On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said that the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. and federalization of its police force are an attempt to intimidate local officials and the public
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to the federal takeover of the D.C. police and deploying of the National Guard in the city by saying that “I said that Project 2025 is Jim Crow
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of “The Issue Is,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stated that President Donald Trump “has no clue about what he is talking about” when he criticizes her on permitting, but “there [are] problems
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that “government tries to do too much,” and taxing the rich doesn’t appear to actually help people who are struggling economically. While speaking with Washington Post columnist George Will,
During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of “The Issue Is,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass discussed homelessness in the city and said that she opposes creating a department for the issue because “once you get a department in place,
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that universities are finally taking campus antisemitism seriously, “which I don’t think they would have done under Biden.” While discussing the Trump administration’s settlement with Columbia University, TV host
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX) stated that Democrats must ensure “unrigged elections going into 2026.” And also complained that reporters aren’t checking Republicans who say that blue states have gerrymandered their maps because
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart stated that Republicans are trying to “pervert the Constitution, pervert the will of the people, prevent the people from choosing their own elected officials” with their proposed congressional maps in Texas and
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) stated that Republicans’ “only chance of holding on to power in the midterms is to rig the election. The redistricting is just one piece.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that Democrats do not have their hands clean when it comes to gerrymandering and stated that the fight over redrawing congressional maps in Texas is an example of what
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) stated that the United States is increasing food aid into Gaza and Israel is being cooperative, “but a lot more needs to be done.” And “Hamas controls
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) responded to Republicans arguing that Democratic states have gerrymandered by saying that’s just another way of “saying that they are drawing districts with partisan intent because they
During an interview with CBS News on Thursday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) responded to a member of the Texas State House arguing that Illinois, New York, and California are gerrymandered in favor of Democrats by pointing to the Epstein files
On Thursday’s broadcast of Chicago PBS station WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” Senate Minority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that there was “a good-faith effort” with drawing Illinois’ congressional maps, but “It is a partisan process in our state,” but “what
During an interview with Ilay David, the brother of Hamas hostage Evyatar David, aired on Thursday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” co-host Leila Fadel responded to Ilay saying that Hamas is starving the hostages, like they do the people of Gaza
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) talked about aid to Palestinians in Gaza and said that Hamas is “willing to shoot them, the ones who are working and trying to get aid out, they’re killing
On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) stated that President Donald Trump is “going to do everything he can to cheat and bend the rules, break the rules to stay in power. I don’t think that’s
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Michigan Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Garlin Gilchrist (D) responded to President Donald Trump saying that he wants to exclude illegal immigrants from the Census by stating that the Census is about counting
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Briefing,” former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said that the need for large detention spaces is questionable due to how low numbers are at the border and it appears that what the Trump administration is
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) responded to Republicans invoking the congressional maps in Illinois by saying that if Texas adopts its proposed maps, “California’s going to follow suit, New York, Illinois. And I
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said that “people are very unhappy with what Trump has done to California,” and that’s one reason for them supporting California redrawing its congressional maps to help Democrats.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) defended Illinois’ congressional maps by arguing that “Just because you’ve got more Democrats than Republicans elected doesn’t mean that it’s an unfair map. The fact of the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) stated that President Donald Trump is trying to “kind of rig this next election.” Lofgren said, “Right now, we have a Citizens Redistricting Commission. They’re completely beyond the
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) argued that partisan gerrymandering in Maryland is “so different” from what Texas is doing because the Texas map “is a map directly from Mar-a-Lago. This is not a Texas
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said that in states where Democrats have some degree of control of the state government, like in Maryland, Democrats should look at redrawing their congressional maps in response to
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) discussed the debate over congressional maps in Texas and stated that “we compete with Georgia and other states for voter suppression…but it’s bigger than Texas. We’ve got to involve
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Matan Eshet, the cousin of Hamas hostage Evyatar David, said that Hamas has been given power “by seeing that the world believes their propaganda, saying there is not enough humanitarian aid getting into the Gaza Strip, while
On Tuesday’s edition of CBS’s “Late Show,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) acknowledged that Illinois’ congressional maps look like kindergartners drew them, but argued that it’s different because they did it after the Census and their gerrymandering isn’t racially discriminatory.
On Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” co-host Geoff Bennett stated that “Hamas is clearly trying to capitalize” on anti-Israel sentiment in the international community “over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza” using propaganda video of starving Israelis that Hamas has taken hostage. While
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said that Yehuda Kaploun, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, is a good pick and confirming him would help fight antisemitism. Host Chris Cuomo asked,
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul (D) responded to a question on how Illinois has drawn its lines by stating that they drew theirs after the Census and they have racial diversity in their
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” host and CNN Chief National Correspondent John King stated that it’s illogical for President Donald Trump to argue GOP representation in the Massachusetts congressional delegation should be proportionate to the share of the vote
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” Illinois Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Juliana Stratton (D) argued that Illinois isn’t gerrymandered, “we have competitive districts here in Illinois. And the reason why those competitive districts have gone to Democrats is because
On Tuesday’s “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) criticized Texas’ redistricting efforts and said that he is not sure how fair the congressional maps in his home state of Illinois are while noting, “I have an interesting shape of my
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) reacted to the confirmation of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia over the weekend by stating that Pirro “is an election denier” before saying that Republicans
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) said that there is “always fair room for criticism about how universities have engaged in groupthink in recent decades, and that may be very fair,” but “the way that
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that “so much of what has taken place in the culture wars” is “just fake stuff and made up stuff and maybe by foreign interests.” Clyburn said, “I
During a report aired on Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Matthew Chance asked Ilay David, the brother of Hamas hostage Evyatar David, if his brother is deliberately being starved by his Hamas captors or if it’s
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that President Donald Trump “should have done due diligence, did a review before pulling the trigger here,” and firing BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer and “shooting the messenger as a
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that his state is having “a troubled time” economically due to trade issues and “what I hear with weak jobs numbers, we’re sort of seeing that in Nebraska
