The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

The House speaker says he wants to bring Ukraine aid to the floor. There are reasons for serious skepticism—yet one can envision a few scenarios that could unexpectedly come through.

How Trump’s failure to make bond in his civil fraud case signals that his 2024 campaign vulnerabilities will likely get worse.

Veteran journalist Susan Glasser on why Trump’s authoritarian language is so alarming—and how the press is struggling to meet the challenges of this uniquely dangerous moment.

The senator’s extraordinary speech attacking Benjamin Netanyahu and defending Palestinian rights signals a sea change in U.S. politics—with big implications for 2024.

This might explain why the Biden campaign appears quietly confident in the face of so much grim polling news.

How a small group of prominent Republicans and conservatives hopes to spend big bucks to peel GOP voters away from Donald Trump.

A newsroom veteran turned press critic explains how the conventions of political journalism sanitize the true nature of Donald Trump’s stated intent to destroy democracy.

With Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler embroiled in scandal, the group is now on the defensive—and that will hurt Republicans in this fall’s elections.

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bizarre viral moment helps explain his appeal to disaffected young people in the “manosphere”—and what that says about our current political mess.

Congressman Colin Allred, a former NFL player and civil rights lawyer, explains how he thinks a Democrat can win in Texas, a state that seems to keep on staying red.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico speaks out about guns, the Hispanic vote, the Trump-Biden showdown, and MAGA-fueled misogyny.

In ruling that Trump is not disqualified, and agreeing to hear his demand for immunity, the high court offers sham assurances that the rule of law is being upheld.

With Trump set to host Orbán at his Mar-a-Lago retreat this week, it’s time to get serious about the rise of the global far right and why its worldview poses such a dire threat.

Former MSNBC journalist Mehdi Hasan is launching a new digital media company that he hopes will counter the mainstream media’s many failings throughout the Trump era.

Mitch McConnell’s real legacy? He consistently enabled Trump and MAGA for years—then failed to act against Trump when it really could have counted.

With President Biden set to visit the border, Donald Trump and Miller are vowing an extraordinarily cruel second-term crackdown. That provides Biden an opening—but will he seize it?

Pro-democracy majorities keep handing Trump and MAGA one defeat after another. Why is that lost on so many media commentators?

Can Ruben Gallego, an energetic Democrat with a working class background, defeat both MAGA celebrity Lake and independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona?

Recent events have forced right-wing media into even wilder distortions than usual. A Media Matters writer who tracks those sources helps us plumb the darker depths of this agitprop.

The veteran Democratic strategist explains why he thinks the intraparty debate over the president’s age is mostly over—and how he can fix the problem in time to beat Trump.