alternet.org

President Donald Trump and his supporters are engaging in “more overt” defiance of laws prohibiting nonprofits like churches from explicit partisan activity — and this is because, one journalist alleges, MAGA is run by Christian nationalists.“People not attuned to the evangelical world may have missed the growing prominence of hyper-politicized churches such as Mercy Culture, which have become a key wing of the MAGA coalition,” wrote The New Yorker’s Rachel Monroe. “Compared with the religious right of previous generations, this cohort of pastors, influencers, and self-described prophets offers up a version of worship that’s at once more myst

President Donald Trump, like the previous Republican president George W. Bush, incorrectly claimed that the Middle Eastern country he wished to invade possessed a nuclear weapon. Unlike Bush, however, Trump never even attempted to create a convincing argument as to the nuke’s existence.“Trump hasn’t presented a scintilla of evidence that Iran represents an imminent nuclear or missile threat to America,” wrote Joseph Cirincione, national security analyst and anti-nuclear activist, wrote on his Substack on Sunday. “He has skipped the laborious process of manipulating the intelligence, presenting

President Donald Trump’s actions in engaging America into a war with Iran are “unpardonable,” according to a Republican strategist who worked for President George W. Bush during his similarly-controversial war against Iraq.Steve Schmidt, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and the Save America Movement, cautioned that a “tidal wave” of epic proportions is coming for the president’s party on The Daily Beast Podcast.“We’re not winning this war,” consultant Steve Schmidt told The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles. “And that is unpardonable in the United States.”Noting that Trump has been repeatedly told the Iranian regime shows no signs of being toppled despite the joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran on Feb. 28

President Donald Trump’s UN Ambassador Mike Waltz is being roasted on social media for asking other nations to help America open the Strait of Hormuz after it was shut down due to America’s invasion of Iran.“The administration's been talking about potential navy escorts for more than a week now, shipping executives tell CNN that all their requests for escorts have as of now been rebuffed,” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Waltz on Sunday. “President Trump said, ‘Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others will send ships to the area.’ Is he hoping that those countries are going to send

An expert on law, politics and foreign policy explained in a Sunday editorial that the same logic used by President Trump and his supporters to invade Iran is also being used to justify getting rid of the Senate filibuster.“Sen. John Cornyn’s reversal on the Senate filibuster may or may not be sincere, but it is logical,” The Washington Post’s Jason Willick wrote in a Sunday editorial about Trump’s demand that the Senate abandon the 60-out-of-100 vote threshold necessary to call off a filibuster. Trump wishes to nuke the filibuster because Democrats are using that to thwart his att

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright made the rounds of US media on Sunday — and users on the social media platform X were not impressed with what he had to say.Speaking with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on “This Week,” Wright said that he believes the war in Iran “will certainly come to an end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks.”He also predicted that gas prices would decline once the war concludes.“We’ll see a rebound in supplies and a pushing down of prices after that,” Wright predicted, adding he is “very aware” of a “short-term disruption” occurring.“Look, you never k

President Donald Trump and his key supporters are “jerks,” according to a former Republican congressman who once supported Trump.“Of course, the biggest jerk of the week, month, year, and decade is always Donald Trump, but there’s only so much space here to write about all the horrible things he does in a single day, much less a week,” former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) wrote for his Substack on Sunday. “F—— Trump.”Before issuing that statement, Walsh took down several of the most important people in Trump’s orbit that are helping him implement his agenda. Th

During a late 2010s conversation on WURD-FM (a Black talk radio station in Philadelphia), one of the guests commented that if you think Millennials are liberal or progressive, wait until Generation Z becomes more involved in politics. But in the 2024 presidential race, Donald Trump made gains with Gen-Z voters — much to the frustration of Democrats. And Turning Point USA, the MAGA youth group founded by the late Charlie Kirk, is still trying to convert Gen-Z to far-right MAGA politics and evangelical Christian nationalism.Turning Point, now led by Charlie Kirk's widow Erika Kirk, is heavily focused on college campuses. But in a

The word "polarization" was being used to describe the United States' political environment long before Donald Trump launched the MAGA movement with his 2016 campaign. During the 2004 presidential election, quite a few political journalists stressed that liberal and progressive urban Americans and rural Republicans were living in two different worlds. And 12 years before that, during his 1992 presidential campaign, paleoconservative Patrick Buchanan (a major influence on Trump and MAGA) said the U.S. was in the middle of a "cultu

President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon and other federal agencies to begin releasing government files related to UFOs and unidentified anomalous phenomena – called UAP – in February 2026, following years of pressure from Congress, military whistleblowers and the public.Congress formally mandated UAP investigations through the National Defense