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Taylor Swift vs. Trump World
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Taylor Swift vs. Trump World

Fearful that Taylor Swift will endorse Biden, Trump World has promised a "holy war" and has started spreading hateful, misogynistic conspiracy theories.

As we already know, Donald Trump feels threatened by strong, successful women. So when Taylor Swift was awarded Time Person of the Year for her 2023 billion dollar Eras Tour, Trump had one of his famous temper tantrums. And now that Taylor Swift is dating KC Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce, MAGA World has been going nuts with conspiracy theories that Taylor Swift is a pentagon "psyop asset" and that the Super Bowl is fixed as part of a deep state plot to re-elect President Biden.

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The Hypocrisy of GOP Free Speech
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The Hypocrisy of GOP Free Speech

Trump and his MAGA allies claim free speech when they lie to voters and threaten their political enemies—and then they want to silence their critics.

Recent news is exposing the hypocrisy of GOP free speech, to avoid accountability for spreading lies that encourage violence. An appeals court rejected Trump's argument that he is immune from legal accountability for inciting the violence on January 6. A second court reinstated a gag order that prevents Trump from intimidating court personnel with lies that have resulted in multiple death threats. And despite a detailed and scathing House Ethics report, a majority of House Republicans voted against expelling George Santos for lying to voters and stealing campaign funds.

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Echos of Hitler and Mussolini
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Echos of Hitler and Mussolini

Trump and his far right supporters are following the fascist playbook by promising to "root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”

Historians are warning that Trump describing his political enemies as "vermin", and promising the mass deportation of immigrants he blames for “poisoning the blood of our country" is the same language used by Mussolini and Hitler to dehumanize and kill millions of people. Jason Stanley, Yale expert on facism and propaganda, called Trump's rhetoric "textbook Mein Kampf." Political Scientist Brian Klaas said “we are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism," and Presidential historian Jon Meacham warned that Trump is walking "through the door toward the most ghastly kinds of crimes.”

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Voters Reject MAGA Extremism - Again!
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Voters Reject MAGA Extremism - Again!

Trump's Republican Party keeps losing elections as voters—especially women—reject GOP candidates and make protecting reproductive health a top priority.

When the Supreme Court overturned 50 years of reproductive freedom, it was a wake up call for voters that Trump, MAGA extremism, and the GOP culture war is a threat to everyone. Voters handed Trump's GOP yet another embarrassing loss, including passing reproductive rights in Ohio and rejecting anti-abortion candidates across the country. Democrats won key elections including the Governor’s race in Kentucky, securing majorities in the Virginia statehouse, and electing the first woman mayor of Philadelphia.

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This Is Not a Political Rally
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This Is Not a Political Rally

Donald Trump was unable to answer the basic questions at the heart of his $250 Million fraud trial, so instead he tried to bully the judge and prosecutors.

Testifying under oath, Trump evaded directly answering questions and lashed out angrily at court proceedings repeating his campaign lies and conspiracy theories. Without offering evidence, Trump boasted he was worth “billions more” than the financial statements. From the witness stand, Trump shockingly called the judge biased and the state attorney general a “fraud” and “political hack.” A frustrated Judge Engoron asked Trump’s attorneys, “can you control your client” and warned Trump, “this is not a political rally.”

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MAGA Mike XXL
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MAGA Mike XXL

With Trump's blessing, every Republican member of the House voted to elect an election denying, White Christian Nationalist culture warrior as Speaker of the House.

Mike Johnson's election as Speaker of the House is a victory for Trump and his MAGA warriors who threw the House in chaos and dysfunction for 3 weeks by blocking any nominee who voted to certify the 2020 election. When candidate Johnson first ran for the House in 2016 he bragged, "I was called to the legal ministry and I’ve been out on the front lines of the culture war.” As an elected member of the House, Johnson led House efforts to overturn the 2020 election, criminalize abortion, deny climate change, demonize immigrants, and attack the LGBTQ+ community.

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Shame on You, Donald
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Shame on You, Donald

Trump comes under bipartisan condemnation for praising the rightwing militia group Hezbollah as "very smart," as the Israel-Hamas war puts millions of innocent civilians at risk and threatens to engulf the entire Middle East.

