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The MAHA base is in danger of fracturing as its agenda flails

Personnel is policy, and this is the number one reason the MAHA agenda has been stymied. 

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The Movement: How strife and realignment on the right will set the tone for 2026

From conservative personalities taking stunning swipes at each other at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference to a mass exodus from the...

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House passes GOP health care bill without ObamaCare subsidy extension

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a partisan package of health care policies designed to provide a conservative alternative to extending the...

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Republican tensions boil over as ObamaCare deadline approaches

Republican tensions boiled over Tuesday in the Capitol over the fate of expiring ObamaCare subsidies that could play an outsized role in the race for...

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The Movement: Conservatives face reckoning over Kirk conspiracy theories

Activists and commentators on the right are facing a reckoning over how to handle conspiracy theorists as podcaster Candace Owens and others...

16.12.2025 10

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Republicans pitch second, smaller partisan bill to address affordability

Some Republicans are hoping to pursue another partisan legislative package to boost the party ahead of the midterm elections, but President Trump and...

15.12.2025 30

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House GOP unveils health care bill without ObamaCare subsidies extension

House Republicans on Friday unveiled a health care bill they will bring to a vote next week that includes items that are broadly popular in the...

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House tables Trump impeachment as Democratic leaders vote ‘present’

The House on Thursday voted to table a resolution to impeach President Trump after Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) forced a vote on the matter, scuttling the...

11.12.2025 4

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Republicans launch long-shot revolt against leaders on ObamaCare

Moderate and vulnerable Republicans are attempting a long-shot revolt against their leaders in the House over health care. They are trying to force a...

11.12.2025 30

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House GOP health care package will exclude ACA subsidy extension

House GOP leaders will bring a vote next week on a package of health care bills that does not include an extension of expiring ObamaCare enhanced...

10.12.2025 40

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Conservatives grumble over defense bill compromises

Republicans in the House are grumbling over the final version of the annual defense bill set to hit the floor on Wednesday, frustrated at the omission...

10.12.2025 10

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House GOP leaders to pitch health care options for vote next week

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Republican leaders will present their health care proposals to the full House GOP conference on...

10.12.2025 3

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Anxious GOP lawmakers say Johnson is safe as Speaker despite frustrations

House Republicans say Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is safe in his position for now, even as frustrated members across the spectrum lob verbal missiles...

05.12.2025 7

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Smucker brings focus on fiscal discipline to House Budget chair bid 

Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) was a behind-the-scenes force in helping balance the demands of fiscal hawks with leadership's desire to push the One Big...

04.12.2025 10

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Stefanik reasserts herself in Congress as antagonist to Speaker Johnson

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is reasserting herself after months of lying low in Congress as she prepared a run for governor — emerging as a notable...

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Stefanik gets intelligence provision after call with Trump, Johnson

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said she secured a provision in the annual defense bill requiring congressional notification of counterintelligence...

03.12.2025 2

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Luna files discharge petition to force vote on stock trading ban

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) filed a discharge petition on Tuesday in an attempt to bypass House Republican leadership to force a vote on a bill to...

03.12.2025 20

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Freedom Caucus members stall House floor action over SCORE Act

A handful of members in the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday delayed action in the House in protest of a bill that regulates compensation college...

03.12.2025 10

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For Republicans, it’s crunch time on health care

For Republicans, it’s crunch time on ObamaCare.  GOP leaders return to Capitol Hill this week facing a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act...

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Johnson counters Thune on Russian sanctions bill process: ‘Not my understanding’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) assertion that a bill to expand Russian sanctions would start in the...

22.11.2025 20

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GOP leaders Mike Johnson, John Thune fall out of sync on Epstein, Arctic Frost

Friction is emerging in the once unified GOP relationship between Speaker Mike Johnson (La.) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (S.D.). The two...

21.11.2025 10

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House unanimously passes repeal of phone records provision that could enrich senators

The House on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill repealing a new law that would allow senators to sue for substantial sums if they aren’t notified...

