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'I want everybody out!' Nancy Mace unloads shocking immigration claim

A House Republican aligned with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement made a shocking claim about immigration during an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who is leaving Congress in pursuit of South Carolina's governor's office, said during the interview that she wants all immigrants to be removed from the country, including those who are fleeing war-torn countries. The congresswoman's rhetoric illustrates the heated debate surrounding immigration that has emerged following the shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., last week, where a 29-year-old immigrant is believed to be the culprit.

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'Wrong!' Trump warns troops not to be 'duped' by Dems telling them to follow Constitution

President Donald Trump repeated his call for U.S. troops to obey him after six Democrats released a video urging U.S. military and intelligence personnel to defy illegal orders.

The six lawmakers, all with military or intelligence backgrounds, circulated a video online last month reminding service members that under U.S. law, they must disobey illegal orders and uphold the Constitution. The video sparked outrage on the right, who accused the lawmakers of urging troops to ignore orders in general from the president.

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'A taste of what's to come': GOP ex-Speaker issues stark warning about Republican turnover

A former Republican Speaker of the House issued a stark warning to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday about the party's chances of maintaining its majority following the 2026 midterm election.

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy discussed the Republican Party's high turnover rate heading into the 2026 midterm in an interview with Axios. An analysis conducted by Axios and NPR found that Republicans are retiring at a 2-to-1 pace compared to Democrats, with 26 House members announcing their departure from the chamber during the first 11 months of the second Trump administration.

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'Grotesque': Ex-DOJ pardon attorney slams Trump for freeing Ponzi schemer

A former Department of Justice pardon attorney slammed President Donald Trump on Monday for freeing a billion-dollar Ponzi schemer from federal prison just before Thanksgiving.

The White House confirmed on Monday that Trump commuted the sentence of David Gentile, the former CEO of GPB Capital, who was convicted in May of wire and bank fraud charges, according to a report by CNN. Gentile was just 12 days into his seven-year sentence when Trump commuted it.

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Trump warns of major consequences if GOP fails to 'terminate the filibuster'

President Donald Trump renewed his calls for Republicans to get rid of the Senatorial filibuster on Monday in a meandering social media post where he attacked a former U.S. attorney general.

Trump posted on Truth Social about an interview former Attorney General Eric Holder gave to the Meidas+ Network, where he described the Supreme Court as a "broken institution." Trump described Holder as an "Obama sycophant" and someone "who did so much to hurt our Country, and who weaponized the Obama Administration against the Republican Party (and ME!)"

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'He's hiding something': Top Senate Dem delivers grim prediction on 'known liar' Hegseth

The Senate's top Democrat scorched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an interview on CNN on Monday evening after the secretary attempted to obfuscate his involvement in the Trump administration's strikes on alleged drug boats in international waters.

Recent reporting from The Washington Post revealed that Hegseth told officials to "kill them all" when asked what should be done to people who have survived the strikes. Hegseth has said the report has "no validity," but several lawmakers have criticized Hegseth's response.

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Fox News host flags 'warning sign' for Republicans: 'Coming to a city near you!'

Fox News host Dana Perino flagged a warning sign for Republicans in upcoming elections on Monday during the network's show, "The Five."

The panel discussed the Democratic Party's chances of flipping Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in an upcoming election, a seat that is deep in Trump country. Perino, a former press secretary during George W. Bush's administration, warned that Democrats could over-perform in the district, which would continue to feed the party's momentum going into the 2026 midterm.

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'Chilling': Experts sound the alarm over the next 'existential' threat to health care

Advocates are sounding the alarm over what they describe as an "existential" threat to health care, one that could give the Trump administration leeway to go after humanitarian groups, journalists, and protesters, according to a new report.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case to determine whether a Crisis Pregnancy Center in New Jersey misled customers about its services. Crisis Pregnancy Centers work to persuade expecting mothers to choose adoption over abortion, and are given wide protections under the First Amendment.

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Lawyer takes a wrecking ball to Karoline Leavitt's claim about nephew in ICE detention

A lawyer representing the mother of a Trump administration official's nephew, who is currently in the custody of immigration agents, pushed back on claims made about the nature of their relationship, according to a new report.

Bruna Ferreira, the mother of Trump Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, and her son were arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials as part of the administration's broad crackdown on illegal immigration. Ferreira, a Brazilian national, has lived in the country for years and was in the process of getting her green card at the time of her arrest, according to a report by The Irish Star.

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'Tremendous failure': Admiral aghast at 'inconceivable' lack of planning in Trump strikes

President Donald Trump's strikes on suspected drug trafficking vessels, apart from being illegal, appear to have been executed with no proper planning, retired Rear Adm. William Baumgartner told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House."

This comes after explosive reporting that military officials fired on survivors of at least one strike, an act considered a war crime under both U.S. and international law, which has sent the White House and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scrambling to alternatively justify and point fingers for the action.

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Trump's 'brazen ploy to buy votes' shredded in new column

President Donald Trump appears to have concocted a new ploy to buy votes for Republicans during the 2026 midterm election, a scheme that one columnist described as "brazen" in a new column published on Monday.

Jamez Bovard, a columnist and author, argued in a new column for The New York Post that Trump's idea of sending $2,000 "tariff rebate" checks to American households is a brazen attempt to buy votes ahead of the midterm. He also argued that the idea seems to contradict Trump's promises to cut government spending, a promise that he articulated in the creation of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.

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Top right-wing allies beg Trump to ditch 'un-American and absurd' policy

A group of high-profile conservative voices is calling on President Donald Trump to ditch a controversial policy that has allowed tech titans to train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted materials without paying for them, according to a new report.

Thirteen top conservatives, including former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and conservative strategist Mike Davis, penned a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Michael Kratsios, director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy, calling on the administration to revise its stance on the "fair use" doctrine.

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Longtime House Republican eyes Texas seat due to California redistricting: report

Longtime Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was reportedly considering a run for Congress in Texas if the Supreme Court upholds new district maps in California.

The new map approved by California voters would eliminate Issa's San Diego-area seat if the Supreme Court upholds it. On Monday, Punchbowl News reported that Issa was eyeing a seat near Dallas if the ruling does not go his way.

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