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The GOP keeps screwing up—as Democrats gain momentum
The Conversation is a weekly dive into the most popular stories on Daily Kos and what it tells us about the national political environment.
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Mamdani’s honeymoon with New York City is far from over
One botched policy rollout is hardly evidence that the mayor’s “honeymoon” with New Yorkers is over.
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AOC laughs off ‘Woke 1.0’—but few find it so funny
On ABC News “This Week” on Sunday, Rep. Alexandria made two startling admissions—yes, she’s thinking about running for president (“I haven’t ruled out the possibility”), and perhaps related, she put distance between herself and the left’s “woke” politics of the late 2010s and early 2020s.
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Ukraine knows that Trump and Vance don’t have the cards
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is bleeding Russia’s war machine dry, much to JD Vance’s chagrin.
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Democrats gain momentum in flipping the Senate
When we last checked the Senate map on June 22, Democrats had a path to the majority. Today, they’re slight favorites.
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The manosphere sours on Trump
One of the biggest reasons Trump won back the White House in 2024 is starting to fracture.
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A Daily Kos app is coming, and more!
With the Daily Kos migration to WordPress complete, we’re finally in a position to build some of the things we’ve wanted for years. Here’s what’s coming.
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Trump fatigue is real
It’s a bit ironic that one of the week’s top stories was one about Republicans growing tired of Trump.
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Trump’s Gaza ‘deal’ will be as successful as his Iran one
Trump’s Iran deal was a disaster, and that’s exactly what this Gaza deal already looks like.
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Republicans think they can message away a terrible tax law
Republicans are facing fierce headwinds in their bid to retain their congressional majorities—a prospect that dwindles by the day.
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Embeddable social media links now live
Phew. Took longer than I would’ve wished, but it’s done—Viafoura has delivered embeddable social media (and regular link) embeds in comments. Please use this thread to test out the feature and see if it’s working as advertised. We’ve already found one bug: for Bluesky links, it’ll pull in the account image and stretch it out…
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Trump voter’s family wants nothing to do with him. Good for them.
A now-deleted post on Reddit captures the pathos and insanity of the MAGA mindset better than most anything I’ve seen lately.
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Rest in power, Denise Oliver Velez
On Wednesday, we lost one of the best of us: Denise Oliver-Velez.
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What is it with people voting for the party that hates them?
Here we have two stories on that same theme.
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The socialist left’s curious problems with women
Political movements usually celebrate their greatest successes. They build on them. They elevate them. Which is why the Democratic Socialists of America’s treatment of some of the party’s most successful women, including some of their own, has always been so bizarre.
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The daily pain of Trump’s vanity
Some weeks feature big decisions and world-shaping events. Then there are weeks like this one, where it’s death by a thousand paper cuts.
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So much for Art of the Iran Deal, huh?
From the start, critics of President Donald Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Iran—the one that led to the current broken ceasefire—noted that it gave Iran de facto control over the Strait of Hormuz.Not only had Trump failed in all of his stated objectives—regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear program, and ending its support for terrorist groups—but…
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Voters on SNAP are sad after voting for anti-SNAP party
President Donald Trump’s hacking away at food assistance benefits affects all Americans, obviously, including plenty who voted against him. Those people are genuine victims. But what about the others?
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Trump still doesn’t grasp the concept of groceries
President Donald Trump is taking credit for supermarket sale prices.
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Trump is keeping his war chest from Republicans
I get a lot of things wrong—but never when I’m predicting that President Donald Trump will screw over his own party.
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Trump’s cult can’t quit him
Donald Trump is using the office of the presidency to enrich himself. But it isn’t enraging the people you might expect it to.
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Republicans can’t do anything right, not even throw a party
Republicans suck at governing. That’s not a partisan observation.