June 23, 2026 at 5:58 AM EDT
Republicans already got away with treason 4 times -- but they won't this time

Republicans have gotten away with it four times now, in a big way. Each time it was because Democrats didn't realize -- until it was too late -- the crimes the GOP was willing to perpetrate just to seize and hold power. This time, for the first time since 1968, it may be different.

June 23, 2026 at 5:42 AM EDT
Trump's latest grift is the perfect metaphor for a cheat and loser

Of all the scandals that have beset the nation during the years of the Trump regime, few have so neatly represented the would-be dictator as his despoliation of the Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument. The overgrowth of green slime caused by Donald Trump's idiotic attempt to refurbish the pool evokes the disgust most Americans now feel at the mention of his name. This episode includes all the varieties of Trumpian scandal we now anticipate in regular rotation. Scheduled for completion by the Fourth of July's 250th anniversary, it is a shambles and yet another Trump-sponsored national disaster.

June 23, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
The one chance to take on Trump's pals before it's too late

The last time Americans faced such overwhelming evidence that the monied interests were screwing them over was the Great Crash of 1929 and ensuing Great Depression, resulting in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, starting in 1933. The one silver lining of the current Trump-Musk-Bezos-Ellison-Murdoch-Koch horror show is that most Americans now know beyond any reasonable doubt that they're on the losing side of a class war, and are justifiably p------

June 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM EDT
'Kook heaven': Pro-Trump org descends into chaos as staff mysteriously resigns

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser is in charge of a MAGA non-profit staffed with Trump loyalists -- but apparently they are secretly at each other's throats. "Since taking over the storied conservative group America's Future in 2021, retired general Michael Flynn has turned it into a real rogue's gallery," The Bulwark's Will Sommer wrote on Monday. "For one, Flynn, who briefly served as Donald Trump's national security adviser in the first administration, put Lara Logan""the former CBS News reporter turned conspiracy theorist""on the nonprofit's board. Flynn also launched an anti-child trafficking initiative within America's Future called 'Project Defend & Protect Our Children,' which he stocked with fringe activists, including Pizzagate true believer Liz Crokin, who now serves as a Project board member."

June 22, 2026 at 9:41 PM EDT
WSJ reporter won't put his own money in Trump Accounts -- and says you shouldn't either

President Donald Trump has touted his Trump Accounts as a great investment vehicle to help young people build up savings, but one financial reporter argues that they are not living up to his promise. "My 1-year-old son qualifies for a Trump Account, and I've opened it to claim the $1,000 government deposit," reported The Wall Street Journal's Adam Michel on Monday. "But I won't be putting any of my personal after-tax wages in it, and neither should most parents. That is a shame. Trump Accounts are a good idea, poorly executed. A simple reform could make them worthwhile."

June 22, 2026 at 8:42 PM EDT
Trump's secret edge -- and the one factor polls kept missing in 2024

When President Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, much of the political world was shocked -- but a new study reveals one forecasting framework that anticipated that outcome. "Many voters rely on prospective voting, a process of evaluating candidates based on anticipated future performance," wrote PsyPost's Karina Petrova on Monday. "Researchers have found that these forward-looking assessments become a primary driver of voter behavior in open-seat contests. Voters look ahead at what policies and leadership styles the new candidates might bring to the office."

June 22, 2026 at 7:18 PM EDT
Trump's 'pitifully impotent' presidency torn apart as PR disaster spirals

A conservative commentator argued that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, instead of seeming all-powerful, are instead appearing to the world as "impotent." "The state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is a sort of moron-populist version of Chernobyl," wrote The Dispatch's Nick Catoggio on Monday, referencing the Soviet Union's infamous mishandling of a nuclear power plant leak in Ukraine in 1986. "In both cases, the government's incompetence and corruption created a vexing ecological problem. And in both cases, the government undertook to cover up its culpability in the matter."

June 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM EDT
Trump wants to seize the Smithsonian -- and he has a plan

President Donald Trump reportedly wants to seize the Smithsonian Institution, one of America's most prestigious collection of museums, and to use them to whitewash the United States' history on issues like slavery. "When President Trump summoned Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for lunch at the White House on August 28 of last year, Bunch's advisers assumed that the end was near," The Atlantic's Clint Smith wrote on Monday. "Trump had spent months threatening the Smithsonian's independence; just nine days earlier, he'd written on Truth Social that 'the Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.'"

June 22, 2026 at 6:05 PM EDT
Why Nicolle Wallace says it's 'unfair' to compare Trump to the mob

President Donald Trump is worse than the mafia, a news anchor argued on Monday, because at least the mob tends to be competent. "I actually think the comparisons to the mob are unfair, because as violent as the mob is, they -- historically -- can be more competent than that," MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace said on Monday. She was referring to Trump's failed attempt to renovate the Reflecting Pool. "This was a botched redecorating of a monument."

June 22, 2026 at 5:14 PM EDT
Trump-endorsed anti-voter fraud crusader says he and his friends committed voter fraud

A candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump claimed that he tried to commit voter fraud, but did not provide any evidence that such fraud is an actual issue. Georgia State Sen. Greg Dolezal, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, told the Charlie Kirk Show in a February broadcast only recently discovered that he and "a number of friends" submitted fraudulent mail-in ballot applications that included forms signed by children. Their goal was to prove that they received ballots in return to prove that Georgia's system facilitates fraud.

June 22, 2026 at 4:52 PM EDT
'It's about to collapse': MAGA defector forecasts end of Trump movement

According to one prominent former supporter of President Donald Trump, the MAGA movement is about to "collapse under its own weight." This is according to conservative commentator Pedro Gonzales, who told Vox , "When your movement revolves around taboo-breaking and boundary-stepping, but then you decide there are some boundaries that are worth respecting, it's a joke. It's going to fail. It's going to collapse under its own weight." While Gonzales had been a dedicated MAGA loyalist, he was turned off by the movement following comments made by Trump while on the campaign trail in 2024.

June 22, 2026 at 4:23 PM EDT
Marine veteran breaks down Trump's epic failures

President Donald Trump's Reflecting Pool scandal speaks to deeper systemic failures in his presidency, at least according to one Marine veteran. "With the news that the Trump administration's attempt to beautify the Reflecting Pool is looking like a spectacular backfire, a lot of people said it was a perfect analogy of how things are going in general," wrote Joslin Joseph, an Iraq war veteran and recipient of the Military Reporters and Editors award for Best Commentary-Opinion, in an editorial for The Hill.