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Barr: Trump Brought Up ‘Things Like’ Executing Rivals a Lot
Elected Officials and the Far-Right Are Spreading Baseless Conspiracies That A Shadowy Figure Is Buying Tents for Columbia Student Protesters
The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion
Trump falsely claims police are preventing "thousands" of people from protesting his trial Donald Trump claimed that police turned away "thousands" of supporters, even though the street is open to traffic
Tennessee Passes Bill to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Handguns
Conservatives’ savage child labor agenda wants kids working more for less
Conservative ex-official warns of crisis in Oklahoma schools under anti-LGBTQ+ superintendent Ryan Walters
A prehistory of MAGA: "Mainstream" conservatives never really purged the fascists Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along
These 112 House Republicans voted against Ukraine aid
The American people are petrified
Wyoming GOP could censure Gordon over contentious vetoes
A sheriff, a felon and a conspiracy theorist walk into a hotel. They’re there for the same conference. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is urging lawmen to form posses, seize voting machines and investigate baseless claims of voter fraud.
“I’m Here…to Represent Jesus Christ”: Arizona Republicans Block Second Attempt to Repeal Civil War–Era Abortion Ban
Republicans Are Determined to Keep Credit Card Late Fees High For all their complaining about Americans' financial struggles, Republicans seem keen to brand themselves as the pro-junk fee party
DeSantis Orders Florida Schools to Teach ‘Evils of Communism’
Committee finds GOP attorneys general committed “abusive” practices to obtain trans patient data Their investigations have used flimsy legal pretexts and harmed trans people's mental health, a new report says.
Republican AGs Are Teaming Up With The Corporations Poisoning Their States To Gut The Clean Air Act.
Turning Point Action official resigns after accusation of election-related fraud
Colorado child sex abuse amendment fails in Senate vote after Republicans unite against it Resolution needed support from at least one GOP senator to reach two-thirds threshold
The MAGA Right is Flirting With Political Violence
Kari Lake tells supporters they can ‘strap on a Glock’ ahead of November election
The Republican Plot to Roast Outdoor Workers Is it too much to ask growers and construction firms to furnish water and shade on hot days? Apparently so—in Florida and Texas.
Republican senator Tom Cotton calls for vigilantism to break up Gaza protests
Comedy World Righteously Roasts Trump Over Gettysburg Gaffe People can’t stop cracking up over the former president’s bizarre, bumbling speech.
Ex-Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, wife charged with embezzlement, conspiracy
Hush money judge angrily scolds Trump, suggesting he tried to intimidate prospective juror: 'I will not tolerate that'
Tennessee parents, students, educators protest bill to arm teachers: 'It's ludicrous'
An election integrity warrior may have forged signatures to get on the ballot? Nooooo Opinion: A lawsuit claims that one of the Legislature's most ardent warriors for election integrity forged voter signatures to qualify for the July 30 ballot. If true, oh, the irony.
Tennessee GOP-Sponsored Bill Requires Schools to Out Trans Students to Parents Experts say such laws threaten the mental and physical well-being of transgender children.
Donald Trump Poses a Unique Threat To Truth Social, Says Truth Social A new SEC filing details all the ways that Trump Media thinks Donald Trump himself could be a major risk to the company.
‘Sleepy Don’: Trump sparks Twitter hilarity as he appears to fall asleep at trial
REVEALED: 'We're trying to throw the whole freaking system in the trash,' school voucher sponsor says Recording captures conversation between House sponsor Scott Cepicky and homeschool advocates who oppose school vouchers
Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
Fact check: Trump’s false and unsubstantiated claims about his Manhattan criminal case
Republicans Are Objectively Pro–Junk Fee A new congressional resolution aligns Republicans with the financial industry’s fight to preserve sky-high credit card late fees.
Missouri AG’s ‘Sham Investigation’ into Planned Parenthood Can Continue, Judge Says
Seven organizations the far right is targeting for diversity efforts post-affirmative action
Maine GOP lawmaker says Lewiston shooting was God's wrath in response to law expanding abortion access
GOP Reps Have a Familiar Strategy for Trump Trial: What About Hunter Biden?
The message from GOP senators: Suffer, little children
Tennessee Republicans Fight Ban on Cousins Getting Married
Fascist State There are degrees of political insanity. After its recent Republican primary elections, Texas approaches a psychotic break.
Police Report: Trump County Chair Threatened To Rape Boss's Wife, Then Kill Him Jonathan Stone, a former New Hampshire police officer, has been a part of Trump’s campaign since 2016, when he gave Trump an inscribed AR-15 assault rifle.
