By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Most people around the country have now found out about Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s one-man filibuster of military promotions. It’s been covered all over cable TV and shared all over social media. He’s made it clear — by not being clear — that he’s against women in the…
By Craig Silverman – ProPublica – Oprah Winfrey looked upset. The photo caught her midsentence, her left hand jabbing at the camera. “They are twisting everything,” the TV icon was quoted as saying, under a red “BREAKING NEWS” banner. The ad featuring the Winfrey image and quote ran on the conservative website DC Swamp Tales.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Senate committee released a scathing report on Tuesday with details of how the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies repeatedly ignored, downplayed or failed to share warnings of violence before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in 2021. The report from the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A detailed investigative report in Monday’s Washington Post just confirmed much of what I have been warning about for months, no years. Since being appointed by President Joe Biden, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Attorney General Merrick Garland was too afraid of appearing to be politically partisan…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In what could very well be the beginning of the end for Donald Trump and the unraveling of the Trump era in American politics unfolded over the past two days when a special prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice announced and then unveiled 37 federal charges…
Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After months of political gamesmanship on the part of MAGA Republicans that caused unnecessary economic anxiety across the land, the United States Senate followed up on a vote in the House and passed a clean, bipartisan bill on Thursday night in a vote of 63 to…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — New Democratic Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts went on the offensive against the MAGA House Republicans on Tuesday and was joined by fellow House Democrats, veterans, families, local lawmakers and the non-profit activist group Courage for America in speaking out at a rally outside the U.S. Capitol against the…
How has your life been changed by this global pandemic? – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It feels like a scary movie of a lifetime has passed in the past three years since March, 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic national emergency was declared in the United States. While the…
Political Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — While public opinion data shows the American people do not seem ready or excited to begin the official campaign season for president in 2024, especially if the campaign is going to be a rematch between President Joe Biden and loser Donald Trump, Biden announced his…
Politics and the Environment – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In sharp contrast to the previous administration in Washington, and in spite of some compromises on domestic oil and gas production in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico that angered environmentalists, it is important to report on this Earth Day 2023 that the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the country and the world, people who doubted that Donald Trump would ever be held accountable under the law for any of his crimes against humanity and the Constitution of the United States celebrated on social media. Meanwhile most of the press and media covering the…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Manhattan Grand Jury voted Thursday in New York to issue the first criminal indictment in American history against a former president. Donald Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges in a case focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star Stormy Daniels…
Watch the Video – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Read the Full Text – Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address as Prepared for Delivery – The United States Capitol – Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Leaders of our military. Mr.…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Action Network is organizing a new march on Washington to mark the 60th anniversary of the first march on Washington in 1963 with Martin Luther King, the Rev. Al Sharpton announced Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The focus will be on the rise in hate…
Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a spectacle of arm-twisting on the House floor that nearly erupted into fisticuffs, California Republican Kevin McCarthy finally won over just enough of the right-wing rebels he needed Friday night to become Speaker of the House. After a five-day, 15-ballot debacle of a…
By Glynn Wilson -Â WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s hard to imagine that no one in the Biden administration and America’s space agency NASA is concerned about the behavior of Elon Musk at Twitter, considering he is also the CEO of Space X, which NASA has become dependent on for servicing the International Space Station and…
An Independent Run by Liz Cheney Could Hand President Joe Biden Another Term – By Glynn Wilson – Public Opinion Analyst – WASHINGTON, D.C. — After tiptoeing around the issue for two years, Republicans will be forced to reckon with a major question as they begin their 2024 presidential nominating process in 2023: What to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers an address before a joint meeting of Congress. Video Full Text Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a virtual address to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. He appealed to President Biden and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to increase U.S. support for Ukraine as they seek…
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Funding the government of the United States used to be a fairly routine affair, and for most of its history, Congress went home in recess before Thanksgiving and members didn’t come back to Washington until the new year. Not anymore. For the past 40 years or…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol held its final public meeting on Monday afternoon, Dec. 19, 2022, ending a historic 18-month investigation with the approval of its final report. The committee voted unanimously to recommend criminal charges of inciting an insurrection,…
