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SCOOP: An empty promise was all it took to get the final budget votes
US Reps. Norman and Roy wanted the renewable energy incentives to end immediately, but settled for a ceremonial declaration by Trump that the tax…
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Camaron Stevenson
DOJ asks judge to allow citizenship checks for certain voters
The request's narrow scope allows the Trump admin to safely test the waters of challenging the injunctions and provides cover, as the motion generated…
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Camaron Stevenson
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Inside the effort to turn ‘violence by ICE’ into ‘violence by Democrats’
For weeks, the White House has attempted to shift blame for the violence ICE agents bring to communities away from the Trump administration and onto its…
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Camaron Stevenson
Trump treats ICE like his personal military. Now it’s funded like one.
Funding to support ICE and Trump’s immigration agenda is larger than the military budget of every country in the world, except for the US and China (and…
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Camaron Stevenson
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Technically, they’re transit — not concentration — camps
“Alligator Alcatraz” represents merely a sliver of the explosion of prison beds and detention facilities the Trump administration has invested in this…
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Camaron Stevenson
Musk’s influence on Congress leaves little room for the rest of us
The fact that Musk’s support will be the deciding factor in how democratically elected representatives will vote speaks to how money has broken the US…
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June 2025

A loFi livestream of a cartoon Trump is the latest White House budget propaganda
There are two crucial things members of Congress say voters can do to get past the apathy-inducing horse race coverage of the wildly unpopular…
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Camaron Stevenson
Today’s Supreme Court ruling wasn’t actually about birthright citizenship
While Trump posted about birthright citizenship and skirted reporters' questions about nationwide injunctions, his administration published its full…
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Camaron Stevenson
This is week three of Trump’s military occupation of LA
As the case between Newsom and Trump saunters through the courts, one detail seems to get overlooked: Nearly 5,000 active military troops are still…
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Camaron Stevenson
Trump drops all pretense of ‘going after criminals’ with latest deportation scheme
This method — crafted by the latest shadow president, Stephen Miller — betrays one of Trump’s key campaign promises: that he’d only go after violent…
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Camaron Stevenson
Trump cocoons inside his safe space as failure looms
The president’s attention in the aftermath of bombing Iran seems to be consumed seeking validation and reassurances from the media that he’s doing a…
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Camaron Stevenson
Trump’s illegal propaganda tool is building the pro-war movement
YouGov conducted a poll the week before the attack and 24 hours after the attack, and in that time, support for bombing Iran more than doubled, going…
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Camaron Stevenson
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