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The DNC Finally Releases Its 2024 Autopsy, And It's A Total Whitewash The Democratic National Committee has released its long-awaited "autopsy" of the 2024 presidential election, and it is getting panned from all sides for being evasive, poorly constructed, and conspicuously silent on the two most consequential decisions the party made in 2024. DNC Chair Ken Martin had been sitting on this report since late last year. He pledged transparency, then reversed course in December, saying he would not release it. The reversal created a slow-motion credibility crisis. NBC News described...

President's Party Up Against Poor Odds In The Midterms The Republican Party is controlling the House, the Senate and the presidency at the moment, but the midterm elections coming up at in November have the power to change this Status Quo. Congressional and presidential approval are near all-time lows as the Trump administration's wars are proving unpopular, but the party is also up against a historical precedent at the same time: The president's party rarely does well in the midterms. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, using data by The American Presidency Project, there...

Lindsay Clancy Juror Admits To Feminist Motives Behind Trial It's not surprising, but it is discouraging how accurate the conservative analysis of the Lindsay Clancy trial has become.  Every suspicion has proven correct about the jury and every fear about their motives is proving more substantial.  The trial itself symbolizes a disastrous miscarriage of justice in favor of ideology; it offers proof that in an age of social media and political cultism, finding an impartial jury is increasingly impossible.  Thanks to the "rogue juror" the deliberations did not lead to a...