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The MAGA world was deep into panic mode as soon as the official results of a Florida special elections landed.On Tuesday, Democrat candidate Emily Gregory won a Florida state house special election against Republican John Maples — a district that President Donald Trump won with 11 percent of the vote roughly one year ago.As an additional kick, the district happens to house Trump’s own Mar-a-Lago Club, putting the district, as one CNN analyst described it, right ‘in Trump’s backyard.”Conservative writer Eric Daugherty trie

President Donald Trump already destroyed the White House’s historic East Wing to build his ballroom, and now he has announced plans to rip out a fixture installed by one of America’s most iconic founding fathers, President Thomas Jefferson.The Republican announced a "beautiful, black granite" installation to replace the Tennessee Flagstone pavers on the West Wing Colonnade, according to a Tuesday White House pool report covered by People Magazine. The president said he will pay for the installation himself, with the Jeffersonian originals being sent to a nursery for safekeeping."Thanks to the Builder-in-Chief, the White

Democrat candidate Emily Gregory won Florida state house special election against Republican John Maples.The district, according to CNN analyst Harry Enten, is “in Donald Trump's backyard, but he added that “it has been happening across the country.”"We have seen these massive shifts in these special elections. I looked at all of them, okay, … and so far to date, the state legislative, the federal special elections, and … what we've seen so far is a shift to the Democrats on average of 12 points,” said Enten. “We have seen a shift of 12 points from the Kamala Harris baseline. This is emblematic of what we have seen nationwide, which is a double-digit shift towards the Democrats versus tha

Florida voters expressed everything from disdain to confusion at President Donald Trump filing a mail-in vote in his home state of Florida while openly trying to kill mail-in voting efforts across the nation.CNN journalist Randi Kaye reports the president's Palm Beach, Florida, home, qualifies him as one of the 180,000 residents who can vote in this special election, and that Palm Beach County records show Trump did vote and he voted by mail. “You’re kidding me,” said Republican Florida voter Michelle Hall. “I had no idea. Voting by mail to me is terrible unless you have a disability.”When asked by K

A longtime conservative writer is not quite ready to give up on President Donald Trump’s war in Iran — but even he admits that the Republican is acting like “a lame duck and getting lamer.”In a Tuesday editorial that labeled America’s 45th and 47th president as a “wild card,” Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. argued that Trump is a “lame duck and getting lamer” who, as a result, is “betting on luck” to get him a series of major policy achievements.“His war aims run athwart the Napoleonic dictum: If you set ou

Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of former podcaster and now FBI head Kash Patel, accused the anti-war enclave of MAGA of being under the influence of foreign nations on X Tuesday, notably Russia.“A foreign-linked influence network has been running coordinated operations against the Trump administration for 22 months,” said Wilkins, who recently garnered criticism for having "a security detail made up of elite FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team.” I know it's real because they ran one against me. I was targeted in something I knew was far from organic. This level of media is isolating, unwanted, and u

The Chicago Sun Times reports U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin has joined the army of federal judges dismantling President Donald Trump’s targeting of blue states.In a decision likely to infuriate federal officials, Durkin granted the Chicago Transit Authority’s temporary restraining order against Trump’s Department of Transportation, which had frozen $3 billion in funds since last October over so-called race- and sex-based discrimination — which local directors describe simply as inclusive DEI policies.“The CTA

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally and military technology supplier, Palantir CEO Peter Thiel, says he is an expert on the Antichrist — but actual experts disagree.“Thiel’s evangelism is another example of how the right has strategically co-opted Christian religious teachings to provide support for their autocratic tendencies, as well as their fears about technology being limited through ‘woke’ beliefs,” Anthea Butler, chair of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Religious Studies, wrote in a Tuesday editorial for MSNOW.Earlier in the pie

The New York Times is taking the Trump administration back to court after President Donald Trump’s Department of Defense announced it will immediately close the media offices inside the Pentagon and moved them to a so-called annex that will ‘be available when ready.’MS Now anchor Dana Perino reports this move to be another refusal by the administration to accept defeat after a federal judge

President Donald Trump’s supporters, comprising anywhere from the low 30s to the low 40s of the American electorate, will not waver because there is no “Trumpism” — only worship of a personality.“I would argue it’s more of a pugnacious attitude with a handful of immovable north stars (immigration enforcement, tariffs, disregard for multilateralism) and every other policy decision negotiable — up to and including the federal government taking an ownership stake and some degree of control over private companies,” conservative columnist Jim Geraghty wrote for The Wa