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Trump Knocks Off Thomas Massie in Heated Primary

President Donald Trump has knocked off another GOP dissident in his effort to cleanse the Republican Party of anyone who has even modestly challenged...

19.05.2026 9

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Stephanie Mencimer

A Kentucky Primary Has Become a MAGA Reality Show From Hell

Last summer, President Donald Trump orchestrated a primary challenge against Rep. Thomas Massie, who’d become the lone House Republican willing to...

19.05.2026 9

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Stephanie Mencimer

At CPAC, the Shah’s Son Promises to “Make Iran Great Again”

Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose President Donald Trump’s war in Iran. Those numbers go even higher when the prospect of boots on...

28.03.2026 10

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MAGA’s Newest Stans: Iranians

Persians for Trump are here in force. Steve Bannon was broadcasting his War Room show live from the CPAC exhibit hall on Friday morning. A small crowd...

28.03.2026 10

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The Incredible Shrinking CPAC

In the days leading up to this week’s opening of CPAC, the nation’s oldest conservative political convention, organizers still seemed to be...

27.03.2026 10

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Stephanie Mencimer

A Florida Sheriff Had a Message for Kyle Rittenhouse: “I Think You’re a Joke”

Earlier this year, it looked like the world had perhaps heard the last from Kyle Rittenhouse. After a jury acquitted him in November 2021, the famous...

18.12.2025 40

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Sean Duffy’s Holy War at the Transportation Department

Sean Duffy has spent most of his adult life as a professional attention-seeker. He is a former reality TV star, for one, and also a former Fox News...

30.10.2025 10

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Gov. Spencer Cox Has Been Preaching Calm in a Violent Moment—But There’s Something Missing

Since the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk last week in Utah, the state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, has won plaudits for his general...

18.09.2025 20

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Trump Has Turned the National Guard Into Mall Cops. Cost? $1 Million a Day.

When I went out to fetch lunch last Wednesday, three Louisiana Guard members were lounging outside the Mother Jones building, enjoying the perfect...

08.09.2025 10

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They Survived Katrina and Started to Rebuild. Now Trump’s Cuts May Flood Them Out Again.

After Hurricane Katrina and its related flooding inundated much of New Orleans in 2005, residents of a large Vietnamese community in the Algiers...

28.08.2025 10

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Far-Right Militias Adored the Constitution. Then Came Trump.

For the past 30 years, former Graham County, Arizona, sheriff Richard Mack has been railing against federal overreach and warning of encroaching...

05.08.2025 20

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Has MAGA Killed Satire?

In June, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to build an immigrant detention center on an unused airstrip in the Everglades. “There’s...

03.07.2025 10

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Far-Right Activist Who Vowed “Retribution” Lands Role at the FCC

For the past six years, Gavin Wax has held court as the president of the New York Young Republican Club, a group he helped turn from a small, stodgy...

20.04.2025 20

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Supreme Court Blocks Deportation Flights–For Now

In an early morning decision, the US Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from attempting to fly another batch of migrants out of the...

19.04.2025 10

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Why Is Trump’s New Jersey US Attorney Headlining a Far-Right Conference?

On Friday, March 28, Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was sworn into office as the interim US attorney for New Jersey. As the...

08.04.2025 10

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Trump Declares War on “Frivolous” Lawsuits

Late Friday night, the White House released the latest tranche of Trump executive actions and directives aimed at further kneecapping some of the...

23.03.2025 10

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While Washington DC Burns, Trump Golfs

It’s been 61 days since President Donald Trump promised that he would end the war in Ukraine on “day one” of his new administration, and the war...

22.03.2025 10

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Stephanie Mencimer

What If Trump Is Serious About Annexing Canada?

President Donald Trump has some strange obsessions: Diet Coke, windmills, water pressure, and more recently, annexing Canada. “The only thing that...

17.03.2025 10

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Stephanie Mencimer