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Susan Monarez takes part in a hearing on her nomination for Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s requests went against "oath"

Garrett Owen
Former Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Debra Houry and former Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Susan Monarez testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on September 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony from fired CDC employees and the implications on children’s health. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

RFK Jr.'s policies end in "kids dying"

Garrett Owen
Attorney General Letitia James sits in the courtroom for the civil fraud trial of former U.S. President Donald Trump in New York State Supreme Court on January 11, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

DOJ wants bogus fraud case against NY AG

Blaise Malley
Charlie Kirk debates with students at the Cambridge Union at the University of Cambridge on May 19, 2025. (Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge Union)

"Debate Me" Bros ruined civil discourse

Katherine Kelaidis
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

How Pam Bondi became MAGA’s patsy

Sophia Tesfaye
FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 16, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Kash Patel's true job is content creator

Amanda Marcotte
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Miami, in Miami, Florida on January 27, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's takeover is almost complete

Charles R. Davis
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., holds up a hat that reads "Trump 2028" during an event at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why Democrats can't quit on red states

Russell Payne
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Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Does Kirk murder signal permanent split?

Lee Bebout - The Conversation
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing in the case of the State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 1, 2024, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Alex Slitz-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump celebrates Willis' failed appeal

Blaise Malley
In this handout image provided by the Office of the Governor of Utah, Tyler Robinson stands for a booking photo on September 12, 2025 in Spanish Fork, Utah. (Photo by Office of the Governor of Utah via Getty Images)

Alleged Kirk shooter's texts revealed

Alex Galbraith
Vice President JD Vance continues to push the Trump diplomatic agenda. After an interview, social media takes sides with very different views of who won. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

MAGA uses Kirk death to target the left

Russell Payne
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Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico launches his campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sept. 9, 2025, in Round Rock, Texas. ( Brandon Bell/Getty Images))

We need what James Talarico is selling

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks in the newly decorated Oval Office on April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

How poverty is fueling Trumpism

Chauncey DeVega
Armed groups hold a rally in front of a closed Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas,on January 17, 2021 during a nationwide protest called by anti-government and far-right groups supporting US President Donald Trump and his claim of electoral fraud in the November 3 presidential election. The FBI warned authorities in all 50 states to prepare for armed protests at state capitals in the days leading up to the January 20 presidential inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. ((Photo by MatthePhoto by Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

Political violence is part of US history

Maurizio Valsania
Donald Trump, taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Image)

Trump commits Guard troops to Memphis

Alex Galbraith
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Stephen Miller speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2021. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Miller vows vengeance for Kirk

Garrett Owen
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court on July 17, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Mourning follows fatal ICE stop

Garrett Owen
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Brits condemn Musk's "dangerous" remarks

Garrett Owen
Right-wing activist Charlie Kirk speaks at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Ariz. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP divided after Charlie Kirk's killing

Sophia Tesfaye
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Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer in Warsaw, Poland on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's wife plays his babysitter

Amanda Marcotte
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent watches as Customs and Border Protection officers hold the line against protestors who responded to a Federal Immigration raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California. (Blake Fagan/Getty Images)

Democrats cling to bipartisan solutions

Tatyana Tandanpolie
People cast their in-person early ballot for the 2024 general election at a polling station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 31, 2024. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Mich. Dems want fines for election lies

Hayley Harding - Votebeat
Bill Maher attends the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 27, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images)

Maher rejects MAGA's Kirk shooter claims

Alex Galbraith
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