Trump called the Virginia amendment “a blatant partisan power grab" warning that “yes” result would leave Virginia Republicans “wiped out in terms of representation.” Trump didn't mention that he launched the redistricting wars by pressuring Texas to do the same thing Democrats just did.
Jay Kuo
Both California and Virginia submitted their maps to voters via ballot measure. By contrast, Republicans in Texas, Missouri and North Carolina passed their maps through captured legislatures, behind closed doors, with no public ratification.
Jay Kuo
Democrats wrestled Republicans to a draw in the partisan gerrymandering wars of 2026. That result wasn't foreseen in the initial panic and doomsday predictions when Trump convinced the Texas legislature to engage in gerrymandering to give Trump the “five seats” he said he was “owed.”
Robert Hubbell
When presidential aides tell reporters that they’ve had to keep a president out of the room because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful, what they’re really saying is they’re dealing with someone who’s so irrational they don’t trust his judgment.
Robert Reich
The victory in Virginia tonight reminds us that the people will defend democracy.
Virginians who care about fairness didn’t just win an election – they have stopped Trump’s attempt to steal the 2026 midterms.
A message to the White House: We will fight everywhere. And win.
Of course not
Steve Bannon warned that “demonic” Democrats will impeach Trump and gerrymander congressional districts nationwide if they win today.
Democracy Docket
A year after igniting a national redistricting arms race by pressuring Texas to redraw its congressional map, President Donald Trump warned that if voters pass Virginia Democrats’ "unjust" redistricting plan today, it would be a “disaster" for Republicans.
Democracy Docket
And now the country is paying the price because of the individuals that Donald Trump chose to nominate as part of the Trump cartel that’s now doing great damage to the nation, and the fact that Senate Republicans, like helpless sheep, went along with it all.
Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
it’s extraordinary to me that Senate Republicans confirmed people like Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Kash Patel. All of them. Deeply unserious and deeply unqualified.
Speaker Hakeem Jeffries
Secretary of labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, abruptly resigned after accusations that she has abused her position, drinks on the job, and has had an affair with a subordinate. She is the third person to leave Trump’s cabinet: all are women.
Heather Cox Richardson
I tell you what, never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights
Senator Jon Ossoff
We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.
Senator Murphy
While the strikes did kill Iran’s top leaders and badly damage its military, the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz. Trump didn't foresee this outcome, although he was warned of it. He told his team that the Iranian government would give up before it closed the strait.
Heather Cox Richardson
The recitation of Patel’s accomplishments has more to do with PR than it does with a lawsuit about specific claims about his drinking and job performance, which have little to do with how the FBI as a whole has performed its work since he came to the Bureau.
Joyce Vance
The least we can all do is flip Congress in November, so senators and representatives who care about this country can oversee the departments of the government and try to remedy some of the wreckage that Trump and his appointees have wreaked on America.
Robert Reich
I’ve seen government work for the people. I’ve witnessed public servants who care deeply and bust their asses in service to this country. I know how important government can be if it’s doing the job it should be doing.
Robert Reich
Trump’s most reliable voters — the ones that powered his two presidential wins and kept him afloat in turbulent times — are abandoning him in droves...
Dan Pfeiffer
Now that Donald Trump hit his all-time low in job approval, there is a general consensus that he is up shit’s creek without a paddle. Much of the conversation has been about how the Latinos, working-class voters of color, and young men who powered his 2024 victory have turned on him.
Dan Pfeiffer
Democratic senators voted overwhelmingly to block bomb and bulldozer sales to Israel on Wednesday. The vote represents a sea change in Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes towards Netanyahu’s government.
Jessica Craven
Indiana students scored a big win for their voting rights. Last year, an unconstitutional state law banned university IDs as acceptable forms of voter identification. On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked the ban.
Jessica Craven
Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed several pro-voter bills into law, including legislation that defines election certification as a mandatory ministerial duty and authorizes the State Board of Elections to intervene if local boards of elections refuse to certify results.
Jessica Craven
At the moment, there are 270 Republicans in the House and Senate. Almost all of them said nothing. Just as they have refused to question Trump’s poorly planned and impulsively launched war of choice in Iran.
David Cohn
Thomas claims that “The century of progressivism did not go well.” Baloney. It helped America create the largest middle class the world had ever seen, while also extending prosperity to millions of Black and brown people.
Robert Reich
America’s safety nets are so frayed that almost a fifth of the nation’s children are in poverty. Yet Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump slashed taxes on the rich and on big corporations and allowed corporations to merge into giant monopolies rivaling the trusts of the Gilded Age.
Robert Reich
Now, fewer than 6 percent are unionized, which has contributed to the flattening of wages, a contracting middle class, inequalities of income and wealth rivaling the first Gilded Age, and an angry and suspicious working class that’s become easy prey for demagogues.
Robert Reich
Over a third of American workers in the private sector were unionized in the 1950s, giving them bargaining leverage to get higher wages and better working conditions.
Robert Reich
Joseph Schwartz’s case is the latest in a string of health care fraud pardons by Trump.
The president also granted clemency to nursing home magnate Philip Esformes, convicted of a $1.3B scheme, and Judith Negron, convicted in a $200M fraud case.
The Progressive Era and its reforms extending through the 1930s, kept America from succumbing to fascism — as did Germany under Hitler, and Italy under Mussolini, or Russia under Stalin. Progressive and New Deal reforms acted as bulwarks against the rise of fascism in America.
Robert Reich
For all of Kash Patel’s dereliction of duty and bizarre behavior, he remains a Trump favorite because he is willing to do Trump’s dirty work without question. In Trump's 2nd term, he scraped the bottom recruiting cabinet members to do his bidding—no matter how unlawful or depraved.
Robert Hubbell