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A Republican state senate candidate in Indiana is alleging that the Trump administration tried to entice her to drop out of her race by offering up a job to clear the path for President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate. Alexandra Wilson said that she was contacted by White House officials in February as part of a pressure campaign to get her to leave the race, a move that would assist Brenda Wi…

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Inflation in March saw the biggest month-over-month spike in three years , all thanks to President Donald Trump's boondoggle of a war in Iran that led to the largest single-month increase in gas prices since the 1967 oil embargo. But rather than acknowledge that Americans are being squeezed by higher prices, Republicans actually celebrated—yes, celebrated—the inflation report. "Core inflation jus…

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett dragged himself to Fox Business Friday to try to polish the turd that is last month’s dismal inflation report . Hassett rambled, slicing off percentage points here and there to make the recent surge in inflation sound more palatable. “A fine performance, if I may say,” host Stuart Varney replied. “3.3% inflation and you smiled all the way through, …

In his continuing quest to prop up a dying coal industry, President Donald Trump’s latest move is to make it more toxic—literally. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency, which these days is more of an Attack the Environment Agency, is proposing to let coal plants use “alternative groundwater protections standards,” which sounds benign, but actually means that it will be easier for coal companie…

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took CNBC’s Joe Kernen to pieces when the MAGA-apologist tried to defend President Donald Trump’s dumpster fire of an economy. Buttigieg presented the inflationary numbers since Trump came back into office, adding, “There's no obvious way out now,” when Kernen tried deflecting by asking if the Afghanistan veteran wanted the U.S. to “just pull out” of…

President Donald Trump has turned on his biggest supporters in the world of right wing media, calling them out for being attention-obsessed hucksters who promote falsehoods and disinformation. But Trump was perfectly happy with this collection of dishonest propagandists when they were in alignment with his cause. Right-wing media figures have publicly dissented from Trump over the Iran war, which…

Inflation rose nearly one full percentage point in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, a jump that is entirely thanks to skyrocketing gas and other fuel prices created by the war President Donald Trump started in Iran . The 0.9% jump was the biggest monthly increase since June 2022 , when pandemic shortages and the war Russia launched in Ukraine led to a major spike in costs…

It's Friday, and we're marking the end of beta week. The beta site will come down early next week, probably on Monday. As a reminder, Daily Kos as a whole will be down on Tuesday, April 14, while we migrate the comments and diaries that have been posted since the last migration on April 6, and do any final checks. The new site will come up on Wednesday, April 15. Even when we have fully switched …

Trump family members seem to have only two kinds of businesses. They make mad cash by trading on daddy being president and all—see World Liberty Financial’s spectacular results at crypto grifting. Or they sell random stuff and sorta hope the Trump name carries the day—see nepo-grandbaby Kai Trump’s clothing line and so-called golf career. Barron Trump’s newest venture is definitely the latter. Th…

Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections . And among more jarring bets recently, the fate of the U.S. and Israel’s war against Iran. Shortly ahead of a fragile ceasefire agreement earlier this week, a new group of accounts on prediction market platform Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed trades betting there'd be an announcement about…