FBI responds to spate of bomb threats against Planet Fitness after right-wing transphobic campaign
Reauthorization of U.S. spy tool blocked by House conservative revolt
Nassau County Republicans want an armed civilian militia. And they’re not alone. Local conservatives in the New York county want an armed, civilian militia for "emergencies" that could also be used during civil rights demonstrations.
Which Trump lies stick? Republicans believe some falsehoods more than they did six years ago, our poll finds.
Many Americans who recently bought guns open to political violence, survey finds
R.I. official says GOP Senate candidate is spreading ‘misinformation’ about voter data | Republican Patricia Morgan says Democrats are trying to “pervert our elections,” but the deputy secretary of state says a consortium of 24 states is helping to maintain voter rolls and detect fraudulent voting
GOP lawmaker says neo-Nazi comments taken out of context in debate over paramilitary training
Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books
Trump Admits He Only Wants White People to Come to the U.S. The former president wondered why the U.S. doesn’t get more migrants from Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland.
Why Donald Trump is repeating a smear about Democrats wanting to ‘execute’ babies
House intelligence chair says Republicans are ‘absolutely’ repeating Russian propaganda Mike Turner, the Ohio Republican, echoes a similar claim made recently by another rightwing American lawmaker
MAGA’s newly exposed plan for interfering with the elections includes using lies to trash legal votes
The increasingly authoritarian-curious Republican Party
GOP State Rep’s Police Career Ended After Mass Shooting Threats: Report
Video of Donald Trump Supporter Saying They'd Vote for Putin Goes Viral
Trump’s Second-Term Blueprint Would Take A Wrecking Ball To Public Lands
Anonymous users are dominating right-wing discussions online. They also spread false information
Colorado Sun politics reporter kicked out of GOP state assembly Reporter Sandra Fish was escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy after being told the Colorado GOP chairman doesn’t like her reporting
Trump Says He’ll Become ‘Modern Day Nelson Mandela’ Over Right to Attack Judge’s Daughter
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP | House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out such a problem in his party
Trump’s bizarre, vindictive incoherence has to be heard in full to be believed
Texas Supreme Court justice implies Democrats will cheat in 2024 election Justice John Devine’s comments at a conservative event are the latest to prompt concerns about his impartiality as a jurist.
Church Wants to Change Electoral College to Help Donald Trump
Donald Trump endorses pastor who calls for LGBTQ+ executions
How paid X accounts blamed Israel, Ukraine for the Baltimore bridge collapse
Ruby Garcia's sister denies Trump's claim that he spoke to her family At a campaign event on Tuesday, Trump said that he had spoken to the family of a woman who was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant.
A GOP lawmaker called the US ‘unrighteous’ because of LGBTQ people and non-Christians A traditional opening prayer in the House of Representatives turned into an evangelical sermon condemning LGBTQ “sinners” and “dark”
Trump Media is ‘a scam’ and people buying its stock are ‘dopes,’ Barry Diller says
Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Rants in Michigan Should Be Covered as a Scandal The real story here is the way Trump is twisting select crimes to viciously smear undocumented immigrants across the board .
Trump’s Civil Fraud Bond Backer Is Even Shadier Than We Thought Don Hankey’s financial company has a history of unlawful lending practices.
Fox News Goes After Judge in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial for Him Donald Trump may be limited by a gag order, but Fox News isn’t.
20 percent say violence may be needed to get US back on track: Poll
Chinese Accounts Posing as MAGA-Loving Trump Fans Ahead of Election: Report
‘Start the Steal’: Trump Once Again Planning to Overturn an Election Two shadow campaigns are ramping up—one aiming to create a constitutional crisis, the other aiming to prevent one.
Trump tries to resurrect ‘Hitlerian’ defamation claim against CNN for ‘Big Lie’ reporting
TENNESSEE Tenn. bill passes, allows non-accepting parents adopt LGBTQ+ kids The bill may allow parents to adopt or foster LGBTQ+ kids and put them through conversion therapy, according to advocacy organizations
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima’
"Stand where he tells you to stand": Why the GOP is doubling down on misogyny in 2024 Republicans placate an evangelical base that's getting nastier with sexism
RNC plan for 2020 denialist to head ‘election integrity’ unit raises alarms Christina Bobb, who was part of Trump-backed fake elector scheme, tapped to run unit by Republican National Committee