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On CNN, Maryland Gov. Moore Again PUNTS on Accusation He Lied on Family's Story

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On CNN, Maryland Gov. Moore Again PUNTS on Accusation He Lied on Family's Story

On CNN, Maryland Gov. Moore Again PUNTS on Accusation He Lied on Family's Story

Steve Malzberg
February 21st, 2026 5:05 PM

On Monday we told you about an interview conducted by CBS's Norah O'Donnell with Maryland Democrat Governor Wes Moore, where Moore was allowed to avoid directly answering questions about recent revelations made in the Free Beacon, which call into question details of his life story which he has told over and over again. On Wednesday, Moore appeared on CNN's The Arena.

Host Kasie Hunt addressed the White House's National Governors Association's annual winter gathering held Feb.19–21, where reportedly neither Moore or Governor Jared Polis, (D-CO), have been invited to the White House dinner, something Moore has attributed to his race, even though Polis is not Black.

HUNT: So speaking of the President...an invitation was not extended to you, although I understand there's been a little bit of lack of clarity on whether that's actually the case. But now other Democratic governors are also saying that they might not attend... would you like to see all of your Democratic governors join you in refusing to attend the dinner if you're not invited? 

So is he invited or not? It didn't seem to matter. He also indicated he will voluntarily skip the entire weekend.

MOORE: I'm not casting judgment on any Governor that chooses to attend. If they choose to attend the dinner, that is their prerogative, I will not... and I also know it's because the President of the United States does not get to get to determine what my worthiness is...  If this is not going to be a serious gathering where we can talk about issues where we can address the fact that everything is more expensive under the President, if we can address the fact that why he is spending his time giving tax cuts to his friends while making life more expensive on everyone else, if that's not the intent, then I have no desire of actually sitting down.

Then Hunt played the race card, "Do you think his lack of extension of an invitation to you, is the President motivated by race?" 

MOORE: You know, honestly, I think that's a real question for President Trump you know, what I know is, and what I've shown is I will work with anybody... 

Remember, Governor Polis is not invited and he is white, but Hunt persisted. "What's it about for President if it's not about race?"

MOORE: I think the President just seems to have a very real issue with the fact that I do not bow to him and I will stand up to him because I will always defend my people... But  you know, the fact that I'm the only Black governor in this country and he seems to have a real issue with me, I think that's an issue he's got to take up.

When Hunt asked about an accusation from the Free Beacon, Moore did exactly what he did on CBS on Sunday, he did not answer the question.

HUNT: You say you are who you are, conservative outlet the Free Beacon recently wrote about a story you often tell about your great grandfather and your family and how and why they left the United States.. They report, they look at church records. They say the story is not true, that the Ku Klux Klan did not force your family to leave, that your family left voluntarily...is there any truth to what the Free Beacon has written here?

MOORE: There is no truth to what a right wing blog writes about me. No, there is not.. I know my family's history is, you know, my grandfather is James Joshua Thomas, a man who was born in South Carolina and my family when he was just a toddler, that he was run out by the Ku klux Klan, that he still returned to this country. He became the first Black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church... And he's maybe the most patriotic American I've ever met... And when the threats that came to his father, when people started making intimidating threats to him, when he became the first Black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed church, he's stuck and he kept his chest out..  And so if anyone wants to question my family's history or question the history of the Ku Klux Klan, they should really ask the Ku Klux Klan, because they're the ones who should have the answers.

Hunt did follow-up, "And those church records that show that one of your family members left voluntarily to take over for someone who had passed away, those records are wrong."

All he could do was repeat, "They should really ask the Ku Klux Klan about what their activities were in the 1920's." Sad.

Meacham Brings Back His Idea That Trump Is 'Failing' Omaha Beach Soldiers

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Meacham Brings Back His Idea That Trump Is 'Failing' Omaha Beach Soldiers

Meacham Brings Back His Idea That Trump Is 'Failing' Omaha Beach Soldiers

Alex Christy
February 21st, 2026 2:00 PM

On Wednesday, the media’s favorite presidential historian, Jon Meacham, joined Walter Isaacson on PBS’s Amanpour and Company to resurrect his allegation that the Trump administration is “failing” the soldiers who served at places like Omaha Beach and Gettysburg as well as the men and women of the nation’s various civil rights movements.

Isaacson put the ball on the tee when he declared, “And in both those books, you talk about history now in a polarized era being a battlefield itself, a source of contention. We even see it with the administration taking some of the plaques down on the old Philadelphia house where General Washington lived that talk about slavery. Tell us about history as a matter of contention now.”

 

 

It should be noted that the plaques are back after a federal judge issued a bizarre ruling ordering the Interior Department to return them. The Interior Department, for its part, lamented that “updated interpretive materials providing a fuller account of the history of slavery at Independence Hall would have been installed in the coming days” if the judge hadn’t gotten in the way.

As it was, Meacham began, “Well, the mechanics of memory matter. I'm sitting here arguing that an understanding of the story of liberal democracy from the late 18th century through the freedom movements of the 20th century is an empowering, elevating narrative. There are those who would like to argue that that history is different, that there were—that are alternative narratives like alternative facts—a term from the first term—that is more valuable.”

After denouncing the White House’s Presidential Walk of Fame, Meacham continued, “So, it's not about us, it's not about we the people, it's about him. And by controlling, by attempting to control historical narratives by pushing aside the uncomfortable elements of our history to make it more heroic, you're failing, it seems to me, to keep faith with the people who fought and bled and died for the country.”

Those people include, “The men who hit Omaha Beach, the soldiers at Gettysburg, the folks on the Pettus Bridge, the women at Seneca Falls, the women who were force-fed in the suffrage movement, they were confronting wrong and urging us to make it right. If we remove the wrongs from our narrative, then we are failing to honor the work they did and failing to find inspiration for our own era.”

It’s ironic. Previously when Meacham had invoked this list, including Gettysburg, the number one news story in the country was Minnesota liberals thinking federal law doesn’t apply to them. Meacham can try to wax poetic all he wants, but he does not own the legacy of the men and women he mentioned.

