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Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court—With an Urgent Warning About Trump

If the Supreme Court takes its time in handing down a ruling on Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity for insurrection-related crimes, voters...

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Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson’s Shockingly Pro-Ukraine Speech Really Sticks It to MAGA

It was a remarkable moment: After introducing a package of bills that includes military aid to Ukraine, Mike Johnson flatly told reporters on...

19.04.2024 20

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Weird Moment With Mike Johnson Reveals a Deeper GOP Sickness

Looking back, it’s clear that one of the more fateful moments in the evolution of today’s Republican Party came when Kevin McCarthy made his...

13.04.2024 6

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Steve Bannon Accidentally Wrecks One of Trump’s Worst Lies About Biden

Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that...

11.04.2024 7

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Greg Sargent

Trump Is Accidentally Exposing Aileen Cannon’s Shady Pro-MAGA Game

When Judge Aileen Cannon handed down her latest ruling in the prosecution of Donald Trump for stealing classified documents, many legal observers...

06.04.2024 60

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Rants in Michigan Should Be Covered as a Scandal

Donald Trump has invented a new criminological category he describes as “Migrant Crime,” and in Michigan on Tuesday, he seized on the horrible...

03.04.2024 7

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Greg Sargent

MAGA’s Ugly, Hateful Response to Bridge Horror Is About to Get Worse

One of the ugliest features of MAGA politics is the eagerness to seize on large scale accidents, disasters, and pandemics to spread conspiracy...

30.03.2024 80

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RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Is Young and Very Rich. That Worries Dems.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that he’s chosen a running mate for his third-party presidential run: Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old...

26.03.2024 4

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage-Rant About Dems “Killing” Social Security Is a Big Tell

For too long, Donald Trump has enjoyed the presumption among media and political elites that he’s fundamentally different from the Republican Party...

22.03.2024 5

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Greg Sargent

Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam

Pinned atop Elon Musk’s mighty Twitter feed—sorry, his X feed—is a video that purports to lay bare a vast conspiracy among Democrats to...

21.03.2024 10

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Greg Sargent

Mike Johnson Suddenly Seems Ready to Stick a Shiv in MAGA

Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind. The House speaker simply doesn’t have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to pass anything with...

15.03.2024 4

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Greg Sargent

GOP’s Impeachment Farce Is Imploding, and the Real Culprit Is Trump

The House GOP’s effort to impeach President Biden appears to be in deep trouble. Republicans are privately admitting that their case against Biden...

13.03.2024 2

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Greg Sargent

Leaked Audio Shows No Labels Has Zero Idea If It’ll Find a Candidate

The centrist group No Labels held a vote of delegates Friday and announced plans to move forward in seeking candidates for a third-party presidential...

09.03.2024 20

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry Rant About Biden’s Speech Showcases MAGA’s Ugliest Scam

Amid the barrage of tweets that Donald Trump fired off during President Biden’s State of the Union address, no topic was more central than the...

08.03.2024 5

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Greg Sargent

Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats

President Biden’s brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our...

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Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon

In the wake of the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution—potentially delaying his...

01.03.2024 80

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Greg Sargent

Trump’s Panicky Eruption Over Embryo Ruling Won’t Fix GOP’s IVF Mess

When Donald Trump attacked the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children, it was widely seen as a glaring...

28.02.2024 6

New Republic

Greg Sargent

How No Labels’ Spoiler Bid Suddenly Entered Full Meltdown Mode

Around six months ago, when speculation raged that Senator Joe Manchin might join a third-party presidential ticket on behalf of the centrist group No...

23.02.2024 9

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Greg Sargent

Bombshell Charges Against FBI “Informant” Wreck Trump’s Impeachment Scam

As you’ve surely heard by now, the FBI has criminally charged an informant for lying about claims related to an ongoing special counsel...

16.02.2024 6

New Republic

Greg Sargent

An Infuriating Poll Finding About Trump Should Galvanize Democrats

You’ve probably heard that Donald Trump has “tightened his grip on the Republican Party,” or that he’s “bent the party to his will.”...

13.02.2024 30

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Greg Sargent

Nightmare Special Counsel Report Is the Media’s New Hillary Emails

For many liberals and Democrats, the release of a new, harshly worded special counsel report on President Biden is stirring terrible flashbacks to...

09.02.2024 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Why Mike Johnson Is Having a MAGA Meltdown Over the Border Deal

Because Republicans are so profoundly concerned about the border, the House GOP leadership’s first response to the new Senate border security deal...

05.02.2024 6

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Why the Explosive Jobs Report Will Hit Trump Harder Than You Think

In recent weeks, a deep fatalism has set in among liberals and Democrats. The proximate cause has been the disconnect between President Biden’s...

