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Is Donald Trump Jr. aiming to be the heir apparent?
If our current president can’t decide between Marco Rubio and JD Vance, there could be a third option. Read more.
MAGA 2024 coalition finally fracturing for real
It’s not just influencers anymore. Republican dissatisfaction with Trump has broken containment. Read more.
NY archdiocese offers $800M to abuse survivors
Landmark settlement proposal would be among the largest offered by Catholic church in US. Read more.
Acting AG Todd Blanche thinks you need ID to eat out
Still pushing for doomed voter ID law, MAGA’s top lawyer draws puzzling analogy. Read more.
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MAGA media is starting to push back against Trump’s censorship campaign
Donald Trump returned to power leaning into the “right-wing narrative that free speech was under siege from liberal elites, Big Tech platforms and an overreaching Biden administration,” as Salon media critic Sophia Tesfaye writes. And for years, “the MAGA faithful raged against the left’s supposed creeping culture of cancellation.”
But now that the full weight of the federal government’s machinery has been loosed against Trump’s perceived enemies, Sophia observes, even former MAGA loyalists are getting edgy. Let’s put it this way: We know the whole thing is “going sideways when Megyn Kelly starts defending Jimmy Kimmel.”
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Has the DNC already picked its fave candidate for 2028?
Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin has broken his promise to release the party’s “autopsy” of the 2024 defeat, claiming he wants to avoid “navel-gazing.” But the DNC clampdown benefits exactly one candidate, who currently leads in the polls and would have a lot to lose if the autopsy ever sees the light of day: former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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