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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
Greg Sargent, The New Republic
This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster President Trump’s effort to deploy Oregon’s National Guard against ICE protesters in the city. Noem stood on a rooftop observing protest…
Oct 11, 2025, 10:00 AM
MAGA Influencer Whines to Trump About “Homeless Industrial Complex”
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
A self-described journalist briefed the president and top U.S. officials Wednesday on the threat of the “homeless industrial complex.”During a White House roundtable on antifa, Jonathan Choe, a reporter for Turning Point USA’s newsroom Frontlines, claimed tha…
Oct 8, 2025, 9:53 PM
Pizzagate Guy Compares Trump Fighting Antifa to Rise of Hitler
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
Did MAGA activist Jack Posobiec just accidentally compare President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler? During a Wednesday roundtable discussion on Antifa populated by pitiable right-wing shills, the conspiracy theorist took a moment to claim that the so-called dom…
Oct 8, 2025, 9:05 PM
Trump Literally Brags About Taking Away People’s Free Speech
Robert McCoy, The New Republic
“We took the freedom of speech away,” President Donald Trump boasted in his opening remarks at his “antifa roundtable” Wednesday.The remark came as Trump touted an August 25 executive order seeking to crack down on the practice of flag-burning, a form of prot…
Oct 8, 2025, 9:03 PM
Team Trump Actually Hates Pam Bondi
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
Even the Trump administration doesn’t like Pam Bondi.The attorney general has been at the epicenter of some of Trump 2.0’s biggest scandals. In the last several months, Bondi has purged antitrust officials at the Justice Department, refused to answer critical…
Oct 8, 2025, 7:21 PM
“What’s Going On?“: MTG’s Break With GOP Leaves Trump Stunned
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t quite the MAGA acolyte she once was.Greene has publicly broken with Donald Trump several times since his inauguration, differing from her “favorite president” on issues ranging from artificial intelligence to Russia…
Oct 8, 2025, 5:00 PM
How Trump Became the Ringmaster of Left-Wing Violence
Timothy Noah, The New Republic
The assassination of Charlie Kirk was a terrible act of violence that cut short the life of a 31 year-old human being. It was also a political opportunity—not for the left, as Kirk’s mentally disturbed killer may have believed, but for the right, which, as ma…
Oct 8, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Democrats’ Most Formidable Foe Is Not Donald Trump
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
According to a fresh Gallup poll this week, 43 percent of Americans regard the Supreme Court as “too conservative,” against 36 percent who feel that the Roberts court is an even-tempered administrator of justice. That 43 percent is a new high, per Gallup: “Be…
Oct 5, 2025, 10:00 AM
Can America Become a Democracy?
Patrick Iber, The New Republic
Next year, the United States will observe the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence. To begin a year of celebration, Donald Trump appeared at the Iowa State Fairground in early July. “We’ve saved our country,” he proclaimed to the crowd of supp…
Oct 5, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Shutdown Is Sparing Trump Some Bad Economic News
Timothy Noah, The New Republic
The jobs report abhors a vacuum. A government shutdown prevented the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday from issuing its monthly report on job creation, so the business press told us what the report would reveal if there were one. “U.S. Job Growth Is Slowin…
Oct 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere
Matt Ford, The New Republic
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission. If the law falls, the court could make it significantly harder for sta…
Oct 4, 2025, 10:00 AM
Public Housing Again, Really? Yes, Really.
Monica Potts, The New Republic
The Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis is home to George Floyd Square. Memorials and murals line the main thoroughfare, Chicago Avenue, lending a vibrant, colorful background for what would otherwise be ordinary neighborhood life. People stop to say hi on…
Sep 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
The Palestinian Organizer Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced
Felipe De La Hoz, The New Republic
In early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, campus organizer, and legal permanent resident—and detained him for more than three months, as the Trump administration worked to s…
Sep 14, 2025, 10:00 AM
Brazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Perry Bacon, The New Republic
The incumbent president lost the election and then tried to overturn the results, concluding with his supporters invading government buildings in the nation’s capitol. A few months later, he was barred from seeking elective office. Prosecutors filed charges a…
Sep 13, 2025, 1:38 PM
Trump’s Best Allies Are His Biggest Weakness
Jason Linkins, The New Republic
Donald Trump was lustily booed at the U.S. Open in New York, and his excursion to one of D.C.’s despots’ club restaurants was interrupted by chanting protesters. But the opposition to the president extends well beyond the Acela corridor. As CNN’s Harry Enten …
Sep 13, 2025, 10:00 AM
Here’s the Name of Every Republican Who Voted to Kill Epstein Bill
Robert McCoy, The New Republic
In an 8–4 party-line vote Tuesday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee shot down a bid to put the Epstein Files Transparency Act—which would compel the Justice Department to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein—to a floor vote. The…
Sep 9, 2025, 7:27 PM
Poll: Zohran Mamdani Is Crushing the NYC Mayor’s Race
Rachel Kahn, The New Republic
New data shows he has a commanding lead, though that could change.
Sep 9, 2025, 4:21 PM
The New BLS Job Numbers Are Out and They’re Absolutely Abysmal
Rachel Kahn, The New Republic
Nearly a million fewer jobs were created between April 2024 and March 2025 than previously reported, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The new data, published Tuesday morning, speaks to a weak job market during both former President Joe Biden and Pr…
Sep 9, 2025, 3:27 PM
Trump’s Corrupt Firing of Lisa Cook Backfires as Brutal New Poll Hits
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, The New Republic
There’s been an amusing turn in the saga involving President Trump’s corrupt effort to remove Lisa Cook as governor of the Federal Reserve. Trump has relied on his flunkies to cook up allegations of mortgage fraud against Cook—and other foes as well—but now n…
Sep 9, 2025, 9:00 AM
That Signature in Epstein Birthday Letter Sure Looks Like Trump’s
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
The White House claims that Epstein birthday letter has a signature that doesn’t match Donald Trump’s. Well, here are some other examples where Trump signed ...
Sep 8, 2025, 9:28 PM
Trump Goes Mask Off With Chilling Comment About Dictators
Edith Olmsted, The New Republic
Donald Trump claimed the American people are asking for a dictator—and he seems more than happy to give them what they want. While signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday morning, Trump whined that people were up in arms after he suggested that he …
Aug 25, 2025, 4:13 PM
Trump Bans Flag Burning in Direct Threat to First Amendment
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order instructing the U.S. attorney general to pursue criminal charges against anyone caught burning the American flag, blatantly violating basic freedom of speech and expression laws. “Flag burning. All over the …
Aug 25, 2025, 3:51 PM
Transcript: Gavin Newsom’s Harsh Trump Takedown Nails It: “Wake Up!”
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, The New Republic
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the August 25 episode of theDaily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.California G…
Aug 25, 2025, 11:02 AM
Stopping Trump’s Dictatorship Is a Vital Message—and a Winning One
Perry Bacon, The New Republic
CNN and MSNBC with a constant “The Trump Dictatorship” chyron on-screen. How Democracies Die authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt writing weekly columns in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or The Wall Street Journal. Reporters at major news outl…
Aug 24, 2025, 10:00 AM
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