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This Democrat Has a Plan for Fighting Musk. Here’s What He Wants You to Know.

This Democrat Has a Plan for Fighting Musk. Here’s What He Wants You to Know.
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Lots of Trump’s Executive Orders Won’t Do Very Much. Then There Are These.

Lots of Trump’s Executive Orders Won’t Do Very Much. Then There Are These.
23.01.2025 8

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Will RedNote Get Banned Like TikTok Did?

Will RedNote Get Banned Like TikTok Did?
18.01.2025 3

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The Trump Criminal Cases Are Reaching Their Anticlimax

16.01.2025 5

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Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 Trump Report Illuminates One Final Thing

14.01.2025 3

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Trump Says That Jack Smith’s “Fake Report” Is Dead. Don’t Be So Sure.

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08.01.2025 5

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What’s Aileen Cannon Been Up to Lately? It Involves Taylor Swift.

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21.12.2024 7

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Have We Ever Seen Shitposting Take Down a Bill Before?

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21.12.2024 40

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Just How Badly Are Billionaire Owners of Newspapers Bowing to Trump? Very Badly, Says a Longtime Columnist.

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11.12.2024 3

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Amy Klobuchar Is Really Reaching for a Silver Lining

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07.12.2024 10

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Here’s What’s Been Going On at the Supreme Court While We’ve All Been Distracted

Tweet Share Share Comment With its six-justice conservative supermajority, the Supreme Court has made a sharp right pivot in recent years,...

06.12.2024 8

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Looks Like Trump Got Away With It

Tweet Share Share Comment This will be Slate’s final edition of Keeping Up With the Trump Trials . You can read our old coverage of Trump’s legal...

08.11.2024 2

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The Dark Reason More Young People Aren’t Running for Office

Tweet Share Share Comment It was not so long ago that millennials were the youngest generation getting elected to public office and infiltrating...

05.11.2024 10

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900,000 Puerto Ricans Live in Swing States. Here’s How One Is Responding to That Racist Joke.

Tweet Share Share Comment When Camille Rivera saw the clip of Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s...

31.10.2024 40

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Trump’s Comments About Jack Smith Are Getting Increasingly Unhinged

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

29.10.2024 10

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Trump’s Team Didn’t Want This Evidence Made Public. Here’s What’s in It.

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I Went to a Cozy Gwen Walz Campaign Stop in Pennsylvania. Not Far Away, I Saw Something Else.

Tweet Share Share Comment In the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, both candidates are trying to reach as many swing-state voters as...

17.10.2024 2

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Jack Smith Laid Out His Evidence. What’s Coming Next Might Give You Heartburn.

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

09.10.2024 6

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Some Highlights From Jack Smith’s Juicy New Jan. 6 Memo

Tweet Share Share Comment Last week, Jack Smith filed an extra-large motion packed with all the evidence he intends to use to prosecute Donald...

05.10.2024 6

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She’s American. Her Husband Has Been Trapped in Gaza for the Past Year. This Is Their Story.

Tweet Share Share Comment For the past year, 24-year-old Marowa Abusharia has unexpectedly been a single mother, living in New Jersey and raising...

01.10.2024 10

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Jack Smith Is Trying to Offer the Public His Evidence Against Trump

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30.09.2024 3

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Trump’s Lawyers Just Won’t Take No for an Answer

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23.09.2024 3

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A Republican Senator Decided a Hearing on Hate Crimes Was a Great Time to Be Quite Hateful

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20.09.2024 5

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Fani Willis Is Locked in a Fight With Georgia Republicans

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16.09.2024 2

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Well, This Letter From a Billionaire Conservative Kingmaker Is Downright Chilling!

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13.09.2024 3

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Jack Smith Has a Very Busy Fall Ahead

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

10.09.2024 10

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It’s Official: Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Before the Election

Tweet Share Share Comment This is a special breaking news edition of Keeping Up With the Trump Trials . For weeks now, it’s been up in the air...

06.09.2024 1

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Trump’s Last-Ditch Effort to Delay His Sentencing

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03.09.2024 4

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The Voting Rights Situation in Some Swing States Is Quite Alarming

Tweet Share Share Comment Ever since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he’s been constantly ranting about voter fraud and that election being...

02.09.2024 30

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Jack Smith Isn’t Throwing In the Towel

Tweet Share Share Comment Jack Smith isn’t throwing in the towel. Despite the setback of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision—which...

29.08.2024 2

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Jack Smith Is Reportedly Reconsidering His Strategy

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27.08.2024 3

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The Trump Hush Money Judge Isn’t Going Anywhere

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20.08.2024 10

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Welp, Another Lawyer Just Flipped on Donald Trump

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13.08.2024 50

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Trump’s Latest Delusion About Abortion Says It All

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09.08.2024 4

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What It Was Like to Be Tim Walz’s Student in High School

Tweet Share Share Comment Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has been on fire lately. Two weeks after his quip that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are “just...

07.08.2024 2

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Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: A Big Test for Presidential Immunity

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05.08.2024 4

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Another “Squad” Member Is Fighting for Her Political Life

Tweet Share Share Comment Progressive congresswoman and “Squad” member Cori Bush is in the fight for her political life in Missouri, hoping a...

05.08.2024 4

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Will the Supreme Court Immunity Decision Change Trump’s Felony Conviction?

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts in the New York hush money case—but there’s a lengthy appeals process...

30.07.2024 5

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Three Ways That Jack Smith Could Resurrect the Classified Documents Case

Tweet Share Share Comment The federal government’s classified documents indictment was once considered a “slam dunk.” But this month,...

27.07.2024 10

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We Read Project 2025 So You Don’t Have To

Tweet Share Share Comment There are plenty of reasons to fear a second Donald Trump presidency, but one of the most demonstrably extreme things his...

25.07.2024 40

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Jack Smith’s Final Showdown With Aileen Cannon?

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22.07.2024 2

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This Republican Feud Was Alive and Well at the RNC

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19.07.2024 6

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This Video Clip Might Be the Most Surreal Thing Out of the RNC So Far

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18.07.2024 3

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Wow, Aileen Cannon Really Dismissed the Classified Documents Case!

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15.07.2024 2

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