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Montana’s TikTok creators are saying “come and take it” to Republican Governor Greg Gianforte via a lawsuit filed Thursday that challenges a statewide ban on the app as a violation of the First Amendment. The lawsuit, submitted by five TikTok creators against Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, argues the state …

Shane Lamond —a Washington, D.C., police lieutenant whose texts with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio were featured in the group’s seditious conspiracy trial —was arrested on Friday on charges of obstructing an investigation and lying to federal law enforcement. Tarrio and three other Proud Boys were convicted of sedition for …

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Friday declaring his candidacy for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. Scott is the sixth candidate to enter the field, which is only going to grow. “American families are starving for hope. We need to have faith. Faith …

Ron DeSantis has a pretty straightforward theory for why he could do what Ted Cruz (or Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or Scott Walker or …) couldn’t. When all those once-promising presidential candidates tried to take down Donald Trump in 2016, they were doing so in a crowded field, backstabbing …

The fallout from Fox News’ $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems continued on Friday, with the network dissolving its investigative unit. “The rank and file journalists are getting let go. Meanwhile, upper management are sitting pretty while they are the execs responsible for the Dominion debacle,” one Fox employee …

A scandalous claim that homeless veterans being housed in an upstate New York hotel were evicted to make room for undocumented migrants turned out to be an orchestrated fraud — with homeless men having been recruited by a nonprofit to gin up national outrage. On Friday, The Mid-Hudson News, which …

In Montana you can purchase a gun without a background check, carry a concealed weapon without a permit, and can continue to legally possess a weapon even after committing a violent offense — but in order to protect the public, you can’t download TikTok. “To protect Montanans’ personal and private …

South Carolina lawmakers voted late Wednesday to ban abortions past six weeks, passing the state’s House of Representatives 82 to 33 after roughly 24 hours of contentious debate. The bill is an amended version of a six-week ban that was approved by the Senate in February, and will head back …

Marjorie Taylor Greene reminds Americans every day that she doesn’t have much concern for things like decency, democracy, or reality when going about her business in Congress. She instead plays the role of a conspiracy theorizing carnival barker, pushing hate and spewing lies to distract from how badly her party’s …

Ron DeSantis is running for president. He hasn’t made an officially announcement — that’s reportedly coming next week —but he made his pitch to donors and supporters on Thursday, claiming on a call that there are only two people who can win the 2024 election: him and President Biden. “You …