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The Real J6 Victims Are Standing Up
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You know, President Donald Trump's 1.776 billion-dollar MAGA slush fund? The fund is intended for victims of "DOJ weaponization," like the January 6 ...
MAGA's Misogyny
26 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
You may have noticed that misogyny seems to be everywhere right now, especially online. As American women continue to move further to the political l...
How Trump Got In The Way Of His Own Bill
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Republicans had a filibuster-proof immigration bill that would allocate $70 billion to immigration enforcement and fully reopen the Department of Ho...
Trump's Revenge Tour Could Backfire
21 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A swath of President Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates won their primary elections Tuesday night – and one of Trump's biggest opponents in Con...
Is The US Ready For A New Global Health Threat?
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The World Health Organization met on Tuesday in Switzerland to discuss a deadly outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda....
Has The West Forgotten About Ukraine?
19 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. And despite President Donald Trump's promise to end the conflict on his first day back in office, the ...
Americans Should Be Happy, But They're Not
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's rather obvious Americans have not exactly been … cheerful for the last few years. And it's showing up in the data – the General Social Surve...
Trump Made Inflation Great Again
15 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Life is pretty expensive right now – and Americans are not happy about it. Trump came into office claiming he would lower prices, QUOTE, “on day ...
Stacey Abrams On Why We Still Need The Voting Rights Act
14 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais last month dismantled a critical portion of the Voting Rights Act. And since then, a slew of sta...
What Does Trump Need Most From China?
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump is arriving in Beijing today on a long-awaited trip – one that got delayed even further by Trump’s war in Iran. It’s Tru...
Jeffrey Epstein Funded Harvard Women's Athletics
12 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The impact of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes has been felt in so many places, from the halls of Congress to the royal families of ...
The Gentrification Of Intersectionality
11 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year and a half, the Trump Administration has made a big effort to limit which words are used in federal documents. Across government m...
Trump Still Has A Grip On Indiana
08 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot going on in this year’s midterm elections. Tennessee Republicans approved a new map on Thursday, splitting the majority-Black votin...
Why You Shouldn't Buy Into The Crypto Trend
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump made a lot of promises when he took office for the second time. One of those promises included becoming the most pro-cryptocur...
Can Democrats Sell Affordability?
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump was elected, in part, due to his many promises to lower the cost of living. Unsurprisingly, he gave up on that pretty much the second...
Trump v. The Constitution
05 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court surprised many on Monday allowing the commonly used abortion medication mifepristone to stay available via mail for at least one mo...
A Committee Protecting U.S. Elections Is Under Threat
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act is big news. But there are tons of other ways that the Trump Administration and the ...
Trump’s Vibing Approach To Governing
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the alleged attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to the indictment of former FBI Direct...
SCOTUS Clears The Way for Gerrymandering
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court struck down a 2024 Louisiana district map that created a second majority-Black voting district for use in future elec...
Hegseth Hits The Hill
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Secretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Com...
Can Jared Kushner Negotiate Peace And Still Make Money?
28 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff were supposed to fly to Islamabad, Pakistan, this week to negotia...
From Inside The Ballroom
27 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday evening, there was a shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C. President Trump and members of his cabinet we...
Should Dems Welcome The MAGA Defectors?
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this week, What A Day talked about Tucker Carlson's "apology" for supporting President Donald Trump. Carlson's unexpected confession stemmed ...
Kash Grabs Trump’s Defamation Playbook
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
FBI director Kash Patel has sued The Atlantic for $250 million. It comes after the magazine published an article alleging that Patel is frequently dr...
Donald Trump Boosts Renewable Energy (By Accident)
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Earth Day! While we celebrate efforts to save the earth, the Trump administration appears to be doing everything in its power to destroy it. At...
Is Trump… Okay?
21 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The media and Democrats have been sounding the alarm on Trump's mental health for a decade. But now, even some of his biggest supporters are wonderin...
Trump vs Reddit: Free Speech In The Balance
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump and Co. have historically claimed to be all about free speech. But maybe Trump only cares about free speech when he likes what...
How Trump Bullied Israel Into A Ceasefire
17 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire. The ceasefire could pause weeks of fighting b...
The Race To 2028 Has Begun
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential hopefuls have already started jockeying for position in the 2028 race — look at the number of Democrats who published memoirs over the...
#MeToo Hits Congress, Again
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two members of Congress stepped down over allegations of sexual misconduct from former staffers on Tuesday —Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales and...
Should Democrats Be The Anti-War Party?
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s war in Iran is now 45 days old with no end in sight — which is a problem for Republicans. Because while midterms are always tough for the...
Why Iran Spells Trouble For The GOP
13 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A very tired-looking Vice President JD Vance emerged from 21 hours of high-stakes peace talks on Sunday to say no deal has been made to end the Iran ...
