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Top Democrat says J.D. Vance causing ‘surge’ in new democratic volunteers and donors

GOP vice presidential candidate and Ohio Senator JD Vance is responsible for a "surge" of new Democratic Party donors and volunteers, the House minority whip said on Monday.

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) was interviewed on CNN Monday morning by Kate Bolduan about the November election. During her interview, she talked about what voters "in purple, red and blue districts" thought about Vance.

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Since the fall of ‘Roe,’ self-managed abortions have increased

The percentage of people who say they’ve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. That’s according to a study published Tuesday in the online journal JAMA Network Open.

Tia Freeman, a reproductive health organizer, leads workshops for Tennesseans on how to safely take medication abortion pills outside of medical settings.

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'Fully radicalized' Republicans are ready to carry out 'really dangerous plan': columnist

Bulwark columnist A.B. Stoddard on Monday warned that former President Donald Trump is priming his supporters to block the certification of the 2024 presidential election for as long as possible.

Appearing on Greg Sargent's "The Daily Blast" podcast, Stoddard said that Trump's threat over the weekend to prosecute anyone whom he deemed to have engaged in election "cheating" was a call to action for his supporters who work at county-level governments to gum up the works should he not win this fall.

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'The best people': Harris goads Trump with ad montage of ex-staffers who now hate him

Vice President Kamala Harris will goad former President Donald Trump on his home turf Tuesday with an ad attack montage of former staffers who now renounce him.

Harris' new campaign ad will air in Palm Beach, Fla. — home to Mar-a-Lago — Philadelphia and nationwide on Fox News hours before the pair's first presidential debate in Pennsylvania, the campaign announced.

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'Surveilled by the state': Arkansas professors are concerned about political interference

A majority of college faculty in southern states, including Arkansas, are concerned about political interference and are considering leaving academia, according to a new American Association of University Professors survey.

The new study, which received responses from more than 2,900 individuals, highlighted dissatisfaction with the political atmosphere surrounding higher education, with about 70% rating it poor or very poor.

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'Saps and weaklings': Journalist recalls what Trump told him about Republicans

For the third U.S. presidential election in a row, Donald Trump is the Republican Party nominee — though it’s actually his fourth presidential campaign. In 2000, Trump briefly ran for president with the Reform Party, but he grew disenchanted and dropped out of the race in February of that year.

It wasn't until the 2016 election that Trump achieved real prominence in U.S. politics — and he has dominated the GOP ever since.

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Trump makes it official: He’s voting for legalizing cannabis in Florida

Although former President Donald Trump had predicted that Amendment 3, the proposed constitutional amendment that would legalize recreational cannabis for adults 21 and over, would pass in November, he has now confirmed that he will vote for it.

“As a Floridian, I will be voting YES on Amendment 3 this November,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social page Sunday night.

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Deep dive into use of profanity reveals stark contrast between Harris and Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump reveal a stark contrast to American voters when they promise not to do anything "half a--ed" and complain of "s---hole countries," according to a new political analysis.

The Washington Post Monday released an in-depth analysis of how each presidential candidate utilizes swear words to connect to their respective bases and found two very different forms of messaging.

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'Master class in undermining democracy': How Tennessee has gutted voting rights

Tennessee has become America's most efficient state at stripping its citizens of voting rights, according to an analysis for The New York Times — to the point the Volunteer State has become a "master class in undermining democracy."

The issue comes back to felony disenfranchisement laws, which became commonplace throughout Southern states following the end of slavery, since the justice system of several states for decades made it possible to essentially fabricate charges against Black Americans as needed, and then use that as pretext to eliminate voting rights.

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'Substantial risk': National security vets endorse Harris over 'disaster' Trump

Former high-ranking national security officials have endorsed Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, and one of them explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why the Republican nominee is a threat to the nation.

Retired U.S. Navy admiral Steve Abbott, who served as deputy Homeland Security secretary under George W. Bush, was among the bipartisan group National Security Leaders for America, which consists of more than 700 former and retired senior military leaders and public servants who denounced the Republican nominee and recommended the election of Harris to succeed Joe Biden as the next president.

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Highly mysterious group pushing sexual smear campaign against Kamala Harris: report

Semafor is reporting that a highly mysterious right-wing group has been pushing a sexual smear campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to the report, the group is so secretive that it held Zoom calls over the summer where participants did not identify themselves and their computers' cameras were turned off to mask their true identities.

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Mike Johnson is staring down another threat to his speakership: report

The upcoming spending fight in Congress could herald the end of Mike Johnson’s tenure as House speaker, Politico wrote Monday.

As a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1 approaches, Johnson has two choices, the news outlet reported: risk “chaos” by going with the priorities of his party’s right flank, or try to reach a bipartisan deal — likely infuriating that same group.

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'Very afraid': How Trump assassination plot left Dems in key swing state town terrified

The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump's life has rocked the key swing state town where Democrat voters admit they're afraid to voice support for Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new report.

Residents of Butler, Pa. — the town where Thomas Michael Crooks fired an AR-pattern rifle at Trump and lost his own life as a consequence — report "unnerving" threats and increasingly violent rhetoric as tempers flare over the upcoming election, the Washington Post reported Monday.

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