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President Donald Trump may think he’s found a Trojan horse to seize the midterms, but security expert Miles Taylor says that horse isn’t riding off anytime soon. Trump fired all three remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission on Thursday, abruptly disabling the only federal agency devoted to election administration at a moment when the president is working to warp federal voting rules. And Taylor said a captured EAC could conceivably begin Trump’s dirty work under the direction of anti-democratic loyalists the White House plans to parachute into the commission. “What’s more, they could rewrite state-specific instructions on the voter forms to create registration traps and onerous requirements, confusing instructions, translation issues, and on and on,” Taylor reasoned. “Surely, the sycophants in Trump’s orbit are thinking of other evil ways to manipulate the EAC’s powers to steer the elections in Trump’s favor.” “[But] here’s where I get to tell you why their pla...

“Several days later and I can’t help it. It’s too funny,” said comedian John Fugelsang of white supremacist militia group, the "Patriot Front," marching through the streets of Capitol Hill on the 250th birthday of the United States . Videos showed that a few hundred men showed up with face coverings, waving Confederate flags along with American flags, including some that were inverted. But Fugelsang couldn’t get over other aspects of their appearance, calling them the “Dockers Reich; aka March of the Masked Mediocrities; aka The League of Extraordinary Virgins.” “Did you catch it? Day of the Living Incels?” asked Fugelsang on his substack. “A quarter-millennium after the US declared that all men are created equal, a few hundred masked white nationalists decided the best way to celebrate was to march through Washington, D.C., hiding their faces and waving Confederate flags. And what could be more MAGA than celebrating America’s birthday with participation trophies from the ...

Former George Bush speechwriter and GOP insider Tim Miller is quick to say how thoroughly Senate and House Republicans have surrendered Congressional power to President Donald Trump and the White House since his return to office more than a year ago. In fact, Miller says the only way the party has actually managed to stymie Trump since his return to office more than a year ago was by accident. Speaking to MS NOW anchor Jackie Alemany Miller said he found it hilarious that Trump’s enabling GOP onle recently threw Trump entirely by accident over recent legislation. “The funny thing about this for … my old people, the more mainstream kind of the old guard Republicans. Oftentimes over the years, they've said, ‘ hey, we can't buck Trump on this stuff. We can't vote against tariffs. We can't vote for Ukraine funding because Trump's too powerful. You know, we don't want to lose our seat,’ like it's a political imperative that you stick around with Trump because ...

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt appeared staggered by her own Thursday supercut that the network assembled of President Donald Trump’s countless claims of Iranian surrender. Hunt played the massive clip after Trump’s latest claim on Wednesday that Iran’s leaders were yet again slavering for an end to the war that Trump began — despite the regime’s apparent acceptance of more U.S. air strikes and the closing of the pivotal Strait of Hormuz. Trump claimed Wednesday that Iranian leaders had “called a little while ago,” and they wanted “to make a deal so badly.” But this boast was nothing new. And network videographers had plenty of material to choose from to prove it. “We went back and took a look, of course, at what … Trump himself has said over the period of days. I want to play for you what that has sounded like over the course of the last several months,” said Hunt in a tone of warning. And then it came. “They want to make a deal.” — Trump, March 23 “… and they want to make a deal so badly.”...

The MAGA world is on fire hours after former Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was given a mere $5,000 fine and no jail time for helping a Homeland Security target evade capture by a handful of minutes. The former judge said she was trying to do the right thing when she steered an undocumented defendant in her courtroom away from federal agents. At that time, she said people were afraid to come to court for fear of encountering immigration agents, but the court requires a public unafraid to speak up. "I have been cast as both a scofflaw and a hero. I am neither. I am just a person who was trying to do my job," Dugan said while speaking to U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman. But Dugan, 67, did not apologize for her actions after a jury found her guilty of obstructing a federal immigration proceeding. Adelman said prison and probation were unnecessary, saying Dugan has lived a life of public service and is not at risk of re-offending. “This is the case of a good per...

Left Hook podcaster Wajahat Ali and independent reporter Jim Acosta say they have no doubt that Republican leaders will try to duplicate their hide-and-seek tactic with “brain dead” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Trump when the president inevitably deteriorates too far to function. “What they're doing with Mitch McConnell — clearly the man is brain dead. Clearly, he's not here — and Donald Trump is 80 years old. He has two and a half years left to finish his term,” said Ali. “Jim, he's an old man, and part of life is death. Suppose he becomes incapacitated in some way? Suppose, God forbid, he becomes brain dead. What we're seeing [with McConnell] is a sneak preview of what they'll do to cover up Trump's health.” Acosta cited Republican pundits and apparatchiks already claiming to have spoken to McConnell to push the ruse. “There are all these people coming out of the woodwork saying ‘oh I had I had a chance to speak with Mitch McConnell.’ I think [GOP pundit] ...