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According to Politico, House Republicans face a “grueling week” as they attempt to reconcile rampant internal differences over several pieces of legislation. On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to push through an extension of a government spy bill. On Wednesday, lawmakers will attempt to finally end a Department of Homeland Security funding shutdown. Then on Thursday, they round out the week by voting on a farm bill that could prove “key to midterm victories” in November. “Each legislative undertaking is deeply complicated and rife with intraparty warfare,” wr

During his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made a concerted effort to broaden his appeal with a coalition that included Latinos, independents, swing voters, Generation Z, tech bro and the Manosphere, among others. But he also focused on his hardcore MAGA base, which included far-right white evangelicals, rural Americans and farmers.Farmers voted for Trump in big numbers in 2024, not unlike 2016 and 2020. According to NOTUS' Tyler Spencer, however, Trump's policies are hurting American farmers — and GOP lawmakers are scrambling to find ways to ease the pain."As Congress prepares for a House floor vote on the Farm Bill next week," Spen

President Donald Trump closed off Friday with another failure, adding to a growing list of humiliating defeats in 2026. These losses aren't part of the discussion among MAGA loyalists, in large part because they're ignoring failure, two analysts discussed on Monday. In a wide-ranging interview, Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng told The New Republic's Greg Sargent that Trump’s string of flops has left his MAGA base in denial, forcing allies like White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to spin obvious losses as victories in North Korean-style propaganda. The conversation began with the

Recently, columnist Janice Ellis asked the question: “Who is the real Republican Party? Look at how it governs.”As the Missouri state chair for Our Republican Legacy, here is my answer. The Republican Party belongs to history, not to one man. The principled Republicans and conservatives are still here. And we’re not going anywhere.There is a temptation, understandable if mistaken, to believe that what we see today is what conservatism will look like forever. That the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, has been permanently remade in the image of one man, one moment, one movement defined more by grievance than by governance.We reject that premise

Conspiracy theories have been a part of right-wing politics for many years, but in the past, some prominent conservatives vehemently spoke out against them. National Review founder William F. Buckley, during the 1960s and 1970s, famously condemned the John Birch Society — arguing that their conspiracy theories were bad for the conservative movement.But during the Donald Trump era, conspiracy theories regularly appear in many right-wing media outlets — including the repeatedly debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.In an article published by

Republicans are at it again, and it’s hard to overstate how chilling this is and what it tells you about the direction people in this Party want to take America.Texas Congressman Chip Roy is preparing to introduce legislation he’s calling the “MAMDANI Act,” named after Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected democratic socialist mayor of New York City, that would let the federal government bar entry to, deport, and strip naturalized citizenship from any person who advocates for or is “affiliated with” what Roy calls “totalitarian” movements. The list includes, from

You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime.You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job. You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as Commerce Secretary, and still keep your job. But you’ll be fired for actively and unnecessarily getting bad press. A few days ago, a senior White House official told Politico that FBI director Kash Patel’s bad press was “no

More than friendly to fascists both abroad and at home, the Trump administration is now seeking to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center -- historically one of the nation's most powerful and effective opponents of the Ku Klux Klan, American neo-Nazis and other white supremacist movements. This was the latest in a long series of signals from the White House to the president's swastika-flying fans. It means that such groups need no longer fear a resolute federal response to their criminality.On April 22, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced -- at a blatantly political press event -- that the Justice Department has indicted the SPLC for "wire fraud, false statements, and

President Donald Trump was the seeming victim of an assassination attempt on Saturday — and one ex-presidential adviser, who served Trump’s Republican predecessor, says the president himself bears partial responsibility for what happened.“This isn’t normal,” wrote Steve Schmidt, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, on Sunday. “It isn’t random. And no matter how loudly the MAGA movement insists, it isn’t the fault of Donald Trump’s critics. The argument that crit

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) criticized Democrats for opposing President Donald Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, prompting some of those same Democrats to point out the obvious: Because the White House Correspondents Dinner is a private event, it would never have been held at the White House, and therefore a ballroom would have made no difference.“We were there front and center,” Fetterman posted on X on Sunday. “That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom f