Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser

Oct 24, 2025 | "The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump's anti-democratic agenda.

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Young Republicans Group Chat Reveals the Future of the Republican Party

Oct 15, 2025 | After the release of messages found within a Young Republicans group chat, it's clear the next generation of Republicans are trying to follow in the footsteps of Trump. Steve Schmidt reacts to the Politico article and explains why their ideology is so dangerous.

‘I Love Hitler’: Leaked Texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ Racist Chat, Politico Reports

Oct 15, 2025 | A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes. Jelani Cobb joins to discuss.

Donald Trump back in 2018 referred to several countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and some unspecified African countries in an Oval Office meeting with some US senators as ”shithole countries”. The sad irony is, though, that Trump has now turned his own country into a ‘shithole country’! He has ruined a once perfectly decent country and turned into something truly cruel, awful, dangerous, and unenviable. Trump has also emboldened the "deplorables", as Hillary Clinton once so colourfully described them! — © Mark Alexander

EXPOSED: Young Republican Leaders Admit EVERYTHING in Leaked Group Chats

Oct 15, 2025 | Leadership from the ‘Young Republicans’ organization just got exposed after Politico published their leaked Telegram group chats. While the chats aren’t surprising, it still exposes the unapologetic bigotry of the next generation of Republican leaders—and it’s important to know what they truly believe. In this video we’ll share their evil thoughts and confessions about politics.

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„Ich liebe Hitler“: Bericht über Chatgruppe junger Republikaner löst in USA Skandal aus

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Mehrere junge republikanische Führungskräfte teilten einem Bericht zufolge monatelang menschenfeindliche Nachrichten auf Telegram. Nun gibt es Rücktrittsforderungen.

Mehrere junge republikanische Führungskräfte stehen nach einer Veröffentlichung von Telegram-Nachrichten in der Kritik. Demnach enthüllte Politico zahlreiche Chatnachrichten, in denen die Mitglieder unter anderem Schwarze beleidigt, sich positiv über Adolf Hitler geäußert oder darüber sinniert haben sollen, ihre politischen Gegner in Gaskammern zu stecken.

Die Nachrichten wurden Politico zufolge zwischen Anfang Januar und Mitte August verfasst. An den Telegram-Chats, die Politico nach eigenen Angaben vorliegen, waren demnach rund ein Dutzend junger Republikaner aus mehreren US-Bundesstaaten beteiligt. » | Anika Schlünz | Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2025

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Lawrence: Trump Admin. Staffer Reportedly in an 'I Love Hitler' Chat Hasn't Been Fired by Trump Yet

Oct 15, 2025 | POLITICO reports that Trump staffer, Michael Bartels, still has a job working for Donald Trump despite participating in a racist group chat with other Young Republicans. After POLITICO published their reporting, Trump addressed the press but, as MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains, Trump “spent the day angry at all sorts of people … but not even slightly bothered by Michael Bartels.”

Evangelical Insider Exposes Takeover of MAGA GOP | Burn The Boats

Feb 21, 2024 | Tim Alberta is an award-winning journalist, author, and staff writer for The Atlantic. His new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, is a personal examination of the evangelical movement, and how it has turned America itself into an object of idolatry. In this interview, Tim talks about his book and how the evangelical movement has become almost inseparable from the extremist wing of the GOP.

Thom Hartmann Program: Zuckerberg’s Surrender to Digital Authoritarianism Should Terrify You

Jan 8, 2025 | Why are social media companies bowing to the demands of the far right? Zuckerberg's latest move could be a sign that the far right now controls not only traditional media but also social media.

The Lincoln Project: Bystander

May 24, 2024 | 80 years of American presidents rejected the despicable and hate-filled ideologies of Nazism… until Donald Trump. Trump’s regurgitates Adolf Hitler’s language and the GOP defends it.

Hillary Clinton: Trump’s Hold on the GOP Is Frightening

Hillary Clinton speaking common sense.

'Shocking': Hillary Clinton Surprised at Ease of GOP Capitulation to 'Puppeteer' Trump

Feb 8, 2024 | Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with Alex Wagner about why she is still hopeful that aid for Ukraine will be passed by Congress, and the "profoundly silly" spectacle of Republicans in Congress abandoning their own principles to obey the whims of Donald Trump.

New House Speaker Mike Johnson Praised ‘18th-century Values’ in Speech

GUARDIAN US: Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values

Mike Johnson. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
Before entering elected office, Mike Johnson, the new Republican speaker of the US House, praised “18th-century values” and told an audience that Americans should live by them when it came to morality and religion.