Donald Trump has a long history of complimenting rightwing militia groups, dictators, and strongmen who use violence to intimidate and kill innocent people. Trump praised neo-Nazis as "very fine people," complimented Vladimir Putin as a "genius" and "savvy," and called Kim Jong Un "very honorable." Trump's most recent praise of Hezbollah has enraged both Democrats and Republicans, including Governor Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, who posted “Shame on you, Donald. Your constant compliments to dictators, terrorist groups, and evil-doers are beneath the office you seek.”

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Republican Chaos Is a Threat to Everyone
The Culture War Michael Bornstein The Culture War Michael Bornstein

Republican Chaos Is a Threat to Everyone

Republican infighting has paralyzed the House, which is unable to authorize aid for Israel and Ukraine without first electing a Speaker.

We are in a worldwide crisis and Republicans are failing to act. Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,000 Jews in the deadliest attack since the Holocaust. Ukraine is fighting for survival against Russian invaders in the largest European land war since WWII. And the US government will shut down in 37 days without passing a budget. All of this is on hold because House Republicans are unable to elect a Speaker and a single GOP Senator is undermining military readiness by blocking more than 300 promotions.

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An Unmitigated Disaster About Nothing
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An Unmitigated Disaster About Nothing

House Republicans hold a Bidden impeachment hearing without evidence as they force a government shutdown without reason.

With less than 2 days left to avoid a government shutdown, Republicans held a house hearing to impeach Bidden that failed to produce any evidence and was called an "unmitigated disaster," by GOP insiders. This failed to appease Trump's most loyal supporters in the house who are demanding unpopular budget cuts or they will force a government shutdown that a right-wing think tank called "the first-ever shutdown about nothing”

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We Want to Kill You
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We Want to Kill You

Donald Trump's use of a word - that rhymes with the n-word - to attack black prosecutors is trending on social media with dangerous results.

Trump is using disgusting racial slurs and threats of violence to intimidate judges, prosecutors, and even potential jurors in his four criminal cases. Right wing websites that have repeated Trump's racist slurs have exploded with threats of violence. The FBI arrested a Texas woman who threatened to murder the judge overseeing Trump's federal Jan. 6 indictment calling her a "slave," and threatening, “you are in our sights, we want to kill you.”

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Supreme Court Goes Medieval
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Supreme Court Goes Medieval

The Supreme Court rulings are a direct assault on the legal protections for people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, and young people.

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court is determined to legislate from the bench. The court ignored decades of precedent by overturning affirmative action in college admissions, overruling laws that protect same-sex couples, and ignoring the legal authority granted by the HEROES Act to cancel student debt. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor exposed the hypocrisy of the court who “subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society.”

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White Supremacy—Not Just for White People
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White Supremacy—Not Just for White People

Nick Fuentes, Enrique Tarrio, and the Texas mall shooter are part of a disturbing trend of non-whites being radicalized by a violent, right-wing ideology.

White supremacy groups and neo-Nazis are trying to broaden their appeal and that often means recruiting non-whites to support their extremist views. In 2017, the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer started a Spanish language version. White supremacy is often rooted in personal insecurity, and non-whites are sometimes attracted to the hate of white supremacist movements to feel some kind of power and exert dominance over other groups such as immigrants, Jews, and women.

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Much Ado About Nothing
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Much Ado About Nothing

6 million taxpayer dollars, 4 years of Republican hype, 2 unanimous jury acquittals, and not 1 single piece of evidence supporting Trump's deep state conspiracy theories.

Trump's GOP believes voters are too stupid to care about the truth. So, despite the fact that the 306-page Durham Report failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by the FBI, Trump and his Republican enablers are claiming vindication for their crazy deep state conspiracy theories. The truth is that candidate Trump asked for Russia's help on live TV, his campaign had hundreds of secret meetings with Russian agents, and then Russian spies hacked and leaked Clinton's emails to help Trump win the 2016 election.

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CNN Hosts a MAGA Rally
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CNN Hosts a MAGA Rally

CNN allowed Trump to pack a primetime town hall with his right-wing supporters who cheered his most hateful, racist, bigoted lies and conspiracy theories.

