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Russell Cleveland is a Democratic candidate for Congress, running to represent Montana's 1st Congressional District. We discussed his feelings on Donald Trump, the Iran war, inflation, universal healthcare & AI. Follow Russell Cleveland: WEBSITE: https://russellcleveland.org/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/cleveland4mt_01/ DONATE: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/clevelandq12026 00:...

Ryan Busse is a Democratic candidate for Congress, running to represent Montana's 1st Congressional District. We discussed his feelings on Donald Trump, the Iran war, inflation, universal healthcare & AI. Follow Ryan Busse: WEBSITE: https://busseformontana.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ryandbusse/ DONATE: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/2601_q1_rb_launch 00:00 - Start 1:33 -...

Sam Forstag is a Democratic candidate for Congress, running to represent Montana's 1st Congressional District. We discussed his feelings on Donald Trump, the Iran war, inflation, universal healthcare & AI. Follow Sam Forstag: WEBSITE: https://samformontana.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/samforstag/ DONATE: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/sf-web 00:00 - Start 1:41 - How Do You...

Sam Lux is running for Congress out of Montana's 2nd Congressional District. He's based in Great Falls, Montana. Lux has another opponent in the Democratic primary, which would be held in June 2026. Follow Sam Lux: WEBSITE: https://www.luxformontana.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/luxformontana/ DONATE: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/luxformontana In this discussion we talk ab...

A growing list of House Democrats and liberal grassroots groups is calling for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to step down from leadership after failing to stop a group of his senators from voting to reopen the government. "Sen. Schumer has failed to meet this moment and is out of touch with the American people," progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said in a post on X...

President Donald Trump said he is planning on meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Trump has repeatedly bashed Mamdani, calling him a communist and endorsing opponent Andrew Cuomo, the former Democratic New York governor who lost in the primary and ran in the general election as an independent. But Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assemblyman from Queens who identifies as a Democrati...

I sat down with Chuck Corra of  @Appodlachia  to discuss his views on how the genocide in Gaza have completely changed his views on the Democratic Party. We also break down our feelings on the future of the party & it's current leadership. Follow Appodlachia: SUBSTACK: ⁠⁠⁠ https://appodlachia.substack.com/ INSTAGRAM: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/appodlachia/⁠⁠ WEBSITE: https://www.appodlach...

Last week, Steve Bannon, the far-right provocateur and one-time Donald Trump adviser, said in an interview with the Economist that the president would seek an unconstitutional third term. “Trump is going to be president in 28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” Bannon said. “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is.” Like clockwork, Trump commented on the idea soo...

Ahead of last month’s “No Kings” protests, Republicans launched a remarkably aggressive effort to slander Donald Trump’s critics, repeatedly insisting that the activists participating in the events “hate America.” The smear campaign apparently didn’t work. NBC News reported on the results of its latest national poll: The high election interest and focus on Trump also come as millions of Americans...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris' new memoir, 107 days, is out Tuesday with a mix of insights and unanswered questions about her historically short run for president after former President Joe Biden dropped out. Harris has largely been out of the public spotlight since losing the election to Donald Trump last November, but the book release kicks off a cross-country tour. Related Article: ht...

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk predicted his own assassination in chilling text messages to friend and former colleague Candace Owens — years before he was assassinated in Utah. Owens posted screengrabs of a text exchange from April 6, 2018 on her podcast in which the person she identifies as Kirk predicted he would be killed because of his work with Turning Point USA. “If I tell you the t...

President Donald Trump, writing on Truth Social, informed “ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military” that “from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison” in accordance with a previous executive order. Trump’s executive order instructing the immediate arrest and one-year imprisonment of individuals who burn the American flag has s...

He’s the hottest politician in the US, who managed to attract thousands of young and first-time voters to the Democratic party in his unexpected win in the New York City mayoral primary. With the Democrats suffering from historically low approval ratings, one might have thought the party would rally round Zohran Mamdani, to learn lessons from the media-savvy 33-year-old and bask in his soaring pop...

President Trump said Wednesday that he had not yet decided whether the U.S. military will join Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran, and he didn't believe it was too late to reach a deal with the Islamic Republic on its nuclear program, though he warned it was "very late to be talking." "I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do," Mr. Trump told re...

About 50 U.S. Marines squared off against hundreds of protesters in front of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, with the crowd yelling in unison for them to go home. The Marines had been sent to the city by U.S. President Donald Trump along with federalized members of the California National Guard earlier this week over the objections of the state governor and the city's m...

It has been eerily easy to find street parking in Los Angeles’s fashion district this week. In the nearby flower district, longtime vendors have locked up stalls. And in East LA, popular taquerías have temporarily closed. Neighborhoods across LA and southern California have gone quiet since the Trump administration ramped up immigration raids in the region two weeks ago. The aggressive arrests by...

Daniel Carlino is the current City Councilmember representing Ward 3 in Missoula Montana. Carlino is looking to run for re-election in Missoula as he faces new challengers in the 2025 city council election. Carlino represents the left-flank of the city council & is running a progressive platform & vision for the city. Follow Daniel Carlino: WEBSITE: https://www.carlino2025.com/ INSTAGRAM:...

Elon Musk on Tuesday lashed out at President Donald Trump’s agenda bill — which the president is pressuring GOP senators to support — calling it a “disgusting abomination.” “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination,” the tech billionaire posted on X. “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did...

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, says she would pursue at least an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump if she becomes chair of the House Oversight Committee in the next Congress. Crockett aims to be the top Democrat on that panel, known as the ranking member for those in the minority party. U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, 75, died last month, leaving the position vacant. The...

A U.S. judge on Tuesday allowed a group of 14 states to move ahead with a lawsuit challenging Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending as the head of President Donald Trump's new government efficiency agency, rejecting the Trump administration's effort to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, however, dismissed the states' claims against Trump himself, saying he...

Early battle lines are forming over a centerpiece of the sprawling domestic policy bill that House Republicans narrowly passed, with Medicaid spending cuts emerging as a flash point that could define the 2026 midterm elections. Democrats are fine-tuning their message as they blast the legislation, which now heads to the GOP-led Senate, as a tax cut for the wealthy that would be funded by cutting h...

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which the House passed by a single vote last week, setting up a battle in the upper chamber between moderates and conservatives that is likely to drag on well into July. GOP senators are vowing to rewrite the bill, but they’re still weeks away from putting together a package that can muster the 51 votes it needs to...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives came together early Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill out of the chamber on a narrow vote. Every Democrat on the floor voted no, as did Republican Reps. Warren Davidson of Ohio and Thomas Massie of Kentucky. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, voted present. The final vote tall...

The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a reality TV pitch where immigrants would compete for American citizenship, according to a spokesperson who said in a statement to CNN that “the show in question is in the very beginning stages of that vetting process and has not received approval or denial by staff.” A producer who has pitched the idea to DHS said he envisions the show as being a “...

The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza, according to five people familiar with the matter. The "high-level" consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administrat...