Miles Taylor, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security turned fierce anti-Trump critic, announced the rollout of a new app designed to alert people about plans to open immigration detention facilities in an appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” in late April.

Roughly 72 hours later, a former programmer linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE with a large X following publicly warned about data vulnerabilities on the app while predicting that Taylor would “learn this the hard way” the following day.

In solidly red Nebraska lies a “blue dot” around Omaha where Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris captured the majority of the vote in the last two presidential elections, but the incumbent Republican House representative kept his seat.

Now that Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) announced his plans to not seek re-election for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, a crowded field of Democrats has lined up to compete in Tuesday’s primary, with the hope that the winner can flip the seat blue come November.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading the charge to eradicate state artificial intelligence laws that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs say are stifling, but there’s a problem: There’s still no federal AI law to replace local tough-on-AI measures.

As Senate Commerce Committee chair, throughout this Congress, Cruz has preached the business-friendly gospel of preemption — a legal doctrine that makes state-passed laws subservient to federal statutes — around Washington.

President Donald Trump claimed during his recent “60 Minutes” interview, based on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud and money laundering charges, that the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally was “a total fake” funded by the extremist watchdog group “to make me look bad.”

The actual facts have stood in plain sight for years: An unwieldy coalition of violent neo-Nazis organized online and converged in Charlottesville, Va. in August 2017, first as a torch-wielding mob that kicked and punched student counterprotesters on the campus of the University of Virginia, and then engaged in hours of street brawls the following day, culminating in a car-ramming attack that killed Heather Heyer and injured 30 other peaceful protesters.

Three nonprofits associated with dark money megadonor and architect of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority Leonard Leo funneled more than $50 million into the world’s largest lay Catholic organization — whose donations, in turn, advanced anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes, according to analysis of the two most recent years of tax returns.

The Knights of Columbus, the all-male Catholic service organization commonly associated with local Tootsie Roll fundraisers and pancake breakfasts, spent eight figures on funding unregulated pregnancy centers, political initiatives campaigning against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, and donated money to nonprofits directly tied to Leo, according to tax filings from 2023 and 2024.

WASHINGTON — It’s an election year, and impeachment’s in the air in the nation’s capital.

After 187 Democrats signed onto the effort to impeach now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, restive Democrats have now turned their attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In 2019, Kathy Zhu had her title of Miss Michigan beauty queen taken from her due to offensive tweets deemed by many to be racist and Islamophobic. Almost seven years later, she’s handling digital media for the Michigan House Republicans.

Zhu has been employed as digital strategist director for the Republican Central Staff at the Michigan House of Representatives under Speaker Matt Hall since August 2025. The fact that Zhu has held the job without any public outcry might be an indicator of how thoroughly the far right has infiltrated the Michigan GOP.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a close ally of President Donald Trump's, threw cold water on the president's latest attempt to prosecute one of his political foes in an exclusive interview with Raw Story

Raw Story caught up with Johnson on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and asked him about the indictment that Trump's Department of Justice returned against former FBI Director James Comey. Johnson went along with the idea, although he acknowledged that it was unlikely to yield any substantive results.

On Sept. 24, 2003, James Detwiler, a Certified Industrial Hygienist, conducted what he anticipated would be a standard visual inspection of a residence in New York City for potential mold contamination. What he didn’t realize at the time was that he would be recounting that inspection in meticulous detail decades later.

The residence was 9 East 71st Street in Manhattan, the seven-story townhouse then owned by Jeffrey Epstein, and the site of countless alleged crimes, including sex trafficking of minors.

When the College Republicans of America appointed a student with ties to white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes as its political director, social media praise rolled in from university chapters.

“We are @KaiSchwemmer,” posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans.

WASHINGTON — The American people disapprove of this Republican-controlled Congress, with a record-tying 86 percent of the public disapproving, according to a new Gallup survey. That ties this 119th Congress with the 112th Congress (2011-2012) as the least popular in contemporary American history.

While most Democrats are embarrassed by the new findings, most Republicans are in disbelief, with many blaming the mainstream media for their own party's poor showing as they prepare to change nothing before strutting into this fall's midterms.

WASHINGTON — The Senate may have done its part, but House Republicans made clear Thursday they will not rubber-stamp a Department of Homeland Security funding deal they say leaves agencies out in the cold that are tasked with immigration enforcement.

The Senate passed a $70 billion budget resolution to fund ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation, the result of an overnight vote-a-rama, while a separate appropriations bill funding DHS other than ICE and Border Patrol stalls in the House. Hardline House Republicans have demanded funding for those two entities as well.