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Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding
for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity.
Imagination Library,
the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world,
faces an uncertain future in Indiana and Missouri
as Republican lawmakers limit public funding.
The charity, meanwhile, has vowed to carry on.

GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity
Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity, according to multiple reports.Imagination Library, the nonprofit founded by Parton that sends free books to children across the world, faces an uncertain future in Indian...

Die Republik beschäftigt sich erneut mit Palantir bzw. mit einem der Gründer. Der lebt nun in der Schweiz und finanziert nebenbei Projekte in die hiesige Weltraumforschung. Nach welchen Kriterien dies erfolgt, scheint aber nicht ganz klar zu sein.
https://www.republik…

Democrats and Republicans are pressuring TV stations in opposite ways over the rates they charge political parties and super PACs for ads after a court ruling (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/midterms-2026-democrats-republicans-ad-rate…

Scoop: Dems and GOP squeeze TV stations in ad rate war
How stations respond will effectively decide whose money goes further in the 2026 election.

Trump’s Republican party has
“nothing to run on” for the congressional midterm elections
after the president broke promises to lower costs and avoid starting war overseas,
US House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has said.
On the other hand, the Republicans are sitting in piles of cash, while the DCC is broke

Republicans have ‘nothing to run on’ in midterms after Trump failures, Jeffries says
Top House Democrat says US president ‘failed to deliver’ on campaign promises to lower costs and avoid overseas wars

From 1989 to 2026, we’ve had Democratic presidents for 20 years and Republicans for 17.4 years.
Care to hazard a guess as to the number of jobs created under Democrats vs. Republicans?
Answer:
It’s 49.8 million versus 1.9 million.
That isn’t a typo.
Fifty million to two, basically.
Democratic presidents have also done far better than Republicans on median household incomes,
GDP rates,
the Dow Jones index,
and even deficit reduction.

Are voters finally realizing GOP presidents are disasters?
Michael Tomasky makes the case that they are.

Trump is pushing for ending the filibuster in the Senate
Right now, Republicans have 53 votes.
That’s not close to what they’d need to pass Trump’s controversial
"Save America Act", which would mandate strict ID laws for voting and proof of citizenship to register to vote or after a name change.
All Democrats oppose this legislation.
So even though it passed the Republican-controlled House, it’s stuck in the Republican-controlled Senate because of t…

Analysis | The debate over ending the filibuster in the Senate
It’s the Republicans’ turn to seriously consider this.

Republicans are beginning to question the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the Trump administration fails to achieve any of its stated goals in the growing war with Iran.
🔸“I don’t have any confidence in him anymore. I think he’s all over the place
—he’s accelerating the retirement or forcing out some of the most distinguished leaders in the DOD that we have,”
frequent Trump administration critic and outgoing Senator Thom Tillis told The Hill.
“I think …

Republican Senators Losing Faith in Hegseth as Iran War Stretches On
Republicans are beginning to turn against the defense secretary, with no end in sight to the war.

Even in 2014, the Guardian knew:
The Republican party of the United States remains the party of denying women fundamental human rights.
The US press as a whole remains the instrument of softening up or ignoring this reality.
“Trump has long been criticized for his public treatment of women,” ran a CNN headline.
“The ones in his life argue he’s different in private.”
What follows is a puff piece in which prominent Republican women say nice things about him,

The Republican party remains the party of denying women human rights
The GOP ticket of JD Vance and Donald Trump, from ‘menstrual surveillance’ to sexual assault, has made itself clear

Republicans in a handful of states have already scrambled, at Trump’s urging,
to redraw their congressional maps
in the wake of a landmark decision by the US supreme court – controlled by a conservative supermajority – that effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act.
Louisiana led the way, tearing up its old map of four Republican and two Democratic districts in favor of a new one, which will probably give Republicans five of the state’s six congressional s…

How Trump could undermine the midterms
The president really has no power over elections – but that hasn’t stopped Trump from laying the groundwork to challenge results in November

The Heritage Foundation currently finds itself engulfed in an internal struggle that mirrors the one roiling the Republican Party:
how to harness the energy unleashed by Trumpism without being completely overrun by its conspiracy- and nativist-minded elements,
particularly among the rising generation that has known little else.
Long accustomed to placing its experts in key positions in Republican administrations, as it did in Trump’s first term,
Heritage presented i…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.