Early vote totals in KS-4 are somewhat encouraging.
In 10 out of the 17 counties where early in-person voting data were available, 41 percent of voters were registered Democrats and nearly 48 percent were registered Republicans as of Wednesday,...
View ArticleCoulda, Woulda, Shoulda. Did national Democrats do enough to support...
James Thompson lost last night. I want to discuss why national Democrats (DCCC, DNC, Senators, etc) were conspicuously absent from the KS-4 race. I think these are worth discussing, since the same...
View ArticleTrump's treasury secretary has a deal for America—the same one Sam Brownback...
Stephen Mnuchin wants you to trust him. He wants you to trust him for $6 trillion dollars.The Tax Policy Center, working with the University of Pennsylvania, estimated that Trump’s proposed tax cuts...
View ArticleThere'll Be Guns On Kansas Psych Wards Soon: GOP Governor Brownback Fights...
Just off the top of your head and without thinking about it, do you think that allowing guns in a state mental hospital is a good idea? Neither does the Governor of Kansas, and not surprisingly, it is...
View ArticleKansas Gov. Brownback's tax experiment comes to end, as legislature overturns...
When Kansas Governor Sam Brownback launched his experiment, he told Kansans that it would be an injection of adrenaline and that the economy would come roaring back to life. But after 5 years, the...
View Article'Conservatism' Failing from Topeka to Tulsa to the River Thames: 'BradCast'...
And other things you've been distracted from by the Trump Circus...We'll not be distracted by the Trump Circus (well, mostly), despite what he said in the Rose Garden and on Twitter today! On today's...
View ArticleJ. Swallow "Smashing Native American Vessels" = Cultural Genocide Update: He...
Nearly one century and a half after the death of Roman Nose, Apostle Jay Swallow is on the War Council, has accepted the apology from the United States on behalf of all Tribal Nations, wars against...
View ArticleTrump's tax plan will do for America what Sam Brownback did for...
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have long maintained that the 50 states represents the laboratories of democracy. Republicans in particular have praised the idea of giving more flexibility to...
View ArticleFailed Gov. Sam Brownback to flee Kansas for a job as a Trump 'ambassador at...
Having driven the Kansas budget into a ditch by taking all of the Republican trickle-down nonsense conservative think tanks have long been demanding and stupidly putting it into practice, Kansas...
View ArticleSam Brownback is a poor choice for Religious Freedom ambassador
President Trump has appointed soon-to-be-former Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to serve as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Brownback will reportedly leave office early to take...
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Trumpcare voting process in Senate should make Americans sick. Passing...
Thanks to three Republican heroes—and 48 Democratic ones—the health of the American people is a lot more secure than it looked like at a few minutes after midnight on Friday morning. Nevertheless, the...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Kris Kobach isn't getting out of the way for Sam Brownback's...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleA Mother's Broken Heart: LGBTQ Rights and Family
(Reprinted with permission) By Kae DickinsonI woke up today and cried for my children. You see I have a transgender gay son and a lesbian daughter, both are teenagers. I cried because I see the big...
View ArticleInstead of worrying about Public Safety, Kansas Republicans calculate...
KOSE Union Executive Officer Robert Choromanski has spent the last six months trying to make the public aware of the dangerous situation in the Kansas Prison System. Days before a prison uprising,...
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WI-Sen: Baldwin (D) Goes After Trump For Nominating Sam Brownback As...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s (D. WI) re-election campaign:Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D. WI)"Trump Taps LGBTQ-Rights Opponent Sam Brownback as Religious Freedom Ambassador" -...
View ArticleKansas DCF Fails again, as Gubernatorial candidate's grandson murdered
Kansas Democratic members state wide have been stunned as 3-Year-old Evan Brewer was found encased in concrete, murdered. Evan is the grandson of Carl Brewer, former mayor of Wichita and one of the...
View ArticleProtect those in need? Federal Report says Kansas failed nursing home residents.
Governor Sam Brownback, President Trump’s choice to be ambassador to religion, repeatedly emphasized that the state of Kansas would be the shining example to conservatives —a real world experiment to...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Sam Brownback- 2017 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, a man whose dedication to smaller government and lowered taxes has...
View ArticleRoy Moore win means GOP civil war? Please. Rich man's tax cut shows what...
The New York Times had a headline that read: “Roy Moore’s Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection.” Here’s a headline from the Washington Post: “After Alabama, GOP anti-establishment...
View ArticleTrump's tax plan would do to America what disastrous Republican plan did to...
The Republican plan to make extreme cuts in Kansas’s taxes played by all the rules of conservative trickle-down theory, and made all the promises. It would pay for itself through economic growth …...
View ArticleMO-Sen: Claire McCaskill (D) Issues Big Pharma A Grave Warning For...
Fighting words:Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) says it’s time for pharmaceutical companies to start worrying about their role in causing the opioid epidemic, the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US...
View ArticleCartoon: Trumptasia
xVimeo VideoWhen President Trump isn’t tormenting the families of fallen soldiers, he’s hard at work trying to give rich people a fat tax cut. In fairness, he isn’t the only one trying to give a big...
