While the Democratic Party pulled off a complete (albeit narrow) victory over Donald Trump and the Republican Party in 2020, they lost ground with nonwhite voters—despite significantly raising the salience of racial justice issues during the campaign.

Did you know America is going bankrupt? Most people don’t. Maybe the saddest part about our country’s state of affairs is that all our vitriol and dysfunction has come at a time when we aren’t even addressing our biggest problems.  

It is possible to believe the 2020 presidential election was fair and legitimate and also understand that tighter voting requirements are necessary to preserve the integrity of our elections if mail-in voting is to be the norm moving forward. Unsurprisingly, Democrats disagree.

Jan. 12, 2021 – House Democrats are expected to vote today on a measure calling for President Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment. They also plan to vote Wednesday to impeach the president.

Although 2020 may be remembered as one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, a new post-election survey shows strong bipartisan support—representing a “supermajority” of more than two-thirds of Republican voters and two-thirds of Democratic voters—for a number of seeming “win-win” policy issues in the new year.

After an election marked by significant voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law, I share the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of the 2020 election.

In 2014, it was south Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar’s border contacts that led to a national crisis for the Obama White House.

During the campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Trump’s border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required.

Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to no longer require one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus.  

Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of Syria.