People on the right and left are sick of big corporations - like media companies - having become such a dominant force in our economy and our culture. Whichever party offers a vision to break up concentrated economic power has the potential to capture a new alignment of voters.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

I talked on MSNBC today about the corruption playing out at the FCC. This isn't just about Jimmy Kimmel being silenced. The FCC is planning to change the rules to allow the company that shut down Kimmel to have a monopoly-like stake in local TV ownership.

The federal workers who take care of our veterans, inspect our food, and help people through natural disasters know Trump’s lawlessness is hurting everyday Americans and they are begging Congress to stop it.

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Today I introduced the No Political Enemies Act, with a powerhouse group of co-sponsors, to put in law protections for prosecution or harassment for political speech. Trump is shamelessly exploiting the death of Charlie Kirk to try to destroy his opposition. We cannot let him.

Tune in as we introduce the No Political Enemies Act. We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech in this country.

Speaking here with: Sen. Chuck Schumer Rep. Jason Crow Sen. Cory Booker Sen. Tina Smith Sen. Chris Van Hollen Sen. Alex Padilla Rep. Greg Casar Rep. Maxwell Frost Rep. Chrissy Houlahan to introduce the No Political Enemies Act. We aren't going to lie down as Trump tries to destroy free speech.

This is a CR that (1) prevents health premiums from going way up; and (2) assures Trump actually implements the budget. So if Republicans are against it, it’s bc they will only support a spending bill that increases premiums and allows Trump’s lawlessness? Yes. True story.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

FCC Chair Carr is doing the right wing talk circuit bragging he's taking down progressive speech. Not even pretending it's about anything else. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way." "We don’t just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood.”

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

It’s happening. The takedown of Jimmy Kimmel is likely the start of a campaign to use the murder of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to use the power of the White House to wipe out Trump’s critics and his political opponents. But we aren’t powerless. We can mobilize and organize. Now.

🚨 Dr. Susan Monarez, the fired head of the CDC, just testified that RFK Jr. told her that Trump backed his move to weaken childhood vaccine standards. Just in case anyone was believing the bs about there being any real distance between RFK and Trump on vaccine conspiracies.

Through the American Mobilization Project, I’m funding pro-democracy groups all over the country to help us rise to this moment. Yesterday I thanked the organizers at Project 26, who are registering new voters on college campuses in competitive swing districts in Pennsylvania.

The Republican CR is not worth the 91 pages it’s written on if it just allows Trump to ignore it. He won’t spend the money it appropriates. And when he does spend money, it’s for brazen corruption and lawlessness.

Growing evidence that this is the most corrupt White House in history. Trump has tripled his net worth based on corrupt, illegal crypto schemes. Trading access to the White House and national security secrets for foreign investments that make money for him and his advisors.

The view from my run last night. The only people taking more pictures than me were the camouflaged DEA agents patrolling the mall. It should anger every taxpayer that Trump has these brave men and women playing tourist instead of actually fighting the drug trade.

Car repairs up 15%. Furniture up 9%. Electricity up 6%. Coffee up 20%. Now Republicans say they will shut down the government unless their law to increase many health insurance premiums by 75% goes into effect. They are ruining people’s lives with these cost hikes.

You need to know what might be coming. Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

Trump is boycotting budget talks. Pushing for a shutdown.

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

This is a big deal. When Skydance bought Paramount, they put a Trump-approved content monitor in charge of CBS News, fired Stephen Colbert, and hired right wing talent. What do you think they will do to get Trump's approval for the purchase of CNN?

None of this is normal. Institutions are shuttering venues of dissent. The judiciary is being turned into a mechanism to harass Trump's political opponents. The media is silencing critics. And now the Senate is no longer going to do advice and consent. None of this is normal.

My floor speech yesterday: 1/ The rules change Republicans are pushing through the Senate - to confirm dozens of Trump nominees with one vote - is another sign of our vanishing democracy, as the legislative branch voluntarily bends the knee to the executive.

My thoughts on this dark day. 1/ The beating heart of a free society is the ability for citizens to engage in political life with no fear of violence. Once we lose this freedom, few will step forward, and our entire democratic experiment unwinds into chaos and recrimination.

This is so tragic. The endless horror of gun violence in this country should be unacceptable to all of us. And there can be no tolerance for political violence in America. I’m pulling for Mr. Kirk and thinking of his family and the survivors.

News just broke that the Venezuelan boat that Trump struck was not, in fact, headed to the U.S. with drugs. But this story is disturbing for other reasons, and you need to know why. It's another sign of Trump's growing lawlessness. And it's bad counter-narcotics strategy.

