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Conservative writer Nick Catoggio tells the Dispatch the fallout in the Texas Republican primary has everything to do with the party’s race down to a lowly cult.“Regular readers know my theory about why Republican voters are suddenly hellbent on purging incumbents in primaries: They’re in their Jonestown phase,” said Catoggio. “Disappointed in Trump’s economic failures yet psychologically unable to hold him (or themselves) accountable, they’re coping by turning more radically cultish and flogging heretics like [Texas incumbent Sen. John]

President Donald Trump is spending far more on his various pet projects around Washington DC than you might think.“At least $60 million from a National Park Service (NPS) entrance fee fund is going toward Washington, D.C.-based projects as President Trump seeks to ‘beautify’ the city ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary, contracts reveal,” reported The Hill’s Rachel Frazin on Wednesday. “This program receives funding from visitor entrance fees. At least 80 percent of entrance fees go to the park where they are collected, while the other 20

President Donald Trump’s politicized Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who successfully accused Trump of sexual assault, but former Fox Host Gretchen Carlson said she was still waiting for the DOJ to do real work.The DOJ’s investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president – one alleging he sexually abused her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, and a

There’s no hiding it anymore: Republican strategist and pundit Scott Jennings showed calm acquiescence to the realization that President Donald Trump is almost single-handedly deep-sixing the GOP’s chances in November with his war in Iran.Even better, Jennings appeared to cheer Trump’s war, which has had a ripple effect on voters’ gas prices and grocery costs as the nation slides into November.“The De

President Donald Trump’s birthday UFC cage match project is causing confusion.“The ‘UFC Freedom 250’ fight, which just so happens to be scheduled for Trump’s 80th birthday, is a part of the MAGA-ified America 250 celebrations,” The Daily Beast reports. “The makeshift venue is expected to be able to hold 4,500 guests, far lower than Trump’s wish for it to hold 20,000 spectators.”“I think it’s gonna be the biggest event we’ve ever had at the White House,” Trump said earlier this month. “I have never seen anybody want anything so

President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion slush fund exists as a result of his suit against the IRS. But now 35 former federal judges say the creation of that fund demands a reinvestigation of Trump’s suit.“The Court was deceived,” say the bipartisan group of former judges. “Despite plaintiffs not having mentioned any settlement in their notice, the Department of Justice publicly announced a ‘settlement’ of this action shortly after Plaintiffs filed their dismissal.The judges are asking the judge who oversaw Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS to

President Donald Trump is using FBI employees’ financial precariousness to pressure them into doing his bidding, according to two experts.“My family and friends regularly remind me that only a moron would walk away before their pension vests,” Michael Feinberg, a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the FBI, told MS NOW’s Katy Tur on Wednesday. “So it is very much true that they are putting people into these positions who they know are over a financial barrel and are not going to give objective advice based on operational necessities, DOJ and FBI policies, and frankly, the Constitution. I think the longer this goes on, the more you're going to see

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate in the Texas Senate race, Attorney General Ken Paxton, defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Yet according to a recent report, Paxton’s victory over Cornyn may hurt Trump among a constituency he relied upon to win in the 2024 election — Hispanic voters.“One in five Latino Texans who voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 would not support him again if given a redo, according to a new poll released Wednesday,” The Texas Tribune's Alejandro Serrano wrote on Wednesday.“In a survey of 500 registered Latino voters, the Latino civil rights organi

On Wednesday, the musical lineup was announced for the Great American State Fair to be held at the National Mall in June as part of Freedom 250 — the country's semiquincentennial celebration and a pet project of President Donald Trump’s. Some have called the impending MAGA extravaganza “authoritarian,” while others have said it’s something right out of the film Idiocracy. O

A man who gained viral online fame for looking like convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has announced that he is running for mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. There is a certain level of irony to this, because Palm Beach happens to be the location of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-lago resort, and the commander in chief was also famously close friends with Epstein. "After much thought, I am announcing that I will be running to become Mayor of Palm Beach in the upcoming 2028 election," posted Palm Beach Pete over a photo of himself on Wednesday. "More to come!""Palm Beach Pete" is the nickname for 71-year-old