Here is a transcript for the February 18 show:

PBS Amanpour and Company

2/18/2026

WALTER ISAACSON: And in both those books, you talk about history now in a polarized era being a battlefield itself, a source of contention. We even see it with the administration taking some of the plaques down on the old Philadelphia house where General Washington lived that talk about slavery. Tell us about history as a matter of contention now.

JON MEACHAM: Well, the mechanics of memory matter. I'm sitting here arguing that an understanding of the story of liberal democracy from the late 18th century through the freedom movements of the 20th century is an empowering, elevating narrative. There are those who would like to argue that that history is different, that there were—that are alternative narratives like alternative facts—a term from the first term—that is more valuable.

And you're also seeing with the plaques that President Trump put up in the White House, this kind of, again, kingly, kind of autocratic history, a narcissistic history. If you read the plaques that are now up in the colonnade of the West Wing, it's all about every other American president and their relationship to President Trump, right?

So, it's not about us, it's not about we the people, it's about him. And by controlling, by attempting to control historical narratives by pushing aside the uncomfortable elements of our history to make it more heroic, you're failing, it seems to me, to keep faith with the people who fought and bled and died for the country.

The men who hit Omaha Beach, the soldiers at Gettysburg, the folks on the Pettus Bridge, the women at Seneca Falls, the women who were force-fed in the suffrage movement, they were confronting wrong and urging us to make it right. If we remove the wrongs from our narrative, then we are failing to honor the work they did and failing to find inspiration for our own era.

Rush Limbaugh: Five Years Passed

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Rush Limbaugh: Five Years Passed

Rush Limbaugh: Five Years Passed

Jeffrey Lord
February 21st, 2026 1:30 PM

Time, as the saying goes, flies.  And Sean Hannity captures the moment exactly.

Over there on his website, Hannity headlines: 

Trump Pays Tribute to Rush Limbaugh Five Years After Radio Legend's Death 

The former president honors the conservative icon who shaped the movement that transformed American politics.

The story reports: 

Five years after America lost one of its greatest conservative voices, President Trump continues to honor the monumental legacy of Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio titan who shaped minds and moved mountains in American political discourse. The EIB Network host didn’t just entertain millions daily—he built the conservative movement that would eventually propel Trump to the White House and fundamentally reshape the Republican Party.

Sean goes on to say: 

The radio legend’s influence extends far beyond the airwaves into the heart of today’s conservative policy victories. From tax cuts that unleashed economic growth to deregulation that freed American businesses, Limbaugh’s free-market philosophy lives on in every Trump administration achievement. His commitment to constitutional principles helped educate generations of Americans who now form the backbone of the MAGA movement.

Exactly.

To say the least, Rush Limbaugh’s impact on both the conservative movement and the nation as a whole was both far reaching and considerable.

Rush, of course, was not alone. He was the heir to a movement that featured such key players as William F. Buckley Jr., R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Arizona’s “Mr. Conservative" Senator Barry Goldwater -- and, of course, President Ronald Reagan.

Collectively the conservative movement gained considerable steam with the creation of media outlets that brought the movement to public attention. 

From Buckley’s National Review to Tyrrell’s American Spectator and on to Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Chris Ruddy’s Newsmax, the conservative movement was on the move.

But nowhere was that more vividly illustrated than with the arrival of Rush Limbaugh on the radio. From Monday through Friday, from noon to three, like clockwork Rush was there on the radio, broadcasting to the nation in ways both intellectually demanding and often enough hilarious. Not to mention that it was Rush who essentially created the industry of what quickly became known as “conservative talk radio.”

Over here are the thoughts from James Golden, Rush’s longtime sidekick famous to Rush’s daily audience of thirty million as “Bo Snerdley.” James notes well when he says: 

Five years later, millions of his thirty million listeners still miss his voice, wisdom, humor, and ever-present optimism that America would remain a great and good nation, thanks to their values and the fruit of their hard work.

Exactly. And James goes on to add: 

There is no question that his success on the radio, as an author and publisher, in television, and online changed America’s media landscape. He broke wide open – the media “dam” that suppressed the voices and values of almost half the country. The “silent majority” through Rush Limbaugh, found its voice.

And find its voice that “silent majority” surely did. 

Right here at NewsBusters is the home made possible by Brent Bozell and his creation of the Media Research Center. As the MRC notes: 

For nearly four decades, the MRC has been the unrelenting counterforce to leftist bias in America’s newsrooms, broadcast networks, and Big Tech platforms.

The elitist media don’t just report the news; they weaponize it. They choose what you see, what you never hear, and how you’re supposed to think. For generations, they’ve tilted elections, driven policy, and reshaped culture through selective facts, glaring omissions, and shameless spin.

We exist to end that monopoly. We are the receipts the media pray you never see. We are the voice they try to silence.

In short, as the conservative movement gained steam, Rush arrived on the scene to translate the movement from the written pages of Buckley and Tyrrell’s magazines to the widespread use of radio. And Rush was so very, very good at it.

Over time, as noted, he had an audience of some thirty million Americans who listened to him every one of those five days a week.

It should be noted that when he passed, seasoned radio guys and conservatives Clay Travis and Buck Sexton moved into his time slot with the Clay and Buck Show carrying the Rush tradition forward and doing a superb job of it. And that doesn’t count the contributions of Hannity, Glenn Beck and so many others.

But without question Rush has been missed over the last five years and, for those who were alive in the day when he was on the air, he will continue to be missed.

So one more time?

Thank you Rush. Your legacy lives on - and always will.

Onward!

ABC Attacks 'Very Real Fact of Racism' In 'This Country'

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ABC Attacks 'Very Real Fact of Racism' In 'This Country'

ABC Attacks 'Very Real Fact of Racism' In 'This Country'

Alex Christy
February 21st, 2026 12:11 PM

For the latest edition of the left’s “Everything is Racist” campaign, emergency room physician Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey stopped by ABC’s Saturday edition of Good Morning America for its segment on what the chyron labeled “Black History Month & Your Health.” According to Smalls-Mantey, “the very real fact of racism and bias” in healthcare and America at large is one reason for any racial disparities in the healthcare system.

Alluding to disparities in the prevalence of certain diseases, co-host Whit Johnson wondered, “We have been reporting on this more and more recently, but why the continued disparity?”

Smalls-Mantey began her reply with possible explanations that have nothing to do with race, “So, some of the reasons for those disparities are you might live in an area that doesn't have as many doctors in their hospital, you might live far away from the hospital, but there's also the economic cost of healthcare.”

