Trump’s “Grand Conspiracy” Probe Is Coming Crashing Down
Another one of the people President Donald Trump hired to investigate the cases against him has quit. Kurt Olsen…
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Trump Adviser Secretly Warns Midterms Are Going to Be “F*cking Rough”
President Donald Trump’s inner circle is already bracing for a “f*cking rough” round of midterm elections. With just…
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Transcript: Trump Erupts in Panic as GOP Midterm Fears Grow: “Wipeout”
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 29 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.…
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Transcript: Can Democrats Be Both Principled and Pragmatic?
This is a lightly edited transcript of the September 27 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video…
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Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa, who is surprisingly close in polls against Republican incumbent…
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You…
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The Right-Wing Plot to Make It Harder to Sue Corporations
If you can think of an example of everyday people holding huge corporations accountable for harming the public, it was…
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Trump Erupts in Wild Panic as GOP Midterm Leaks Grow Urgent: “Wipeout”
Republicans leaking about the midterms are growing more alarmed. One GOP operative in Iowa says this: “It feels like it…
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Trump Asks African Reporter How Ebola Is Going
Donald Trump’s response to the ongoing Rwanda-Congo conflict involved deflecting to the Ebola virus before shutting…
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Ken Paxton Defends One-Day Plea Deal Offered to Child Sex Predator
Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton seems to think that letting a child predator out of…
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Republicans Silent as Trump Cuts Nearly $1 Billion Passed by Congress
President Trump’s move last week to cancel close to $1 billion of funds already appropriated by Congress is getting…
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Samuel Alito Does the Right Thing for a Change
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a major climate change case coming up on the court’s…
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January 6 Rioters Claim They Were “Punished,” Demand Restitution
A group of defendants prosecuted for their actions in the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection are suing the federal…
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Trump, 80, Promptly Falls Asleep After Announcing New Steel Plant
President Donald Trump once again struggled to keep his eyes open Monday, just moments after unveiling a plan to build…
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Trump’s Initial Plan for Vote by Mail Was Far More Sinister
President Trump had an even more extreme plan to restrict mail-in voting before the Supreme Court intervened, according…
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Mike Johnson Has Bonkers Excuse for Surging Data Center Hate
House Speaker Mike Johnson cares so little about Americans that he’s pretending that public opinion is really the…
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Surprise! MAGA Candidate Convicted of Election Fraud
For all their browbeating about election fraud, it turns out that Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes aren’t following…
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Texas GOP Candidate Has Long History of Calling for Public Executions
A Republican candidate for statewide office in Texas regularly called for public executions in social media posts that…
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FBI Deputy Chief Quits After Just One Year of Working With Kash Patel
FBI co–deputy director and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey—who helped lead the draconian raid on a…
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WTF Is Trump Saying About Poverty in the U.S. Here?
America has the “best poverty numbers,” according to our billionaire president. “We have the best, I guess you could…
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same…
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ICE Gets Wildly Conflicting Orders Ahead of Midterms
The Trump administration is flip-flopping on how to manage its mass deportation policy ahead of the midterm elections.…
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This Is a Crucial Week in the Fight Against Trump’s Assault on the Law
On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit will hear arguments in a case that began on a Saturday evening in March 2025, when a…
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John Fetterman Mistakenly Calls Himself a “Lifelong Republican”
Senator John Fetterman seemed to forget where he stands politically over the weekend. At the Texas Tribune Festival…
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Trump Team Scrambles to Backpedal on Slip About Arms Sale to China
Selling weapons to China is suddenly off the table. It’s unclear how it got on the table in the first place. U.S.…
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Todd Blanche Crashes Out About Media Ban After Trump Bars CNN Again
Attorney General Todd Blanche crashed and burned while trying to defend President Donald Trump’s ever-increasing…
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Kash Patel Caught With Suspected Double Agent at Alina Habba’s Wedding
FBI Director Kash Patel appears to have spent his weekend schmoozing with a man his own department fired under…
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Iran Issues Terrifying Threat After Trump Blows Up Another Peace Deal
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that his country is “fully prepared for the war to be resumed” following…
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“He Can’t Be Trusted”: Trump’s Most Loyal Front-Row Fans Turn on Him
What does it say that President Donald Trump’s biggest fans are starting to abandon him? Fractures have begun to form…
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Transcript: Trump Rage over Failing Press Ban Erupts in Epic Self-Own
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 28 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.…
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The Great American Adventure of Reading Doonesbury
Across the last half-century or so, Doonesbury has been one of those rare institutions that could always be counted…
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up. Most of the…
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Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?
Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down? Elementary school students fresh off an Earth Day lesson…
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The Next Front in Trump’s War Against Immigrants
In the Trump administration’s avalanche of immigration animosity, it can be hard to miss some of the more technical…
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Trump’s Rage Over Failing Press Ban Goes Off Rails in Epic Self-Own
A few days ago, Donald Trump exploded in an extended tirade at news organizations. Why? Because they had suspended TV…
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The Worst Possible Way to End the Trump Era
One of my many cataloged memories of the Trump era is from the run-up to the 2016 election, when one of my colleagues…
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