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White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
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White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The Seditionist-in-Chief Declares War on the First Amendment
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The Seditionist-in-Chief Declares War on the First Amendment
Donald Trump is now deploying his Defense Secretary, the FBI, and the Department of Justice against six Democratic Members of Congress who produced a short video reminding military service members tha...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Inspecting claim Education Department stopped counting nursing, other programs as 'professional degrees' www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
Inspecting claim Education Department stopped counting nursing, other programs as 'professional degrees'
The department's proposal may impact how much money student loan borrowers can receive depending on the graduate degree they choose.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Christian nationalism can’t win democratically, Moscow election shows | Opinion
“This little town ... has been fighting this idea that the church is going to take over Moscow for decades.” | Opinion
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November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Abortion, Marriage, and the Constitution: The Real Difference Between Faith and Freedom
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Abortion, Marriage, and the Constitution: The Real Difference Between Faith and Freedom
When the Supreme Court quietly declined to hear a case seeking to overturn Obergefell v.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Did You Feel That, America? That's The Pulse of Democracy.
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Did You Feel That, America? That's The Pulse of Democracy.
Did you feel that, America?
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November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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To Americans Still "Staying out of Politics"
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To Americans Still "Staying out of Politics"
A few days ago, I ran into a friend from my former church at the grocery store.
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November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Unraveling claims about $376M White House renovation under Obama www.snopes.com/news/2025/10...
Unraveling claims about $376M White House renovation under Obama
While a large White House renovation project took place during Obama's presidency, some posts omitted key context or shared misleading claims.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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No Kings Day: What Could be More American?
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No Kings Day: What Could be More American?
Protest is Patriotic-Let's Reclaim the American Sprit of Peaceful Dissent
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October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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The unhinged attacks on No Kings
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The unhinged attacks on No Kings
The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” On Saturday, October 18, millions of Ame...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Our Town's PRIDE Festival Was a Beautiful, Joyful Celebration of Community. Then, The "Christians" Showed Up.
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Our Town's PRIDE Festival Was a Beautiful, Joyful Celebration of Community. Then, The "Christians" Showed Up.
“And they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” - Christian hymn
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October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America
Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
The U.S.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/goverme...
Tell Congress: Christians want our government funding to care for all us, not terrorize our neighbors
The Trump regime has shut down the federal government indefinitely in the latest scheme to line the pockets of billionaires, fund ICE's terror against our neighbors, and eliminate federal services tha...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
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Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A tragic murder, a baseless smear, and the fight for the U.S. Senate Outright lies in North Carolina and frm the President

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A tragic murder, a baseless smear, and the fight for the U.S. Senate
A high-stakes race for an open U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina has gotten nasty very quickly.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Charlie Kirk and the Value of Empathy
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Charlie Kirk and the Value of Empathy
Conservatives mock compassion... until they need it.
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September 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Let's Do This: We Need to Get a Lot More Serious About Denouncing Political Violence
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Let's Do This: We Need to Get a Lot More Serious About Denouncing Political Violence
Yesterday, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a speech at Utah Valley University.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage act.indivisible.org/sign/trump-o...
Tell Congress: Stop Trump's Plan to Let AI Deny Medicare Coverage
Donald Trump and Dr. Oz want to let Artificial Intelligence (AI) choose which procedures Medicare will cover for individual patients -- with AI companies being paid based on how much money they save b...
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September 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
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August 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM