Matthew Gertz

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus.

1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen.
2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus.
3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

it's even dumber than you think

Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama
www.al.com/news/2026/06...

Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved to Alabama

Tuberville claimed Alabama residency in August 2018. He and his wife voted in Florida three months later.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

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It is deeply shameful that this is what the president was doing the same weekend more American service members were dying in the war he started.

Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Burgum: "We had Washington at the 1st, we had TR at the 125th, we've got President Trump at the 250. All three of them remarkable change-makers moving our country forward."

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Federal government setting prices but make it right-wing and psychotic.

Real, real bad. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social

I’m sorry what

If federal law enforcement officers are permitted to shoot people, cite vague concerns for "public safety," and get away with it, we're headed for a really dark place.

Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

When you forget to have in-house counsel vet your murder confession.

For those keeping track, this is 110 times the amount of money from foreign sources that House Republicans claimed went to the “Biden family” (most of that actually went to non family business partners, none to Joe Biden).

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social

"Trump's revenue in 2025 jumped to at least $2.2 billion, compared with a minimum of $622 million in 2024 before he returned to office." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History

This weekend, President Trump and his top aides will be guests at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner, which theoretically honors the First Amendment.

But you can't celebrate the First Amendment with a president who doesn't believe in it. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

You can’t celebrate the First Amendment with Donald Trump

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin sought the phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter's mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of Trump's new Air Force One jet.

Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives

The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.

CBS too. Tony Dokoupil signed off CBS Evening News tonight saying, "For all of us here at CBS News, thank you so much for watching, and President Trump's prime time speech will stream on CBS News 24/7, 9 p.m. eastern"

Mediaite @mediaite.com

JUST IN: NBC and ABC Will Not Air Trump’s Primetime Address Live

JUST IN: NBC and ABC Will Not Air Trump’s Primetime Address Live

ABC and NBC indicated to multiple reporters that the networks will not air President Donald Trump's planned speech about the 2020 election this evening. The post JUST IN: NBC and ABC Will Not Air Trump’s Primetime Address Live first appeared on Mediaite.

The underlying premise of Trumpian election denial is that he is phenomenally popular, all evidence to the contrary is fake, and thus only massive voter fraud can explain any defeat by any Republican. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump: "If the Elections in Minnesota weren’t RIGGED, any Republican could win, but they were, and that is why nobody has won there since Richard Nixon many years ago. I thought I won it all three times, only to be disappointed in the end. Vote for Mike Lindell for Governor ... "

Important stuff here -- this went from 0 to 60 incredibly fast. www.mediamatters.org/supreme-cour...

Right-wing media target pregnant and female travelers following SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling

After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, right-wing media proposed draconian policies to prevent travelers potentially giving birth in the United States. The policies demanded by right-w...

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social

Unhinged: Angry MAGA figures are demanding wholesale bans on pregnant women from entering the country, including pregnancy tests on entry. This has gotten *really* widespread. On the pod, @sarahposner.bsky.social brilliantly takes apart this new Two Minute Hate: newrepublic.com/article/2127...

MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports

As MAGA personalities start demanding a ban on women coming to the U.S. and having babies, a writer who covers Trumpism explains what this reveals about today’s right—and why we should take it serious...

Important bit in here -- the Intelligence Community under Trump confirmed before he left office in 2021 that "We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections."

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com

If you're wondering if the TV networks should air Trump's Thursday speech live, the answer is no. (Obviously.) www.readtpa.com/p/the-predic...

The Predicate

Steve Bannon already said what Thursday’s speech is for. The only question left is whether ABC, CBS, and NBC hand over the airwaves to deliver it.

My take on why Fox is burying Trump’s election denial speech (no mentions in primetime last night either!) is in @brettlogiurato.bsky.social ‘s latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/fox-news-d...

Need to pretend that something has drastically changed, rather than stayed the same, in order to justify the campaign of violent repression they are desperate to accelerate.

Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social

Their meltdown is so deranged

Every day there's a new story of unbridled Trumpist corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/b...

How Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital Is Cashing In Without Apology (Gift Article)

The fledgling firm, run by the president’s oldest son and his partner Omeed Malik, has made investments in A.I. and defense technology that have tripled in value in just months.

Every congressional Democrat voted against this. Almost every congressional Republican voted for it.

Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social

Powerful, important read from @rosebroderick.bsky.social. As states absorb Medicaid funding cuts, family caregivers face financial ruin: www.statnews.com/2026/07/13/f...

As states absorb Medicaid funding cuts, family caregivers face financial ruin

Family caregivers of people with disabilities face a grim financial future as several states consider steep cuts to their wages.

They used the "Biden Crime Family" nonsense that Fox News spent years blathering about as a business plan, and now the network doesn't care. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Opinion | The Trump family’s conflicts of interest are of no interest to Fox News

Matt Gertz: Trump and his family members appear to have adopted influence-dealing on a dramatically larger scale than the Biden family was ever accused of.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

"President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon priorities and spending" giving the family a direct interest in US security policy new reporting from @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/3R5InT7

Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in

Most investments by funds linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have taken place since their father’s reelection.

The Constitution is being interpreted today the same way it has been for more than a century, and that requires massive unprecedented violent measures.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social

"Use whatever force is necessary."

The crazy rules for DC's fireworks show on the National Mall seem destined to make it miserable.

-No chairs, coolers, metal or glass bottles
-Each visitor may bring one clear bag measuring up to 12 x 6 x 12 inches
-Airport-style security checkpoints
-Show starts at 10:30pm

wtop.com/fourth-of-ju...

Going to the National Mall for July 4? Expect tighter security, less space and big changes - WTOP News

Planning to celebrate the Fourth of July on the National Mall? Here’s what you need to know about new security rules, banned items, entry requirements, transportation and other major changes for the n...

Reply to @mattgertz.bsky.social

Fox & Friends did not mention last night's presidential speech a single time this morning -- not even a news brief. Here's some stuff they covered instea.

The pro-fish hero we need.

Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com

You know the system is rigged when out-of-state trawlers are destroying our fisheries, and subsistence fishermen are the ones hit with restrictions. Our "leaders” are punishing Alaskans to protect the corporations doing the damage. Ban factory trawling.

Alaskan frustration grows over trawling during the Yukon River salmon moratorium | CBC News

Alaskan tribal nations and small-scale commercial fishers say they are bearing the weight of salmon conservation while the commercial fish trawl industry continues harvesting in the ocean — and tens o...

I would loooove to know what happened during this interview cut immediately after Trump tells a Fox News interviewer that photos of "fragments that appear to be from Tomahawk missiles" at a destroyed Iranian girls school may have been "AI-generated."

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Very difficult to come up with an explanation other than naked corruption for why we're making "concessions" with the Saudis as part of a "deal" to give them a nuclear program. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...

Trump Administration to Announce Deal That Could Let Saudis Enrich Nuclear Fuel

U.S. lawmakers and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, to be announced Wednesday, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to develop nuclear weapons.