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Top 10 Highest Popular Vote Totals in U.S. Presidential History

While the Electoral College is the constitutional mechanism that decides our presidents, the national popular vote remains the rawest measure of a candidate’s connection with the American people. It is a powerful, if unofficial, gauge of the political will of the nation at a single moment in...

Melania Trump Takes Larger Role on World Stage with Personal Letter to Putin on Ukraine War

As presidents and prime ministers debate the hard edges of a peace deal for Ukraine – territory, treaties, and security guarantees – a second, quieter track of diplomacy has opened. A sealed letter was passed from an American president to a Russian one in Alaska. Days later, a Ukrainian...

DNI Gabbard Revokes Security Clearances for 37 Former and Current Intelligence Officials

A security clearance is the essential key that grants access to America’s most sensitive secrets. In a dramatic and sweeping move on Tuesday, the nation’s top intelligence official, at the direction of President Trump, revoked that key for 37 current and former intelligence officials. This is...

Trump Gives “Assurance” of No U.S. Troops in Ukraine as Part of Peace Framework

In the wake of his high-stakes summit with Ukrainian and European leaders, President Trump has made a powerful and seemingly definitive promise to the American people. He declared on Tuesday that there will be “no U.S. troops defending Ukraine’s border,” an “assurance” he suggested would...

The Death of States’ Rights? A President’s “Novel Take” on the Constitution

In a social media post on Monday, the President of the United States made one of the most explicit and constitutionally radical claims of his time in office. Announcing a new push against mail-in ballots and voting machines, he declared that the states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal...

Texas Democrats End Walkout, Face Police Surveillance as Redistricting Vote Looms

The dramatic, month-long exile is over. The Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a Republican power play have returned to Austin, but not to a hero’s welcome from their colleagues. Instead, they were met by state police and a demand from Republican leadership to sign what they are calling...

Fighting Fire with Fire: Newsom’s Push to Redraw California Maps Faces Bipartisan Opposition at Home

“Donald Trump, you have poked the bear and we will punch back,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared. The “punch” he is proposing is a plan to dismantle his own state’s celebrated, voter-approved independent redistricting commission in order to draw a new, partisan...

Trump, Citing Putin, Vows To Change Voting Laws Ahead Of Midterms

In a constitutionally alarming development, the President of the United States, fresh from a summit with the autocratic leader of Russia, is now citing that leader’s “advice” as the basis for a new campaign to overhaul the American election system. Citing Vladimir Putin, President Trump is...

Conservative Appeals Court Rules Louisiana Map is an “Illegal Racial Gerrymander.”

A panel of judges on the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a Republican-drawn congressional map in Louisiana. The court ruled that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that violates the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. This ruling is more than just a...

‘Weaponization’ Chief Vows to Investigate ‘EVERYTHING’ Dems Like Tish James and Adam Schiff Have Ever Done

In a remarkably candid television interview this weekend, the man President Trump has put in charge of investigating the “weaponization” of the government has revealed a stunning and controversial investigative philosophy. Ed Martin, the head of the Justice Department’s “Weaponization...

Fired Trump Official Alleges “Corrupt Lobbyists” and “Bribes” Control the Justice Department

A recently fired top official from the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has accused his former superiors of corruption, alleging they allowed “corrupt lobbyists” to pervert justice in the handling of a major technology merger. Roger Alford, the former No. 2 official in the division,...

Putin Sends a Brutal Message During Zelenskyy’s White House Peace Summit

In the stately, climate-controlled quiet of the White House, the President of the United States met with his Ukrainian counterpart to discuss the delicate framework of a potential peace deal. At that very moment, half a world away, Russian drones were slamming into a residential building in...

Comeback Kid? Sherrod Brown Launches Bid to Take Back Ohio Senate Seat from Trump’s GOP

A political veteran, narrowly defeated after decades in office, is stepping back into the arena for a high-stakes rematch. Former Senator Sherrod Brown’s announcement that he will run for his old Ohio Senate seat in 2026 sets the stage for one of the most closely watched races of the midterm...

Trump’s DOJ Declares Victory in DC, Touting MS-13 Arrest as Mayor Decries “Authoritarian Push.”

The first results of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C. are in. The administration is hailing its crime crackdown as an “extraordinary effort,” highlighted by the arrest of an MS-13 gang member and the seizure of dozens of firearms. At the same time, the city’s elected leaders are...

Trump’s State Dept. Yanks 6,000 Student Visas for “Support for Terrorism” and Other Crimes

The U.S. State Department has revoked more than 6,000 student visas so far in 2025, citing reasons ranging from visa overstays and criminal acts to “support for terrorism.” This aggressive enforcement, which has included “heightened scrutiny” of students involved in pro-Palestinian...

Trump Presents Ukraine with a “Comprehensive Settlement” Critics Call a Capitulation

Just last week, the President was issuing ultimatums and threatening sanctions against Russia. This week, after a single, private meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, he is hosting the Ukrainian president in Washington to present a “comprehensive settlement” that reportedly requires major...

Trump Vows to Use Executive Power to Secure Our Elections from “Democrat Cheating”

In a fiery social media post on Monday, President Donald Trump declared a new war on mail-in voting, vowing to lead a movement to eliminate it and promising to use his executive power to overhaul how elections are run. But his post did more than just attack a voting method used by millions of...

Texas Democrats End Walkout as California Prepares “Retaliatory” Gerrymander

After a two-week standoff that ground the Texas legislature to a halt, the Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a Republican redistricting plan are returning. Their return is not a surrender. It is a calculated move in a much larger, and more constitutionally dangerous, political war....

A Tense White House Summit Pits Trump’s Deal Against a Wall of Resistance

The leader of a war-torn nation, flanked by the heads of Europe’s greatest powers, has come to the White House – not just to ask for help, but to resist pressure from his most powerful ally. President Donald Trump, fresh off his summit with Vladimir Putin, is pushing for a swift end to the war...

Trump’s DOJ Fights to Keep Alina Habba in Power in “Unprecedented” Constitutional Showdown

A federal judge is poised this week to decide who holds the legitimate power of a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. The case, brought by a criminal defendant, challenges a series of “unprecedented” maneuvers by the White House to install the President’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, in the...