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‘This is gonna cost the party’: Rebel Republican scorches Trump’s GOP with dire prediction

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‘This is gonna cost the party’: Rebel Republican scorches Trump’s GOP with dire prediction

With the midterm elections fast approaching in November, outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) issued a bleak prediction for his party’s chances at the ballot box, and laid most of the blame on the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers he argued were overly loyal to the president.Appearing on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Massie was asked by Kristen Welker whether his defiance to President Donald Trump on pushing for the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files, deficit-increasing tax cuts and the U.S. war against Iran was “worth it” given his recent election loss.“It was absolutely worth it for me – now, I don’t think it’s going to be worth it for the party,” Massie said.“They've disenfranchised a large portion of that constituency that Trump assembled to get us in the White House. They’ve alienated [the Make America Healthy Again movement] by kowtowing to the pesticide manufacturers and the pharmaceutical manufacturers, they’ve alienated the fiscal hawks by running DOGE out of town, they’ve alienated the people who don’t want to fight another war for other countries.”And, with the midterm elections just over five months away as of Sunday, Massie predicted a bleak outcome for his own party.“And so I’m worried that in November, this is gonna cost the party a lot,” he said. “But for me, it was completely worth it, and I’ve got seven more months to keep going against the grain.”When the swamp and Epstein class couldn’t buy my vote, they bought the most expensive congressional seat ever.I joined @MeetThePress this morning to talk about putting people & principles over parties.I’m optimistic because the younger generation understands what’s going on. pic.twitter.com/kSg2PRjosN— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 24, 2026

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CA Gov Race & the Fight for Democratic Party's Future

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CA Gov Race & the Fight for Democratic Party's Future

A massive field, no clear frontrunners and one big scandal have turned the high-stakes battle into a head-scratcher

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Dems laughed at a once-dismissed theory — now it's their secret weapon for midterms: Axios

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Dems laughed at a once-dismissed theory — now it's their secret weapon for midterms: Axios

When Rep. Ro Khanna began pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his own party thought he was wasting everyone's time."The establishment class thought I was crazy," Khanna told Axios. "They said nobody would care. Nobody would vote based on it."They were wrong. With midterm elections approaching, Democrats across the country are pouring money into ads tying their Republican opponents to Epstein — betting that Trump's continued refusal to release the files has left a wound that voters haven't forgotten."What they missed," Khanna said, "is that Epstein goes to the core of what people hate about Washington: a rigged system where the rich and powerful play by different rules."The clearest sign of how seriously Democrats are taking the issue: in Ohio's hotly contested Senate race, every single ad that veteran Democrat Sherrod Brown has aired this year has been an Epstein ad. Brown has spent nearly $1.5 million attacking freshman GOP Sen. Jon Husted over donations he accepted from Leslie Wexner, a financial client of Epstein's. Husted's campaign says it has donated those funds to an anti-human trafficking charity — and has noted that Brown himself previously accepted donations from Wexner's wife.The stakes are highest in Maine, where Democrat Graham Platner is running in what both parties consider a must-win race for Senate majority control. In a six-figure TV ad, Platner accuses Republican Sen. Susan Collins of selling out voters to "the president and to the Epstein class," as footage of Epstein and Trump plays on screen.In Georgia — one of Republicans' best pickup opportunities this cycle — Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff has made "the Epstein class" a centerpiece of his stump speech and media appearances, arguing it captures the broader corruption of the Trump era. The phrase has drawn some criticism as a potential antisemitic dog whistle, though that charge has been disputed — and notably, Ossoff himself is Jewish.Democrats and allied groups have also aired Epstein-linked ads in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and New Mexico, where the issue has even spilled into an intraparty fight: in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, an outside group ran ads falsely linking former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Epstein — ads a local news station rated "false and misleading."Republicans are pushing back. RNC spokesperson Kiersten Pels accused Democrats of "cynical political theater," pointing to the party's own historical ties to Epstein donors. "The same party now trying to weaponize Epstein to distract from their own failed policies spent years cashing Epstein-linked checks," she said.Whether the strategy will work remains an open question. Despite Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie's bipartisan push to release the files, Massie was unable to turn Epstein into a winning issue in his own GOP primary — and was defeated last week after being targeted by Trump's political machine.But Democrats say the general electorate is a different audience entirely. And Khanna, for one, is no longer being laughed at, according to Axios.

