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Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Greg is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.  

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September 18, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that chairman Brendan Carr’s move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.
September 16, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump-MAGA Fury Drove a Georgia GOPer Into Exile. He Just Struck Back.
Geoff Duncan was the Peachtree State’s lieutenant governor who defied Trump in 2020. Now he’s running for governor as a Democrat—and in an interview, he explains why.
September 12, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals
At a time when right-wing extremists are calling for open season on liberals and the left, the president of the United States just told them: Hey, go for it.
September 12, 2025
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The Immigrant’s Wife Who Became a Symbol of Suffering and Perseverance
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, has become the public face of families everywhere who are enduring the deportation of loved ones.
September 10, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Own Tweet Backfires on Him as Judge Delivers Harsh Loss on Fed
The evidence that led a federal judge to declare that Trump’s firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook broke the law? Some of it was provided by Trump himself.
September 8, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.
September 2, 2025
Greg Sargent
ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s Ugly New Attack on CBS Exposes Big Trump Scam
The network was right to edit out her lies about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The rest of the media should do the same.
August 29, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.
August 26, 2025
Greg Sargent
Furious Trump’s Firing of Fed’s Lisa Cook May Be About to Backfire
The fired Fed governor has filed suit against Trump—and the discovery process may allow her celebrated lawyer to find out if the White House ordered a Trump loyalist to move against her.
August 22, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s FBI Raid of John Bolton’s Home Looks Like a “Five-Alarm Fire”
Thus far, little is known about Friday’s law enforcement action against a top Trump critic. But we’re seeing an escalation of authoritarian power on many fronts that has grown unmistakable.
August 18, 2025
Greg Sargent
Angry Trump Accidentally Blurts Out Unnerving New Plot to Rig Midterms
Donald Trump just gave away his own game.
August 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
“Alarming”: Trump’s Threat of Troops in Cities Just Got Much Scarier
Top Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon release documentation of internal conversations about future militarization of domestic law enforcement.
August 2, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows
A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.
July 30, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Worsens as Dems Suddenly Find Big New Weapon
Senate Democrats are using a 1928 law to pressure Trump to release the Epstein files. The White House will ignore them. Here’s what could happen next.
July 28, 2025
Greg Sargent
The Real Reason for Zohran’s Success Should Rattle National Democrats
Exclusive internal campaign data on the reach of Mamdani’s viral videos illustrates that he gets modern messaging in ways other Democrats just don’t.
July 23, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
July 18, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Screwed Himself on the Epstein Fiasco—With Don Jr.’s Help
His call for the release of limited files that are certain not to implicate him will only lead to demands for more. It’s the logic of conspiracism.
July 17, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Vile, Corrupt Attack on Adam Schiff Is Already Backfiring
The real potential scandal in the Schiff mortgage story isn’t his conduct. It’s Trump’s—and that of his bureaucratic loyalists.
July 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
The Young GOPer Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Dark Future of MAGA
Sunshine State Attorney General James Uthmeier is the real brains behind this notorious migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The more barbarities that emerge, the brighter his star will no doubt shine.
July 10, 2025
Greg Sargent
Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case
Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.

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