-impeached former President and...

Opinion: Liz Cheney is asking exactly the right question

Above all, the committee must try to determine precisely what role Trump played in the events of January 6, a violent assault...

Some Arizona Republicans embrace election conspiracies as they bow to Trump

GOP headliners running for some of the state’s top jobs are making former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about election fraud central...

News host quit her job, now she's running for governor and spreading Trump's lies

Texas GOP consolidates power in new congressional maps

The maps that Texas state legislators approved this week under the once-a-decade redistricting process would consolidate the power of White voters and...

House Republicans set to overwhelmingly oppose Bannon criminal contempt referral

During a closed-door conference meeting Wednesday morning, GOP leaders recommended that Republicans vote “no” on the criminal contempt referral for Bannon, according...

Raskin scolds Matt Gaetz after grilling him on Trump's election lies

Analysis: Trump is again upsetting the US system of checks and balances

The political system reveals a much less clear effort to hold accountable the people who instigated the whole event. Democratic lawmakers are...

Bannon contempt referral puts attorney general in center of legal and political storm

It’s a political hot potato that is perhaps unprecedented in US history: How to proceed against an ally of a former President...

New York DA's office investigating Trump Organization's golf course property taxes

Investigators are looking at the value Trump placed on the property in public federal disclosure forms compared to the much lower value...