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A painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform is back on display in the West Point's library, several years after the storied academy removed honors to the Civil War military leader. There also are plans to restore a bust of Lee that had been removed from a plaza at the U.S. Military Academy, and a quote from Lee about honor that was removed from a separate plaza is now on display beneath the portrait, an Army spokesperson said Tuesday.

Proving yet again that the Democrat train has jumped its tracks, far-left Representative John Larson of Connecticut compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Nazis. The narrative that enforcing federal immigration law resembles Nazi Germany has become a key narrative among Democrats. Illegal aliens are key constituents, and someday, Democrats hope, voters. So Larson joins the long line of crackpot Democrats — Boston Mayor Michelle and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz among them — who can’t stand to see those future voters deported. Larson represents the norm in the Democrat party: pro-illegal alien, but anti-federal immigration law.Days ago, for instance, he...

President Donald Trump’s recent focus on urban crime presents a classic dilemma for Democrats. If they point out that his lurid portrait of a violent epidemic is inaccurate, they risk turning off voters who agree with him on an emotional level. But if they go along with it, they risk legitimizing his power grab. Trump and his Republican allies clearly hope to ride this issue all the way into next year’s midterms, so Democrats need to come up with a counteroffensive soon. Fortunately for them, there is a group of Democrats who know exactly how to run — and win...

Staff at the African Development Foundation, a USAID-affiliated federal agency, have returned to work after a D.C. judge overturned the Trump administration’s abolition of the agency — even as a new inspector general’s report blasted the agency for misleading Congress.A USAID inspector general’s report released Thursday lists Mathieu Zahui as one of the agency’s current top employees, even though the IG told a D.C. judge last year that it had seized Zahui’s phone and found evidence that he took secret payments from a company to which he steered suspicious contracts.Early in the Trump administration, Zahui told the White House that...

DC under Trump = Pyongyang on the Potomac! That was the absurd analogy that CNN This Morning host Audie Cornish tried to make on Tuesday's show. Reacting to the news that there have been no murders in the capital for 12 days running under Trump's crime-fighting moves there, Cornish said as she held up the New York Post: "Actually, there's probably no murders in North Korea, too."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Tuesday on CNN’s “News Central,” anti-Trump political commentator George Conway said that during his second term, President Donald Trump was acting like a fascist dictator, including Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler. Host John Berman said, “So there’s floating this idea of an investigation into Chris Christie. There is the actual federal investigation into former national security advisor John Bolton, the search of his home, which you witnessed firsthand down the street from your home in Bethesda. What do you see as going on here?” Conway said, “This is not America. This is not healthy. This is, and I hate, you...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump is risking a “civil war” by not allowing Congress members to visit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. Waters visited the Metropolitan Detention Center and Department of Homeland Security Field Office in Los Angeles, California, on Monday with her colleagues, Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA).

Randi Weingarten just promoted her new book calling those on the side of parents "Fascists." She's wearing a shirt that says "Protect Our Kids." She thinks she owns your kids. Wake up, parents. Dismantle the teachers unions.

The Democrat will run for the seat held by GOP. Sen Jon Husted, who was appointed to serve the remainder of Vice President JD Vance's term. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown has decided to run for the Senate next year in Ohio, according to three sources familiar with his plans, potentially putting the Republican-leaning state in play for Democrats. Brown lost his race for a fourth term last year by about 3.5 percentage points as President Donald Trump carried Ohio by 11 points. But a midterm year is typically tougher for the president's party, and Democrats have been aggressively recruiting Brown...

Illinois Gov. JB . ...Pritzker slammed President Donald Trump as a "cheater" and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as a "joke" days after welcoming Texas Democrats who fled their state in protest of GOP-led redistricting efforts.... .

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, tried to block a member of the Texas House from closing out a news conference on Monday in Illinois, thinking she held the coveted final speaking slot. Crockett joined a group of Texas House lawmakers who had fled to Illinois over the weekend to block Republicans from voting on a congressional redistricting map. - snip - Crockett took to the podium at the Warrenville, Illinois, news conference on Monday by first announcing, “I will be your last and final speaker.” - snip - Crocket said her fellow congressional Democrats’ response to Republican...

Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer called out the GOP’s effort to implement a new congressional map in Texas for being an unfair power grab. In a post to X on Tuesday, the former press secretary for President George W. Bush spoke out against the GOP’s mid-decade redistricting plan — which would make five districts favorable to Republicans in areas currently represented by Democrats.

As you're already aware, Texas Democrats have fled democracy because they know they will lose a vote on redrawing U.S. congressional districts in the Lone Star State. Calling it 'gerrymandering,' they hypocritically hopped a plane to Illinois, which is one of the worst states for Democrat Party gerrymandering. Hating billionaires, they rushed to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who put them all up in one of his luxury hotels. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the vacationing Dems are facing arrest. That's got Jasmine Crockett being dumber than ever and promising to throw fists. (WATCH) VIDEO AT LINK............. They’re not putting...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder warned that if Texas Republicans succeed at gerrymandering the state's congressional districts, it could impact the legitimacy of the certification of the next presidential election. "If they were somehow able to hold on to the House in 2026, that is the House of Representatives that would have to certify who won the presidential election come 2028," Holder said Monday night on CNN. ERIC HOLDER: This is not a Texas problem. Yeah, the focus of this issue is Texas, but this is a national problem. And you’ve got to understand—if somehow, some way, Republicans are able...

Former President Obama on Tuesday blasted the Texas GOP’s attempts to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional lines as “a power grab” that threatens democracy. “We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy,” Obama said in a post on the social platform X. The former president shared a post from All On The Line, a campaign affiliated with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), promoting a virtual event on redistricting.

Jim Acosta @Acosta A show you don’t want to miss at 4p ET / 1p PT. I’ll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. Plus Texas State Rep. @jamestalarico - see you soon on Substack and later on YouTube.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening felony charges and replacement of Texas state Democrats as they push to block a vote for a Trump-backed congressional map. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) joins Ana Cabrera, slamming Republican leaders in Texas and the Trump administration for the gerrymandered map.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed to “fight fire with fire” amid Republican efforts to enact redistricting in Texas on

Former ABC News correspondent Terry Moran worried Tuesday that the U.S. will soon lose its free press if President Donald Trump is not "stopped." Moran, who was fired in June from the network where he worked for almost 28 years after posting a scathing social media rant against Trump and White House aide Stephen Miller, discussed the state of the media with former MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Substack. Lamenting the recent CBS/Paramount settlement with Trump, and other media shakeups, Matthews worried about the implications of media outlets caving to the president’s demands. "Is this going to keep going?" Matthews...

@CAgovernor Whether we have to call a special election, set up a ballot initiative, write a bill, or fight it out in court, make no mistake: If Texas Republicans go through with @realDonaldTrump's demands to redistrict the GOP to victory in the 2026 elections, California will be ready.