Sunday, November 18, 2018

About 60 million people turned out to vote for Democrats for the House this year. That is a **crazy** number. (Republicans got 45m votes in the 2010 wave.)


Trump’s Orwellian argument for violating CNN’s First Amendment rights


We just released a new report revealing Lindsey Graham's Russia-linked donations


People are waking from their slumber: “[M]ore than half of white working class men now believe that Mr. Trump is ‘self-dealing’ and corrupt.” There’s reason to think a vast bipartisan majority will soon see that this would-be Emperor has no clothes.


An ex-associate of the late Republican activist Peter Smith says Smith spoke of meeting unnamed hackers at a DC hotel in August 2016 as he pursued Clinton's emails, WSJ reports. Smith also exchanged an email with Jim Mattis in the final months of his life.


The Brennan Center has found that both reduced numbers of voting machines and increased voter purges disproportionately affect minority voters.


Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same


Tucker Carlson claimed his door was 'cracked' by Antifa protesters. The police saw no sign of that.


Pope: the din of ‘ever more rich’ drown out cries of poor


People are waking from their slumber: “[M]ore than half of white working class men now believe that Mr. Trump is ‘self-dealing’ and corrupt.” There’s reason to think a vast bipartisan majority will soon see that this would-be Emperor has no clothes


A top White House official responsible for American policy toward Saudi Arabia resigned on Friday evening, NYT reports. The official, Kirsten Fontenrose, had pushed for tough measures against the Saudi government.


Dear @StateDept: Saudis lied to you for 17 days claiming Khashoggi was not murdered. Then they changed their story multiple times. Do you really believe the Saudis over your American @CIA colleagues? Your job is to represent the USA, not cover up for Saudi Arabia.


New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit