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Beaten-down reps make futile Trump admission as they flee DC

WASHINGTON — Will President Donald Trump be more empowered now that Speaker Mike Johnson gaveled the U.S. House of Representatives out of session until after November’s elections? Not necessarily, according to congressional Democrats who are bracing for what they expect to be the most corrupt election of their lifetimes.

“Do you worry, with the House out of session, that Trump might feel emboldened?” Raw Story asked Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM).

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Mystery swirls as far-right heavyweights scrubbed from school GOP hopeful founded

As Republican Zach Lahn launched his campaign for Iowa governor, the private school he founded in Kansas quietly scrubbed the names of controversial right-wing figures from its website.

The effort to paint over the influence of Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson, two men widely credited with mainstreaming white supremacist and anti-feminist ideas, took place as Lahn launched a campaign that has centered repeated attacks on what he calls a “sinister” agenda by the left to shape public education, while he vows to revoke the licenses of teachers seen as indoctrinating students.

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'I will punch someone in the face!' Republican goes berserk over Hegseth impeachment move

WASHINGTON — An embattled GOP congressman says he’s eager to brawl on Pete Hegseth’s behalf in the wake of his fellow Republican, Rep Thomas Massie (KY) dropping impeachment articles against the embattled defense secretary this week.

“I will f------ punch someone in the face for talking about Hegseth,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) told Raw Story just outside the U.S. Capitol.

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Shock Hegseth attack kept top secret amid fear of drastic GOP move to kill it

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) hid his effort to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his fellow Republicans until he unveiled it on the House floor Tuesday, fearing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would gavel the House out of session to avoid taking up the measure.

“Frankly, I was concerned that Mike Johnson would end Congress again — like, shorten even our already truncated work period — if he found out I was doing this, so I shared the idea with nobody,” Massie told reporters on the Capitol steps.

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Exclusive: What Trump Jr told Putin ally before he bankrolled wedding

The Vladimir Putin ally who secretly bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding had apparently met him only once in public — at an event where they bonded over a MAGA outrage.

In what appears to be the only recorded meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, Trump Jr. ranted about men taking part in women’s sports — and cited a scandal from the 2024 Olympics that had been soundly debunked.

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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ

Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool described as an “anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa.”

Jennica Pounds, a Pentagon special government employee better known as Data Republican and the creator of the search tool, described the antifascist sites that she purported to expose as “a whole elaborate doxxing scheme that’s set to ruin people’s lives.”

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New horrors in military detailed as insiders tell all: 'Every unit has a Hegseth'

When news broke that a Navy officer’s sexual assault claim was dismissed as a workman’s compensation issue, Dawn, a retired Marine, took a bat to a tree in rage.

Dawn is one of the survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) who is fed up with the direction of the armed forces under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has rolled back numerous initiatives to protect and promote women and minorities.

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'Here's my secret': Republican plot flagged as way to terrorize voters — and 'sow chaos'

When MAGA supporters fueled by conspiracy theories angrily protested Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Arizona, it fell to Recorder Adrian Fontes to certify the results in Maricopa, the state’s largest county surrounding Phoenix.

“I’ve been through the fire in Arizona at the very basic gestation of election denialism,” Fontes, a Democrat, told Raw Story, recalling how election conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon Shaman, screamed his name outside his office.

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Chaos as Charlie Kirk's high school becomes death anniversary battleground

This story has been updated with comment from Turning Point USA.

In the Chicago suburbs near where Charlie Kirk attended high school, a couple Republican groups promoted vigils for the one-year anniversary of the right-wing activist’s assassination.

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Trump set for tongue-lashing as Ireland visit puts him face-to-face with fierce foe

President Donald Trump’s visit to Ireland next weekend is expected to send tens of thousands of furious protesters onto the streets — but it’s a tongue-lashing from a dignitary actually hosting his visit that might leave him reeling.

Dublin politicians and activists expect seas of people to flood the city's streets to protest the arrival of Trump, who is scheduled to meet Irish leaders in the nation’s capital before helicoptering to his Doonbeg golf resort in County Clare to watch the Irish Open.

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Vulnerable Trump hit with crippling threat as new book unleashes little-known strategies

Six months into the planning of an in-person fundraiser with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Bonnie Raitt and David Crosby, the COVID-19 pandemic derailed the event.

The goal had been to raise $150,000 for Democrats in 2020. But the California East Bay chapter of Indivisible was forced to pivot to a more low-key, and fully virtual, events it called “Parties for Democracy” — and ended up raising $450,000, helping to flip seven California districts blue.

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'He's afraid': Backlash slaps Mike Johnson as he rushes to shut down House

WASHINGTON — After taking their annual monthlong August break, members of the U.S. House of Representatives worked three and a half days this week.

That was enough for Speaker Mike Johnson. Once the House passed a measure funding the government through December, he decided to give Congress an extra two weeks off, canceling the last two weeks of September. After that, the chamber won't reconvene until mid-November.

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Terror move backfires as 'loser' Proud Boys' socialist hate collides with love for donuts

Dozens of Proud Boys showed up at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting in North Carolina over the weekend in a play for relevance by an aging fascist street gang amid a right-wing backlash against socialism as the GOP braces for heavy losses in the midterm elections.

An estimated 51 members of the fascist street gang known for powering the Jan. 6 insurrection and harassing drag shows showed up at a public library in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Aug. 29, and some filed into the back of a meeting room where the Piedmont Triad chapter of the DSA was holding a membership meeting.

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