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Erika Kirk interviews surprise guest Nicki Minaj on the final day of Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 21, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona. Minaj spoke about her frustrations with California Governor Gavin Newsom, and about why she has embraced the conservative movement. (Photo by Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

Minaj praises Trump at TPUSA

Alex Galbraith
AmericaFest Conference attendees pose for pictures in a replica of the tent of Charlie Kirk's assassination location. One of the many sights, merch and other spectacles at the event. (Olivier Touron / AFP via Getty Images)

Celebs, merch, squabbles at AmericaFest

CK Smith
President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's big speech was all gaslighting

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Vance responds to Wiles' crank claims

Garrett Owen
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles (R), speaks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he returned to the White House last month. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WH chief blasts Vanity Fair interview

Garrett Owen
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump still can't say "you're fired"

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA's dream: Make Europe white again

Andrew O'Hehir
President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Desperate Trump puts his racism on show

Heather Digby Parton
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U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Vance joked about Signalgate in chat

Alex Galbraith
Donald Trump / Nuclear Explosion (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump's Golden Dome is too big of a risk

Ashley Gate, William D. Hartung - TomDispatch.com
Vice President JD Vance takes questions from reporters about the government shutdown at the White House on Oct. 1, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Vance fights GOP old guard over Russia

Sophia Tesfaye
Second Lady Usha Vance delivers remarks to military personnel and their families in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Usha Vance doesn't do dishes

Amanda Marcotte
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President Donald Trump meets with New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump can't resist handsome men in suits

Jason Kyle Howard
resident Donald Trump takes questions from the press in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump wants to tell CNN who to hire

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's America First is fracturing

Sophia Tesfaye
Vice President J.D. Vance (L) and President Trump spoke at the annual Arlington National Cemetery. They emphasized service members’ ongoing sacrifices amid continued funding issues for the Veterans Administration.

Trump makes Veterans Day about himself

CK Smith
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Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance share an embrace at a Turning Point USA event in Oxford, Mississippi, on Oct. 29, 2025. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

Why JD and Erika's hug made tongues wag

Amanda Marcotte
Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha (front row, left) have been raising their family with interfaith values - her Hindu background and his recent Catholic faith. They appear at many events together, even a public mass, but now, Vance expresses his desire for Usha to convert to Christianity. But did he mean Catholic Christianity or Christian evangelicalism? Hindus and Catholics are left questioning his comment. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)

Vance wishes Usha becomes a Christian

CK Smith
Zohran Mamdani campaigns for mayor of New York City on an affordability platform (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

GOP meets Mamdani's 9/11 story with hate

Shefali Luthra - The 19th
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on Sept. 26, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump "would love" to have a third term

Garrett Owen
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Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy

MAGA's hate machine devours its own

Sophia Tesfaye
Vice President JD Vance takes questions from reporters about the government shutdown at the White House on Oct. 1, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Vance called out after Calif. explosion

Garrett Owen
The "No Kings" rally in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 18, 2025. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"No Kings" short-circuits MAGA’s mockery

Sophia Tesfaye
Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference in Washington on Thursday, May 20, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Young GOPers face racist text fallout

Blaise Malley
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