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What does this week’s MAHA Summit tell us about the state of the movement?
MAHA Summit entrenches a divide between administration-aligned advocates and popular influencers
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Right-wing media has pushed to send federal agents and the military to polling places and interfere with vote counting, but voting rights groups are pushing back.
Who's calling for the Trump administration to send federal agents to polling places?
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, right-wing media figures have called for President Donald Trump to deploy federal law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, or the m...
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Fox News rushes to pivot from a disappointing jobs report to culture wars ASMR — blaming “woke stunts” for restructuring at Nike.
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TheBlaze's Allie Beth Stuckey says Taylor Swift and the Kelces “are all part of a psy-op” that helps Democrats
Here are the election deniers who have spent last year & this year championing online a national emergency declaration. If Trump tries to declare one, these are the figures you'd need to know about who likely played a role in making it happen.
Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTIME: Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms? TRUMP: I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see. You mean the Insurrection Act? TIME: Yeah. TRUMP: No, I've never used it. I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes.
Fox & Friends co-host Lawrence Jones on Ms. Rachel: This is “pure indoctrination” and “really sinister.”
"The most plausible hypothesis I can come up with is that Trump looked up at his television at 12:09 p.m. ET, saw a brief clip that Fox Business was airing of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) criticizing the GOP’s AI strategy, and flipped out." www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/don...
Donald Trump’s insatiable demand for Fox propaganda
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Fox News is committed to pushing the "worst of the worst" myth as a way to frame Trump's deportation operations as about public safety rather than what they really are -- an attempt to maintain structures of white supremacy through ethnic cleansing
Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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NEW from me: A comprehensive list of key election denial activists in the right-wing ecosystem. These activists regularly appear in right-wing media to promote their work & boast of ties to Trump, urging him to get rid of voting machines, ban mail-in ballots, & declare a national emergency.
Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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After nearly two years of claims on Fox News that Trump’s deportation operations were targeting the “worst of the worst,” the administration acknowledged that it's attempting to go after every person it thinks is in the U.S. without authorization.
Fox News has spent almost two years claiming Trump’s deportations are targeting “the worst of the worst.” The administration just contradicted that narrative.
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Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Megyn Kelly: “I don't think we can continue this farce of pretending all accusers are actual victims whose identities must be protected”
Megyn Kelly on Jane Doe in the Cornell sexual assault case: "If her identity is revealed, I am going to name her"
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Newsmax host: Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and Alvin Bragg “should all be buried under the jail”
After Fox aired footage of the 9/11 attacks during a segment about a suspected terrorist incident, Brian Kilmeade was forced to give a very awkward apology.
Fox News Host Apologizes for Jaw-Dropping Error in Cockpit Brawl Coverage
The UAE-to-Israel flight, carrying 180 passengers, suddenly plunged 17,000 feet.
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CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Instead of admitting that Eric Schmitt brutally missed the mark by confusing two different basketball teams while trying to catch Jack Smith in a "gotcha moment," some MAGA tastemakers are doubling down.
MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator’s Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
Eric Schmitt humiliated himself while trying to corner Jack Smith during a Senate hearing. The right is running cover for him
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It’s once again time for Fox News to try to scare its viewers to the polls with frantic coverage of a “caravan” of migrants.
Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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What began as a moral panic over Silicon Valley censorship has turned into a desperate campaign to douse the flames of a conservative grassroots rebellion against AI data centers.
Fox News tries to cool conservative anger over AI
Gutfeld, Watters, Ingraham and Cain are pushing back as data centers become a midterm issue
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Right-wing media had dismissed stories about conditions onboard the USS Lincoln as a “misrepresentation in the media,” “an information op,” and “Persian propaganda.”
The Navy disclosed 8 suicide attempts after right-wing media dismissed reporting about conditions on the USS Lincoln as "Persian propaganda"
As reporting emerged in August that the servicemembers on the USS Abraham Lincoln faced poor conditions and declining mental health — evidenced by at least one servicemember overboard incident — right...
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In October 2018, Fox hosts began warning viewers that a migrant caravan was moving through Central America with plans to “storm our border” — and urged Trump to make that “caravan” a central issue for that year’s midterm elections. It's happening again. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Megyn Kelly: “Every other week, there's a story about how much money the Trump family's making”
New: “Psyop”: The right-wing media figures claiming that midterm polls are designed to suppress conservative turnout
"Psyop": The right-wing media figures claiming that midterm polls are designed to suppress conservative turnout
As recent polling shows Republicans in serious danger of losing their congressional majorities, some in right-wing media are responding by claiming the polls are deliberately showing dismal GOP suppor...
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Nick Fuentes: “When I was in high school, I watched Fox News religiously. I liked The Five. I watched O'Reilly Factor, and then my favorite was Red Eye.”
The White House press bans aren’t about ethics in journalism. They're about what Trump wants from the press: servile propaganda that parrots only what he and his allies say about his administration.
Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
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I wrote about how this post builds the case that Trump's White House press ban has nothing to do with national security www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
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Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump starts the day posting about what he sees on his TV. Left, Fox Business, 7:09 a.m. "TRUMP: US HAS BEST EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN HISTORY" Right, Trump, 7:38 a.m. "'The United States has the BEST Employment Numbers in HISTORY.' FoxNews. The Fake News Media REFUSES to report this..."
Fox contributor: Republicans losing Congress in the midterms points to “self-inflicted wounds by President Trump”
Candace Owens calls Jeremy Boreing a "Jeffrey Dahmer character" who "never liked" Charlie Kirk, Alex Jones says Laura Loomer is a "twisted harpy," and Mark Levin calls Tucker Carlson a "thug bastard" This week in right-wing podcast wars 👇 @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/candace-owen...
Podcast Wars: A “Jeffrey Dahmer character,” a “twisted harpy,” and a “thug bastard”
Welcome to Media Matters’ regular debrief on the Podcast Wars. This week, Candace Owens stood at the center of the smoldering right-wing media civil war, exchanging fire with a variety of conservative...
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Trump starts the day posting about what he sees on his TV. Left, Fox Business, 7:09 a.m. "TRUMP: US HAS BEST EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN HISTORY" Right, Trump, 7:38 a.m. "'The United States has the BEST Employment Numbers in HISTORY.' FoxNews. The Fake News Media REFUSES to report this..."
