Firebrand GOP Rep. Nancy Mace launches bid for South Carolina governor
Rep. Nancy Mace, who has at times broken with her own GOP leaders and often courted controversy, launched a long-expected bid for governor of South Carolina on Monday,...
Maddow Blog | Texas Democrats leave the state, hope to derail Republicans’ radical redistricting scheme
Ordinarily, during a special legislative session in Texas, one might expect to see state lawmakers in the capitol in Austin. But as the Republican majority tries to for...
Nancy Mace jumps into South Carolina governor’s race
Rep. Nancy Mace officially launched her bid for governor of South Carolina, joining a competitive GOP primary to follow term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster.“God’s not done...
Father of 3 U.S. Marines released from ICE custody speaks out: ‘I had hope’
Narciso Barranco, the California gardener seen on video being violently arrested by masked immigration agents last month, is speaking out for the first time in an exclu...
Maddow Blog | Republicans approve Fox News vet Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in D.C.
Donald Trump’s first choice to serve as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., was Ed Martin, a hyperpartisan Republican lawyer whose nomination collapsed in the face o...
Trump’s Slew of Federal Layoffs Is Benefitting at Least One Industry
As the Donald Trump administration ramps up the mass-firings of public servants, it’s not a great time to be looking for work in Washington — unless you’re an attorney...
A Christian college ministry enables a sex offender and Texas Democrats flee to Illinois: Morning Rundown
A Christian college ministry repeatedly failed to stop a convicted sex offender. Texas Democrats flee to Illinois in a showdown with Republicans over redistricting. And...
Opinion - Trump is right about Brazil
The Trump administration’s recent tariff threat against Brazil, coupled with his sanctioning of Justice Alexandre de Moraes through the Magnitsky Act, has many wonderin...
How Big Oil got Gavin Newsom to change his tune
California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the last four years provoking the big oil boogeyman. Now, it’s haunting him.Newsom's casting of Big Oil as the villain behind the sta...
Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP
The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue sta...