 

 

Things then got racial when she added, “Black people tend to be in jobs that may not offer healthcare benefits, or you might not have health insurance. And so if you don't have health insurance, you're less likely to have a primary care doctor that you're following up with, and then even if you do have a regular doctor that you're following up with, the cost of the actual treatment can be very high for people. There's also the anxiety of knowing what you have, so people might have symptoms and not want to see a doctor, but it's important to go find out. It could be nothing, but also, if you have something, there's treatment.”

Smalls-Mantey then sought to include "the very real fact of racism and bias in healthcare, and just in this country, we've seen many examples of people having—going to the doctor, having their concerns ignored, and it's important to remember that you're entitled to healthcare. So, go and get a second opinion.”

According to a 2022 MITRE-Harris poll, 52 percent of all Americans claimed to have had their concerns “ignored, dismissed, or not believed.”

The Kaiser Family Foundation, which endorses the basic belief that Smalls-Mantey espoused, nevertheless also found that 19 percent of black patients and 15 percent of white patients claimed a doctor “ignored a direct request you made or a question you asked.” Similarly, they found 15 percent of blacks claimed a doctor “refused to prescribe pain medication you thought you needed” compared to 9 percent of whites.

Those aren’t massive gaps. They certainly aren’t big enough to claim that the country, as a whole, is racist.

Here is a transcript for the February 21 show:

ABC Good Morning America

2/21/2026

9:13 PM ET

WHIT JOHNSON: And we have been reporting on this more and more recently, but why the continued disparity?

ADJOA SMALLS-MANTEY: So, some of the reasons for those disparities are you might live in an area that doesn't have as many doctors in their hospital, you might live far away from the hospital, but there's also the economic cost of healthcare. Black people tend to be in jobs that may not offer healthcare benefits or you might not have health insurance. And so if you don't have health insurance, you're less likely to have a primary care doctor that you're following up with, and then even if you do have a regular doctor that you're following up with, the cost of the actual treatment can be very high for people.

There's also the anxiety of knowing what you have, so people might have symptoms and not want to see a doctor, but it's important to go find out. It could be nothing, but also, if you have something, there's treatment. And then the very real fact of racism and bias in healthcare, and just in this country, we've seen many examples of people having—going to the doctor, having their concerns ignored, and it's important to remember that you're entitled to healthcare. So, go and get a second opinion.

The Atlantic Boasts Trump Hates Facts -- Then Makes Up a Measles Story

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The Atlantic Boasts Trump Hates Facts -- Then Makes Up a Measles Story

The Atlantic Boasts Trump Hates Facts -- Then Makes Up a Measles Story

Tim Graham
February 21st, 2026 11:01 AM

The splenetic Democrats at The Atlantic magazine love to paint themselves as Team Truth, while Trump "is an enemy of fact-based discourse," and "The guiding principle of Trumpism is 'Feelings don't care about your facts.'”

So why on Earth would they publish Elizabeth Bruenig's made-up story of a mother learning her child would die of measles? Twitchy pointed out The Washington Post softened the fakery that "some feel deceived." Feel deceived? It was literally Fake News. 

The Atlantic’s essay about measles was gut-wrenching. Some readers feel deceived.

Some critics and physicians said Elizabeth Bruenig’s second-person account of a mother confronting a child’s death from measles felt misleading once they learned the story was reported fiction.

Post media reporter Scott Nover began with Kelly McBride of the liberal Poynter Institute (who moonlights as a "Public Editor" at National Public Radio) was the one feeling deceived: 

When Kelly McBride read Elizabeth Bruenig’s essay in The Atlantic about a child’s death from measles complications, she was moved and quickly shared the story on her Facebook account. She hadn’t realized that Bruenig’s family had been ravaged by the virus and the well-known journalist had lost a child.

McBride, a media ethicist and senior vice president at the Poynter Institute, also didn’t realize the story was a hypothetical scenario — and the child a composite character based on the author’s research — until a friend alerted her to an editor’s note at the bottom of the story. Then, McBride felt duped.

“I feel deceived,” McBride said. “I spent all weekend talking about this story to my friends as if the reporter had experienced it.”

That was the extent of McBride's ethical evaluation in this article. Nover made the criticism very general: "Readers and media experts have condemned the story as breaching journalistic ethics by informing the reader that the story is fictionalized through a short editor’s note at the end of the 3,000-word essay."

Nover then balanced it with The Atlantic defending its "reported fiction" as a "writerly device"!

Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor at The Atlantic, told The Washington Post in a statement that the magazine was “pleased that so many people are reading and praising Liz’s remarkable essay.”

“We trust our readers to understand all different kinds of writing and writerly devices,” she said. “And while we included a note about Liz’s methods for transparency’s sake, we’re finding that most readers already understand the second-person well enough to know that the ‘you’ referenced throughout the piece is not literally ‘you,’ the reader.”

Notice the lecture: we trust you to understand our crafty devices...if you're smart enough. Nover instructed the reader that "Reported hypotheticals have been used in other grim chronicles," and then came the praise for the fakery!

Many readers, including physicians, praised the Atlantic essay, writing that its evocative writing and storytelling forced readers to grapple with the impact of vaccine hesitancy. “Read this while holding my almost-one-month-old, and it absolutely wrecked me. What a powerful and important piece,” one commenter wrote. “Tragically realistic story exquisitely described by Ms. Breunig,” wrote another.

No. It was tragically fictional. Nover also brought in the Fake News writer to defend herself. 

Bruenig, in an interview with the website Nieman Lab, defended the structure of her essay. “It is a hypothetical account of a very real phenomenon based on careful reporting,” she said. “I would place it somewhere on the creative nonfiction spectrum.” She said that she interviewed doctors for her piece, and based the character of the mother on herself.

“I have no doubt that there are a lot of people out there who are unhappy with the story or reject its premises, and they are entitled to their interpretations. I get it,” she said.

"Entitled to their interpretations" that I made up a story. Feelings trumped facts. 

