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On January 3, 2026, the Trump administration bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, taking them to New York to face “narcoterrorism” charges. The escalation…

A great deal of the attention on Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general nominee, has focused on the fact that she doesn’t even have a medical license and has never practiced medicine. An influencer and…

Immediately after Vance Boelter was indicted by a federal grand jury for the stalking and killing of Democratic Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, along with the attempted…

It’s just another normal week in America, where the President is reposting—i.e. re-“Truth”ing— deepfake videos of a former President being arrested and on its official Instagram account the White…

Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety , a case brought by Damon Landor after officers at the Raymond Laborde Correctional Center…

It took over a year and 13 extensions before Nick Fuentes—virulent misogynist, Holocaust denier, White nationalist, Trump supporter, and groyper movement-founder—was required to face the neighbor he…

Katherine Stewart traces the rise of the antidemocratic movement fueling Trumpism and the authoritarian Right in this adapted excerpt from her book Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.

Black helicopters roll over the tarmac. From off screen we hear a voice with a generic Southern accent casually intone: “Here’s a Bible verse I think about sometimes, many times. It goes…” The images…

This article first appeared in The Sword and the Sandwich, Lavin’s newsletter about deadly serious extremism and serious sandwiches. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump Administration…