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Lawmaker predicts trigger for new GOP crack-up: 'More will start to break away from Trump'

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Lawmaker predicts trigger for new GOP crack-up: 'More will start to break away from Trump'

A senior House Democrat predicted this weekend that Republican members of Congress will increasingly distance themselves from Donald Trump once they return home during recess and face their constituents — and he says the signs are already there."I think that as Republicans come back home after this recess and hear from their constituents, and as they get past their primaries, more and more will start to break away from Trump and some of his draconian and criminal behavior," Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told MS NOW on Saturday.Meeks pointed to the growing revolt in the Senate over Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund — money that could flow to supporters convicted in connection with the January 6th Capitol attack — as an early sign of the fractures to come. Republican senators, he said, were "absolutely right" to call it a nonstarter."You heard these Republican senators and they were absolutely right — this is ridiculous, this is terrible," Meeks said. "Some are retiring and don't have to pay homage to him, others who he has double crossed. And so they seem to be wanting to stand up for what they know is disastrous."Meeks drew a sharp distinction between the Senate and the House, where he sees far less independence. "I can't depend upon the House, because the members of the House — they will do whatever Trump says." But he suggested even that could change as political conditions shift.As evidence that the Republican base is not as monolithic as Trump's primary victories suggest, Meeks argued that Trump's hold is essentially on about 30 percent of the electorate — primary voters — not the broader public that will decide general elections."That's 30% of the individuals," he said. "These are not the individuals that would be able to vote in a general election."The congressman said the pattern — of Republican members privately opposing Trump while leadership runs interference — will become harder to sustain as midterms approach and members face voters directly."It's time for some of the Republicans to stand up and do the right thing by the American people," Meeks said, citing $5 gas prices, rising grocery costs, and health care as the kitchen-table issues driving discontent in districts across the country.

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New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

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New York City’s Other Violent Crime Problem

Murder is down, but assault is up—a dangerous sign.

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MAGA infighting hits new low as Trump pals trade unprintable insults and cryptic warnings

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MAGA infighting hits new low as Trump pals trade unprintable insults and cryptic warnings

"Unblock me," a longtime Trump confidant said to someone dubbed "Trump Whisperer" as the two fought publicly.A bitter feud has broken out between two prominent Trump allies, with longtime Republican operative Roger Stone unleashing a torrent of vulgar attacks at right-wing influencer Laura Loomer over the departure of Tulsi Gabbard from the Trump administration.The dispute, which played out publicly on X this weekend, has produced some of the ugliest language yet between members of Donald Trump's inner orbit, with Stone hurling explicit slurs and Loomer firing back with demands for evidence.Stone, a longtime Trump confidant who was convicted of lying to Congress and obstruction before receiving a presidential pardon, accused Loomer of being a paid operative and questioned her loyalty to Trump. In a series of posts, he called her a "petulant childish imbecile" with a "botox inflamed mouth.""Laura Loomer posts bulls--- for money," Stone wrote. "Every single word from her botox inflamed mouth is paid for. She's the queen of pay to play."He didn't stop there. In a subsequent post, Stone used a vulgar slur for women that Raw Story will not reproduce in full."If you have any doubt whatsoever, what a total narcissistic [expletive] Laura Loomer is it's all here," Stone wrote.Stone went so far as to demand Loomer lift her block on his account. "Unblock me, Laura because you know you can never win an argument with me," the Republican wrote.Stone also issued a cryptic warning to Loomer."You're disloyalty to President Trump is a disgrace. It will not end well for you," Stone wrote, appearing to mistake "your" for "you're."In another post, Stone went even further, framing Loomer as a threat to American interests."Laura Loomer doesn't have the slightest idea what she's talking about. She prefers the intelligence of the Mossad to that of our own," Stone wrote. "She's a menace and a neocon. It won't work out well for her."Loomer was not having it. She fired back with a direct demand for proof."Roger, Post evidence that I work for Israel and Mossad or shut up," Loomer wrote. "You lie everyday and post bulls--- and zero receipts. I actually post receipts."She added that if Stone could actually back up his claim, she would be owed significant compensation."When someone proves I work for Israel, tell them they owe me a lot of money and back pay for security since I have to deal with deranged Muslims and Neo Nazis plotting to murder me thanks to lies online that I’m an Israeli agent," she wrote on Saturday.Loomer added, "It’s so obvious you are expecting a major payout by working with Tulsi. Just be honest instead of being a lying lunatic online. You spent over 10 years praising me as the best person you know. My views have always been the same. Unlike you, money doesn’t control my loyalty. Prove it or shut up. I know you see your career coming to an end so you’re trying to be Grandpa Groyper, but there’s more respectable ways of making money online."The fight appears to have been triggered by Loomer's criticism Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman who served as Trump's director of national intelligence before resigning. Stone defended Gabbard in his posts, calling her "the one political appointee who proved once and for all that the Russia collusion matter was a hoax as were the two impeachments."

