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The Republican representative who chairs the House Intelligence Committee said it’s “absolutely true” that Russian propaganda has influenced some of the GOP’s own members of Congress. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday morning, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) affirmed a fellow Republican colleague’s statement that pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine messaging had penetrated the party base in Congress. That colleague, House …

Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, one of the GOP’s top recruits for 2024, has been telling inconsistent accounts of how he received a gunshot wound in his arm. The 38-year-old challenger to vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has previously claimed he was wounded by a gunshot in combat, but a Washington Post story on a previously unreported incident has made …

A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to proceed with their lawsuit against two California cities for canceling their rallies—but also shredded their claims that civil rights advocacy groups conspired against them. Judge Hernán Vera wrote that Greene and Gaetz had adequately convinced the court that the cities of …

It’s time for American voters to accept that the rematch six in ten Americans didn’t want is happening: Trump vs. Biden. On the heels of Super Tuesday and Nikki Haley’s departure from the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump is poised to officially be the GOP nominee for president—despite 91 felony counts, four separate indictments, and being found liable for sexual …

Donald Trump’s undefeated run in Republican primary races came to an end Sunday with Nikki Haley’s victory in Washington, D.C., but the former president claimed to be unfazed by the defeat, which—according to him—was simply part of the plan. “I purposely stayed away from the D.C. Vote because it is the ‘Swamp,’ with very few delegates, and no upside,” Trump …

Listen to this full episode of The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher. Journalist Hamilton Nolan tells The New Abnormal that Democrats have a unique opportunity to galvanize support in Republican-held states by embracing the trade union movement and winning back votes from working families. Nolan, who has written a book called The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and …

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, one of the MAGA Republicans vying to become Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, went to Mar-a-Lago for a one-on-one meeting with the former president on Monday, reports say. Noem’s office told The Dakota Scout that she had extended her out-of-state trip after she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) in Maryland over the …

Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling last week that frozen embryos fertilized in test tubes legally qualify as living, breathing human beings sent Republicans scrambling to clarify their positions so as not to lose votes from women in the 2024 elections—and John Oliver wasn’t about to let them get away with it. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said equating in vitro fertilization …

Donald Trump declared that his litany of legal woes were little more than “Stalinist show trials” in a rambling, meandering speech at CPAC on Saturday. “The Stalinist show trials being carried out at Joe Biden’s orders set fire not only to our system of government but to hundreds of years of western legal tradition,” Trump said. “The only crime I’ve …

“Welcome to the end of democracy.” In other words, welcome to the modern conservative movement. Yes, these words were actually uttered on stage Wednesday at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec. And he wasn’t joking around. “We’re here to overthrow [democracy] completely,” he continued. “We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. …