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As For-Profit Companies Battle Over ICE Contracts, Immigrants Are Caught in the Middle

This story is a collaboration between Mother Jones, POGO Investigates, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. William...

03.08.2026 9

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As America Turns 250, a Trump Adviser’s Firm Rakes in Federal Cash

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump has promised the July 4 fireworks display in Washington will be...

01.07.2026 10

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Trump Administration Tells Federal Employees to Wear “Freedom” Pins—Or Else

The Trump administration is ordering National Park Service employees to wear pins promoting Freedom 250, a semi-private group that the president has...

18.06.2026 10

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Trump Issues Fake Pardons For Fake Electors

Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned high-profile attorneys accused of joining in his plot to try to steal the 2020 election, along with dozens of...

11.11.2025 20

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Report: Trump Demands Taxpayers Hand Him $230 Million

Earlier this year, Mother Jones published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” Examples included buying...

22.10.2025 20

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Trump’s Military Occupation of DC Crashes Into Reality—Literally

Watch out, Chicago drivers. A recent collision of a red-light-running, 14-ton, mine-resistant armored vehicle with an SUV on Capitol Hill isn’t the...

24.08.2025 30

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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews

Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence...

24.08.2025 20

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Donald Trump Is Waging a Whole-of-Government Retribution Campaign

The Trump administration’s campaign of vengeance against perceived political enemies escalated Friday morning when the FBI raided the home and...

23.08.2025 20

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Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro Won’t Condemn January 6. GOP Senators No Longer Care.

Despite vociferous objections by Democrats, the Senate Judiciary Committee looks set as of Thursday to approve Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer...

17.07.2025 20

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Stop Taking the Epstein Bait, Dems

MAGA world is melting down over the Justice Department’s recent conclusion that Jeffrey Epstein had no client list or history of blackmail, and that...

11.07.2025 20

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Republicans Just Passed “the Worst Bill in Modern American History”

Just in time for the nation’s birthday, House Republicans have passed the most regressive legislation in recent memory, a bill that’s expected...

04.07.2025 20

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Trump’s Pardon Attorney Mulls Clemency for Fake Electors—Dead or Alive

The Trump administration’s new chief pardon attorney is considering a plan to grant clemency to dozens of so-called fake electors who aided Donald...

04.06.2025 20

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Trump Has Dropped the Pretense of Ethics

Do Donald Trump and his family “actually give a fuck” about appearing to profit from his presidency? Evidence is mounting that they don’t....

24.05.2025 10

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The Qatari 747 Is Just the Latest Mega-Donation Flowing to Trump’s “Library”

President Donald Trump insists that accepting a $400 million Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s ruling family would not amount to a huge bribe....

17.05.2025 20

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Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US attorney for DC, showed up at a community meeting at a police station to tout his efforts to...

09.05.2025 20

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