Stephen Lewis and other protestors hold signs in support of the San Francisco School Board recall along 19th Avenue in the Sunset District of San Francisco, Calif., Feb. 12, 2022. (Stephen Lam/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Dear Weekend Jolter, Somewhere in the jungles of San Francisco or Montgomery County, Md., or . .

Left to right: Alison Collins, Gabriela López, and Faauuga Moliga (Alison Collins/Screengrab via YouTube, Sheana Soriano/Screengrab via YouTube, SFGovTV/Screengrab via YouTube) The progressive San Francisco school-board president recalled by voters earlier this week claimed her ouster was a “consequence” of fighting for racial justice, and represents a victory for “white supremacists.” “So if you fight

Left: U.S. Attorney John Durham. Right: Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters following the 2016 presidential election in Manhattan, November 9, 2016. (United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut/Wikimedia; Carlos Barria/Reuters) Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again on Thursday repudiated as a phony scandal the recent revelation that operatives connected to her campaign allegedly spied on

It may not be a fair test, since dethroning a well-entrenched incumbent governor isn’t easy in any circumstance, but the state of David Perdue’s Trump-endorsed primary challenge of Brian Kemp suggests that Trump isn’t quite the kingmaker people think. A key quote from this CNN story: “I’m sure that President Trump still has the expectation

Senator Rob Portman (R., Ohio) speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Pool via Reuters) The most remarkable thing about the 2022 Ohio GOP Senate primary to date is that no one has really taken off. The latest poll from Trafalgar shows five

Just shy of one in seven House Democrats has elected to retire this year, a historic record. It’s almost as if they’re trying to get out of the way of a coming anti-Biden tsunami. Representative Kathleen Rice, who represents a majority of Long Island’s Nassau County, announced her retirement suddenly on Tuesday. Her seat went

President Joe Biden speaks to the media as he arrives in Newcastle, Del., March 26, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A new Morning Consult/Politico poll shows President Biden’s approval rating almost 20 points underwater, with just 39 percent expressing approval of Biden’s job performance and 57 percent registering their dissatisfaction.   The poll also found a shift in

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) (Tom Brenner and Bryan Snyder/Reuters) What would it look like if Ron DeSantis used Hillary’s 2016 template in 2024? He would begin by paying off tech companies with government contracts to spy on Joe Biden’s private home servers. Why not? His

Voters wait to cast their ballots in the Maryland presidential primary election in College Park, Md., June 2, 2020. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) A Maryland circuit court judge has denied a motion by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to intervene as a defendant in an anti-gerrymandering lawsuit that accuses state Democrats of intentionally drawing unconstitutional and extremely

Supporters of the San Francisco School Board recall talk to voters outside of a market. (Contributed) San Francisco voters will decide today whether to recall three progressive school board members, a proposal that has drawn support from across the political spectrum, but that also has driven a wedge between Democrats in the overwhelmingly liberal city.

J. D. Vance speaks at the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Ariz., April 17, 2021. (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons) Republicans may be well positioned in 2022 in terms of Joe Biden’s unpopularity, but in the Senate in particular, there is a significant risk that the party will lose winnable races

Senator Mark Kelly (D., Ariz.) offers remarks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., October 19, 2021. (Rod Lamkey/Pool via Reuters) Kelly, who is up for reelection in Arizona in 2022, dodges on whether he’d support Arizona’s senior Democratic senator in 2024. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hen Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer held

Rep. Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) talks to reporters in Washington, D.C., October 21, 2021. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican from South Carolina’s first congressional district, is facing a primary challenge. Yesterday, Breitbart broke the news that Katie Arrington, who worked in the Pentagon during the Trump administration, will be challenging Mace for the

In response to Dem Mask Hypocrisy on Full Display Isaac notes below about a bunch of new Stacey Abrams photos. The problem she is going to have is that photos and video always make a story more powerful, and these photos are meme-worthy and funny. They aren’t going away.

