- Simon van Zuylen-Wood @ New York Magazine: The Takeover of Kirk Country
Charlie Kirk’s death was meant to remake the MAGA youth movement in his image. It’s been overwhelmed by darker forces.
- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Trump on 2026 Midterms: ‘We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’
President Donald Trump, rejecting criticism from within his own party, the economic challenges facing the American people, and polling on Greenland, suggested that his second-term accomplishments were so extensive that they should render the 2026 midterm elections unnecessary.
- Christian Paz @ Vox: How right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis
The MAGA media system is going into overdrive.
- Sarah Rumpf @ Mediaite: Candace Owens Shares Her Most Bonkers Charlie Kirk Conspiracy Theory — Yet
Candace Owens has been aggressively pushing conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s death since he was killed last September, but what she said on the latest episode of her podcast might be the nuttiest yet, and it involves cats, X-Men, time travel — and a secret CIA program, of course.
- Daniel Silliman @ The Roys Report: 2024 shooting at Greg Locke’s home wasn’t persecution against controversial pastor but an attack directed at stepson
Controversial pastor Greg Locke said that a “madman” shot up his home in 2024 because of his bold preaching. But the 67 bullets fired into the Middle Tennessee residence were intended as a message for Locke’s stepson. They had nothing to do with Locke, his sermons or social media, a prosecutor told The Roys Report.
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Mike Johnson’s Gaslighting on ICE Takes Truly Vile Turn
As the House Speaker offers disgusting comments about ICE and Renee Good, a scholar of the religious right explains how it is that evangelicals like him see no evil whatsoever in ICE’s violent attacks on Americans.
- Jill Filipovic @ Throughline: The White Supremacist Regime
The Trump administration is using racist and Nazi propaganda to recruit ICE agents. They're laying out their vision of America as a racial autocracy. The world's richest man is joining in.