Irony Alert: Brooks Mourns 'Constant Battle Of Forcing Dehumanization'

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Irony Alert: Brooks Mourns 'Constant Battle Of Forcing Dehumanization'

Irony Alert: Brooks Mourns 'Constant Battle Of Forcing Dehumanization'

Alex Christy
February 21st, 2026 9:38 AM

The Atlantic podcaster and end-of-democracy doomsday prophet David Brooks had the temerity to claim on Friday’s PBS News Hour that he and people like him represent the “forces of humanization” in America while people like President Trump fight a “constant battle of forcing dehumanization.”

Brooks lamented, “Well, Donald Trump has never had an honest disagreement with somebody and where you say, 'Oh, I disagree with you' and without him going ad hominem and that is just his nature.”

 

 

He also claimed, “It is the nature of somebody with a narcissistic personality disorder to think, I am the center, and everything that's an assault on me cannot be anything but a shameful attack on all that is right and good.”

Presumably referring to liberal co-panelist MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart, Brooks went on, “And so it's very hard. We travel around the country. We meet people trying to heal America, trying to build conversations. And it's just frustrating that all these people are doing this work around the country at the same time, day by day, there's a shredding from the top. And so there's these forces of humanization that are trying to have a decent country, and then the shredding from the top is just a constant battle of forcing dehumanization.”

David Brooks may speak in a calm, quiet tone of voice, but the actual content of his words can be just as radical as Capehart’s. He has warned that Trump’s policies equate to death, similarly compared DOGE to several mass-murdering communist dictators, and has several times decried various Trump actions as grave threats to democracy. None of that is new for Brooks. Ten years ago he claimed Sen. Ted Cruz spoke in “dark and satanic tones.” Back when Trump was just a simple NBC reality show host, Brooks had his own ad hominem, “It doesn’t help that he [Cruz] has a face that looks a little like Joe McCarthy actually.”

But, at least PBS’s resident conservative appreciated Barack Obama’s pants.

Here is a transcript for the February 20 show:

PBS News Hour

2/20/2026

7:45 PM ET

DAVID BROOKS: Well, Donald Trump has never had an honest disagreement with somebody and where you say, “Oh, I disagree with you” and without him going ad hominem and that is just his nature.

It is the nature of somebody with a narcissistic personality disorder to think, I am the center, and everything that's an assault on me cannot be anything but a shameful attack on all that is right and good.

And so it's very hard. We travel around the country. We meet people trying to heal America, trying to build conversations. And it's just frustrating that all these people are doing this work around the country at the same time, day by day, there's a shredding from the top.

And so there's these forces of humanization that are trying to have a decent country, and then the shredding from the top is just a constant battle of forcing dehumanization.

CNN Expert: Conservatives Would Be ‘Outraged’ If Dems Tracked Speech—But They Did!

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CNN Expert: Conservatives Would Be ‘Outraged’ If Dems Tracked Speech—But They Did!

CNN Expert: Conservatives Would Be ‘Outraged’ If Dems Tracked Speech—But They Did!

Mark Finkelstein
February 20th, 2026 9:59 PM

On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, the panel reacted with alarm to reports that the Department of Homeland Security is compiling data on anti-ICE activists. Host Audie Cornish played a clip in which an ICE agent, in what she described as a “tossed off” remark, told a protester she was now considered a “domestic terrorist.” Cornish claimed that such language, once written into a report, “becomes a real problem for someone.”

Republican panelist Kristen Soltis Anderson urged viewers to "think about what would have happened during the Tea Party era, when the shoe's on the other foot, about how upset conservatives would have been at the idea of the government tracking their speech in any kind of way. And so I always just think it's useful to imagine, like, what if the parties were flipped here? And I think a lot of conservatives would be in, would be unbelievably outraged, and rightly so, if a Democratic administration was trying to track them."

But conservatives don’t have to imagine such a scenario. They’ve already experienced it.

CNN Panelist: Conservatives Would Be ‘Unbelievably Outraged’ If Dems Tracked Speech — They Did! pic.twitter.com/iSuvKtCQE9

— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) February 19, 2026 ">

In 2009, the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security issued a report titled Rightwing Extremism, sparking backlash from conservatives and veterans’ groups who argued it cast suspicion on broad swaths of right-leaning activists. During that same period, the IRS admitted to subjecting Tea Party-affiliated organizations to heightened scrutiny in reviewing applications for tax-exempt status — a move widely condemned on the right as government overreach targeting political speech.

More recently, under the Biden administration, DHS homeland threat assessments described domestic violent extremism as the “most persistent and lethal threat” facing the country. While the language focused on violence, many conservatives argued it blurred lines between criminal actors and broader conservative movements.

Then in 2023, an FBI Richmond field office memo referencing “radical-traditionalist Catholics” and potential extremist infiltration into certain Catholic communities ignited national controversy before being withdrawn. Critics saw it as yet another instance of federal authorities casting an overly broad net around constitutionally protected religious expression.

When Soltis Anderson invites viewers to picture conservatives reacting to Democratic speech-tracking, she overlooks recent history. The “flipped parties” scenario isn’t theoretical. It already happened.

Note: We'll stop short of classifying Soltis Anderson as a tame "CNN Republican," but, as we reported here, this isn't the first time she's taken a "pox on both their houses" approach.

Here's the transcript.

CNN This Morning
2/19/26
6:23 am ET

TOM HOMAN: We're going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding, assault. We're going to make them famous. We're going to put their face on TV. We're going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.

AUDIE CORNISH: Border czar Tom Homan, not trying to hide it. DHS is building a database. And if you publicly criticize ICE, or try to track their movements, you could find yourself in that database. The New York Times reports that Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta have all received hundreds of administrative subpoenas, not judicial ones, administrative subpoenas from DHS demanding data and persona information about what they call anti-ICE accounts. Google, Meta and Reddit have already complied with some of those requests.

TIKTOK CLIP OF YOUNG WOMAN: This obviously completely violates our First Amendment right in the Constitution to free speech, as we are 100% allowed to critique any government agency, department, or law enforcement as we please.

ANOTHER TIKTOKER: DHS says this is about [air quotes] safety. Okay, but many people are worried that it could be misused or misunderstood. You think?

YET ANOTHER TIKTOKER: It's fascinating to me that there are Republicans that would support this type of government overreach.

CORNISH: Okay, DHS claims it has broad administrative subpoena authority and needs the information to keep immigration agents in the field safe.

