I don't know Manchin personally. I do know Sinema-- from before she was even elected to the House and well enough to know that she's...

When Republicans and their conservative allies in the Democratic Party like Joe Manchin whine about breaking up the Infrastructure and...

West Virginia conservative Joe Manchin says he wants a bipartisan compromise with the Republicans on the infrastructure bill. Is that...

Texas is following Georgia into an aggressive legislative New Jim Crow disenfranchisement hole. Texas' House Democratic leader called the...

As you can see from the Twitter poll (and you can still vote in it here, by the way), DWT followers are too smart to go for all that Matt...

Do you get furious when you see Republican state legislatures moving forward with their plans to disenfranchise minority voters? I do; it...

Spoiler alert: Manchin is sane and rational; Sinema is neither. The NY Times ran a big Joe Manchin piece by Jonathan Martin today, In...

In his OpEd for Truthout, this week, There’s a Path to Ending the Filibuster, If Democrats Move Wisely, William Rivers Pitt is onto...

-by Erica Smith (D-NC), candidate, U.S. Senate Black people in America, and working people of all colors and creeds, particularly in the...

Maine's other senator, Angus King, is not a Democrat. He sports a solid "F" grade from Progressive Punch and aside from Sinema and...

Jason Hacker teaches political science at Yale and Paul Pierson teaches the same subject at UC Berkeley. They teamed up at The Atlantic...

There's a faint rumble coming out of the White House that Biden could possibly favor a tiny bit of filibuster reform-- just a smidge....

On the Senate floor this morning, McConnell, in discussing the Democrats' move towards reforming the filibuster, hissed "Let me say this...

Last night, betrayed by far right Texas Blue Dog Henry Cuellar, but backed by 5 Republicans, House Democrats passed the Protecting the...

Yesterday, Manchin was on Meet The Press pretending that the Founding Fathers-- who purposefully decided legislation should pass both...

There's no way to know if the British tabloid report in today's Daily Mail is true or just made up. Rachel Sharp reports that Trump is...

Good government reform bill, H.R. 1 (S.1 in the Senate) isn't a revenue bill and can't be passed through reconciliation. It passed the...

Conservative and "moderate" Democrats are the culprits. Biden isn't exactly eager to do so, but he doesn't get a vote and he doesn't have...

Plenty of reasons are crucial-- from the GOP obstruction of raising the minimum wage to the inability to get past the conservative...

Biden held a conference call with a group of Democratic moderates and conservatives yesterday-- his kind of senators-- including Joe...