Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Greenbelt, Maryland will not seek a leadership role in the 118th Congress, according to an email message to colleagues and supporters. His announcement comes as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the face of House Democrats for two decades and the first woman to serve…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — About the time Lewis and Clark were rafting up the Missouri River to search for a land and water route to the Pacific from 1803 to 1806, the global population topped one billion people. It took more than a century to reach two billion,…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Republican Party managed to eke out a slim majority in the House on Wednesday, according to announcements that broke in the late afternoon eight days after Election Day, after Republican Congressman Mike Garcia of the 27th District in California appeared to win his race with Democrat Christy…
About $10 million committed to 17 project sites – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — New federal spending of $10 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will go to fund 17 projects to address legacy pollution and conserve ecosystems around the country, according to an announcement on Wednesday from the Department of the Interior,…
It looks like a miracle considering where Americans get their information – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Uh, oh. It’s been one week since Election Day, and it appears Republicans are on the verge of winning the 218 seats they need in the House to take majority control in…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another stunning example of how Donald Trump corrupted the presidency for his own personal benefit, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform released documents on Monday showing how at least six foreign countries spent upwards of $750,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington as a way to…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All things being stable, the United States of America will launch a rocket to the moon this Wednesday for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, 50 years ago. While many critics say the billions of dollars being spent on this Artemis moon mission that…
Late Vote Counting in Western States Favors Democrats, So Don’t Count Control of the House Out Yet – By Glynn Wilson – Political Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defying the historical odds and the predictions of every famous, mainstream pollster and media pundit in the United States who said the Republicans were surging in the…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tick, tock. Tick, tock. It’s been three days since the midterm elections and we still do not know which party will control the next Congress and set the national agenda, not in the House or the Senate. But one thing is crystal ball clear.…
Guest Column – The Brennan Center for Justice – Although we won’t know all of the results for a while, yesterday’s midterms had a resounding takeaway for our democracy: Americans reject election denial. Many election deniers in competitive races were defeated. And these races were happening in states with a diverse array of political leanings.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Millions of people who waited until Election Day to vote cast their ballots on Tuesday in an American democratic tradition that is historically strained, to say the least, while millions more voted early by mail and in person, hoping to avoid any last minute problems or even violence…
By Bianca Fortis – ProPublica – Leola Scott recently decided to become a more active citizen. The 55-year-old resident of Dyersburg, Tennessee, was driven to action after her son was stabbed to death and nobody was charged. In August, Scott tried to register to vote. That’s when she learned she’s not allowed to cast a…
Guest Column – By George Zadigian – While advocating for America and protesting against candidates in my own Republican Party over the last five years, it’s been interesting to witness how much people have changed. Typically, hundreds of people respond with a big thank you and thumbs-up, while a few dozen hurl demeaning names at…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is it folks. Another major turning point in our lives in this crazy 21st century hellscape world. It’s been a strange week since I came down from the mountains and set up camp inside the Beltway again just in time for Halloween and…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you ever find yourself asking: Why does this crap (whatever crap you are dealing with) have to be so hard? I know I do, and see it all the time in others. Another way to put the question: Why does life have to…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While pollsters across the political spectrum are showing a rising problem of predicting the outcome of elections in advance using telephone surveys, Google searches and such, one trend that has been overlooked by many analysts and pundits is the advantage gained by Democrats from…
By Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies – ProPublica – Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around the world, but a ProPublica analysis, the…
Staff Report – A Tennessee Trump supporter was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Thursday for dragging a police officer protecting the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, into an angry pro-Trump crowd that brutally assaulted the officer. Albuquerque Cosper Head, 43, who pleaded guilty in March to assaulting the D.C. Metro…
By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – Four new polls all show a clear backlash against Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker not only for the abortion scandal, but also domestic abuse allegations used in political ads against Walker over the past couple of months. New polls from the Trafalgar Group, Quinnipiac University, Emerson College…
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – The pollsters and pundits are at it again. Regular followers will recall what I wrote back in July, when I chastised the mainstream public opinion media establishment for predicting a Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in November simply based on historical precedent in midterm elections.…