Prediction Markets: All Bets Are War
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the moment the U.S. and Israel launched strikes in Iran at the end of February, several people have been profiting from them because of extremel...
A Trumped Up Ceasefire
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the brief period since President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, Iran has claimed that the United ...
Trump & Iran: From Doomsday To Ceasefire
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump posted a disturbing threat on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. If Iran did not meet his demands by 8 PM Eastern, "A whol...
Lebanon, The Iran War’s Second Front
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Iran War has a second front in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting Hezbollah, a militia that launched missiles into northern Israel in retali...
For Hegseth, It’s One Military Under God
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is inserting Christian nationalism into the culture and policy of the armed forces, and that’s drawing concern both i...
Pam, You're Fired
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Attorney General Pam Bondi is out of a job. After multiple media reports stating she was headed to the green pastures of… somewhere else, President...
SCOTUS Takes On Birthright Citizenship
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court tackled a question Wednesday that most Americans probably thought was settled: are the American-born children of immigrants America...
USPS Needs Congress' Stamp Of Approval
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, Postmaster General David Steiner told Congress that the U.S. Postal Service is in danger of running out of money by the end of the year. ...
Conservatism's Biggest Conference Was Missing Its Star
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade or so, the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, has become a massive gathering of right-wing power brokers — but...
The Next Abortion Battle
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been nearly four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and sent the issue back to the states. Since then, more than a dozen st...
Gen Z Is Angsty: Here's Why
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Young voters are one of many groups that pushed Trump back into the White House in 2024. Some researchers saw this as a potentially massive realignme...
The Great Social Media Reckoning
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday, a California jury found Meta and YouTube each liable for harming the well-being of a young user who had sued the two companies. The pla...
Democrats Add Tax Cuts To Affordability Agenda
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of the midterms, several Democrats are trying to seize on the affordability messaging that has been connecting with voters across the country b...
What Is ICE Really Doing In Airports?
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been more than a month since the Department of Homeland Security shut down, and American airports are definitely feeling it. Now, President Do...
The Iran War Is Fueling Antisemitism
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The MAGA Right is at war over the role that Israel has in American foreign policy and the war with Iran. If you listen to Tucker Carlson or former co...
The Uncertain Fate of America’s Dreamers
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration’s crackdown on undocumented and documented immigrants hasn’t stopped — even for recipients of Deferred Action for Chil...
Can Trump's FCC Manufacture War Propaganda?
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Iran War is not very popular with Americans – and the Trump Administration seems to think it knows why: the media is being too mean about the P...
MAGA Meltdown Over Trump’s War
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Kent – someone you’ve probably never heard of – made huge news on Tuesday. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center – ...
Meet Trump's Pick To Lead DHS
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the Senate will hold a confirmation hearing for Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Kri...
Can Big Oil Grease The Courts?
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war in Iran has essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transfer point, sending oil prices over $100 a barrel wit...
Why Trump Abandoned America First
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. Remember Am...
The Cost Of War Is More Than Oil
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The war with Iran has already killed more than a thousand Iranians, including 175 people killed at an elementary school on February 28th. According t...
Trump, Iran And A Brewing Economic Crisis
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In case you haven’t noticed, the American economy isn't doing so well right now. Oil prices have been on an absolute rollercoaster since the Iran w...
The War With Iran Has No Exit Plan
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Iran war is a little over a week old and the Trump administration has supplied more than a dozen explanations about why, exactly, it began. Confu...
Can States Stop Trump’s Election Meddling?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump wants to dramatically change how Americans vote, and to make that happen he’s holding all other legislation hostage until Co...
Sen. Mark Warner Won’t Miss Kristi Noem
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem via a Truth Social post. Her tenure was marked by a p...
Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue?
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Three states – North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas – held primaries Tuesday. The turnout was massive, but so were the stakes, with the balance of...
Trump’s War Hits The Economy
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S.-Israeli war in Iran is sowing death and chaos, surely, but with ship traffic avoiding Iran’s shores, the war’s also threatening the glob...
Why Congress Might Not Stop Trump’s War In Iran
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Trump officials brief all of Congress on what, exactly, the administration’s objectives are in Iran. Until now, the Trump administration has...
Trump’s Dangerous Gamble In Iran
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched airstrikes that reportedly hit more than 2,000 targets across Iran. In response, Iran struck sites acr...
Hillary Clinton Called Her Epstein Hearing Political Theater
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Oversight Committee to answer questions during their investiga...
Texas Republicans Return To Islamophobia
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Texas Senate primary is already setting records for both Republicans and Democrats, with more than $110 million spent on advertising and reserved...
Medals, Insults and A Very Long Speech
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s State of the Union address had everything — if by “everything,” you mean easily fact-checkable lies. We also got fearmongering and ra...
Dems Opt Out Of State Of The Union
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address tonight. And spoiler… the state of his particular union isn't great. According to new p...
