- Elisabeth Zerofsky @ The New York Times Magazine: What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
- The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
- Robert Kuttner @ The American Prospect: Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup
- If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off.
- Nikki McCann Ramírez and Jack Crosbie @ Rolling Stone: MAGA Rep. Allegedly Assaulted Wife, Put Gun to Her Head. Republicans Don’t Care
- Max Miller is the subject a string of disturbing allegations. His party doesn’t seem to mind.
- GPAHE: The Inside Man: William Wolfe and the Capture of the Southern Baptist Convention
- Wolfe is the Christian nationalist movement’s inside man. Others preach for converts or run for office. Wolfe captures institutions that already exist. When the first Trump administration ended, he took a fellowship at Russ Vought’s think tank, the Center for Renewing America, where the work was planning the next Trump term. In March 2024, he turned the same method on his own denomination, which keeps a pulpit in nearly every county in the South.
- Kali Bomeli @ ProPublica: This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
- Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Laura Loomer’s About-Face on Ukraine Baffles Allies
- “You’ve got to ask yourself what in the name of sweet holy hell is going on here?”
- Darnell Crenshaw @ WKYT: New lawsuit accuses Kim Davis of hiding inherited property to avoid civil rights judgment
- A new lawsuit filed in Rowan Circuit Court accuses former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis of transferring inherited property to family members to avoid paying a civil rights judgment to David Ermold and David Moore, the same-sex couple she refused to issue a marriage license to in 2015.
- Sarah Rumpf @ Mediaite: Trump DOJ’s Own Witness Said Reflecting Pool Had ‘Substantial Preexisting Damage’ Before Alleged Vandal Touched It
- Lawyers for David Hearn, the former Olympian who was arrested and accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, filed a motion Monday citing key testimony they say supports dismissing their client’s case — from a witness for the prosecution.
