Over the weekend, Donald Trump crystalized his authoritarian vision for the nation when he suggested siccing the military on his political opponents and American citizens to destroy the “enemy from within.” Despite the former president’s direct appeal to full-blown fascism, Republicans are lining up to defend and downplay his comments. …
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Donald Trump continued his preelection economic event tour on Tuesday with a lengthy interview with Bloomberg at the Economic Club of Chicago. It was a total mess. Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump, and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception …
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This summer, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill unveiled a series of sample posters that teachers could put up in order to fulfill the state’s new requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all classrooms — calling the posters “plainly constitutional.” Her office has asked a federal judge to throw …
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Former President Donald Trump cut short a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on Monday after two attendees reportedly passed out. Trump held the event with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (who made headlines in April for executing her puppy and writing about it) and answered a handful of questions from …
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Donald Trump took time to praise former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the lawman who ran a self-described “concentration camp,” during his appearance Sunday at Findlay Toyota Center in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Trump’s rally followed his Saturday appearance in Coachella, California, where he threatened to withhold wildfire aid to the state if …
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The Republican Party, conservative politicians, and right-wing groups allied with Donald Trump are using exceedingly rare instances of voting by undocumented immigrants as pretext to try to purge more than one million voters from the rolls in battleground states, just weeks before the election — in open defiance of federal …
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During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in July, Donald Trump doubled down on a well-worn riff about one of his administration’s major foreign policy achievements. Because he “got along very well” with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, he had persuaded Kim to stop conducting ballistic missile …
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Recovery efforts in areas of North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene are being disrupted by reports of militia activity targeting FEMA workers. According to a Sunday report from The Washington Post, federal emergency response personnel paused work in an area of Rutherford County, N.C., and relocated personnel after receiving reports …
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Republicans spent the better part of September falsely smearing migrants as sadistic pet torturers in their bid to stoke fear about immigration. Yet for a party seemingly concerned with the welfare of animals, they raise few objections when cruelty takes place within their own ranks. According to a Monday report …
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A “Trump Boat Parade” in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday was joined by neo-Nazis waving swastika flags, shouting “White Power,” “Heil Trump,” and “Make America White Again!” The showboating of yachts and wake boats on behalf of Trump’s candidacy is a revival of the “Trump Armada” trend from 2020, when MAGAdonians …
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