MILWAUKEE — On the floor of Donald Trump’s nominating convention Thursday night, a woman from Illinois in a cowboy hat handed out fake bandages for attendees to affix to their ears in solidarity with the former president who was grazed by an assassin’s bullet. These “bandages” weren’t the bright white …
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Last year, a top official at Project 2025 said that former President Donald Trump is “very bought in” with its conservative agenda and presidential transition program. On Monday, the same Project 2025 official claimed the idea that Trump is attached to the project is a “hoax.” “What Democrats [have] said …
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Self-described “gay furry hackers” on July 2 breached archival data from a site that was operated by the Heritage Foundation until recently, and on Tuesday released two gigabytes of internal data originally collected by the conservative think tank. Now an executive director at the influential organization is so hopping mad …
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Donald Trump has plenty of plans for his second term, even if he’s publicly pretending he doesn’t know anything about them. In early July, the former president sought to distance himself from Project 2025, claiming he knows “nothing” about the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership,” conservatives’ 887-page policy agenda for …
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Since late last year, conservatives have telegraphed their extreme plans to leverage the whole of the federal government to attack abortion access if Donald Trump wins a second term. At the same time, Trump’s campaign advisers and allies have signaled their intent to position him as a “moderate” on abortion …
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Sen. Marco Rubio, who is reportedly a finalist for Donald Trump‘s running mate, tried to create distance between the Republican nominee and Project 2025, a conservative agenda concocted by The Heritage Foundation. “Think tanks do think tank stuff. They come up with ideas. They say things,” Rubio said on CNN’s …
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It’s January 21, 2025, you wake up in a full-blown fascist state; Donald Trump materializes on your TV in a hot dog suit. “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this,” he says. That’s the vibe the former president gave off on Friday, as sought to distance himself …
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President Joe Biden and his campaign are insisting he will stay in the 2024 race, despite a rough debate last week in which he looked feeble and struggled to complete his thoughts several times. With Democrats increasingly unsure that Biden should remain the party’s nominee, the conservative Heritage Foundation is …
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Watching focus groups isn’t a good way to make yourself feel better about America, especially when their participants assert inconvenient truths. I know this first hand because for the last four years, I have acted as Senior Adviser to the Research Collaborative, which has done 25 focus groups and frequent …
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John McEntee flashes a thin-lipped smile at the camera, waving around a stack of bills he pulled from the center console of his car. “I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car, so when a homeless person asks for money then I give them a fake $5 bill,” …
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