Maine’s New Senate Candidates Sound a Lot Like Graham Platner
Whatever distinctions may exist between the eight candidates to replace Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee…
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Trump Caused Millions in Damage After Freedom 250 Oil Spill
The government shelled out almost $2 million in a no-bid emergency contract to clean up a diesel spill that occurred…
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DHS Sec. Threatens to Jail State Officials Who Defy Trump’s Demands
The Trump administration has promised to stonewall federal grants unless states “scrub” their voter rolls and to…
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Trump’s Favorite News Show Totally Ignores His Election Fraud Speech
President Trump’s rant to the nation about election fraud Thursday night was full of inaccuracies, previously known…
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And Now, MAGA—and MTG, Even!—Have Joined the Anti–Data Center Movement
The mass mobilization against data centers is coming to a boil this week, and the tech aristocracy is turning paranoid.…
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DOGE Gutted the Office Researching the Explosive Diarrhea Parasite
Donald Trump promised federal cuts under the Elon Musk–led Department of Government Efficiency would “drive out the…
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Kentucky Governor Warns He Got Calls “Suggesting” Mitch McConnell Died
Despite recent evidence to the contrary, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear isn’t so sure that Senator Mitch McConnell is…
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ICE Agent in Fatal Maine Shooting Has History of Terrifying Violence
New details are emerging about the ICE agent who shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero on Monday.…
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Trump’s Delusional Election Fraud Speech Sparks 25th Amendment Calls
Democrats across the country questioned the president’s fitness after his baseless, incendiary prime-time Thursday…
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No President Has Embarrassed This Country the Way Trump Did Last Night
First of all, I could barely stay awake. It was only a 25-minute speech, and it’s not like 9:25 p.m. is my bedtime, but…
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Epstein Victims Slam “Demoralizing” Meeting With Todd Blanche
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s meeting with several Epstein survivors was a major bust. The Thursday meeting…
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Senate GOP Is Pissed JD Vance Keeps Ditching Them to Promote His Book
Republicans in Congress are reportedly souring on Vice President JD Vance, feeling abandoned as he’s put media…
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Intel Docs Declassified by Trump Expose All His Election Fraud Claims
President Trump’s wild claims of election fraud made in a speech to the nation Thursday night contradict the findings…
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Trump’s Own Election Fraud Guy Admits He’s Found No Proof
Not even President Trump’s own election fraud guy could back up his claims that votes in the last three general and…
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Transcript: What’s Really Driving the Progressive Surge
This is a lightly edited transcript of the June 14 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here…
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The Supreme Court’s Most Brazen Attack on Congress Yet
The Supreme Court’s end-of-term blockbuster cascade of decisions marked new heights of the right-wing majority’s lust…
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The Montana Independent Who’s Dooming the Democrats
Seconds into our phone call, Brian Schweitzer, Montana’s folksy Democratic former governor, launched into an analogy…
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What’s Really Driving the Left’s Wins In Democratic Primaries?
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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Does Soccer Still Explain the World?
Forget the $10,000 tickets and the travel bans and the fact that the last three World Cups have been hosted in Russia,…
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Trump Blatantly Tries to Manipulate Markets With Truth Social Scheme
The thin veil that has historically clouded government corruption is in the trash—under the current Trump…
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MAGA Senator Says Greenland Needs to Be Saved From “Radical Mullahs”
A sitting senator proposed annexing Greenland on the wild assumption that Denmark may, in the coming decades, become an…
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ICE Agent Who Killed Maine Man Tried to Get His Ex-Wife to Lie for Him
The ICE agent who shot and killed a 26-year-old in Biddeford, Maine, is a former police officer who his ex-wife says…
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Trump’s Cuts Put His Brand New “Trump Accounts” at Risk
Donald Trump’s eponymously named childhood investment accounts might not survive his own administration’s cost-cutting…
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Karoline Leavitt Scrambles Over Trump and Vance’s Iran Contradiction
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that President Donald Trump and…
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Republican Senator Delivers Todd Blanche an Epstein Ultimatum
Senator Thom Tillis has announced that he will vote against Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination unless Blanche…
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Trump Plans to Make Life Even Harder for International Students
The Trump administration is putting limits on how long foreign students can stay in the U.S. on student visas. The…
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Trump’s Handpicked Company Screwed Up Reflecting Pool Reno From Start
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling…
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Teleprompter Operator Made $100K Betting on Trump’s Speeches
A White House teleprompter operator appears to have made over $100,000 betting on President Trump’s speeches. ABC News,…
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Clarence Thomas Pal Harlan Crow Maxed Out Donations to John Fetterman
Harlan Crow, the billionaire patron of Republican-aligned causes, groups, and politicians, has found a new beneficiary…
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Epstein Survivor Says Todd Blanche Chose Not to Follow Any Leads
A survivor of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein testified at Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing on Thursday, hammering…
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