So, the Group Chat is back. This has long been a conversation that Tom Homan, in particular, has talked about. And I just want to play one more piece of tape for you about how this is playing out on the ground. Witness this exchange, January 23rd in Maine, between a protester and an ICE official.

PROTESTER: It's not illegal to record.

ICE AGENT: Exactly.

PROTESTER: Yeah.

ICE AGENT: That's what we're doing.

PROTESTER: Yeah. Why are you taking my information down?

ICE AGENT: Because we have a nice little database.

PROTESTER: Oh, good.

ICE AGENT: And now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun.

PROTESTER: [Laughs] For videotaping you. Are you crazy?

CORNISH: It was that line. Now you're a domestic terrorist, kind of tossed off. But in a report when you file that, that becomes a real problem for someone.

ISAAC DOVERE: Yeah. And I think part of what's going on here is that anybody who uses Gmail or Facebook or any of these things, likes to think this is my personal data. But actually it's the company's data once you put it in there, and the companies can do with it what they want to, for the most part,

What's different here is that this is yet another time where we see the government moving into collect data, collect information on people. We don't know for what, to what extent they're going to be using it or how they're going to be using it. But they may not even need to go through the whole subpoena process. 

CORNISH: I was going to ask about that. So I was noticing, in L.A., a federal judge rejected the government's argument that protesters tracking federal officials met the bar for interference. In Chicago, a bunch of people who were arrested for this: dismissed, let go. 

And somehow the administration, when it finally has to get to court. So is it really the journey? Is it the destination? Is it just about scaring people off of the speech?

MEGHAN HAYS: I think so, I think it's about the threats here. I think it just makes -- and it also is something that's going to rile up the left, it's going to rile up the the progressives and the base and make it even more intense. And it'll be more talking points, but they're actually not probably going to be able to do anything with this data. Or I mean, as soon as a new president comes in, they're going to wipe all of this clean. This is just, it's a really un-American thing to do. As we know, it is a violation of their First Amendment. And I just, it's just more scare tactics by the administration.

CORNISH: I want to ask you something that I found out, because during the break, you were talking about Europe, sort of this divide between free speech in Europe versus here.

As we speak, Reuters reported this morning that the U.S. department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content [chuckles] banned by their governments, which include alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda.

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: Well, yeah. And if you if you spend any time on like the conservative internet, you will frequently see stories coming out of places like the UK that get people up in arms. Because they are genuinely insane, where people have the cops come kick in their door because they tweeted something that the government didn't like, or that was considered maybe, possibly, hate speech laws.

CORNISH: "Genuinely insane" is not a statutory right. 

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: Right, right, right. But essentially, there are lot of conservatives who will look at things like the very strict rules around speech that exist in other countries and go, that's terrible. It's so great that we don't have that here. We have the First Amendment. 

And yet we're also in this era of kind of big government Republicans, where the Rand Pauls in the party, who have been saying pretty consistently, regardless of who's in power, for a long time, civil liberties matter, we shouldn't be invading.

You know, think about what would have happened during the Tea Party era, when the shoe's on the other foot, about how upset conservatives would have been at the idea of the government tracking their speech in any kind of way. 

And so I always just think it's useful to imagine, like, what if the parties were flipped here? And I think a lot of conservatives would be in, would be unbelievably outraged, and rightly so, if a Democratic administration was trying to track them. 

CNN: Christian Schools Are Manchurian Candidate Mills to Take Over Government

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CNN: Christian Schools Are Manchurian Candidate Mills to Take Over Government

CNN: Christian Schools Are Manchurian Candidate Mills to Take Over Government

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 20th, 2026 6:25 PM

During Friday’s The Situation Room, CNN co-anchor Pamela Brown continued her crusade against religious Christian schools ahead of the release of her anti-Christian documentary over the weekend. Despite claiming all week that she was supposedly investigating “Christian nationalism,” Friday’s tease was the first time politics was overtly discussed with any of the people she interviewed. Brown’s premise during this particular tease was that these schools were part of a cabal pumping out students to one-day fill government positions.

Brown didn’t hide the fact that she was targeting Classical Christian Schools because Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had enrolled his own kids into the program, and she was shocked that a religiously Christian school taught through the prism of their religion:

Hegseth is the most high profile member of a church network that doesn't shy away from Christian nationalist ambitions, and education is a key part of its mission. Today, more and more schools in that network are teaching kids everything from a biblical perspective.

At various points in the tease, Brown shared chopped up soundbites of an interview she did with David Goodwin, the president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, where she pestered him about how their Christian beliefs were suffused throughout their curriculum.

 

 

It was clear that Brown was fishing for an angle that would allow her to twist, reframe, and present a false depiction of the association’s motives for existing. In a series of questions, Brown slowly painted a picture of a Christian cabal with ties to the Trump administration trying to take over the government:

BROWN: So are these classical Christian schools a vehicle to create a more Christian world?

GOODWIN: Yes, that's - that's our purpose; is Christian civilization.

BROWN: What do you hope the graduates will go out and do in America?

GOODWIN: Live faithfully wherever - wherever they are.

BROWN: But you would like to see them in positions of power naturally.

GOODWIN: [Shrugs] We're glad when they get there.

BROWN (Voiceover): And Classical Christian Schools already have some powerful advocates like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Let’s breakdown the ridiculousness of Brown’s questions and how they progressed.

Whether a religious school program was Christian, Jewish, or Muslim, it’s obvious they would instill their world view into their students; and of course, they would want them to go out into the world and like their faith. Heck, wokeism was the religious worldview liberal wanted taught in secular schools.

Brown’s question regarding if the administrator would be happy seeing a student in a position of power was particularly ridiculous because ‘yes’ was the answer any administrator in any school anywhere would say. It didn’t matter if the school was public, private, charter, religious, or a homeschool program, the administrators and teachers would be happy for their students’ achievements. But she immediately brought up Hegseth because he served as her evidence of a sinister plot.

If that wasn’t clear enough, Brown wrapped the segment by proclaiming there was a secret web of connections and teased she would unravel them with the full “documentary”:

[W]e talked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He has written about how he and his wife actually moved to Tennessee before he took on this role, obviously, to put their children in a Classical Christian School Network. David Goodwin, who you heard there actually wrote a piece with, wrote a book with Pete Hegseth on education. He runs that association. You can start to see all these figures and ideologies are connected something I explore closely in my upcoming documentary, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.