In video footage of a forum hosted in 2013 by Louisiana Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, Johnson, a devout Baptist and then an attorney for rightwing groups and causes, is asked about the “condition of conscience” in Europe and Canada regarding abortion policy.

Saying he has just given “a seminar … to a bunch of high school kids in Shreveport”, Johnson quotes George Washington and John Adams, saying the first two presidents and other founders “told us that if we didn’t maintain those 18th-century values, that the republic would not stand, and this is the condition we find ourselves in today”.

Johnson, 51, became speaker on Wednesday, as Republicans’ fourth candidate for the job since Kevin McCarthy was ejected by the far right of the party. » | Martin Pengelly in Washington | Friday, October 27, 2023

Geez! Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse than with Trump, here comes another American screwball! What is there about the US that it keeps on cooking up fruitcakes? Is kookiness the new normal over there in the GOP, or what? – © Mark Alexander

‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views: Republican House speaker, who has advanced extreme views as attorney and legislator, says ‘I am a Bible-believing Christian’ / Questioned about comments and actions deemed by many to be homophobic, the new Republican US House speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, told Fox News his worldview was: “Go pick up a Bible.” »

Historian Heather Cox Richardson: GOP “Has Become an Extremist Faction” | Amanpour & Company

Oct 6, 2023 | The Supreme Court is just one example of the eroding of public trust in America’s institutions. For decades, an elite majority has weaponized language and promoted false history, according to historian Heather Cox Richardson. Her new book "Democracy Awakening" explores how this process has drawn some Americans into authoritarianism. She joins Michel Martin to discuss. | Originally aired on October 6, 2023

The USA is a bloody mess! It is NOT the USA we foreigners knew and loved: the wellspring of progressive thinking, new ideas, creativity and innovation. It has now become a reactionary country which has turned in on itself. Frankly, the USA has never been the same since 9/11. Osama bin Laden f****d up America good and proper. It has never been able to recover from the 9/11 attack. It’s a sad story. – © Mark Alexander

‘The Trumpian Playbook’: Mehdi Unpacks the GOP and Elon Musk’s War on Truth

Sep 7, 2023 | Conspiracy theories have long been a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s brand, but Elon Musk may be taking his place as the chief purveyor of disinformation. Mehdi speaks with two authors about how the GOP and social media have created a war on truth – and what we can actually do about it.

Inside the Chaos in the GOP

Sep 24, 2023 | As infighting among House Republicans threatens to push the country into a government shutdown, Jonathan Capehart and his panel discuss the roots of Republican extremism including the influence of retiring Fox Chairman, Rupert Murdoch.

The Lincoln Project: This is the GOP

Sep 28, 2023 | "Does anyone see a VP in that group? I don't think so" - Donald Trump | The GOP Primary is over.

More Republicans Say Trump Committed Crimes. But They Still Support Him.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The share of Republicans saying the former president has committed “serious federal crimes” has grown modestly, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College.

Supporters of former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Erie, Pa., on Saturday. | Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times
Donald J. Trump famously marveled during his first presidential campaign that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and he would not lose any support.

He now seems intent on testing the premise of unwavering loyalty behind that statement.

The federal charges against the former president seem to have cost him few, if any, votes in the 2024 election, even as the number of Republicans who think he has committed serious federal crimes has ticked up.

He continues to hold strong in a hypothetical general election matchup, despite the fact that 17 percent of voters who prefer him over President Biden think either that he has committed serious federal crimes or that he threatened democracy with his actions after the 2020 election, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll.

“I think he’s committed crimes,” said Joseph Derito, 81, of Elmira, N.Y. “I think he’s done terrible things. But he’s also done a lot of good.” » | Ruth Igielnik and Maggie Haberman| Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Oh Jesus! Don’t these Republicans know that even the Archangel can get depressed, and that God Himself can get angry? Very angry! One cannot help but wonder if Republican voters are trying His patience! – © Mark Alexander

The surest sign that Donald Trump is back? Ivanka is being seen in public with him: When the former president looked finished, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner kept their distance. Now he is the Republican frontrunner, they’re once again by his side »

The Lincoln Project: Unintelligent Life

Jul 28, 2023 | Aliens: Looking for intelligent life in the GOP? Keep looking. xoxo, LP

‘There’s no fool like an old fool’, or so they say; and there are no voters like American voters either! Inform yourselves as to why Trump’s poll lead went up even after criminal indictments! Check out the reasons here. – Mark

The Lincoln Project: The GOP’s Playbook Is as Dangerous as It Is Predictable… | #shorts

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