December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM EST
'Catastrophe': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town

Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year. MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington -- the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Meatpacking company Tyson employs 3,200 people in Lexington, though they will all be out of a job come January 20th, when the plant is shutting down.

December 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM EST
Republicans walking into 'historic buzzsaw' by defending hated Trump policy: conservative

National Review senior writer Noah Rothman said Republicans appear to be resigned to "a drubbing in next year's midterm elections" by blindly following President Donald Trump. Public opinion on Trump's economy and his tariffs is crashing, "and that's just the pro-Trump right," warned Rothman, citing pro-Trump Republican National Committee chairman Joe Gruters.

December 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM EST
'Insane nonsense': Trump DOJ cites debunked conspiracy theory in swing state lawsuit

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, demanding records related to the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden. Trump "has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts," The Washington Post reported.

December 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM EST
'We are facing almost certain defeat': Trump's hand-picked RNC chair fears midterm blowout

Diehard Donald Trump fan, Joe Gruters, is trying to set expectations very low for the 2026 midterm elections. The Bulwark's Andrew Egger captured Gruters on SiriusXM Patriot with Mike Slater, WBT Charlotte's Brett Winterble Show, Cats and Cosby on WABC in New York City, and the Chris Stigall Show this week. He's openly trying to convey the message that the people in power almost always lose the midterm elections.

December 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM EST
'This is a blacklist': White House posts -- and deletes -- 'Naughty List' of journalists

The White House appears to have tweeted then deleted a "Naughty List" of journalists, including top news reporters and outlets, in an act that is being described as "positively authoritarian" by one legal expert. The video was posted to X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and the White House's own website, which reads: "MEDIA OFFENDERS ON THE NAUGHTY LIST," and "Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the uploader."

December 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM EST
Condoms branded with Trump's face found in Jeffrey Epstein photos

A trove of photos was released by trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday showing the wealthy Wall Street influencer in photos with notable leaders. In one photo, however, CNN noticed that there was a box of prophylactics with President Donald Trump's face on them. The novelty condoms were being sold for $4.50, the sign said.

December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM EST
Newly released Epstein photos are 'a problem for Donald Trump': report

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee recently released new photos it received from convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein's estate, and may of them also show President Donald Trump. In a Friday segment on MS NOW, host Ana Cabrera observed that many of the estimated 95,000 new photos released by Oversight Committee Democrats show "high powered, certainly very recognizable faces," including Trump as well as former President Bill Clinton, Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz, Hollywood icon Woody Allen and former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others. Some of the photos of Trump show him with various women whose faces are blurred to protect the identity of Epstein's victims.

December 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM EST
"?How Trump's attempted 'power grab' ended in 'brutal and humiliating failure'

In the United States' 2024 presidential election, Indiana was an even better state for Donald Trump than Texas. Trump defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by around 13.5 percent in Texas, but he carried Indiana by roughly 19 percent. Given how much of a red state it is, Trump zeroed in on Indiana for an aggressive gerrymandering push. But MS NOW's Steve Benen, in his December 12 column, argues that Trump's Indiana "power grab" turned out to be a "humiliating failure" rather than the slam dunk he was expecting.

December 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM EST
Indiana's rejection of 'ingrate president' proves Trump has lost Republicans: conservative

Jeffrey Blehar -- a staff writer for the conservative National Review -- praised Indiana Republicans for holding firm on Thursday and refusing President Donald Trump's mid-decade gerrymander that would have given Indiana Republicans a clean sweep of all nine of its seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. -- [A]s a conservative of the older school, I " want to salute the men and women of the Indiana State Senate for finding the steel in their spines today," said Blehar, adding that Republican's refusal did not come without cost and threat.

December 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM EST
Fact-checker says White House 'misleading the public' on inflation

President Donald Trump's administration is cherry-picking inflation data to paint a more flattering picture of the economic climate, according to new reporting from CNN. During the Thursday episode of her show "The Source," CNN host Kaitlan Collins took Trump's White House to task for falsely reporting the rate of inflation more than 10 months into Trump's second term. She began the segment by playing an exchange she had with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in which Leavitt insisted that the inflation rate was down to 2.5 percent from the three percent Trump inherited from former President Joe Biden.

December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM EST
More Republicans using 'rare' tool to 'undercut Johnson's leadership': NYT

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is being increasingly undermined by his own party as more lawmakers use a unique tool to circumvent him, according to the New York Times. The Times' Michael Gold reported Thursday that both Democrats and Republicans are resorting to discharge petitions as a means of passing legislation that Johnson wouldn't normally even consider bringing up for a vote. In one recent example, 20 Republicans joined all 211 Democrats in passing a discharge petition that would overturn one of President Donald Trump's executive orders stripping federal workers of collective bargaining rights.

December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM EST
'Apocalyptic headlines' of Trump era make 'war on Christmas' seem quaint: analysis

Barbed Wire senior editor Brian Gaar says he misses the good old days of the 'War on Christmas,' when Fox News ran segments arguing that "'Happy Holidays' was basically Sharia law in a festive font." "Honestly? I miss that absurd little era," said Gaar, even if it was the "soft-launching " of 'bathroom safety' panics and anti-DEI crusades and whatever fresh authoritarian nonsense they're road-testing this week."