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PoliticusUSA is ad-free and never bending the knee, so please support us by becoming a subscriber. The crowds for the Bernie Sanders Fighting Oligarchy tour are getting bigger, not smaller. The crowds in California, Idaho, Montana, and Utah were not all Democrats and progressives. Sen. Sanders’s office says that 21% of those attending these rallies

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and never bending the knee, so please support us by becoming a subscriber. The crowds for the Bernie Sanders Fighting Oligarchy tour are getting bigger, not smaller. The crowds in California, Idaho, Montana, and Utah were not all Democrats and progressives. Sen. Sanders’s office says that 21% of those attending these rallies

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a presentation of the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the U.S. Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 15, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal judge found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for

PoliticusUSA is independent journalism that stands for American values. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to make progress in securing the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and to check on his Maryland constituent’s health and condition after he was illegally deported and sent to an

A traffic light is red outside the U.S. Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters About 20,000 Internal Revenue Service employees have expressed interest in accepting the Trump administration’s latest deferred resignation offer, a source familiar with the matter told CNBC on Tuesday. The agency, which grew

PoliticusUSA can provide ad-free content thanks to the support of our readers. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Is Donald Trump losing the farmers? Trump’s numbers are in freefall across the board and now farmers in Maine are organizing against him. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners will be holding a day of

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a stop on the ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at Grand Park on April 12, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised $9.6 million during the first quarter of 2025, the strongest ever quarter for the New York

Do you want news and journalism delivered directly to you that isn’t filtered through a billionaire or a corporation? If you do, please consider becoming a subscriber to PoliticusUSA. Donald Trump did not carry Independents in the 2024 election, but he came close. Vice President Harris beat Trump among Independents 46%-43%. Trump started off his

Singapore, city skyline and The Merlion, dusk Walter Bibikow | Stone | Getty Images Singapore will head to the polls on May 3, after President Tharman Shanmugaratnam dissolved the city-state’s parliament on Tuesday. The Nomination Day will be on April 23, according to the country’s election department. Prospective candidates will file their election papers on

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, thanks to the support of readers like you. Please support us by becoming a subscriber. Remember when Donald Trump said that he would end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office? Trump said it would be easy. He would pick up the phone and make it happen. Yeah, that

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters The Trump administration told a federal judge on Monday that it does not have the authority to compel El Salvador to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the

PoliticusUSA is proud to be an independent news source you can trust. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. When Vice President JD Vance isn’t hiding from protesters in Vermont or getting shipped off to Greenland to be the cover for his wife after it was discovered that the local residents didn’t want her

This combination of pictures created on April 09, 2025 shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after a meeting with Russian officials at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025 (L); and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah on March 7,

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and never bending the knee, and you can support us by becoming a subscriber. Trump has been playing a shell game with the markets on tariff news in what appears to be a bid to keep away market crashes and bad headlines. On late Friday night, it was reported that exemptions would

U.S. President Donald Trump Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump and his top trade officials on Sunday added to the confusion over his administration’s tariff plans, including newly announced exemptions for reciprocal tariffs on electronic products such as phones, computers and semiconductors.  Trump and his aides suggested the exemptions — which erased added tariffs

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and proudly independent. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. At 2 AM while his family was inside, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence in Pennsylvania was set on fire over Passover. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, “An arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg last night as Gov. Josh Shapiro

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., Feb. 21, 2025. Steven Hirsch | Via Reuters Lawyer for Luigi Mangione on Friday asked a federal judge in New York to block

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and will never bend the knee. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. According to the social media of the Bernie Sanders operation, Saturday’s Fighting Oligarchy rally has drawn a massive crowd. The Sanders political arm posted on X: Thank you Los Angeles! 15,000 people are already on site. @AOC and

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks, ahead of signing executive orders, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 9, 2025.  Nathan Howard | Reuters President Donald Trump exempted smartphones, computers, and other tech devices and components from his reciprocal tariffs, new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows. The guidance, issued late Friday

PoliticusUSA can be ad-free because of the support of readers like you. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. The reason why the mainstream media gets it wrong so often when they cover American politics is because they endlessly focus on Donald Trump. As the Fighting Oligarchy rally, which reportedly has a crowd size