View ArticleRapists and Vampire Squids
With Roy Moore and Trump's tax plan at the forefront of the news, Mike tackles both rapists and vampire squids in one episode.xYouTube Video
View ArticleDon’t Blame Trump – Republicans Are Destroying America
There is a misconception among many Americans that the country is being rapidly dismantled from within and doled out to a few special interests because Donald Trump is in the White House. It is also...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Democrat Ruben Kihuen will not seek re-election after new...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Census projections point to more House seats in the Sun Belt,...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Anti-choice, GOP-endorsing 'Democrat' primarying progressive...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Can Joe Arpaio's Senate campaign make more as a flop than as...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: In a surprise, GOP Rep. Scott Taylor suggests he might...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Pennsylvania GOP's leading Senate candidate linked to...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleDemocracy Denied and Other Solid Gold Reminders of GOP Rule in the Trump Era:...
Trump chickens out; WI and AL block elections; More embarassment for KS; Help for sharks; And a perfect gift for the First Family...After yet another exhausting and harrowing week in Donald Trump's...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Wisconsin Republican Kevin Nicholson struggles to account for...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleAmerica Is On Pace To Eclipse the Kansas Trickle Down Disaster
Republicans are not renowned for being truthful, or following through on their promises. In fact, it is safe to say that they lie and break solemn pledges at about the same rate normal human beings...
View ArticleKS Republicans shocked when their consultants on education give them same...
Kansas Republicans were dumbfounded, shocked, amazed, baffled, flabbergasted, tongue tied, perplexed, and at times, outraged when a report commissioned by the Republican body, designed to find out what...
View ArticleRising Up Against the RW Takeover of Public Airwaves, Education, Lands, More:...
On today's BradCast: While everything still sucks, there are, nonetheless, a growing number of encouraging signs that Americans -- even those in so-called "red" states -- have had just about enough of...
View ArticleTrump team, Republican lawmakers press for release of violent British white...
It is not immediately clear why members of the Republican hard-right have been pushing so vigorously for the release of a British white nationalist currently jailed in Leeds, England for violating...
View ArticleTrump apes Putin - attempts to undermine Britain’s justice system
It was no surprise to any sane human being that Trump made a mockery of America during a visit with NATO leaders and while in England last week; it is what the “ugly American” has done since his poorly...
View ArticleBREAKING: Kris Kobach, racist Trump ally and voting rights terrorist, wins KS...
The Republican Party, a bigoted gang of kleptocrats that has fooled an increasingly narrow group of people into think that screaming at women and minorities is a solid substitute for governance and...
View ArticleKS-Gov: TPM, "Kris Kobach (R) Is Desperate To Block The Release Of His...
Kudos to Talking Points Memo for highlighting this:Kansas Secretary of State and GOP gubernatorial nominee Kris Kobach is desperately trying to publicly prevent the release of parts of a deposition...
View ArticleKRIS KOBACH WORSE THAN SAM BROWNBACK?
KRIS KOBACH-- WORSE THAN BROWNBACK?By Don C. ReedIn the last debate in the 2018 Kansas governor’s race, the moderator asked the candidates: “Do you think Sam Brownback was a good governor?”Kris Kobach...
View ArticleTortured, Murdered. Kansas DCF settles lawsuit over failure to protect 18...
She’s long gone, but the shift that Phylis Gilmore and Sam Brownback put into the Kansas Department of Children and Families left consequences of an anti-life, pro-save money agenda that put Kansas...
View ArticleStephen Moore, Trump's Federal Reserve pick, is a tax scofflaw and...
Individual 1's pick for the Federal Reserve, Stephen Moore, has already been exposed as woefully unqualified for the job when it come to intelligence, economic understanding, credentials,...
View ArticleThe four zombies of the supply-side apocalypse
Zombies have gripped American popular culture for years. In books, television shows, and films, the undead are regularly resurrected for your entertainment. (Even Jane Austen fans were treated to...
View ArticleState of Kansas wasted $899k in court costs trying to defund Planned Parenthood
Sam Brownback has been long gone from Topeka; he left to be an ambassador, his successor failed to win the Republican primary and the Republican nominee suffered a significant defeat at the hands of...
View ArticleBusted! Republican uses Kansans' taxpayer data for his own financial profit
The Brownback administration ended more than a year ago, with the former Governor turning over the office to his LG, and Republicans defeated in the fall 2018 election. The damage the Brownback...
View ArticleGrift level 1000, as Kansans find company misused funds taken from needy...
In 2013, Governor Sam Brownback sought to divert millions of federal dollars set aside for the Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) and devoted the funds to a literacy program run by an...
View ArticleReview: 'Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan M. MetzlTrevor was dying. Liver disease and hepatitis C were the causes. Tennessee had not accepted...
View ArticleKansas Republicans spent a decade attacking social assistance. Now they are...
Republican governors waged a decade-long attack on social services provided to families and those who are needy. The Republican playbook remained the same: setting up guidelines requiring that...
View ArticleIs that a purple penumbra emanating from that distant prairie horizon?
Quite a few years ago, Sam Brownback had just been elected Governor of Kansas. Kris Kobach was elected Secretary of State. A lot of folks active in Democratic politics were terrorized by the new,...
View ArticleRepublicans want a fight over raising taxes on the rich and big corporations?...
Perhaps the single most consistently held policy position in American politics over the past century is this: The Republican Party wants the rich to pay as little in taxes as possible. Currently, the...
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