Given how the rest of her teases went, the “documentary” would likely up to just a smear job.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

CNN’s The Situation Room
February 20, 2026
11:46:45 a.m. Eastern

SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH: As long as I have breath, I commit to you that I and we should never allow any group, no matter how large or small, to silence us from speaking the capital-T truth. Christ is king. He died for our sins. We are forgiven.

[Cuts to live]

PAMELA BROWN: That was part of Defense Secretary Pete speech to religious broadcasters last night. He also railed against what he called the ‘godless left’ and praised western Christian values. Hegseth is the most high profile member of a church network that doesn't shy away from Christian nationalist ambitions, and education is a key part of its mission. Today, more and more schools in that network are teaching kids everything from a biblical perspective.

[Cuts to video]

(…)

11:52:22 a.m. Eastern

BROWN: So are these classical Christian schools a vehicle to create a more Christian world?

DAVID GOODWIN (Association of Classical Christian Schools, president): Yes, that's - that's our purpose; is Christian civilization.

BROWN: What do you hope the graduates will go out and do in America?

GOODWIN: Live faithfully wherever - wherever they are.

BROWN: But you would like to see them in positions of power naturally.

GOODWIN: [Shrugs] We're glad when they get there.

BROWN (Voiceover): And Classical Christian Schools already have some powerful advocates like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

(...)

11:53:00 a.m. Eastern

BROWN: Goodwin and Hegseth coauthored a book about what they characterize as the decline of public schools.

(...)

11:55:05 a.m. Eastern

BROWN: So are you happy with what's happening at the Department of Education being dismantled?

GOODWIN: Um. Yes. I mean, moderately happy because I think it was not that consequential of a department to begin with. But it's good -

BROWN (interrupting): But this is - But for all intents and purposes, this is what you want to see. The dismantling of the Department of Education and ultimately getting rid of public schools.

GOODWIN: Yes.

[Cuts back to live]

BROWN: And Wolf, you know, we talked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. He has written about how he and his wife actually moved to Tennessee before he took on this role, obviously, to put their children in a Classical Christian School Network. David Goodwin, who you heard there actually wrote a piece with, wrote a book with Pete Hegseth on education. He runs that association. You can start to see all these figures and ideologies are connected something I explore closely in my upcoming documentary, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.

Capitalism Fails? Wall Street Journal Columnist Rails Against Billionaires Evading Taxes

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Capitalism Fails? Wall Street Journal Columnist Rails Against Billionaires Evading Taxes

Capitalism Fails? Wall Street Journal Columnist Rails Against Billionaires Evading Taxes

Joseph Vazquez
February 20th, 2026 5:38 PM

The Wall Street Journal has promoted itself as the "Daily Diary of the American Dream," as a promoter of national prosperity. But some columnists find the titans of capitalism too unseemly to support any more. 

The Journal’s "Heard on the Street" columnist Carol Ryan threw down the gauntlet against the “superwealthy” in her February 18 screed headlined, “Billionaires’ Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy.”

Ryan used California — yes, Gavin Newsom’s tax-worshipping California — as an example of a lefty-run state doing the brave thing by sticking it to the affluent, even if the method is flawed. “California’s plan to hit its richest residents with a one-off wealth tax is a long shot, and its design has problems,” Ryan began. “But a look at who picks up the tab when billionaires scrimp on taxes, and how wealth concentration is affecting the wider economy, shows why the issue isn’t going away.”

Ah, so California’s addressing the right problem but using a flawed mechanism to do it, eh? So do we just need to find out how to more efficiently raise taxes so the administrative framework is better? Good grief. Somebody want to page Lachlan Murdoch and tell him to go pick up his newspaper?

Ryan highlighted how “California has the highest concentration of billionaires in the U.S. with 255 individuals, or slightly more than a fifth of the country’s billionaire population, data from wealth-intelligence firm Altrata shows.” But, of course, she underplayed the fact that billionaires are currently fleeing the state of California for states like Nevada and Florida precisely because the former isn’t satisfied with maintaining its top position as the state with the highest income tax rate (13.3 percent) as of 2025. And this is not even counting California’s outrageous sales and use tax rate range between 7.25 percent on the low end and 11.25 percent on the high end.

Ryan selected as an expert Ray Madoff from Boston College, who loathes the wealthy enough to be featured on National Public Radio, talking about how all this unfairness creates an "appetite for change."

Technology firm Atom founder Zain Aziz told Business Insider February 8 that “[y]ou don't really want to get punished if you do good and you create more jobs." He continued, praising his new Nevada home: “I believe the Las Vegas Valley has become more and more what's synonymous with what California used to be — which was free-spirited and 'Come and achieve the impossible.’”

Apparently this was lost on Ryan, who fear-mongered that the “The risk is that the U.S. economy becomes increasingly dependent on a narrow group of very rich households, whose spending is tied to the performance of the stock market.” The only issues Ryan bothered pointing out with wealth taxes writ large is that they “are hard to administer, and the ultrarich can simply leave if they don’t like where a state’s tax policies are headed.” But she mentioned nothing about the complexities of appropriately evaluating an income-earner's assets (wealth) due to their inherently subjective nature to begin with.

It’s not until the 11th paragraph that Ryan concedes that the tax code may have something to do with why billionaires are able to capitalize on the benefits their armies of accountants rifle through on a routine basis. She cited and then dismissed the fact that the top earners in the U.S. pay 40 percent of federal income taxes while another 40 percent of Americans in lower brackets pay nothing. It doesn't matter because “billionaires aren’t captured by this picture because most of their wealth lies outside the income-tax system.” 

But if top earners are still paying the vast amount of income taxes anyway with a complicated tax code while the bottom 40 percent are paying nothing, then how is this dramatic tax evasion? She didn’t mention that California alone has a whopping 2,910 pages in its 2025 tax code, separate from the over 6,000 pages that make up the federal tax code. That means Californians are stuck facing around a daunting 8,910 pages of tax code on an annual basis, and Ryan appears to be arguing that complicating it further with a stupid wealth tax is somehow meritorious in its intent if overtly flawed in its “design.”

