Daily Kos media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Daily Kos on the left. We have seen it on 122 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Daily Kos biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Daily Kos on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Daily Kos left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Daily Kos on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Daily Kos reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Daily Kos are Ad Fontes Media: Low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Daily Kos has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Daily Kos’s own report linked underneath.
The Trump administration plans to erect signs outside the National Museum of American History. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is overseeing the initiative, which aims to warn visitors about perceived ideological bias within the museum's presentations.
Daily Kos reported it asTrump’s latest attack on the Smithsonian is dumb and expensive (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a keynote address at a conference for the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, which he formerly chaired. He told attendees they had a friend in the Trump White House and highlighted administration actions to alter vaccine guidance.
Daily Kos reported it asRFK Jr. is more concerned with ‘vaccine injuries’ than measles deaths (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong Blocks Warrantless Immigration Arrests in Southern California
Trust 42U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has blocked immigration officers from making warrantless arrests in Southern California unless they determine a person is likely to escape. The order applies to the Central District of California and follows a lawsuit by immigrant advocacy groups.
Daily Kos reported it asBreaking: Federal Court Blocks Unlawful Warrantless Immigration Arrests in Southern California (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Senator Bill Cassidy has blamed the Trump administration's vaccine policies for recent measles deaths in Pennsylvania. He also called for confirmation that vaccines do not cause autism, a point raised during a confirmation hearing for Dr. Nicole Saphier.
Daily Kos reported it asBill Cassidy pretends to have a spine on vaccines—far too late (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
President Donald Trump reportedly had a heated exchange with Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty during a Kennedy Center board call. A federal judge blocked attempts to add Trump's name to the building, a decision the Justice Department has appealed.
Daily Kos reported it asWhatever Trump builds the next President must tear down (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sent representatives home early for their pre-election recess. This move postpones a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, which had been initiated by Rep. Thomas Massie over Hegseth's actions in Iran and Venezuela.
Daily Kos reported it asHouse Republicans flee DC to avoid Hegseth impeachment vote (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
A Government Accountability Office report found the Trump administration spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers in 2025. The initiative, known as DOGE, led to a 435% increase in such leave, with an estimated $6.7 billion spent on a deferred resignation program.
Daily Kos reported it asDOGE burned nearly $10B so federal employees wouldn’t work (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Senator Mitch McConnell cast a vote to advance the farm bill in committee on September 16, after receiving voting instructions from Senator John Hoeven. The bill passed the committee 12-11 along party lines.
Daily Kos reported it asMitch McConnell finally returns to Senate—and the crowd goes mild (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
FBI Director Kash Patel declined to rule out sending agents to polling places on Election Day, telling senators he wasn’t certain the bureau is legally barred from doing so. Patel stated the FBI has agents in each field office devoted to addressing election crimes.
Daily Kos reported it asSen. Cory Booker lays into FBI Director Patel AND his GOP colleagues during Tuesday hearing; today’s special edition of Democrats working for us! (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to enforce new U.S. Postal Service mail ballot regulations ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The court's order leaves in place a lower court injunction blocking the rules.
Daily Kos reported it asThis Supreme Court order has Trump fully breaking down (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has alleged that the "Unlawful Voter Initiative" uses legally questionable tactics and unreliable data to investigate non-citizen voting. The initiative reportedly targets hundreds of thousands of individuals across the US, with agents allegedly instructed to pose as voters.
Daily Kos reported it asTrump goons try impersonating voters to find fake voter fraud (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Donald Trump confirmed he uses artificial intelligence but declined to specify how, stating only that it can be used for "a lot of things." He also commented on the technology's future, saying "whoever wins in artificial intelligence wins."
Daily Kos reported it asTrump says he’s the only one smart enough to regulate AI (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations on artificial intelligence, stating that the U.S. government already possesses adequate power to control AI firms. He described efforts to implement guardrails as a "sick conspiracy" that could cede technological leadership to China.
Daily Kos reported it asTrump says he’s the only one smart enough to regulate AI (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule. The rule would allow immigration officials to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
Daily Kos reported it asNew York Democrats slam Trump’s latest racist attack on immigrants (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ordered the U.S. Postal Service not to implement President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail balloting. The order came late Sunday, September 13, 2026, adding an obstacle to the administration's efforts to change election rules as the Supreme Court considers an appeal.
Daily Kos reported it asTrump’s mail-in ballot rule suffers another big blow (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas was funded by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, who is close to Vladimir Putin. Kremlev paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses, including renting a private island. National security experts expressed alarm.
Daily Kos reported it asProPublica Reports: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, posted a photo of University of Texas students and described them as 'foreigners' displacing Americans. The post drew condemnation from prominent Texas Republicans, including U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, who called it racist and intolerant.
Daily Kos reported it asPaxton and Abbott refuse to condemn Texas Republican’s racist post (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukrainian-Polish border. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European officials had travelled on a train that passed through the area shortly before the attack, according to reports. Poland's Prime Minister warned of intensified Russian attacks.
Daily Kos reported it asRussian stuff blowing up: Train carrying European officials struck by Russia (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
During a visit to Dublin, President Donald Trump said he would "love" a unified Ireland and that it would happen eventually. The comment triggered unionist leaders to reject interference, while Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald called the remarks timely and urged preparation for reunification.
Daily Kos reported it asIgnorant Orange Imbecile in Ireland (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Satellite data has detected a large fire and thermal anomalies near Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline. Unconfirmed reports suggest Houthi forces may be responsible, though Saudi authorities have not confirmed the incident.
Daily Kos reported it asMaritime-Land Pincer: Saudi Arabia’s Oil Lifeline Enters a Danger Zone (opens Daily Kos in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
- Kos Media, LLCIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
- Official site
- dailykos.com
- Seen publishing on
- dailykos.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 122
- Reports listed
- 123
- We could read
- 27
- First seen
- 3 August 2026
96 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 27 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 30 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Daily Kos ran the story anyway.
Across the 122 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Daily Kos: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 18 September 2026. Ratings pulled 3 September 2026.
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