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The Cybertruck, the vehicle of choice for guys who like to say “my pronouns are U, S, and A” and—if they ever did find a woman who wanted to have sex with them—would throw an absolute fit over being asked to wear a condom, is being taken out back and…

As a high school student, Stephen Miller once told a booing crowd of his classmates that he was “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” Now he gets to reckon with a colossal political…

President Donald Trump scurried away from reporters Friday who asked about his new loser status. Trump had an awkward interaction with reporters outside the White House after they asked him to explain his decision to replace chief of staff Susie Wiles with…

When in doubt, call them a terrorist. The White House is tapping into its standby strategy in its latest attempt to cripple nonprofits.Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would brand some nonprofits as having terrorist ties, The Wall Street…

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.The midterms were not a story of Democratic moderation, political scientists Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach argue.…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the November 5 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 afternoon. This is Right Now on The New Republic. I’m the host,…

Days after defeating Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate election—overcoming $38 million in American Israel Public Affairs Committee funds, a tidal wave of bigotry and Islamophobia, and an eleventh-hour betrayal by Democratic Representative Haley…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators determined that failing medical care preceded the deaths of 23 immigrants in detention. The San Francisco Chronicle obtained internal reports on the deaths of 29 immigrant detainees who died between January…

Stephen Miller will be taking over as White House chief of staff beginning Monday. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Friday afternoon, saying that “Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation.…

The U.S. is on the cusp of losing its measles elimination status.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 5,182 measles infections nationwide Friday, the highest case load of the disease that the country has experienced since 1991. Forty-five…

Democrats are eyeing investigations into some of America’s largest corporations that tried to curry favor with President Trump. The Washington Post reports that now that Democrats won back control of Congress, they are planning to probe powerful entities in…

Want to see just how far left the United States shifted in Tuesday’s midterm elections? Look no further. A map produced by Ground News using data from civicAPI showed just how far each U.S. county’s margin moved from the 2024 presidential election to the…

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been pushing to build artificial intelligence data centers on public lands since he first joined President Trump’s Cabinet. A Friday report from ProPublica shows that Burgum might feel so strongly about the centers not…

Dr. Amy Acton is washing her hands of Vivek Ramaswamy and his dirty campaign tactics.Ohio’s first female governor-elect told CBS Mornings Friday that she has “no intention” of speaking to the losing Republican after he produced a disturbing political…

Donald Trump’s midterm bust has even his White House aides eyeing the exit.“There is no holding back on the desire to leave now,” one former White House official told MS NOW Friday. “Some are making calls to try and jump ship.”What happened on…

On the heels of assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s departure Thursday, two more leading officials from the Department of Justice are resigning.Politico reports that John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general in charge of national security, and…

The era of Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is finally coming to an end: After years of persistently weak sales, the technocrat’s polarizing mini tanks are officially headed out of production. Musk announced Friday that Tesla’s Texas plant would cease production…

President Trump is still fixated on his triumphal arch even after a federal court halted its construction on Thursday. In a 33-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote that no construction can take place on the arch for 14 days while other legal…

Right-wing influencer Laura Loomer announced she is taking a “brief hiatus” from her Loomer Unleashed podcast just hours after a Trump administration adviser exposed her for being paid to post some of her manic, hateful content. It all started on Thursday,…

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Donald Trump was stuck in closed-door meetings through most of Thursday—but his seething anger left over from the midterm elections was still alive and well on his social media feeds.The president logged onto Truth Social around 6:18 p.m. to lament about…

Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert’s campaign said that it was “investigating some very unusual voting patterns,” as the MAGA congresswoman was on the brink of losing her reelection bid. As Democrat Eileen Laubacher’s lead over Boebert grew…

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 “We campaigned as affordability Democrats. That was the message of every…

Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, got to take a nice birthday trip to Marrakesh, Morocco, with taxpayers helping to foot the bill.The Daily Mail reports that Trump was spotted walking through the streets of the city on October 29, one day before her…

After a disastrous midterm showing that placed the future of the MAGA movement in abject peril, the White House decided it was a good time to let conservative groups know that they were being watched.A Thursday memo from the White House Office of Public…

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Donald…

If you want to know who the biggest midterms loser is, that is, of course, Donald Trump. But the second-biggest loser is the oligarchy.Democrats aren’t strangers to the oligarchy, especially in Silicon Valley, but lately even tech billionaires heavily favor…

After Donald Trump’s victory in 2024, one narrative in particular was pervasive throughout the pundit class: Democrats were declining among voters of color. The Republicans were becoming a more multiracial party, many political experts claimed, and it had…

The 2026 midterms…

Democrats expected these midterms would be good for them. What they got was nothing short of a blowout. So far, the party has secured 54 Senate seats and 259 in the House, sailing to its biggest congressional landslide in half a century. If Democrats’ lead…