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House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., conducts a news conference on the "Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Effective Consultation with Tribes (RESPECT) Act, markup in Longworth Building on Monday, March 28, 2022. The bill aims to "codify into law that federal agencies must consult with tribal governments before taking federal actions that will impact tribal lands, rights, resources, or citizens." (Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images)

Dem Rep. Raúl Grijalva dies at age 77

Griffin Eckstein
Sarah McBride, Democrat running for Delaware's Congressional seat, is seen on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hearing comes to halt over McBride diss

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"Spectocracy": The New MAGA Order

Chauncey DeVega
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) yells toward President Donald Trump as he addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol building's House chamber in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

10 Democrats vote to censure Al Green

Tatyana Tandanpolie
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The United States of MAGA lacks unity

Brian Karem
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk looks on during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk isn't the biggest privacy threat

Nolan Higdon
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

They're coming for Social Security

Heather Digby Parton
2025 (Not) State Of The Union Bingo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Play bingo as you watch Trump's speech

Russell Root
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building following passage in the House of a 45-day continuing resolution on September 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Democrats need an attitude adjustment

Norman Solomon
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY (L) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at a press conference to introduce the Stop The Steal Act at the U.S. Capitol on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Dems won't help the GOP clean its mess

Heather Digby Parton
From left, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, deputy Senate Democratic Conference secretary, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chair of outreach, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., vice chair of the conference, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of steering and policy committee, Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., conference secretary, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the conference, are seen after being voted into their new positions, after the leadership elections in the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Dems' path forward leads to the economy

Adrienne Elrod
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The DOGE backlash hits Trump districts

Heather Digby Parton
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

McConnell wrote blueprint on obstruction

Griffin Eckstein
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover listens to a speech by President Lyndon Johnson, 1966. (Bettman/Getty Images)

Will Kash Patel be the next Hoover?

James Thornton Harris
Mike Johnson, Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

America’s Enabling Act moment

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) speaks during the We Choose To Fight: Nobody Elected Elon Rally at the U.S. Department Of The Treasury on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn)

Why America needs an "opposition party"

Griffin Eckstein
Young mother feeding her baby fruits in a high chair (Getty Images/Galina Zhigalova)

Congress may cut WIC access for 360,000

Ashlie D. Stevens
U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-KY) (L), Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, talks to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) sit in front during a meeting of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 31, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP's sole purpose in Congress: disinfo

Amanda Marcotte
Elon Musk and Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance listen as Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

A Republican rift forms over the courts

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022. (CARINA JOHANSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

Dems file "Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act"

Griffin Eckstein
Entrance of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Democrats barred from Education Dept.

Griffin Eckstein
Elon Musk and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump's ego isn't hurt by King Elon

Amanda Marcotte
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), flanked by Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

GOP floats tax on worker benefits

Natalie Chandler
Trans rights activists take part in a protest. (Carl Court/Getty Images)

Trump's anti-trans onslaught begins

Tatyana Tandanpolie
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