Author name: Lance Hudgins

August 15, 2025 5:07 PM ET The Trump administration has reportedly created a “scorecard” to separate corporate allies from opportunists, Axios reported Friday.  The scorecard evaluates companies based on factors such as social media posts, press releases, testimonials, ads and attendance at White House events related to the One Big Beautiful Bill, according to Axios

August 15, 2025 5:06 PM ET A university is no place for intellectual honesty.  So discovered Forest Romm and Kevin Waldman, researchers in clinical and applied psychology at Northwestern University, after conducting 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates between 2023 and 2025.  They questioned students at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan on their political

August 15, 2025 4:30 PM ET Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans, Louisiana, became the first sitting mayor in the city’s history to be indicted by a federal grand jury Friday. Cantrell — the first woman to serve as mayor in the city’s 307-year history — has been charged on counts of conspiracy, wire fraud

August 15, 2025 4:06 PM ET Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke is tacking left in her third run for a battleground seat that President Donald Trump has won every time he’s been on the ballot. Cooke, a twice-failed candidate running to unseat Republican Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden in a rematch contest, will participate in

August 15, 2025 3:05 PM ET Gen Z’s greatest fault is being really lame. A record-low 54 percent of U.S. adults say they consume alcohol, according to a Gallup Poll released Aug. 13. That’s the lowest percentage on record since Gallup began tracking American drinking habits in 1939.  “ From 1997 to 2023, at least

August 15, 2025 2:14 PM ET Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn on Wednesday appeared to suggest that he does not remember spearheading an effort to help pass gun control legislation during former President Joe Biden’s term. Cornyn wrote in a Wednesday X post that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is challenging him in

August 11, 2025 2:14 PM ET A senior House Democrat scrambling to retain his seat in Congress amid Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting push is actively pressuring his younger left-wing colleague to not run against him — as the state’s proposed GOP-drawn map threatens to place the two Democrats in the same district. Democratic Texas Rep.

August 11, 2025 1:03 PM ET The House Oversight Committee is expected to hold a hearing with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on rising crime in the nation’s capital. Committee Chairman James Comer announced the committee will hold a hearing with D.C. officials, including Bowser, to explore legislative options aimed at better protecting Americans in

August 11, 2025 12:40 PM ET Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded that President Donald Trump call off the GOP-led effort to redraw Texas’ and other red states’ House maps — threatening to move forward with his push to make his state’s own map even more lopsided in favor of Democrats. Newsom, who has already

August 11, 2025 11:29 AM ET Republicans are continuing to receive labor union support amid Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien repeatedly lambasting Democrats for allegedly deserting the working class. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Democrat, Republican, Independent Voter Education (DRIVE) PAC has doled out nearly $70,000 to Republicans this year. The donations mark the second