Government collaborators are on the verge of controlling a massive share of American news, and they’re pushing out the journalists who won’t play along, Brian Tyler Cohen writes.
“Trump is reshaping the media landscape to maintain and extend his grip on power.” https://bit.ly/4uuUhUj
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A new state has taken center stage in Trump’s assault on free and fair elections: California.
Rather than viewing the time that careful ballot counting requires as a sign of integrity, Marc Elias says, Trump seeks to weaponize it with false claims of fraud. https://bit.ly/4ec9ymv
Trump's attacks on female journalists aren't just emotional outbursts. They are calculated signals to his far right base. They are an appeal to "masculinism", the term coined for the political backlash against feminist gains that unites every corner of MAGA.
The DOJ wants more time to implement Trump’s executive order attacking mail-in voting, imposing a legal strategy that appears to be aimed at bypassing legal challenges to the order.
However, a federal judge seemed inclined to block the potentially unconstitutional order in a hearing last week.
Steve Hilton, a Trump-endorsed former Fox News host, advanced to the general election for governor in California.
Hilton, an avid supporter of new voting restrictions in the state, will face off against Democrat and former Biden official Xavier Becerra.
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Hilton, who regularly perpetuates unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in California, is an avid supporter of a Republican-backed ballot measure that would create new voter identification…
