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Democrats are expecting wide-scale defections among their rank and file when Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump come to the floor for a vote next week, the Washington Post reports. the Washington Post’s Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis wrote late Wednesday: Bade and DeBonis quote three senior House Democrat officials saying that there will be at least a half dozen Dem

HAZLETON, Pa. — Bob Curry is a man in constant motion, not unlike this fast-changing community he’s always championing. Passing a colorful mural in the community center he runs, its rainbow letters spelling out a Maya Angelou quote about the strength and beauty of diversity, he paused for effect. “You see our mural, if you don’t like it, get back on the elevator, you’re free to leave,” Curry proclaimed. He’s kidding — sort of.

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day. “My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017. “Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back.

NEW LONDON, Wis.—After it was clear that neither of her preferred candidates, Ben Carson and Ted Cruz, was going to be elected president in 2016, Linda Behm prayed. Behm is an evangelical Christian and keeps a calendar filled with volunteer shifts at a thrift store and a food pantry in this small community an hour away from Green Bay. She wasn’t sure about supporting Donald J. Trump, the New York business magnate with a penchant for insults and crude behavior.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is blitzing the 2020 Democratic primary field with a series of ambitious policy proposals covering everything from student loans to the use of federal lands. Her proposals have become a signature part of her campaign, solidifying her reputation as a policy wonk and spurring a new campaign slogan: “I have a plan for that.” Here’s a look at what Warren has said she would do if elected president. Jumping off the “Green New Deal,” a proposal from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that Warren has signed onto, the “Blue New Deal” seeks to addres

MORE (D-Calif.) and several Democratic committee leaders announced at a 9 a.m. press conference articles of impeachment against Trump, setting the stage for a full House vote next week. An hour later, Pelosi and several more Democratic lawmakers announced a deal on USMCA.

Speaker MORE (D-Calif.) reached a deal with progressive leaders on Tuesday night to avert a showdown over her signature bill to lower drug prices.  The deal with Reps. MORE (D-Wis.), the co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, will include two changes that progressives have been pushing for over the course of weeks. The deal prevents a showdown on Thursday when the bill will come to the floor for a vote.

Speaker MORE’s conduct regarding Ukraine, a move that appears to have united Democrats of all ideological stripes ahead of an expected floor vote next week. The historic step caps months of internal party debate over whether to make Trump only the third president to be impeached, and poses a test for Pelosi and fellow Democrats heading into a divisive election year. Democratic leaders have faced a daunting task with pitfalls galore: how to keep their large and diverse caucus united amid the inherently divisive exercise of removing a sitting president from office. From

MORE spent a large part of a campaign rally Tuesday evening hailing a new Justice Department Inspector General report and blasting House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Trump claimed the newly released report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz showed that the FBI “spied” on his presidential campaign during the 2016 election. He suggested the bureau launched an investigation into associates of his campaign to “hurt us politically,” despite Horowitz’s inquiry finding agents were not motivated by political bias in the decisions they made investiga

House Democrats on Tuesday announced they would back MORE’s signature free-trade agreement just an hour after rolling out articles of impeachment that said he had abused his power and obstructed Congress. It was a whiplash moment for Speaker MORE (D-Calif.), as her caucus almost simultaneously assured that Trump would become just the third U.S.