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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Tuesday to blast "MAGA Republicans" for the recent summer heat wave hitting communities nationwide. Clinton's social media post came in response to a tweet from left-wing think tank Center for American Progress which stated "MAGA Republicans are pouring fuel on the climate crisis fire." The post included an image of recent media stories highlighting the recent spate of high temperatures in the U.S. and noted Republicans voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats' $739 billion climate package — which President Biden signed into law in 2022. "Hot enough for you?...

Confirming next week's planned trip to East Palestine, Ohio, former President Donald Trump took a bow for motivating the Biden administration into action on responding to the toxic fallout from the train derailment earlier this month. "Biden and FEMA said they would not be sending federal aid to East Palestine," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday morning, a statement also posted to his campaign website. "As soon as I announced that I'm going, he announced a team will go. Hopefully he will also be there. This is good news because we got them to 'move.' The people of East...

Vladimir Putin has accused the West of undermining "traditional values" in service to "Satanism," prompting some to compare the Russian president's remarks to rhetoric from MAGA Republicans. Putin said that "Western elites" were pushing a "radical denial of moral norms, religion and family" during a speech on Russia's claimed annexation of four regions of Ukraine on Friday. He said that residents of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were becoming Russian citizens "forever" before setting his sights on the "challenge" of values held in the U.S. and allied countries. "The dictatorship of the Western elites is directed against all societies, including...

Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks at a reception for the DNC at the Marriott Gaylord National Resort in Maryland. The crowd size was pathetic. Biden delivered another angry and divisive speech on Thursday. It sounded a lot like his famous Moloch speech… minus the red glow. Biden said MAGA Republicans “threaten our very democracy.” “We’re literally in a battle for America’s soul! I know I’ve been saying it for a year and a half but I mean it! Extreme MAGA Republicans just don’t threaten our personal and economic rights, they embrace political violence… They threaten our very democracy,” said...

Former state Rep. Geoff Diehl had a phone call with perhaps his most important supporter Monday, the last night before voters head to the primary polls Tuesday morning. “Hello Massachusetts and Happy Labor Day everybody,” Former President Donald Trump said to open a “tele-rally” with the Diehl campaign just after 7 p.m. Trump first endorsed Diehl last October, more than a year before November’s general election, and that support has been enough to keep his name on top of the polls for months despite a severely underfunded campaign, leaving him with a fairly comfortable polling lead heading into Tuesday’s Republican...

Set aside the creepy red lighting, the curious pre-Labor Day timing and the callous attempt to condemn half of America in a "basket of deplorables" that would make Hillary Clinton proud. The better question is why President Joe Biden decided to step into the national conversation at all when he fired the opening political salvo of the midterm elections in Philadelphia last night. After all, the prevailing narrative heading into the last official weekend of summer was one of Democratic momentum. Gas prices were "down" to $3.80. Inflation had been "tamed" to 8.5 percent. Senate Democrats had resuscitated their legislative...

President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech about the state of American democracy and the Republican Party. While there was merit to some of it, his remarks were marred by contradictions. Is this a nonpartisan defense of democracy or a partisan political exercise to win the midterm elections? Biden called on all Americans to join together “regardless of your ideology” to reject extremism, violence, and the refusal to accept election results when the opposition wins. The president asked “Democrats, independents, and mainstream Republicans” to “be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to...