April 22, 2026 at 12:06 PM EDT
Top historian says 'the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus'

It's been a chaotic week for President Donald Trump. One minute, CNN is reporting that negotiators between the U.S. and Iran seem on the verge of reaching a deal. Then in the next, Trump takes to social media to declare Tehran has "agreed to everything," including to "never to close the Strait of Hormuz again." Iranian officials then denied Trump's claims, and promptly resumed attacks on ships in the strait. According to renowned historian Heather Cox Richardson, this is evidence that Trump's "vulnerability" is reaching new heights.

April 22, 2026 at 11:36 AM EDT
This MAGA stunt is putting the military in danger: ex-Army commander

In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday, April 21, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Defense Department was "discarding" the military's "mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately." Hegseth's announcement was applauded by MAGA anti-vaxxers but drew a scathing response from liberal podcaster and former MS NOW (then MSNBC) host Keith Olbermann, who bluntly tweeted, "You couldn't do more to harm our troops if you attacked them, you drunken m- -."

April 22, 2026 at 11:36 AM EDT
Trump saddled GOP with midterms crisis by ignoring an obvious problem

The Republican Party's potential midterms wipeout just got a whole lot worse, and according to a new analysis from MS NOW, it is all because of an inevitable consequence that President Donald Trump was unable to foresee. On Tuesday night, voters in Virginia approved the state legislature's new congressional district map, which had been gerrymandered in such a way to create four new Democratic majority districts, meaning potentially four new Democratic seats in the House. The change is also not expected to face a genuine threat from any potential Supreme Court challenges. The measure, like a similar one passed by California voters earlier in the year, was done to counteract similar gerrymanders in Texas and other red states that favored Republicans, all of which were done at Trump's demand.

April 22, 2026 at 10:04 AM EDT
Biographer Michael Wolff reveals new name gunning for 'lame duck' Trump's 'MAGA crown'

All eyes have been on Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the names most likely to chase after Trump's "MAGA crown" after his second term. However, a one-time biographer with inside sources this week claimed that a new name has been circling the "lame duck" president, looking for his own shot at being the successor. Despite his earlier teases and musings, Trump is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term in office, setting the stage for an unprecedented fight for his place as the 2028 GOP presidential nominee and, in effect, the new leader of the Republican and the MAGA movement. As vice president, Vance has long been seen as the most obvious candidate, but due to his historic unpopularity, other names have also been under serious consideration.

April 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM EDT
'Devastating' Supreme Court revelations prove 'coward' John Roberts bows down to MAGA

Of the six GOP appointees who now comprise two-thirds of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts is often described by legal analysts as the most nuanced. But he isn't nearly as much of a wild card as former Justice Anthony Kennedy, a right-wing libertarian Ronald Reagan appointee who sided with liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia in cases related to gay rights or abortion.

April 22, 2026 at 5:47 AM EDT
Trump floods social media with political attacks in 12-hour posting marathon

President Donald Trump unleashed a marathon posting session on his Truth Social platform, publishing 19 messages across a 12-hour span that targeted both domestic political adversaries and Iranian leadership while addressing energy policy and foreign affairs. As the Daily Beast notes, the posting blitz began at approximately 4 p.m. with an announcement regarding an extension of the ceasefire agreement with Iran. Trump's focus quickly shifted to Iranian economic conditions and the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway through which approximately one-third of global seaborne traded oil passes.

April 22, 2026 at 5:22 AM EDT
MAGA spirals as Trump's election scheme implodes

Virginia voters decided on Tuesday to allow Democrats to redraw the state's House map to give the party a bonus. This is a game win for the Democrats in one of the nation's final redistricting battles before the November midterm elections. But MAGA personalities on social media wailed at the news, with Free Beacon editor and former Fox News Senior Editor Peter J. Hasson furious at the outcome.

April 22, 2026 at 4:31 AM EDT
A reckoning is coming for Trump -- and it will reshape America

Trump's domestic and foreign policies -- ranging from his attempted coup against the United States in January 2021, to his ICE and Border Patrol excesses (including murders in Minnesota), to his incursion into Venezuela and abduction of its president, to his attack on Iran, and his threats against Cuba, Colombia, and Greenland -- all undermine the rule of law, domestically and internationally. But that's not all. They threaten what we mean by civilization.

April 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM EDT
Trump Jr. links Democrats to extremists -- and gets torn apart

President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., spread misinformation on social media on Tuesday regarding a nonprofit being targeted by his father's Justice Department -- and got promptly roasted for it. "LOL, what a plot twist that SPLC was funding the KKK" as Democrats always have," the younger Trump posted on the social media platform X. "Another 'conspiracy theory' coming true in real time."

April 22, 2026 at 3:12 AM EDT
Trump's 'dirty trickster' pal hired in apparent power play against Nancy Pelosi

President Donald Trump has a vendetta against the Presidio, a San Francisco national park site with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge that is supported by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump already fired the federal workers who maintain the site -- and now one of his longtime lobbyists, a self-described "dirty trickster," may be helping a Native American group get it. "In a lobbying disclosure form filed on Monday, Stone's firm, Drake Ventures, reported that the [Muwekma Ohlone Tribe] had paid it $30,000 for services in the first quarter of this year and another $20,000 in the fourth quarter of 2025," according to public records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday.

April 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM EDT
Trump agenda goes down in flames in Virginia

In one of the nation's final redistricting battles before the November midterm elections, Virginia voters decided on Tuesday to allow Democrats to redraw the state's House map to give their party a plus. With the passage of the referendum, voters opted to empower Virginia's Democratic-led legislature to create a congressional map that leaves the state with just one safe Republican district. Prior to the Tuesday vote, Virginia's 11-member House delegation consists of six Democrats and five Republicans, but this will likely change if court decisions fail to stop it.

April 21, 2026 at 8:27 PM EDT
'Terrified' red state lawmakers face the $1 billion consequences of Trump's agenda

The fallout from President Donald Trump's unpopular Big Beautiful Bill keeps hitting impoverished red states harder than others a hospitals and voters come to terms with yawning debt and healthcare cuts threatening critical hospitals. Mississippi Today reports state lawmakers face a "daunting task" trying to fill the holes Trump blasted into the state budget with his looming federal cuts. Unhappy with their options, the Republican-dominated legislature failed to address some of the most pressing issues with Trump's cuts during the legislative session, so the looming blast holes are still waiting.