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February 18, 2026
Today Illinois governor J.B.
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February 20, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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February 17, 2026
Trump’s White House website welcomes visitors with a pop-up that reads: “WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE!” But on this heavy news day a year into Trump’s second term, it is increasingly clear that as his re...
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February 20, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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February 15, 2026
The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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Battle of the Bulge Episode 6: Patton’s Army on the Move
This one was personal: I had people in Patton’s Third Army and heard stories about the Battle of the Bulge and Bastogne as a kid, but it’s only with this series the pieces are falling into place.
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February 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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February 14, 2026
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February 14, 2026
On Valentine’s Day in 1884, Theodore Roosevelt lost both his wife and his mother.
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February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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February 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026
At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Im...
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February 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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February 12, 2026
In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J.
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February 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Two Days On The Hill: ICE & Pam Bondi
Writing this newsletter isn’t always easy.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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February 11, 2026
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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February 10, 2026
As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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February 9, 2026
Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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February 8, 2026
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
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February 8, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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February 6, 2026
Late last night, President Donald J.
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February 8, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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February 4, 2026
On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.
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February 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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February 3, 2026
Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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February 1, 2026
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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February 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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January 31, 2026
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:
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February 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
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February 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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January 29, 2026
Public outrage over the violence of federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.
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February 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.
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January 29, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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January 26, 2026
Yesterday President Donald J.
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January 27, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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January 25, 2026
As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J.
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January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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January 23, 2026
Tens of thousands of Minnesotans took to the streets today in bitter cold temperatures with wind chills of -20°F (–28°C) to protest the occupation of Minneapolis and St.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:52 PM