NEW: Speaker Johnson spoke briefly w Tucker Carlson about his interview with Nick Fuentes

"He has a lot of listeners, and I think giving Nick Fuentes that platform is a big mistake,” Johnson told me in an interview for THE MOVEMENT, my newsletter about the right

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1. I asked Speaker Johnson, in wake of the racist Young Republican group chat reported by Politico and a swastika American flag found in a GOP office, if he’s worried about the extremist, pro-Hitler sentiment among the party’s young Rs

“No. Look, obviously, we roundly condemn any of that nonsense”

"Republicans urge ICE to prioritize those facing violent crime charges for deportation"

6 Hispanic Republicans are urging Trump to prioritize deporting migrants facing charges for violent crimes as officers have ramped up arrests of nonviolent migrants

From @emilybrooksnews.bsky.social

These are all real House GOP bills

🚇 Rebrand WMATA as “WMAGA” & call Metro the Trump Train
💵 Put Trump on the $100 bill
✈️Rename Dulles Airport to Trump International Airport
⛰️Carve Trump into Mount Rushmore
🎂Make Trump’s birthday a national holiday
💵Print $250 bills featuring a portrait of Trump

AS TRUMP SOURS on Putin, will the Ukraine-skeptical MAGA base shift with him?

📧In The Movement, my weekly newsletter about the right, I check the temp on Trump comments & possible sanctions w/ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Douglas Macgregor, Rep. Victoria Spartz, & more

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Speaker Johnson stresses Congress’s power over courts: ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’

House is set to vote next week on a bill led by Rep. Issa R-CA that would limit the power of nation’s 700 district judges to impose nationwide injunctions.

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House Judiciary Ranking Member Raskin: "Donald Trump is losing and losing badly every day in court. He is losing in front of Bush judges and Biden judges, Obama judges and Reagan judges. Trump’s even losing in front of judges who he himself named to the bench in his first term."

1/ Why are we all forced to "WELL, ACTUALLY" & call tonight's speech President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress, and say it is not ~technically~ a State of the Union address?

Blame Reagan, kind of.
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Elise Stefanik stuck in narrow House GOP majority waiting for UN confirmation — could be until April —even after big budget res vote

Two sources point to Speaker Johnson, accusing him of “slow walking” giving the OK. There is a Mar. 14 funding deadline

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