I met a group of Bay Area retirees who are spending their weekends driving two and a half hours to Fresno to campaign for a Congressional candidate in heat that hovers around 42º this time of year.
Just hours before flying to California, I was interviewed by LaSexta about Americans who are calling for “household voting.” Under this scheme, each family would cast one vote through the husband.
When Trump launched his first campaign back in 2015, I watched the whole thing live and laughed out loud when he said that Mexico is “bringing drugs, crime and rapists” to the U.S.
By clearly opposing and refusing to participate in Trump’s reckless war with Iran, Pedro Sanchez has done what Democrats should be doing, he stood up to Trump.
It’s been a strange week in Trumpland: rather than leaving Democrats sputtering with outrage, he has been sending convulsions through the MAGA-verse.Thanks for reading The Backstory!
📺I spoke with TVE 24h about the Democrats who split from the party to vote to end the shutdown without getting the one concession the party sought from the start: an extension of the healthcare tax credits that would allow millions of Americans to keep their health insurance coverage.
Beyond Jimmy Kimmel's firing, Trump has promised to revoke the visas of anyone seen "celebrating" Kirk's death and to designate certain organizations as "terrorists." But only those that oppose him.
It came as little surprise when the Wall Street Journal broke the news this week that the Justice Department told Trump in May his name appeared among many in the Epstein files.