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Is Mike Johnson the Reason Trump Didn’t Reveal His Health Care Plan?
A well-timed phone call from House Speaker Mike Johnson may have been the tipping point for the White House to call off releasing Donald…
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Pete Hegseth Takes His Petty Culture War to ... the Scouts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is attacking the Scouts for not being nice enough to boys. Hegseth plans to cut all military ties with…
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Trump Official Admits Putin Is Getting His Way in Ukraine Peace Plan
The peace plan offered by the Trump administration to end the war between Russia and Ukraine appears to contain few, if any, concessions…
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Trump’s Ukraine Plan Nearly Drove a GOP Rep. to Quit on the Spot
At least one Republican lawmaker was so outraged by the White House’s supposed Russia-Ukraine peace plan that he considered resigning from…
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Trump Threatens BBC—and Gets Rewarded With a Shockingly Pro-Trump Edit
There is something deeply perverse in this outcome. Even if you grant Trump’s criticism of the edit of his January 6 speech—never mind…
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DOJ Is Already Ignoring Courts on Trump’s Illegally Installed Attorney
The Justice Department is still signing criminal indictments with Lindsey Halligan’s name—almost a day after a judge ruled that she was…
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Explosive Testimony Exposes How Far Border Patrol Chief Will Go to Lie
Border Protection Commander Gregory Bovino made several wild attempts to dodge questions while testifying about his excessive use of force…
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Republican Senator Forced to Pay Millions After Dodging IRS
Justice served two terms as West Virginia’s governor, being elected as a Democrat in 2016 before switching parties the next year. After…
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Republican Rep. Says Quiet Part Out Loud on “Need” to Invade Venezuela
The GOP is finally being honest about why it’s itching for military intervention in Venezuela. Shocker—it wasn’t about the drugs, it was…
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Elise Stefanik Hits Back After Trump Threw Her Under Bus for Zohran
Republican Representative Elise Stefanik is scrambling to recover her gubernatorial campaign’s messaging after President Donald Trump had…
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Trump Suffers Humiliating Third Legal Loss in as Many Hours
Donald Trump is on a legal losing streak. The president’s defamation lawsuit against The Guardian fell apart Monday when a Florida judge…
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DOGE May Be Dead, But Its Crimes Live On
DOGE’s supposed North Star was taxpayer savings, but by that yardstick it was a dismal failure. Elon Musk, the billionaire ketamine…
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The Democrats Taking the Fight to ICE
It is typical for certain congressional hearings to garner the reputation of being media circuses. Often held in Washington by the various…
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Good for Marjorie Taylor Greene (But She’s Still a Loopy Racist)
In moving closer to them, Greene is also showing her frustration with the MAGA-controlled legislature. In her letter, she faults MAGA for…
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Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims
“Deadly vaccine-preventable illnesses are returning. How can she not feel any sense of connection to that?” Yamey asked. “I’ve not seen…
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Transcript: Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics
Crenshaw: Change what money can do. I think that is—that’s all behind what campaign finance reform was all about. We’re inheriting a world…
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Um ... Is Donald Trump Seriously Going to Start a War with Venezuela?
I would never defend the Iraq War, but at least Congress, the broader American public, and the international community openly debated that…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Playing the Long Game
Late on Friday, in a statement that took everyone by surprise, Greene announced that she would be resigning from Congress in January. Once…
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Anti-Blackness Isn’t Part of Trump’s Agenda—It’s the Very Heart of It
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read the…
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Raging Trump Spirals Further as Push to Jail Enemies Backfires Badly
This weekend, President Trump raged over a video from Democrats that warned against carrying out “illegal orders.” That led him to get his…
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White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says “all orders” from President Trump are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to…
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Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures
Are Americans supposed to think that the Trump administration canceling the release of economics reports is somehow a good sign for the…
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Trump Delays His Health Care Plan After Revolt From Republicans
The change would only happen by getting past the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee, then the majority of the committee’s 450 members, and…
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JD Vance Snaps Over Mitch McConnell’s Comments on Trump Ukraine Plan
Vice President JD Vance threw a fit Monday over Republicans criticizing President Donald Trump’s—or possibly, Vladimir Putin’s—latest…