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Rep. Sylvester Turner has died, according to fellow House Democrats and his office. The first-term Texas Democrat had been elected in 2024 to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who died in office last year. Democrats announced his death to their colleagues in a closed-door leadership meeting Wednesday morning, according to three people […]

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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin is promoting from within as he fills out his senior leadership team, taking a stay-the-course approach to staffing despite the party’s losses in November. Roger Lau, who has been serving as the DNC’s deputy executive director since 2021, will be the DNC’s next executive director, committee officials shared first […]

Senate Democrats’ already difficult 2026 map just got even worse. After losing the majority last November, the party faced a very narrow path out of the wilderness. Then Sen. Jeanne Shaheen piled on. The New Hampshire Democrat announced her retirement Wednesday, forcing the Democrats to defend a third Senate seat in 2026, in addition to […]

Democrats still have a Gaza problem four months after Kamala Harris’ loss. A quartet of progressive advocacy groups are asking the Democratic National Committee in a new letter to better engage with pro-Palestinian voters, according to a copy shared with POLITICO — a sign that the party’s rift over the Israel-Hamas war could stretch into […]

Democrats are deeply conflicted over the Trump administration’s arrest of a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University who faces deportation for his prominent role in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. Senate and House Democrats have condemned the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil as a violation of his First Amendment rights to protest — but have […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and relies solely on readers for support. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Senate Democrats got the message. Senate Minority Leader Schumer was notably quiet as his caucus debated among themselves over what to do with a CR that House Republicans passed that they thought was terrible. Schumer […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free thanks to the support of readers like you. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Jamie Raskin And The Way To Stop The Trump Administration Thanks to the Supreme Court majority, the President Of The United States has immunity for official acts and can’t be prosecuted. Trump and […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and will never bend the knee. You can support our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Donald Trump bought a Tesla, or that is what lazy headline after lazy headline in the mainstream media told the American people. It was as if the mainstream press was too afraid to look […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and depends on readers like you for support. To support our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Leader Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats stayed true to their word. They did not support Speaker Mike Johnson’s CR and required Johnson to find enough Republican votes to pass it on his own. Johnson and […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and will never bend the knee. You can support our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Elon Musk’s Tesla stock had been getting hammered, so Donald Trump tried to use the presidency to boost the stock price first with a post on Truth Social, and then the White House staged […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and committed to truly independent journalism. To support our work, please consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Are Being Eyed For Cuts From the moment that Republicans announced their $4.5 trillion tax cut plan for the wealthy and corporations, people who know where the money comes […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and will never yield to any interest group or party. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now It is a notion that the mainstream media loves that drives Democrats crazy. The media insists on making Democrats responsible for doing the important work of governing even when Republicans are in […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free, corporate-free, and never bending the knee. Please support our work by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now The House Freedom Caucus is once again doing its thing of throwing gasoline on every fire. The group of right-wing extremists has introduced a resolution that would strip Rep. Al Gteen of his committee assignments. PoliticusUSA […]

PoliticusUSA is ad-free and does not bend the knee. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Sen. Adam Schiff said on Sunday that he thought that Democrats should have had a more coordinated response to Trump’s speech before Congress and that he disagreed with the strategy floated by James Carville that Democrats […]

Please consider supporting PoliticusUSA by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Since the Trump trade war has rattled the US economy and is wildly unpopular with the American people, the administration needed a pretext for their tariffs. On Sunday, they announced that the trade war has become a drug war. According to Trump’s National Economic Council […]

 PoliticusUSA is now ad-free because of the support from our readers. Please consider supporting us by becoming a subscriber. Subscribe now Republicans are starting to get a lot of heat about the damage that Trump is doing to the economy, and so far, they have zero answers. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Scott, “President Trump […]