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Trump DHS Is Building Deranged Case Against Ilhan OmarHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin revealed Friday that the Trump administration is hoping to bring a criminal conspiracy case against Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. Appearing on Real America’s Voice, Mullin discussed his agency’s plan to go after the Democratic lawmaker after her home in Washington was raided Monday, just three weeks…

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Zelenskiy Smiles as Entire EU Summit Laughs at TrumpUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy knows how to get the European Union laughing—at Donald Trump. EU leaders met in Brussels for the conclusion of the European Council summit Friday, where they closed ranks around Ukraine in its ongoing war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. During one press conference, Zelenskiy was asked if he felt Trump was making him…

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Anthony Scaramucci Weighs in on Katie Zacharia Breaking His RecordKatie Zacharia’s tenure as White House press secretary only lasted five days before President Trump fired her Friday, breaking the record for shortest duration in the role. Anthony Scaramucci, who only served for 11 days as White House communications director, had a charitable take on the firing, posting on X, “Records are made to be broken. But I take…

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Trump Fires His Fake Lawyer Press Secretary After Just Five DaysKatie Zacharia has been fired as White House press secretary after less than one week on the job, The New York Times reported Friday, citing three anonymous sources. She hosted one 14-minute press briefing, took 3 questions, and will go down in history as the press secretary with the shortest tenure to date. Fox News also reported that Zacharia would be…

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Canada’s Leader Roasts Trump With Joke About “Election Interference”Canadians may be extremely divided, but there is one thing they can all agree on: They don’t like Donald Trump. Ahead of a referendum vote that could potentially put Alberta on the path toward independence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney urged province residents at a rally in Calgary Thursday night to remain united in the face of pressure from…

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Republican Congressman Defends Call to Arrest Student JournalistRepublican Representative Andy Harris is defending his threat to have a student journalist arrested following a disastrous debate earlier this week. Baltimore TV station Fox 45 asked the Maryland congressman about how he flipped out at Capital News Service reporter Cat Murphy, a student at the University of Maryland, for filming him answering questions…

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Giuliani Is Using Legal Defense Fund for Anything But Legal DefenseRudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund has spent $1.2 million throughout the 2026 election cycle—but the vast majority of it hasn’t gone to legal fees. Instead, the former Trump adviser has spent his money on fundraising consultants, blowing $442,000 on a contract with the Texas-based fundraising service provider American Caging and $227,000 on a contract…

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Trump Just Visited a MAGA Town in Ohio. Its Voters are Turning on Him.Donald Trump held a rally on Monday in Youngstown, the eastern Ohio town that has come to symbolize postindustrial Rust Belt decline. It didn’t go well: Trump mumbled about GOP Senator Jon Husted’s “ass” to a sparsely filled arena. But in Trump’s head, the event was a triumph that gave Husted a huge boost. As Trump subsequently claimed : “I heard he went…

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Trump Picks His Scapegoat for Midterms Bust—and It’s a DoozyThe president’s once-unassailable ice maiden is melting. As Republicans brace for a midterm election blue wave, Donald Trump is looking for someone to blame . Enter: Susie Wiles. The White House chief of staff is reportedly on the brink of losing her job, according to insiders that spoke with Zeteo Friday. One top Trump adviser told the progressive news…

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How Data Centers Became This Michigan Dem’s Signature IssueYou’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free . Inside Washington Can a former climate and housing activist make it to the halls of Congress? Will Lawrence ’s opponents are trying to paint him as too radical for Michigan’s swingy 7th…

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Elon Musk Settles Lawsuit Over Rigged Lottery for Trump SupportersElon Musk has settled a class action lawsuit over allegations that his shady super PAC offered President Donald Trump’s supporters a chance to win $1 million—when the winners had already been handpicked. Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Musk’s America PAC offered to “randomly” give away $1 million each day to registered voters in several…

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Cheating, Lying, Dividing: Can You Guess Who I’m Talking About?We’re two-plus weeks out from Election Day. Republicans are in a dead panic and taking the wildest of swings. Maryland Representative Andy Harris, who is as close as we have in the United States Congress to an actual, bona fide fascist (I know that’s saying a lot, but Harris’s father served in a pro-Nazi paramilitary unit in Hungary toward the end of…

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Trump’s New Press Secretary Disintegrates Under Slightest PressureWhite House press secretary Katie Zacharia crashed and burned Thursday as she struggled to defend pretending to be an actual attorney. Appearing on Fox News’s Hannity , Zacharia was forced to answer for her train wreck first press briefing . “It’s been widely panned, I’m sure you’re aware. It only lasted 14 minutes. You only took three questions,” host…

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Transcript: Dems Will Win the House. The Senate is the Big QuestionThis is a lightly edited transcript of the October 15 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video her e or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: Good morning. I’m Perry Bacon. I’m the host of Right Now on The New Republic . We have a great guest today. It’s G. Elliott Morris. People probably already know who he…

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Why the Democrats Might Not Flip the SenateYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . What happens if polls are overstating Democratic support, as they have in recent elections? Even if polls are fairly biased against Republicans, Democrats will flip the House, elections expert G. Elliott…

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Transcript: Fox News Poll Shocker Is an Absolute Disaster for TrumpThe following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 16 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blas t from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. The new Fox poll is absolutely disastrous for Donald Trump. It has fresh data on his dropping…

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Will Democrats Learn the Wrong Lesson From a Blue Wave?The Democrats are poised to win big in next month’s elections. That’s great news because it will give the party enough congressional seats to rein in President Trump in Washington and enough gubernatorial and state legislative seats to blunt the mini-Trumps in red states and pass good policies in blue ones. But we shouldn’t necessarily interpret a…

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How Big Business Lost Its Big Bet on TrumpIn the run-up to this second Trump term, there were a lot of predictions, assumptions, extrapolations, and truisms that turned out to be very wrong. One of the most significant (and arguably among the most defensible) was that the money men would somewhat insulate us from the most extravagantly destructive of Trump’s initiatives—in effect, that the…

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The Supreme Court Is Leaning Toward a Digital Privacy VictoryThe Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a customer who invoked a semi-obscure federal law to sue Paramount for sharing his personal information with Facebook, during oral arguments on Wednesday, though multiple justices signaled that they might constrain such lawsuits in future cases. The case, Salazar v. Paramount Global, has significant…

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Fox News Just Nuked Trump With His Most Disastrous Poll YetThe new national poll from Fox is absolutely awful for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It finds Trump at a record low approval, shows him absolutely cratering with independents and Latinos, and even finds him underwater with non-college whites and non-MAGA Republicans. It also finds Democrats expanding their lead in the generic ballot matchup to…

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