Tom Keen flips HD 35 from red to blue in critical Special Election ( floridapolitics.com )
Senate votes against Sanders resolution to force human rights scrutiny over Israel aid ( www.theguardian.com )
Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11
Judge Aileen Cannon Is Quietly Sabotaging the Trump Classified Documents Case ( slate.com )
On Friday, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a new order in the Donald Trump classified documents case adding to the mountain of evidence that she is firmly in the former president’s pocket. Trump appointed Cannon in 2020 and the Senate confirmed her appointment in the days after he lost the 2020 election. It’s deeply...
Democrats seize on Iowa results to campaign on threats posed by Trump ( www.theguardian.com )
Top Democrats did not react to Donald Trump’s crushing win in the Iowa caucuses on Monday with the dismay that might have been expected. Instead, the victory of the twice-impeached, 91-times criminally charged former president was heralded as an early beginning to the battle for the White House itself....
Chuck Grassley, 90-year-old Iowa senator, hospitalized with infection ( www.cnn.com )
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is 90 years old, is being treated at a hospital in Iowa for an infection, his office announced Tuesday.
Wisconsin Republican leader slams Democrats' proposed election maps as 'political gerrymander' ( apnews.com )
Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader said Tuesday that he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court....
Attack on Yemen exposes hypocrisy of Biden and Blinken's "rules-based order" ( www.salon.com )
Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 Restore Some Of What's Lost After Expanded Child Tax Credit Expired ( stoppopulationdecline.org )
Biden asks congressional leaders to White House ( www.politico.com )
ABC News cancels New Hampshire Republican primary debate hours after Haley said she would not debate unless Trump also did ( abcnews.go.com )
I Resigned From the DNC in Protest of Biden’s Backing of Palestinian Slaughter ( theintercept.com )
Biden weighs reimposing Trump-era terrorist designation for Houthis ( thehill.com )
D.C. demonstrators demand: ‘Ceasefire Now!’ ( peoplesworld.org )
Members of the Communist Party USA march through the streets of Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Jan. 13, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. | Photo courtesy of CPUSA
Donald Trump May Have Won Iowa—but He Just Lost a Slew of Lawyers ( newrepublic.com )
Trump tops Biden by 8 points in latest Georgia poll ( thehill.com )
Climate is on the Ballot Around the World | About half of the world’s population will be electing leaders this year. ( messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com )
Congress unveils bipartisan tax deal ahead of shutdown deadline ( www.axios.com )
Harris Warns of ‘Profound Threat’ to America’s Freedoms ( www.nytimes.com )
Video of Vice President Kamala Harris speaking is here
Haley says US has ‘never been a racist country ( thehill.com )
Biden Announces Plan to Cancel Some Student Loan Balances Under $12,000 ( www.the74million.org )
Inside the 'weird' write-in campaign needed to help Biden win New Hampshire ( www.nbcnews.com )
What Dresden can teach us about Gaza | Jonathan Zimmerman ( www.inquirer.com )
Senate to Vote on Potential Freeze to Israel Aid as Democrats Question Conduct of War ( www.nytimes.com )
This Year’s Iowa Caucus Is On Track For Lowest Turnout Since 2000 ( www.nytimes.com )
A New York Times analysis of the results released so far estimated that the final turnout will be around 110,000 voters. As of 11:30 pm Eastern time, about 105,000 votes had been recorded. That would be significantly below the 187,000 Republicans who voted in 2016, which was a record turnout. About 122,000 voted in 2012,...
A Potentially Huge Supreme Court Case Has a Hidden Conservative Backer ( www.nytimes.com )
The case is one of the most consequential to come before the justices in years. A victory for the fishermen would do far more than push aside the monitoring fee, part of a system meant to prevent overfishing, that they objected to. It would very likely sharply limit the power of many federal agencies to regulate not only...