Republicans aren't going to save us. The mainstream media isn't going to save us. The Supreme Court isn't going to save us. We will not stop Trump from destroying our democracy through de-escalatory politics. We need to fight fire with fire.

Good morning. Senate Republicans said they wouldn't change the rules of the Senate and as soon as Trump told them to change the rules they are changing the rules. And not a small change! Obliterates advice and consent. Confirming Trump nominees 100 at a time! With one vote!

One of the ways a democracy disappears: the legislative branch neuters itself and takes orders from the leader. This week Senate Republicans will go "nuclear" to change the body's rules. The change? Stop having separate votes on nominees. Just do 50 at a time. Not kidding.

Republicans are in charge of everything. If the government shuts down, it's on them. I'm transparent about how you get my vote. And it's not hard. I just need a budget that doesn't destroy our health care system, and funds democracy, not totalitarianism and corruption.

“This president believes he’s above the law. He doesn’t believe the law applies to him. He doesn’t believe the Constitution applies to him, and if we act like that’s normal, we just encourage the continued illegal constitutional behavior," said Murphy.

What he doesn't tell you is that Trump and the Republican Party are in the pocket of the big AI companies. They just tried to BAN states from passing any regulations to protect jobs or kids from abusive AI. Democrats stopped them.

So last week, we learned Trump authorized a super risky op to plant a listening device in North Korea. It failed badly. We killed a bunch of innocent North Korean fisherman. And probably not coincidently, diplomacy then went off the rails. And he hid it all from Congress. WTF.

Another example of Trump's corruption you might have missed: Artificial intelligence systems designed by billionaire tech CEOs should not be in charge of deciding what Medicare services seniors get. But that's exactly what Trump is proposing to make his AI industry allies rich.

Pay attention. The insecure, overcompensating war mongers around Trump - who convinced him to change the name of the Department of Defense - now seem to be trying to goad Venezuela into a war absolutely no one wants.

"[The] explanations all ultimately boiled down to one key factor. Mr. Trump, who regained control of the White House on promises of faster growth and lower prices, has established policies that are having precisely the opposite effect."

We are not living in a democracy any longer when our criminal justice system is used to selectively punish the President's political opponents and give his loyalists and friends immunity. We are becoming a banana republic in front our eyes and we cannot normalize it.

It's like we're living a nightmare. We have conspiracy wackos running our nation's most important health agencies. And people are going to die. This shouldn't be another left/right, red/blue issue. RFK Jr. has to go. And Republicans should just say what they know is true.

This week Trump wasn't trying to lower spiking energy costs or fix the damage he's done to the health care system. No, the White House was doing hand to hand political combat in the House of Representatives to keep the Epstein files private. Because its always just about him.

The nominee to head the democracy promotion bureau at the State Dept told us today that his priority was to "tell the truth". Interesting because Secretary Rubio has placed a gag order on telling the truth - banning the criticism of dictators that rig and steal elections.

Google has way too much power over the U.S. economy and this ruling does not do nearly enough to end its monopoly over internet search. Congress should be breaking up the power of these behemoth tech companies. Instead, Republicans gave them tax cuts.

Ha! The poorest 25% of workers LOSE money under this bill while the richest Americans get a $270,000 tax cut. They can rebrand all they want. The facts are the facts. They screwed working people to help their billionaire and corporate donors.

Republicans are in charge. It's their job to pass a budget and avoid a shutdown this month. Two things the budget needs to address: stop the health care premium increases coming this fall, and assure Trump actually implements the budget we pass.

We are watching, in real time, the destruction of the CDC. Our kids' and families' health is going to be put at risk because Trump and RFK Jr. are running a money-making conspiracy racket instead of a public health agency. Another result of Trump's corruption machine.

Glad TIME made room for an AI industry critic on their Top 100 Leaders in AI list. “AI companies of perpetuating a ‘fraud’ on the American people, Murphy says. ‘Any talk about ethical or moral AI is just whitewash.’”

A message for JD Vance and anyone else in this Administration that is pretending they care about the safety of our kids. They don’t. All they care about is the political approval and profits of the gun industry. And they show it every day.

Trump is rooting for a shutdown. He knows he has created a huge problem because now any budget deal with Republicans isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. He’s not even pretending to follow the law.

Last night @andersoncooper asked me whether we could pass any laws making our children safer. I gave him an honest answer. So long as Trump and congressional Republicans are in the pocket of the gun lobby, there's not a chance.