'When your core political problem is a perception of weakness, you might not want to remind everyone that you’ve been utterly powerless to free Americans from the clutches of terrorist barbarians. For months.'

Nick Catoggio writes:
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Based on tons of polling data, ground game — turning out low propensity supporters and registering new ones — is probably the most important task for Trump/RNC operation over the next 6 months. So if you’re rooting for Trump, this is a problem:

'But what this week of Trump’s trial has demonstrated so far is that there is still a lot the public can learn as the evidence reveals the machinations of the man who was and may again be president.'

Mike Warren:
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NEW: ICE says Fairfax County, VA ignored their detainer request on a Honduran illegal alien charged with sex crimes against a Virgina minor, and released him without notice on bond. He was then arrested again and charged w/ more sex crimes against a VA child. ICE says Fairfax…

'Only 15 percent would keep both on the ballot'

Great country, miserable election

In five months Charlie Kirk went from demanding Speaker Johnson ban TikTok to singing it's praises. Amazing what one billionaire donor that is invested in TikTok can do.

How it started: How it's going:

When you celebrate Hamas’s terror attacks, when you wave a Hezbollah flag, when you cheer the idea of more October 7s, you are objectively pro-terrorist. And when you deny this, Cenk, you are too. Prove me wrong denounce Hezbollah and Hamas unequivocally.

Speaker Mike Johnson has an impossible job. People on this site often nevertheless argue that he is very bad at his job.
Six months into his speakership, I argue The Dispatch that we have to appreciate his survival. His speakership could yet open the way to a better House.

This “international human rights lawyer” is a longtime lobbyist for Turkeys authoritarian leader Recep Erdogan and a lobbyist for Maduro’s attorney general.

Done. It's unlocked.

Please read and share.

NEW: On The Dispatch website, Jesse Singal takes a long look at youth gender medicine, the Cass Review and often-dogmatic US media coverage of a complicated set of issues.

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Humbled to perform 'OK (We Are Not OK)' at Hostage Square, in Tel Aviv, hours before Iran's attack on Israel. There are no words to express the meetings I had with hostage families. May we hold them in our hearts as well as all innocents suffering due to the evil that is Hamas.

American colleges and universities spent the last decade censoring conservatives - canceling events, punishing teachers, etc. - because they said they wanted to ensure their students never felt unsafe. They spent uncountable millions institutionalizing leftwing diversity programs…

Elise Stefanik voted No on aid to Ukraine today. Here’s her statement from two years ago.

The amendment process seems pretty robust, so why are so many Freedom Caucus types outraged that a supermajority of the House is allowed to work its will?

Here’s what Chip Roy, Jim Jordan, and Matt Gaetz told The Dispatch:

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Matt Gaetz, October 2023: 'If you don't think that moving from Kevin McCarthy to MAGA Mike Johnson shows the ascendance of this movement and where the power in the Republican Party truly lies, then you're not paying attention.'

Matt Gaetz, April 2024: thedispatch.com/newsletter/dis…

'The real problem isn’t with the perception of Israel’s willingness to defend itself. It’s with Biden’s—and America’s—willingness to deter our adversaries.'

ICYMI Jonah Goldberg writes:

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NEW #Collision : How TRUMP’s New York Criminal Trial Might Play Out. Plus: A look at the former president’s media strategy. h/t Mike Warren & Sarah Isgur thedispatch.com/newsletter/the… The Dispatch

Had a wonderful time talking to the awesome Nancy French podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… for @jonahremnant

This is how the Islamist regime in Iran treats the Iranian people. “Morality Police” violently dragging women into vans for showing their hair. This regime is the Shia ISIS with a seat at the UN — yet so many Western “progressives” have a soft spot for it👇