The Tax Foundation released a study in 2024 finding that many “Wealth taxes disincentivize entrepreneurship, leading to less innovation and less long-term growth. A wealth tax reduces wages, destroys jobs, and reduces the stock of capital. All income groups are worse off under a wealth tax due to decreased economic activity.” One would think Ryan would consider that billionaires leaving California because of the risk of complicating an already complex tax code is proof in the pudding of the Tax Foundation’s thesis. But alas, she was rooting for the Left to win with their "populist measures" to tax the rich.

But the very fact of the rising concentration of wealth in the hands of the superwealthy means the issue of how to tax it won’t be going away, and pressure could build for ever-more populist measures, including at the national level.   

Pathetic. 

Uncomfortable Topics with Heather Mac Donald: Race, Disparate Impact, Role of Women

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Uncomfortable Topics with Heather Mac Donald: Race, Disparate Impact, Role of Women

Uncomfortable Topics with Heather Mac Donald: Race, Disparate Impact, Role of Women

John Stossel
February 20th, 2026 4:46 PM

Trigger warning:

The following discusses themes of race, gender, “hate” speech ...

Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit -- and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses.

She points out the absurdity of the left’s attack on Western civilization.

“For the left to claim that the West is the source of inequity in the world,” she says, “oppression, racism, the crushing of minority voices, of indigenous populations, that is so ignorant! It is so blind to the reality of history ...”

Westerners “brought the rule of law, science, brought engineering to cultures that for millennia had lived with devastating disease (and) poverty.”

“Progressives” blame white Europeans for slavery and colonialism, but she says it was the West that “began rethinking this entire project. It was England ... trying to end the transatlantic slave trade. They blockaded the coast of West Africa ... They spent 13% of their naval resources to try to stop that trade.”

“The ideas that the left uses to discredit the West are uniquely Western ideas. The West came up with ... equal rights, tolerance, of freedom from religious domination. These are all Western ideas that now the left hurls back against us and say, ‘You’re not perfect in them.’ No, we’re not, but no other civilization is as well.”

The way she talks, it sounds as if, until recently, leftists prevented people from pointing out the benefits of Western ideas.

“They pretty much did! They controlled the elite establishments, dominated universities, dominated the curriculum,” Mac Donald says.

It’s telling that the West is so open to criticism, that it empowers those who criticize it.

“Western civilization subjects itself to this corrosive acid of unending critique. ... That’s what made us the success we were. ... Do not accept superstition. Do not accept authority.’”

But now leftists blindly accept progressive dogma dished out by colleges.

“You have these college students acting out little psychodramas of oppression and rebellion, pretending that they’re questioning authority when they’re not. They’re simply parroting the anti-colonial rhetoric that they’re getting from their universities,” Mac Donald says.

Of course, that rhetoric is based on truth. Early Americans were racist.

“It is understandable that we have a guilty conscience when it comes to all issues related to race because of our centuries-long betrayal of our founding ideals and not being willing to accord black Americans, the same rights as we proclaimed, were inherent in all human beings ...” Mac Donald replies. “But we have way overcorrected.”

Another example: trigger warnings.

“Trigger warnings were specifically demanded by females who now drive academic culture. They have been the biggest enemies of free speech on college campuses for decades now. ... Females, hilariously, get to claim that they’re marginalized even though they’re about two-thirds of the student body.”

She says the left now classifies hate speech as any dissenting speech: “If you disagree with theories about ubiquitous white supremacy or post-colonial hegemony in Israel or endemic sexism, you’re a hater! Your hate speech has to be canceled, and you’re driven off campus.”

Mac Donald was screamed at by students at Claremont McKenna College trying to prevent her from giving a talk that included a slide titled “Blue Lives Matter.”

She goes out of her way to face her critics because she says Western Ideas are worth defending.

“Western civilization gave us the beauty of the scientific method, with this insatiable curiosity members of the West have had. Europeans had to figure out planetary motion, navigate the globe, figure out geology, figure out physiology. ... We’re all ignorant beneficiaries of that. I couldn’t possibly replicate any part of the knowledge that has given me everything that I take for granted. We shouldn’t be ingrates. We should be grateful and know our history.”

You can see our full interview at JohnStossel.com.

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”

Network Newscasts SKIP White House Black History Month Event Where Trump Was Praised

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Network Newscasts SKIP White House Black History Month Event Where Trump Was Praised

Network Newscasts SKIP White House Black History Month Event Where Trump Was Praised

Steve Malzberg
February 20th, 2026 4:13 PM

February is Black History Month, so it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for one to expect to see media coverage of President Trump's White House event, which took place on Wednesday, in recognition of the contributions of Black Americans.

But as we've seen since 2017, the elitist media is allergic to official White House events under Trump, which are automatically dismissed as sickening. The Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS all skipped it. PBS preferred to spend eight mournful minutes on ICE-related trauma: "Minnesota schools and students struggle with fallout of immigration crackdown."

Fox News's Special Report With Bret Baier did mention the White House event, and Laura Ingraham made it the focus of her opening 'Angle' on Fox's The Ingraham Angle.

Baier led off his show by tossing to Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy, who first provided updates on the U.S. talks with Iran, the President's upcoming State of The Union Address, and the massive sewage spill in the Potomac, before Baier asked him about the White House event.

BAIER:.. Peter, tell us about today's event at the White House celebrating Black History Month, people praising the President and his policies.

DOOCY: Yeah, in some way a lot of these guests used the time at the microphone to really defend President Trump against months or years' worth of accusations that some of the things he says are racist.

Black attendees praising Trump? Lack of coverage mystery solved? Doocy then included a short montage of some of the speakers praising Trump including Forlesia Cook, a grandmother whose grandson was murdered in Washington DC: "I don't want to hear nothing you got to say about that racist stuff. Don't be looking at me on the news hating on me because I am standing up for somebody. Let off the man's back. Let him do his job."

DOOCY: President Trump complained on Truth Social yesterday that he is falsely and consistently called a racist. Many of his guests today really disagree with that.

This is what Laura Ingraham picked up on as she discussed the White House event, starting with more clips. First up was Alice Marie Johnson, White House Pardon Czar.

