Outside the Beltway

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Words to the AfD.

A billionaire troll with a West Wing office.

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

Is it the press’s responsibility to turn nonsense into sense?

Where’s my $400,000 a month contract?

Who did Nazi this coming?

It’s not been a great few days for J. D. Vance

Out Trumping Trump is possible because of Trump.

What’s that phrased about broken clocks?

What a too-good-too-be-true story shows us about the modern news business.

A watershed moment in the prosecutions of the Capitol Rioters.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

There’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

Republicans are aghast that he’s abandoned his principles.

Does online performance logically devolve into rage and violence?

They are standing by as ordered.

Fascism is less about real politics, which is what makes it terrifying.

Another bad night for Republicans in Virginia, and another warning sign for Republicans nationally.

Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

Donald Trump has found a new far-right lunatic to retweet.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

Taking Joe Biden’s bait, President Trump once again defended his response to the racist rally in Charlottesville two years ago..

Steve King, who has recently come under attack for a long history of racist remarks, is facing a strong challenge for the GOP nomination in 2020.

Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.

A Coast Guard officer and aspiring domestic terrorist was arrested late yesterday for plotting to kill Democratic politicians and members of the media.

There’s a good reason why Democrats want Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to get out of the way sooner rather than later.

The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?

Iowa’s Steve King has long expressed anti-immigrant and racist views, now he’s asking why that’s a bad thing.

The white supremacist charged with killing a counter-protester during last year’s events in Charlottesville has been convicted of first-degree murder.

There’s yet another rumor that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly could be on the way out.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Anti-Semitic violence has increased markedly over the past two years. So has the spread of far-right “anti-Globalist” conspiracy theories. This is not a coincidence.

Charges have been filed against the man responsible for the massacre in Pittsburgh in both Federal and State court.

At least eight people are dead in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.

In the wake of attempted bombing attacks on people he has criticized, the President is blaming the media for poisonous political rhetoric. He needs to look in the mirror.

New polling in a bellwether Congressional District in Northern Virginia appears to signal bad news ahead for the GOP.

Should celebrities use their influence in partisan politics?

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

White supremacists held a rally in Washington on Sunday, and almost no one but their opponents and the police showed up.

One year after Charlottesville, it’s clear that President Trump still doesn’t understand what happened there, or that he just doesn’t care.

The Republican Party’s nominee for Senator in Virginia really is as bad as you’ve heard, probably worse.

Corey Stewart rose to become the Republican Party’s Senate nominee in Virginia with blatant appeals to racial division. Now his party fears they’ll be the ones who end up paying the price.

Next week, some of the same groups that rallied in Charlottesville last year will be gathering in Washington, D.C. and the D.C. Metro is considering a transportation plan that is causing controversy.