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In a landmark piece of climate journalism, Reuters has just published a groundbreaking investigation arguing that the term “heat waves” no longer adequately captures what is happening on the planet. A…

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In a few short weeks, we’re going to learn whether and how the first half of President Donald Trump’s disastrous second term yields enough of a backlash to return Democrats to power in the House and S…

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Senator Angela Paxton, invested $600,000 into a business run by a man convicted of fraud. The Texas Tribune reports that the Paxtons gave the cash…

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A 45-year-old Republican candidate in Iowa is being sued by his parents for $275,000 in unpaid rent.  The Des Moines Register reported that the parents of lieutenant governor nominee Derek Wulf allege…

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A federal appeals court on Friday stripped due process rights from hundreds of immigrants held by Immigration and Custom Enforcement. In a 10–7 en banc decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ru…

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The Justice Department  charged two former FBI agents Friday with lying to Congress during the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. Former intelligence analyst Nikki Floris, who ran the intelligence div…

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President Trump brushed aside questions Friday about interruptions to Starlink service for Ukraine, following complaints from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier in the day. “You must know…

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The White House was involved in the FBI’s Epstein files cover-up all along. The FBI’s July 2025 Epstein files memo immediately blew up in the bureau’s face. Its declaration that there was no “client l…

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The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to block Alaska from certifying its Senate election results in the event that Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. This move is…

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President Donald Trump blew up at a reporter Friday who questioned his vile defense of Vivek Ramaswamy’s ugly attack ad featuring Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s estranged mother.…

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The long, sad American story of Donna L. Hollopeter Arthur, the eightysomething mother of Dr. Amy Acton, the physician and Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, may never be fully told. Arthur ac…

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Jared Kushner threatened to sue Vanity Fair for publishing an excerpt of a forthcoming book describing how the president’s son-in-law oversaw foreign slush funds filled by the leaders of the United Ar…

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The far-right Germany political party German Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD, has tried to enlist support from President Trump and his MAGA allies for over a decade. The Guardian, citing a data le…

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You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free. Inside Washington Florida’s gubernat…

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President Trump is losing young men. Recent numbers from the Harvard Youth Poll show that confidence in Trump’s ability has cratered among men under the age of 30, with nearly 70 percent of them disap…

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The president tried to advance a racist narrative about Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar Thursday evening, but instead revealed how much he doesn’t know the bare basics of marriage. “It was just re…

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President Donald Trump won’t stop inserting wild sound effects into his already incoherent rants. After holding 21 campaign rallies in the span of just two months, the evidently exhausted 80-year-old…

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It had to happen. On Thursday, Donald Trump defended that despicable Republican attack ad that everyone is talking about this week, writing on Truth Social: “Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad…

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Matthew Bianchini, the Republican mayor of Pemberton Township, New Jersey, physically charged at one of his constituents during a township meeting Wednesday night. Video footage from a reporter with t…

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President Trump went on another unprompted homoerotic tangent at a rally on Thursday, this time about military generals. “Just recently I gave all members of the United States military $1,776,” Trump…

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The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presen…

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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Woke versus MAGA, Democrat versus Republican, liberal…

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This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 22 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: Good morning.…

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When James Talarico, the 37-year-old Texas representative and Presbyterian seminarian, won the Democratic Party’s Senate nomination seven months ago, few believed he would win the general election in…

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I didn’t cry until the very end of NAZA. The new documentary, by Academy Award–winning Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is all about Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. But it’s only in…

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More than a decade ago, when Teslas were still new, Rich Benoit bought one for about $14,000 at auction. It was cheap because it had been flooded. He wanted to try to fix it, and he spent the better p…

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Should we send Mark Zuckerberg a T-shirt that says “I Got My Raise From the California Billionaire Tax”? I’m on record opposing this proposed wealth tax, not because I hesitate to expropriate oligarc…

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In the summer of 2021, Wade Hanicker felt a pain under his shoulder blade. He took ibuprofen, thinking it was a muscle knot that would go away with massage and time. One day at work in a Tampa, Florid…

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In dense and convoluted remarks, Donald Trump defended that disgusting ad in the Ohio gubernatorial race. The ad from Republican Vivek Ramaswamy featured the mother of Democrat Amy Acton calling her a…

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Jared Kushner oversaw foreign slush funds filled and managed by the leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, Vanity Fair reported Thursday. In the forthcoming book Princes and T…

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