The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent

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.

Greta Neubauer, the young and dynamic leader of State Assembly Democrats in Wisconsin, explains how the party finally won new state legislative maps after a long and bitter struggle.

A veteran journalist and longtime Trump-watcher explains how Justice Engoron’s ruling exposes the deeper scams at the heart of Trump’s 2024 campaign.

His effort to oust the RNC chair is all but a done deal. We talked to a journalist who’s well sourced in the party about what’s really going on at the highest levels of Republican power.

Have Democrats finally figured out how to go on offense over the border? The chief pollster in this week’s big win in New York tells all.

Donald Trump is threatening to abandon NATO. MAGA is blocking money for Ukraine. A well-placed House Democrat explains how these things are connected—and what must happen now.

The special counsel’s claims about Biden’s age and mental acuity have unleashed a round of intraparty recriminations unlike anything in recent memory.

A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for “red-pilled” far-right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.

Trump’s extraordinary level of support among white evangelical voters is his secret weapon against his one remaining primary rival—and it’s changing the GOP.

Democratic Senator Michael Bennet says GOP colleagues have privately confessed that the now-dead immigration deal was the toughest one they’d ever get.

Fresh off a big loss in appeals court, Trump hopes to kick his trial by jury until after the election. That could backfire on GOP voters—or even on Trump himself.