After years of Trump bashing journalists as "fake news" and "enemies of the people," CNN decided to host a primetime Trump town hall that was a blatant attempt to attract right-wing viewers leaving Fox News. It was a highly disturbing 70-minutes of Trump airing his personal grievances, hateful lies, and right wing conspiracy theories popular with his base of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, and QAnon supporters.

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Republicans Stand By Your Man
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Republicans Stand By Your Man

Republican primary voters and the GOP leadership are still supporting Trump despite a jury concluding that Trump is liable for sexual abuse.

Trump once famously claimed that he could "shoot somebody," and "not lose any voters." Trump is still the hands down front runner to win the Republican nomination, even after 26 women have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct and a jury found that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Caroll. The response from Kevin McCarthy and the Republican leadership proves that power and Party loyalty is more important than holding their own members accountable for unethical or criminal behavior.

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GOP Politics Inspires Mass Murder
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GOP Politics Inspires Mass Murder

In less than 24 hours, 16 people were murdered in Texas by domestic terrorists inspired by the same extreme right-wing, anti-immigrant hate embraced by white supremacists and Trump's Republican Party.

Donald Trump holding his campaign kickoff at Waco Texas was symbolic to white supremacists who have long embraced acts of domestic terrorism and insurrection, including the 1992 Waco Texas standoff and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building that killed a total of 250 people. Today's GOP is spreading the same right-wing, anti-immigrant hate that is inspiring the next generation of mass murders.

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How White Men Fight
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How White Men Fight

The only thing more shocking than Tucker Carlson's recently revealed text messages are the racist lies and conspiracy theories promoted on Fox News every day.

The executives at Fox want us to believe that Tucker Carlson was fired for sending hateful text messages that were only recently discovered. That is clearly a lie. The Fox News brand is racist lies, bigotry, and conspiracy theories. Rupert Murdoch fired Tucker Carlson for the same reason he does everything: MONEY!

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She Will Not Be Silenced
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She Will Not Be Silenced

In acts of extraordinary individual courage, these women are publicly speaking out against the hateful, violent misogyny that defines Trump's GOP.

E. Jean Carroll who is suing Donald Trump said in court, “I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.” Amanda Zurawski accused Senator Cruz and Cornyn of supporting a Texas abortion ban, “I nearly died on their watch… as a result of what happened to me, I may have been robbed of the opportunity to have children in the future.” Abbey Grossberg is suing Fox News, said Tucker Carlson and his producer Justin Wells, “were responsible for breaking me and making my life a living hell.” And Rep. Zooey Zephyr warned the Republican controlled Montana state legislature that, "If you use decorum to silence people who hold you accountable, all you are doing is using decorum as a tool of oppression.”

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A Demonic Force, a Destroyer
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A Demonic Force, a Destroyer

Tucker Carlson continues to lie about the January 6 Insurrection to his Fox News audience, despite text messages that reveal his disdain for Trump and the Big Lie of election fraud.

The Dominion defamation lawsuit has exposed the hypocrisy of Fox News host Tucker Carlson who publicly continues to lie about the Jan. 6 Insurrection while privately calling the plot to steal the election as “shockingly reckless” and “absurd”. Even Republican Senators are calling Carlson’s lies “very dangerous” and that January 6 “was not peaceful, it was an abomination.” Privately, Carlson has repeatedly expressed his disdain for the former President saying, “I hate him passionately.” Carlson even said that Trump is the “undisputed world champion” at “destroying things” and called Trump “a demonic force, a destroyer.”

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Fox News Lied for Ratings
The Culture War Michael Bornstein The Culture War Michael Bornstein

Fox News Lied for Ratings

Rupert Murdoch admits under oath that everyone at Fox knew the 2020 election "was on the up-and-up," but still broadcast Trump's Big Lie for ratings and profit.

The Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit has exposed the hypocrisy and lies of Fox News desperate to maintain ratings after Trump attacked them as ""disloyal and dishonest."" Internal communications and under oath testimony has revealed that Fox hosts and executives made the decision to knowingly repeat Trump's lies of election fraud to keep viewers from switching to more conservative news outlets.

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