President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to file hundreds of cases this year to strip foreign-born Americans of their citizenship in a bid to surpass the number of cases filed in the past two decades combined.
On April 24, a new super PAC called Lead Left quietly filed a Statement of Organization with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). According to the group’s website, “Lead Left PAC stands against MAGA extremists who will infect our country with Donald Trump’s agenda.”
On May 7, Lead Left began spending heavily in Democratic primaries. Since that time, the group has spent over $3 million in support of Democratic House candidates in key races across the country.
Public Citizen is taking legal action to stop the Trump regime from weaponizing the United States Postal Service and preventing eligible voters from voting.
US President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law at the White House in Washington, DC on July 4, 2025.
Youssef Suleiman (right) grieves over the body of his eight-year-old son, Jad, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike as he was returning home from school wearing his backpack. June 8, 2026. Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth arrives on Capitol Hill for a secure briefing on November 5, 2025. Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—On the evening of May 16, the village of Metele in Nigeria’s Borno state was hit by a series of airstrikes carried out in coordination between the U.S. and Nigerian militaries.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with a person in custody.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data collecting buoy is moored in the Indian Ocean.
Intellectuals, the Critical Organic Discourse Model, and Higher Education
In the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reports a Palestinian family of five was burned alive as they slept in their beds when Israel bombed their home in Gaza City overnight. They were among nine people killed in the attack. This is a Palestinian man who lost his daughter and his two grandchildren.
Rabah Lubbad: “The war did not end. It is a hoax. The war did not end. They are fooling people. Nothing ended. There are martyrs every day. There are martyrs in all places in Gaza every day. What war ended? The war ended from one side only.”
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Agency proposal rescinds drinking water standards for four PFAS chemicals and delays compliance deadlines for two others
Health advocates warn rollback will prolong exposure to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, immune system harm, and developmental risks
— In eight days, the People’s House becomes a pay-per-view fight venue, and the symbolism is doing overtime. On June 14 — Flag Day, and not coincidentally Trump’s 80th birthday — promoter Dana White will bolt a UFC cage onto the South Lawn for “Freedom 250,” a seven-fight card sponsored by Crypto.com and Ram and headlined by Ilia Topuria and Just
Yesterday, in a per curiam opinion with a vociferous dissent, a majority of the Supreme Court allowed Alabama to move forward with the election maps the Republican supermajority legislature drew up after the Supreme Court decided the Callais case.
The Medicaid cuts Republicans in Congress imposed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) forced strict work requirements on adults in need of medical coverage, forcing millions to lose their healthcare.
Voters cast ballots at the Northwest Community Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Photo by Jim Obradovich for Iowa Capital Dispatch)
Ahead of the November midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have demanded Congress pass sweeping voting restrictions, including showing proof of citizenship to register — all in the name of election security.
President Donald Trump has appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William “Bill” Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, placing a close ally with no known background in intelligence, defense, national security, or military service at the head of the U.S. intelligence community.
New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade in New York City on May 31, 2026. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Mayor Zohran Mamdani made the right decision in skipping the city’s annual Israel Day Parade — because of the specific Israeli officials the parade honored.
An Israeli Iron Dome anti-rocket system (R), and an American Patriot missile defense system are shown during a joint US-Israel military exercise, Arizona, US, May 2025. (Photo via social media)
The US Congress has decided to vote on a sweeping new legislative proposal that integrates the American and Israeli military forces to an unprecedented degree, a report says.
This morning, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), who just lost his primary after President Donald J. Trump endorsed Republican challenger Ken Paxton, posted:
“An old, but apt fable:
Yesterday the Department of Justice announced it is creating a $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate what it calls victims of the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden. Acting attorney general Todd Blanche said the fund was “a lawful process for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress.”
Many of the thousands of letters between the two founders attest to their deep commitment to religious freedom. | AlexanderZam/iStock via Getty Images Plus
Back when I was a kid in Lansing, Michigan, my father used to tell me that the difference between America and the places his Army buddies had fought through in Europe and Asia wasn’t the size of our buildings or the strength of our army.
(As Stephen Colbert nears the end of his run as a host on late night television, it is becoming clearer than ever that the forces of repression seek to crush what Michael Denning called "the Cultural Front," including the comedians. That is in popular culture today the most penetrating critiques of the drift toward American fascism are found among the comedians. And reflecting on our past, the era of the Spanish American War, Jim Crow, McCarthyism and now Trumpism, it is the comedians who have popularized and legitimized critiques of the rich and powerful.
US President Donald Trump speaks in front of the American flag to the press as he departs the White House on May 12, 2026, in Washington, DC.
The war in Iran isn’t just raising gas prices. It’s also helped push inflation to its highest level in three years, according to new government data out Tuesday.
The White House says these price increases are temporary. “The gas will go down as soon as the war is over,” President Donald Trump said a few weeks ago. “It will drop like a rock.”
Donald Trump didn’t invent American decline, but he has accelerated it with a fury and recklessness that will echo across the century.
There have been many presidents in American history who made mistakes. There have been weak presidents. There have been corrupt presidents. There have been presidents overwhelmed by events.
But there has never been an American president who has waged such sustained warfare against the sources of American strength itself.
Donald Trump is the author of American self-harm.
He’s the vandal of American power.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito relied on misleading data to support his ruling decimating the Voting Rights Act, The Guardian reported Friday.
A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the campaign.
“What we’re seeing is the Trump administration, in some ways, is seeking to relitigate the 2020 election, and they’re also seeking to impose federal authority over the administration of elections,” says investigative journalist Ned Parker.
