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."

December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM EST
Ex-RNC staffer slams 'gold-gilded president' for telling Americans to cut holiday spending

Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller and MS NOW host Nicole Wallace say the voting public has good reason to be angry at President Donald Trump for asking Americans to tighten their belts for the holidays. While praising his tariffs, Trump recently suggested Americans surrender pencils from overseas and support domestic companies over foreign companies.

December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM EST
Trump gets 'wakeup call' after massive Democratic upset in his backyard: Washington Post

Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins' (D) surprise blowout win in Miami, Florida's mayoral runoff race this week is a "wakeup call for President Donald Trump," according to the Washington Post editorial board. The Post wrote Thursday that Higgins' victory -- in which she won 59 percent of the vote while Republican Emilio T. Gonza'lez won 41 percent -- came despite Miami electing Republican mayors for decades and Florida surging further rightward in recent elections. In 2024, Trump himself was the first Republican presidential candidate to win Miami-Dade County in nearly 40 years, and came within a point of winning Miami itself last year.

December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM EST
'I was an idiot': Trump 'in significant trouble' as his own supporters regret their vote

"Runaway Country" Host Alex Wagner said President Donald Trump's own voters are feeling increasingly betrayed as Trump's slumping economy continues to turn on them. Wagner offered her opinion following a clip of a U.S. veteran telling Congressional lawmakers of watching his wife, who had been in the U.S. for decades, get arrested by ICE months after he voted for Trump in this last election.

December 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM EST
'Not even close to being close': Trump reeling from 'wholesale rejection' by Indiana GOP

President Donald Trump's efforts to compel Indiana lawmakers to enact a mid-decade congressional map that could have wiped out all of the Hoosier State's Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives has failed. "Republicans hold a 40-10 advantage in the state Senate but still rejected Trump's pressure," The Washington Post reported. HuffPost called it a "a furious pressure campaign by Trump."

December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM EST
'Big defeat for President Trump' as Indiana rejects new congressional maps

Republican state senators in Indiana have declined to pass a heavily gerrymandered redistricting map despite consistent pressure from President Donald Trump and top Republicans. Hoosier State senators rejected the new maps on a vote of 19 in favor and 31 opposed on Thursday, with Republicans failing to get the 26 votes necessary to send the mid-decade redistricting plan to Gov. Mike Braun's (R) desk. The result is particularly noteworthy given that Republicans control 40 of 50 seats in the Indiana Senate, and that Republicans have been attempting to get the new maps signed into law since October. Sen. Mike Gaskill (R), who is the key sponsor of the maps, said "the second U.S. Civil War has already started" in his closing remarks.

December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM EST
'Nothing bad is happening': Trump official raises eyebrows as economy tanks

A new poll shows US voters' approval of President Donald Trump's handling of the economy has hit an all-time low, even as the president and his officials insist the economy is the best in the world. The latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Thursday found that only 31% of voters approve of Trump's handling of the economy, the lowest figure in that survey throughout either of his two terms in office. Overall, 68% of voters said that the current state of the economy was "poor."

December 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM EST
Trump judge faces ethical misconduct complaint after attending rally

Emil Bove, one of Donald Trump's most contentious judicial appointments, is facing a new ethical complaint after attending one of the president's recent speaking events, which the complaint characterized as like a "political rally" full of "abject partisanship," per a report from Axios. After serving in several other positions in the second Trump administration, Bove was nominated by the president to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His nomination became controversial, with a group of 75 former state and federal judges signing a letter accusing him of an "egregious record of mistreating law enforcement officers, abusing power and disregarding the law itself" and calling for him not to be confirmed. He ultimately was confirmed, however, losing only a few votes from moderate Republican senators, with the rest of the Senate GOP voting in favor of his appointment.

December 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM EST
Lawmaker floats 'perjury charges' against Trump DHS head during live hearing

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) hammered Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on who approved the asylum of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who shot and killed a National Guard soldier in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 26, 2025. Lakanwal, a CIA-backed fighter in Afghanistan, entered the United States in 2021 and applied for asylum. He was approved in April 2025 under President Donald Trump's administration, CNN reported.