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6+ min ago (246+ words) President Donald Trump's efforts to criminally prosecute his political adversaries have finally "collapsed," at least according to journalist Jason Easley, who argued the latest court rebuke to the Trump administration to be the final nail in the coffin for the president's "revenge campaign." "His demand to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi that she indict people on his enemies list has so far resulted in zero convictions. Before Trump returned to office, many Americans were concerned that he would be able to abuse his power to crush criticism with political prosecutions successfully" Trump hasn't been able to break the United States. Instead, it seems the U.S. is breaking Trump." Trump's Justice Department has targeted a number of the president's political adversaries, including FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Georgia District Attorney Fani…...

7+ min ago (372+ words) U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks with reporters after the Senate approved the House resolution to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 18, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Ten and one-half months into his second presidency, Donald Trump continues to be dogged by the very thing that imperiled former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election: inflation. The United States, as liberal economist Paul Krugman has often noted, enjoyed record-low unemployment during Biden's presidency. But Trump hammered Biden and Harris relentlessly on inflation during the presidential race, and that messaging helped him pull off a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent in the popular vote. Now, Trump is the one facing voters who are frustrated over the economy. In an article published by…...

12+ min ago (780+ words) I want to pour you a shot of good news, with a stiff chaser. It won't wipe away all your troubles, but it might make you feel warm and fuzzy for about 30 minutes " maybe longer if you just allow yourself to go with the buzz " (BARTENDER'S TIP: Allow yourself to go with the buzz. It's been a hard damn decade.) All's not well in MAGA land, my friends. It seems there are hardcore members of the most destructive cult in American history, who believe their fearful, orange leader is outdoing himself in the Department of Bulls, as he undoes our democracy. It's actually starting to look like Donald Trump can go too far for at least a few of his ardent supporters, who have been known to see homegrown terrorists stomping on police officers and destroying our Capitol as "tourists,…...

16+ min ago (638+ words) Last year, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled that the president of the United States had "absolute" criminal immunity for his "official acts," as well as lesser degrees of immunity for other acts committed while president. This decision in Trump v. United States came under widespread and withering criticism from the dissenting justices and ordinary Americans alike. "The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably," Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissenting opinion. "In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law." No. 70, which was written by Hamilton and focuses on the nature of the presidency, is perhaps the central text for those who advocate for the unitary-executive theory. Their choice is somewhat understandable: Hamilton argues forcefully for creating a presidency with one officeholder instead of a "plural executive," as…...

16+ min ago (1754+ words) Politico seems to think it's the third one: Steyer running a populist gubernatorial campaign means voters don't care about global warming. The piece goes on: "Climate concern has fallen in the state over time. In 2018, when Gov. Gavin Newsom was running for office, polling found that 57 percent of likely California voters considered climate change a very serious threat to the economy and quality of life for the state's future. Now, that figure is 50 percent." This is not a portrait of an electorate that doesn't care about climate change. It's a portrait of an electorate that may actually be very ready to hear a politician convincingly embrace climate populism'championing affordability and better material conditions for working people, in part by protecting them from the predatory industries driving a cost-of-living crisis while poisoning people. One of the troubles with climate change in…...

17+ min ago (474+ words) CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent'Kaitlan Collins told viewers flat-out that President Donald Trump's "pressure campaign has failed" after a redistricting law he supported went down in flames. The Indiana State Senate voted down a redistricting plan Trump pushed hard to give Republicans more congressional seats, defeating it by a 31-19 margin " including a majority of Republicans. On Thursday night's edition'of CNN's'The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the anchor opened her show with a blunt summation of the news and a call-out of Trump's feigned indifference to the news: KAITLAN COLLINS: Tonight, Indiana Republicans just handed President Trump one of his biggest defeats yet. Why they defied him, and how the President is responding tonight inside the Oval Office. I'm Kaitlan Collins. And this is THE SOURCE. As we come on the air tonight, there's really no other way to put…...

20+ min ago (1156+ words) Truth deserves a community. Become a Rewire Member Today. If SCOTUS sides with the Trump administration and its Republican allies, the damage "will take lifetimes to repair." Conservatives on the Supreme Court seem intent on sending a clear message to the American public this 2025-2026 term: A new age of American authoritarianism is here. Four cases in particular underscore how the Court's six conservative justices are an integral piece in the Republican project to upend the democratic norms that underpin U.S. society. The outcome of these cases in 2026 will determine how successful the GOP and their Supreme Court enablers are in their project to deconstruct basic civil rights and liberties. On Dec. 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed Republicans a significant victory, ruling Texas' brand-new congressional map can take effect while a case challenging the legality of its partisan redistricting advances in the lower…...

21+ min ago (321+ words) The Republican Party is racking up loss after high-profile loss in 2025 off-year elections, with party insiders claiming they are "spooked" and "freaking out" about losses, particularly in once-safe red states, per a Friday report from The Hill. Speaking with The Hill, sources close to the Trump White House said that the underperformances and losses in "party strongholds" have members of the GOP increasingly concerned with the downward trend and what it portends as the 2026 midterms approach. "Republicans losing in Republican areas? That's a different story. I think that's got people freaking out," a former Trump White House staffer told the outlet. Another source, described as "close to the White House," suggested that GOP leaders were trying to ignore the problem and suggested that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is not doing enough to help these smaller races. "There's a lot…...

26+ min ago (317+ words) Intelligencer write Adam Kilgore says four years under President Donald Trump last time felt "like 40," but that was nothing "compared to his second administration." Kilgore said Trump is determined to tip the balance of power, but the midterms could potentially upset that. But "conversely," warned Kilgore, "if Republicans hold onto both congressional chambers, then all bets are off. Trump 2.0 would roll through its final two years with the president's more audacious legislative goals very much in sight and limited only by how much risk Republicans want to take in 2028." America could also get a full "MAGA makeover," said Kilgore. This could mean a country of millions fewer immigrants, with immigrant-sensitive industries like agriculture, health care, and other services struggling, a "fully shredded social-safety net feeding steadily increasing disparities in income and wealth between rich and poor," and cities "where armed…...

32+ min ago (1543+ words) Growing up in an ultraconservative Mormon family, Jennie Gage said, she was primed to become a Christian nationalist and supporter of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement " or MAGA. But about two years ago, at 49, Gage had a reckoning, realizing she had been "literally a white supremacist from birth," based on teachings from the Book of Mormon. Gage said she came to see Mormonism as "the OG Christian nationalist church." So, she flipped her life upside down, leaving organized religion and the Republican party. She now calls herself "a raging feminist," hosts a podcast, "Life, Take Two," and is a member of "Leaving MAGA," a nonprofit online community for former Trump followers who found themselves lost in conspiracies, losing friends, even committing crimes in the president's name. "I would have never said, "I'm white supremacist. I'm Christian nationalist," Gage…...