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Please support The Daily by becoming a subscriber. There were millions of people across the country at the No Kings protests on Saturday. Here are some pictures and videos submitted by readers of the demonstrations they attended. Wilmington, NC:The Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Sag Harbor, NYGuilford...

Please consider supporting The Daily by becoming a subscriber. Donald Trump’s history is repeating itself. One of the big downward drivers of his approval rating during his first term in office, even before he bungled the pandemic, was his immigration cruelty. Most politicians would learn from failure and adjust. Donald Trump has doubled down on cruelty, and the result can be seen in his approval...

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Please support our outside-the-Beltway journalism by becoming a subscriber to The Daily. Jake Tapper, CNN, and the mainstream media had been pushing Jake Tapper’s book hard. They were ready to dominate the news and ignore what Trump is doing for an entire summer. The table was set. They were ready to go. This was going to be the summer of Biden scandal, and the corporate media and their billionair...

The Daily is journalism for the people. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. Today’s video and live chat, which you can watch above, focused on the House Republican markup of the tax cut bill. The markups are revealing just how bad this bill will be for the American people. The Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, Tom Barthold said that the committee’s analys...

  The Daily is journalism for people who care about democracy and freedom from outside the Beltway. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. The Trump presidency is really nothing more than a scheme to exploit the office to make as much money for Donald Trump and his associates as possible over the next four years. There is a level of corruption and grift from this guy. I will say t...

The Daily is journalism for the people, and you can support our work by becoming a subscriber. One of the most frequent questions that the American people are wrestling with is what can be realistically done about Donald Trump and his presidency. The secret to Trump’s power isn’t his willingness to ignore the law. The secret to Trump’s power isn’t that he appears to have no conscience and only thi...

The Daily is journalism for people, not the billionaires and corporations. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Sarah Jones described Indiana, PA and the protest:Indiana, PA  is a little blue dot inside of that red county, but it is a very small town. It's called rural. So it is important to note that people are down here protesting. It's cold and rainy today, but there's a lot of peo...

I hosted a Substack Live today where I spent a fair amount of time talking about impeachment. In the wake of reports that Democrats have very little interest in impeaching Trump, it is a fair question to ask: Is there any value left in impeaching Trump again if Democrats win back the House? Some of the reactions to my story for PoliticusUSA suggest that there might be a misunderstanding about the...

The Daily is journalism for the people that fights for democracy. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. After 60 Minutes went public with how they are being supervised by their corporate bosses and the threat to journalistic independence that they face, Sarah Jones was guest on WCPT’s Chew’s Views where she discussed the strategy of Trump appeasement: We have to have shared reality. If...

The Daily is journalism for the people. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. The American people are relentlessly turning out to oppose Donald Trump and his policies. In a growing sign that there is no mandate for Trump, Sarah Jones visited a protest in the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania, where the estimated number of protesters doubled from two weeks ago in a place that Trump won by 3...

The Daily is journalism for the people from outside the Beltway. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. In the micro sense, Donald Trump’s administration looks like chaos with no reasoning or rationale behind it, but when all of the pieces, from the breaking of alliances to the tariffs and trade wars, are put together, a pattern emerges. As Sarah said on the Chew’s Views radio show on M...

The new big lie of Trump 2.0 is that tariffs are about jobs. The Trump administration is spreading the myth that tariffs will create jobs by bringing manufacturing back to the United States. All those people who said we are voting for him because of his economic policy and we're voting for him. All these business leaders we're voting for him because, he's going to make us a great economy. Well, he...

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The Daily is a 100% reader-supported newsletter; if you enjoy our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Let’s not forget that after the Biden Trump debate, voters told the media they were really turned off by Trump’s lies and behavior. But the media decided, as I knew they would, that Biden had lost the debate even though he tried to discuss policy, which they now claim is why VP Kamala Har...

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The Daily is an independent newsletter prioritizing American values like democracy and freedom. Please subscribe to support our work. In this special podcast that was recorded before the Trump rally shooting, Sarah Jones and Jason Easley discuss how and why the corporate media are failing to meet this moment in our democracy. Below are some quotes from our discussion:The Corporate Media Makes The...

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The Daily is a newsletter committed to democracy and journalism, and we could use your help. If you would like to support our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Today, we're going to be talking about the threat the media poses to our democracy, and how the media has become perhaps unintentionally complicit. Sarah Jones: In this growing threat of autocracy, the media has been pushing fals...

The Daily is 100% reader-supported. If you enjoy our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Here are the top three takeaways from the Supreme Court’s decision to hear former President Donald Trump’s immunity case: The legal ramifications, the confirmation about the corruption of the court, and the political ramifications — including a surprising silver lining.* Every day of delay serves to g...

The Daily is 100% reader-supported. Please consider becoming a subscriber to ensure that you never miss a podcast or a newsletter. Here we are, facing another Comey political hit job like the one he did on Hillary Clinton. Robert Hur’s Special Counsel report exonerated President Joe Biden on the classified documents case. But that’s not the headline. The press took the bait as if they learned noth...

There are several takeaways after today’s stunning verdict in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit in which a Manhattan federal jury awarded her $83.3 million, including the legal, the political, and the personal. Legal: To set the stage for this in context of the other cases Trump is facing, his lawyer argued today to nullify a jury’s finding, and the judge slapped them down. That argument is one...