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Trump's own fans turn on him over new Iran deal: 'You can't fool your base'

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Trump's own fans turn on him over new Iran deal: 'You can't fool your base'

Donald Trump's Truth Social post praising negotiations with Iran as "productive and professional" triggered an immediate backlash Sunday — not from Democrats, but from his own most fervent supporters, who accused him of repeating Barack Obama's mistakes and demanded military destruction of the Iranian regime instead."You cannot trust anything that Iran signs — it doesn't matter whether it is a good deal on paper or not," wrote one supporter in a reply that gained traction on the platform. "Neville Chamberlain had a great deal with Hitler, how did that turn out? I understand that the spin will begin on trying to convince people that you didn't pull an Obama, but you can't fool your base. They trusted you and you have now alienated your most vocal and rabid supporters."The same commenter, identified as "Patriot and Retired Air Force," added a stinging verdict: "You are off the pedestal and merely a better alternative than them. Sad!" — deliberately echoing Trump's own signature putdown back at him.The replies were thick with calls for military action rather than diplomacy. "Level them, they can't be trusted," wrote one MAGA user. "Anything they sign won't be worth the paper it's written on. Take them out now!" Another demanded "unconditional surrender" as "the only option," arguing that "leaving the current Radical Islamic Regime in power is a LOSS for the U.S."Others drew the Obama comparison directly. "Lifting sanctions is as bad as Obama," wrote one commenter. Another called for the elimination of the IRGC entirely rather than any negotiated settlement.An Iranian-American commenter cut to the heart of the base's frustration: "Any agreement with this criminal regime makes you no different from Barack Obama. Anyone who shakes hands with criminals is no different from Barack Obama — finish your job via military, not a deal with criminals."The revolt on Truth Social mirrors a broader rupture that has been building in conservative circles over Trump's Iran diplomacy. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — Trump's own top diplomat in his first term — warned Saturday that the deal being floated "seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook," a reference to the architects of Obama's 2015 nuclear agreement. White House communications director Steven Cheung responded by telling Pompeo to "shut his stupid mouth."Trump's post insisted his deal is "THE EXACT OPPOSITE" of Obama's approach and vowed the blockade of Iran would remain "in full force and effect" until any agreement is "reached, certified, and signed." But for a slice of his base that spent years calling for regime change, the optics of any deal, on any terms, appear to be a bridge too far.

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GOP senator's 'Hitler' attack against Dems backfires — and pummels JD Vance

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GOP senator's 'Hitler' attack against Dems backfires — and pummels JD Vance

A GOP senator's call to stop comparing Donald Trump to Hitler backfired this weekend — because JD Vance did it first.Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to put Democrats on the defensive over comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler blew up in his face on Saturday and into Sunday when critics quickly pointed out that the most prominent person to make that comparison was Trump's own vice president."When you compare Trump to Hitler, you encourage assassination attempts," Lee posted. "Stop it. There's zero legal or moral justification for violence against him. I invite all Democrats to echo this message."The response was swift — and awkward for Lee."The only major figure in American politics right now who compared Trump to Hitler is JD Vance," wrote activist Harry Sisson, cutting to the heart of the problem with Lee's framing.Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI) was equally direct: "Trump's own Vice President literally compared him to Hitler. Spare me the hypocritical finger-pointing. Let's just agree political violence is never justified."Vance, of course, made his now-famous remarks about Trump in 2016, writing in a private message that Trump might be "America's Hitler" — a comment that surfaced publicly and that Vance has since disavowed as he transformed himself into one of Trump's most loyal allies.Some respondents agreed with Lee's core point while rejecting his premise. "There is zero justification for violence against any political figure, full stop," wrote Mike Young. "But historical comparison to authoritarian patterns is not incitement — it is analysis. The men who attempted to kill Trump in 2024 were not motivated by Hitler comparisons. Lee knows that. The invitation to echo a false premise is the setup, not the principle."Spencer Hakimian simply replied: "Agreed" — appending Vance's original Hitler comparison to his post.The only major figure in American politics right now who compared Trump to Hitler is JD Vance… https://t.co/eSxKdEijJa— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) May 24, 2026

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