JOHNSON: President Donald Trump brought me from the prison pit to the White House... Only in America could there be a story like my story and President Trump is the only president who would have had the courage, the courage to bring someone like me, someone who received a second chance, but who knows more than someone who has sit among the captives than someone who has been in captivity themselves.

And then Ingraham hit the nail on the head.

INGRAHAM:.. Alice Johnson one of the formerly incarcerated freed under President Trump's First Step Act was one of several invited guests whose words the hate Trump media type prefer to ignore. 

She played a few more Black speakers praising Trump and then asked, "How do the Democrats answer this? Who knows? Because all they have is hate." Next came a brief montage of that hate.

 

Senator Elizabeth Warren: He is a thin-skinned racist bully.

Hillary Clinton: He has been racist.

Joe Biden: There's never been a president in American history who has been so openly racist.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: The President oftentimes resorts to very bigoted, xenophobia, islamophobia, racist rhetoric.

Then Ingraham asked the key question, before playing a clip from Brianna Keilar on CNN News Central.

INGRAHAM: No one really believes that. I don't think even most of those people believe what they were saying. And, as voice after voice was heard today at the White House, and after President Trump praised the civil rights work of the late Jesse Jackson, what does the media say to this?

KEILAR: We are listening to Ben Carson there at the White House during Black History Month as the President had some very warm words for Jesse Jackson. We are going to get in a quick break and we'll be right back.

Just as Ingraham had it right on why most of the leftist media would ignore this event, she also had this observation on the brief, in and out coverage of the event, by a competing cable news network, "Oh my G-d. Look, I don't want to be too negative. Let's look at the bright side, at least CNN covered some of the event at the White House today, progress."

Airing a few minutes of a live White House event should be standard fare for a 24/7 news channel, not "progress." But it beat the broadcast networks. 

Politico Celebrates CBS 'Pulling' Talarico Interview as Successful Campaign Stunt

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Politico Celebrates CBS 'Pulling' Talarico Interview as Successful Campaign Stunt

Politico Celebrates CBS 'Pulling' Talarico Interview as Successful Campaign Stunt

P.J. Gladnick
February 20th, 2026 3:03 PM

It's possible that Politico hasn't been this happy since the 2020 election was "fortified." 

By pretending to be censored, which did not happen according to CBS, Late Show host Stephen Colbert was able to gain more viewers than usual to his interview on YouTube with the Democrat primary candidate for senator from Texas, James Talarico.  Politico briefly acknowledged the trickery involved in their Wednesday Playbook celebration by Dasha Burns and Jack Blanchard, "The Talarico moment."

...The broader FCC clampdown on talk shows is obviously real — we saw the announcement last month, and we know “The View” is already under investigation. But framing this as “the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see” is … quite a stretch. As CBS made clear in its statement yesterday, its lawyers said the interview could have run if the show had also given airtime to the other Democrats running in the contest, Rep. Jasmine Crockett and longshot candidate Ahmad Hassan. Which makes it a little harder to paint as some grand anti-Talarico plot.

So did Colbert refuse to offer equal time to Talarico's primary opponents? We didn't find the answer in Politico because they didn't bother to ask. Perhaps because it would have ruined their celebrations of Colbert pulling off a campaign stunt to obviously help Talarico.

We now join Politico's celebration of dirty politics in progress:

A (LONE) STAR IS BORN: We’re exactly one (1) day into early voting in the hottest primary contest of 2026, and already temperatures in Texas are sky-high. The decision to pull Dem Senate hopeful James Talarico’s “Late Show” interview with Stephen Colbert on Monday night put rocket boosters under his campaign at a critical moment.

The numbers are still soaring: As of this morning, the canned segment has more than 5 million YouTube views — numbers Colbert can only dream of on his actual TV show. You probably saw the graph yesterday showing Google searches of Talarico’s name spiking dramatically.

It's now at more than eight million views. An interview that would have happened with typical low numbers on the air if Colbert had simply agreed to the very reasonable request for equal time given to Talarico's opponents. Of course, such interviews for just one senatorial race would have dropped Colbert's ratings even lower than they currently are so he performed the gimmick of pretending to have been censored for purposes of publicity and then placing the interview with Talarico on YouTube.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Talarico’s campaign racked up $2.5 million in donations in the 24 hours after “the attempted censorship” of his appearance on “The Late Show,” Playbook’s Adam Wren reports.

It’s quite a haul, in a primary race that could prove pivotal when the final Senate tallies are counted on Nov. 3. But it also highlights several fascinating trends regarding the current moment in U.S. politics.

First: In years past, a broadcast network ditching your big interview on the night voting starts would have been a body blow for a state lawmaker still trying to get national recognition. But not in this era. As Donald Trump knows better than anyone, nothing grabs eyeballs and motivates voter bases these days like a sense of grievance, of being under attack from powerful forces, of leaning into the fight.

Colbert was counting on this reaction, even if Politico underlined Talarico appeared on "the night voting starts," hence the equal-time concerns. Here's more of Politico spiking the football and performing a victory dance in the end zone:

Talarico has seized his own moment, with more than a little help from Colbert — both men instantly pointing to the Trump administration for the decision to can the interview. On X, Talarico brazenly described the segment as “the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.” Within 24 hours, that single post had racked up close to 40,000 retweets and more than 150,000 likes, astronomical numbers for a humble state lawmaker from Texas.

Such is the power of this phenomenon that angry Dems now feel like they’re sticking it to Trump just by watching Talarico on “The Late Show.” “The FCC does not want you to see this! Let that sink in. And SHARE IT,” one YouTube commenter wrote. That comment alone has been liked nearly 50,000 times.

...This is 2026 — where grievance culture is the ultimate motivator and where the attention economy is all. Talarico was doubling down last night, telling a packed-out rally in Austin (per HuffPost’s Igor Bobic) that the FCC “colluded with corporate media executives at CBS” to keep his interview off air. A few hours later, he was on MS NOW, claiming the Trump administration is “trying to silence me” because “they’re worried that we are going to flip Texas.”

For a guy who keeps claiming on the campaign trail that he is a devout believer in the Bible, Talarico seems oddly to have no problem with easily breaking the Ninth Commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness."

But, hey, Politico is more than happy with the result of the campaign trickery so why quibble over mere hypocrisy?

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