Trump Orders More Tariffs After SCOTUS Ruling
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 on Friday that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked sweeping tariffs using a 1970s emergen...
DHS Dysfunction
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been about a week since the Department of Homeland Security entered a partial shutdown, with Democrats refusing to fund the agency until chang...
Don't Bank On Trump's Tax Cuts
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The IRS has lost tens of thousands of employees since President Donald Trump took office – the result of DOGE, policy differences, last year’s go...
Trump’s Iran Power Play
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. officials met with Iranian envoys in Switzerland Tuesday to negotiate the fate of Iran’s nuclear program — and came away with a “set of gu...
The MAGA Health Movement
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's been about a year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order, "Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission." ...
Democrats Shut Down DHS
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Capitol Hill was surprisingly busy this week. Republicans and Democrats yelled at one another, Republicans yelled at other Republicans, and amazingly...
Bondi's DOJ Fails Again
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Department of Justice fumbled yet another attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump’s enemies on Tuesday night. This time, it failed to get a...
ICE Warns It’s ‘Only Getting Started’
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past year, the Trump administration has been eliminating policies aimed at slowing down climate change – and now, it may go even further. ...
Epstein Files Cause Ripples Across The Pond
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Getting justice for Epstein survivors seems impossible in the United States. But in the United Kingdom, the Epstein files could bring down the Britis...
Why You Can Basically Bet On Anything These Days
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sunday was the Super Bowl, which means betting. A lot of betting. And even if you're not a gambler– and even if you don't particularly care about s...
Trump Passes The Buck To Bondi
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We're just one week into February, and a lot has happened already — from the fallout over the Department of Justice's Epstein file dump, to Preside...
Trump’s Artificial Economy
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The economy is in pretty much the same weird place it’s been for the past few months. Hiring is down, the cost of living is up, and no one really k...
The Many Faces Of Tucker Carlson
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you haven't been following conservative media for a long time, you might not know that there have actually been many eras of Tucker Carlson. He la...
Can Body Cams Restrain ICE?
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that all federal officers in Minneapolis will now wear body cameras. She also ...
1540: DOJ Validates Trump's 2020 Election Lies
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is still not over the fact that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, which might be why last Wednesday, the FBI execu...
A Shutdown On Pause
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Senate Democrats were ready to shut down the government Friday night in order to get much-needed reforms to ICE and Border Patrol — but they didn’...
Streets Of Minneapolis
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Minneapolis is still under ICE’s thumb — and contrary to the Trump Administration and some media reports, ICE has not “de-escalated” in the Tw...
The Sunshine State Strategy
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio is expected to publicly testify Wednesday about what exactly the U.S. has planned fo...
Mayhem In Minneapolis
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a massive funding package making its way through Congress this week. It includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including ...
Joining ICE Is Much Easier Than You Think
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Saturday, Alex Pretti – a 37-year-old registered nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis – was shot and killed by Border Patrol a...
Trump's Never-Ending Enemies List
23 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday about the steps President Donald Trump and his allies too...
Trump: Bigly Unpopular
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After meeting with NATO allies in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce “the framework of a future deal with r...
Why Greenland Keeps Rejecting America's Advances
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland isn’t new. Back in 2019, he made an offer to buy the island, but was told by Denmark and Greenla...
Will Claude Code Change Everything?
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today marks a year since President Donald Trump took office for a second time, and a lot has happened. Amidst all the threats to take over Greenland, ...
A Brief History of ICE
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn't some storied government agency from the 19th century. ICE was invented back in 2003 — but now it has a mul...
How We Got Here: The MAGA New Right
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is declining in popularity with voters, but his rhetoric and that of the Trump Administration is only growing more extreme. But to und...
Can Minnesota Deport ICE?
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The great city of Minneapolis is under siege by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and we have all seen the videos to prove it… which may be why t...
Iran, Greenland, And Trump's Ego
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In Iran, weeks of protests against the ruling regime have resulted in the deaths of thousands of protestors at the hands of the government. The Trump ...
Trump’s War On The Fed
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck back on Sunday night after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into his handling of r...
The 'Dark Fleet' Behind Venezuela's Oil Trade
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Coast Guard seized another oil tanker, the Olina, on Friday. It is the fifth Venezuela-linked tanker seized by US forces under Presi...
The White House Blames Victim In Minnesota ICE Shooting
09 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Thursday, protestors continued to gather in Minnesota’s largest city to stand up to Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an officer fatally ...
And Then The Majority Was 2
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are 435 members of the House of Representatives — and after the resignation of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and the passing o...
A Quack In Trump’s Presidency
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a strange 12 months for Trump. He won the 2024 election on a wave of economic discontent, and responded by blowing up a wing of the White ...
Did The J6ers Win?
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Five years ago today, supporters of President Trump, emboldened by his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, stormed the Capitol. Now, with ...