Demonstrators rally in front of the Supreme court in Washington, D.C., March 28, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) There’s still a long road ahead between now and the 2022 elections elections, but it will be a spectacular irony if 1) as Dave Wasserman contends, Democrats actually are gaining more winnable seats through redistricting than Republicans are, considering

Former Vice President Mike Pence sits for an onstage interview at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., November 30, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Former vice president Mike Pence on Friday strongly rejected former president Donald Trump’s renewed claims that he could have personally overturned the results of the 2020 election. “I heard this week that

Then President Donald Trump looks on as then Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C., January 4, 2019. (Jim Young/REUTERS) It has become all too common for Republicans, confronted with obviously false and reckless statements by Donald Trump, to either defend him or look the other way. So it’s good to see

Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., February 22, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via Reuters) The Republican National Committee’s formal censure of Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger states the following (emphasis added):  WHEREAS, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger purport to be members of the Republican Party; and WHEREAS ,

Then President Donald Trump looks on as then Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters in Washington, D.C., January 4, 2019. (Jim Young/REUTERS) The former president’s statement is a reminder he didn’t merely want an investigation into baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hile tens of millions of normal Americans were

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally, in Conroe, Texas, January 29, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) In response to Trump’s Continuing Disgrace Phil has ably related the outrageous things that former president Donald Trump had to say over the weekend and the perils they portend going forward. For now, I just want to address one

Former President Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Conroe, Texas, January 29, 2022. (Go Nakamura/Reuters) President Trump has already inflicted more than enough damage on the country simply because his fragile ego prevented him from acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election. But the January 6 Capitol riot, which followed months of him whipping

Voters cast their ballots during early voting in Chicago, Ill., October 14, 2016. (Jim Young/Reuters) Democrats claim to care about voting rights. In Illinois, it’s a ruse to manipulate the electorate in their favor. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE N ew York City’s move to give 800,000 noncitizens the right to vote is the latest example of

Then-president Donald Trump walks with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford, Fla., March 9, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Two new polls show Florida governor Ron DeSantis with a realistic shot of defeating Donald Trump in a 2024 primary.  The former president remains the strong favorite, but he’s under 50 percent in

People participate in a “Stop the Steal” protest outside the Supreme Court in support of then President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., December 8, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) Consider two current news items: one on the “Stop the Steal” fantasies about the 2020 election, the other on the equally quixotic effort to pretend that the Equal

President Joe Biden makes remarks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors 90th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Biden’s poor approval ratings could hurt state-level Democrats in the upcoming midterms, according to a new poll of voters in key battleground states. Fifty-one percent of voters in a recent Cygnal survey

People fill out ballots during early voting at a polling station in Baltimore, Md., October 26, 2020. (Hannah McKay/Reuters) Jamelle Bouie argues, in the New York Times, as if it is some sort of revelatory “gotcha,” that the Constitution gives Congress power over elections, and therefore (1) what Democrats are proposing is not a “takeover” by

Attorney Marc Elias outside the Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse in Phoenix, Ariz., in 2016. (David Jolkovski for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who has been filing and threatening lawsuits around the country accusing Republican-led legislatures of drawing grotesquely gerrymandered political maps, is facing charges of hypocrisy after he

Voters cast their ballots in the Senate run-off election at a polling station in Marietta, Ga., January 5, 2021. (Mike Segar/Reuters) A citizens-only amendment on the federal level, and in the states as well, is the best path forward to keep our elections secure. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A merica’s leaders should be chosen by American

Former President Donald Trump claps as he holds a rally in Florence, Ariz., January 15, 2022. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) A Georgia prosecutor probing former president Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to illegally flip Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results in his favor now has the added asset of a special purpose grand jury to compel testimony from uncooperative

President Joe Biden leaves after holding a news conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C., January 19, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Dear Weekend Jolter, President Biden keeps forgetting, or ignoring, that he was picked — twice — to be the normal, boring, moderating force in an environment where the chaotic and