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| Donald Trump wants to turn the military into his personal police force. |
| By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling |
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RSVP Now: Resisting the Authoritarian Takeover |
| On May 14, TNR’s editor, Michael Tomasky, and staff writers Matt Ford, Timothy Noah, Tori Otten, and Greg Sargent will host the next in our series America in Crisis, live and livestreamed from the Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C. With the new administration in place, this event will bring together influential political commentators with TNR’s most engaged readers to explore what we can do to fight back against Trump’s antidemocratic rampage. |
| RSVP before it sells out: |
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| What the hell is going on with the Democrats? |
| The move comes as Trump’s tariffs begin to hit American consumers—and the entire shipping industry. |
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Exiling Americans? This Isn’t Legal. It’s Not Even Close. |
Trump is openly floating the idea of banishing "homegrowns" to Salvadoran prisons, with zero legal basis. This isn’t "deportation." It’s the kind of fascist lunacy that should be laughed out of the room—except his administration is actually considering it. Will you help us continue to expose this authoritarian madness? |
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| Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick laid out a disturbing plan to bring back serfdom in full force. |
| The House speaker is preparing to block Democrats’ inquiries into the Trump administration, as the scandals keep piling up. |
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| The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter. |
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| Donald Trump has turned the White House into his personal crypto firm. |
| The defense secretary is pretending he did something great. But this program was supported by tons of Republicans, including Trump himself. |
| A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. "I know it was a little rough this morning," one of them later told her. |
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| An Arizona Democratic congresswoman shoved the Fox host’s talking points back in her face Tuesday night. Why can’t more Democrats do that? |
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