02.02.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

GOP Senator Reveals the Sick Truth About the Trump-MAGA Border Scam

Republican Senator James Lankford, who is leading negotiations over a border security bill, is discovering to his great shock that Donald Trump and...

29.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Mitch McConnell’s Craven Surrender to Trump: Yet Another MAGA Low

25.01.2024 4

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Greg Sargent

Elise Stefanik’s Deranged Defense of Trump Offers Democrats a Lesson

When it comes to Donald Trump’s legal travails, there are two general schools of thought among Democrats. In one, a jury’s finding that Trump is...

23.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump’s Angry Rant About His Legal Mess Reveals an Ugly MAGA Truth

Donald Trump’s lawyers have been arguing in court that he should have immunity from prosecution for crimes related to his insurrection because they...

19.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Trump Pocketed Millions in Foreign Payments. Why Won’t Senate Democrats Investigate?

Earlier this month, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released an explosive report documenting that Donald Trump’s businesses pocketed...

17.01.2024 5

New Republic

Greg Sargent

Elise Stefanik’s Ugly “Hostages” Barb Points to Serious GOP Mayhem Ahead

GOP Representative Elise Stefanik no doubt thought it was shrewd to describe the rioters who attacked the Capitol as “January 6 hostages.” This...

12.01.2024 4

New Republic

Greg Sargent

How Trump’s Unhinged Immunity Demand Could Unleash a Second-Term Crime Spree

Donald Trump and his lawyers are making an extraordinary demand in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: They want Trump granted immunity from criminal...

09.01.2024 3

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Greg Sargent

Is a Trump dictatorship inevitable?

Former President Donald Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story ...

05.12.2023 100

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How Trump is wrecking hopes for a ‘reasonable’ Ukraine deal

Former president Donald Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

01.12.2023 100

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The GOP rallies around Musk after his self-inflicted antisemitism mess

Elon Musk, the owner of X, outside the Capitol on Sept. 13. (Elizabeth Frantz for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share ...

22.11.2023 10

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Greg Sargent

How Gretchen Whitmer is quietly solving a big problem for Democrats

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer arrives at the White House for a meeting of the National Governors Association on Feb. 10. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP) ...

20.11.2023 200

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Trump’s plan for giant detention camps points to a brutal 2024 reality

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14.11.2023 100

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Youngkin’s disastrous night shows the right’s culture war has fizzled

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. (Julia Nikhinson for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

08.11.2023 6

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Greg Sargent

5 questions for the Democrat running a quixotic campaign against Biden

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03.11.2023 10

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The autoworkers’ big win exposes the absurdity of Trump’s populism

Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers. (Paul Sancya/AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

01.11.2023 9

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Mike Johnson’s conspiracy theories about ‘illegals’ mark a new GOP low

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Listen 4 min ...

27.10.2023 7

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Greg Sargent

The quiet vindication of Hakeem Jeffries

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share Comment on...

24.10.2023 4

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How the ‘sex act’ has become a potent weapon for book banners in Iowa

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). (Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this story Comment ...

19.10.2023 50

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With the House GOP in full meltdown, Democrats could offer a way out

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Capitol HIll on Thursday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share ...

16.10.2023 8

Washington Post

Greg Sargent

The GOP’s ‘southern strategy’ mastermind just died. Here’s his legacy.

Political analyst Kevin P. Phillips in September 1970. (AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story Comment ...

12.10.2023 5

Washington Post

Greg Sargent

Jim Jordan’s new shutdown threat highlights an unnerving right-wing trend

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Sept. 28. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

10.10.2023 5

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The MAGA-McCarthy meltdown does not oblige Democrats to save the GOP

Rep. Jim Jordan, a candidate for House speaker, makes his way toward a GOP leadership meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill O'Leary/The...

05.10.2023 30

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Greg Sargent

The House GOP’s threat to hold up Ukraine aid is worse than it seems

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

03.10.2023 3

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Greg Sargent

New data on ultra-rich tax cheats wrecks the ‘working-class GOP’ ruse

Former president Donald Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

28.09.2023 10

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Greg Sargent

In rural Virginia, a war over schools dredges up the area’s dark past

A sign on a road near Beaverdam, Va., in Hanover County, where a battle is underway over a push for an elected school board. (Greg Sargent/The...

27.09.2023 90

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This is what taking on election deniers really looks like

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D). (Caroline Gutman for The Washington Post) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this...

19.09.2023 100

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How the ‘MAGA doom loop’ is already threatening Trump’s 2024 chances

Former president Donald Trump. (Hannah Beier for The Washington Post.) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

14.09.2023 10

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