A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
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Democratic leaders, policy, strategy, organizing and accountability.
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Trump’s firing of the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners in March 2025 set off a fresh fight over whether he was trying to bend an independent regulator to his will. Separately, House Oversight Democrats reopened a different Trump-era probe over an alleged $1…
Trump’s Sunday attack on four Democratic congresswomen of color instantly became a racial-identity scandal, not a policy fight, and that was the whole problem. The tweet accused the lawmakers of coming from “broken and crime infested places” and told them to …
February 6 showed that Trump’s State of the Union spectacle had not broken the Democratic wall against his wall. The opposition remained dug in, and the shutdown was still a political own goal for the White House. Instead of isolating Democrats, Trump had mos…
Trump walked out of a White House meeting with top Democratic leaders on January 9, turning a shutdown negotiation into another scene of performative contempt. The exit handed critics an easy argument: he wanted the drama more than the deal.