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House scuttles Cory Mills censure as GOP lawmakers battle one another

The House on Wednesday scuttled a resolution to censure Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) and remove him from his committees over a swath of personal...

20.11.2025 10

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Boebert yells at Republicans on House floor after censure of Democrat fails

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) yelled and wagged her finger at her Republican colleagues on the House floor Tuesday night after the chamber rejected a...

19.11.2025 40

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House rejects resolution to censure House Democrat over texting Epstein during hearing

The House on Tuesday evening rejected a House Freedom Caucus-pushed resolution to formally censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett and...

19.11.2025 20

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Trump fails to bend Republicans on Epstein vote, showing rare limit of influence over GOP

Congress’ lopsided passage of an Epstein files bill on Tuesday marked a rare instance of President Trump losing control of congressional...

19.11.2025 30

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House overwhelmingly votes to release Epstein files

The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill directing the Department of Justice to release the files related to the late convicted sex...

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Freedom Caucus pushes to censure Democrat over texting Epstein during hearing

Members of the House Freedom Caucus are pushing a resolution to formally censure Democratic Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett and to remove her from...

19.11.2025 10

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Republicans clash over surprise phone records provision that could enrich senators

Republicans are at odds over an effort to unwind a controversial provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that would allow senators to...

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Trump pulls endorsement of Greene amid growing rift

President Trump late Friday announced he is pulling his endorsement and support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and would support a primary...

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Epstein furor takes over in the House

The furor surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is in full force with the return of the House and the end of the government shutdown. A months-long discharge...

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Johnson speeds up vote on Epstein files to next week after discharge petition

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he will bring a vote on a bill to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein next week, speeding up the process after...

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Trump, allies reach out to Boebert, Mace ahead of possible Epstein vote

President Trump and other administration officials reached out to key Republicans who have signed on to an effort to force a vote on releasing files...

12.11.2025 2

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House set to end historic shutdown as Republicans claim victory

The House returns Wednesday to vote on a spending package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history — an outcome widely viewed as a...

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Coming end of shutdown tees up health care test for Republicans 

The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. The coming...

11.11.2025 20

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House GOP Budget Chair Jodey Arrington says he won’t seek reelection

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, and will depart Congress after a...

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Heritage president apologizes for Carlson defense in brutal leaked all-staff meeting

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts apologized to staff for his controversial video defending Tucker Carlson, and faced brutal criticism from...

06.11.2025 10

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Speaker Johnson warns against giving 'platform' to antisemitism after Tucker Carlson’s Nick Fuentes interview

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday warned against giving a “platform” to antisemitic things Nick Fuentes says in wake of Tucker Carlson’s...

05.11.2025 20

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The Movement: Mike Pence sounds off on Tucker Carlson, Heritage, Steve Bannon, RFK 

Former Vice President Mike Pence sees an opening for the right to “rediscover” what it means to be a conservative — saying Tucker Carlson, Steve...

04.11.2025 10

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Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy

Ryan Neuhaus, who until Friday was chief of staff to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, left the conservative think tank in the wake of an...

03.11.2025 4

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Heritage Foundation shakes up staff in wake of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts announced staff reassignments on Friday in the wake of the conservative uproar over his statement...

01.11.2025 4

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Civil war erupts on the right after Heritage president's Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes comments

A civil war over the direction of the conservative movement and who should be considered part of it erupted after Heritage Foundation President Kevin...

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House Republicans grow anxious about Speaker Johnson's extended shutdown recess

House Republicans are growing anxious about how they will make up for lost time after Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) move to keep the House out of...

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Speaker Johnson backs Trump on nuclear testing: 'It’s a deterrent'

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) gave backup to President Trump when asked about the president vowing to begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time...

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Democrats vote against 'clean' GOP bill to end shutdown despite union pressure

Senate Democrats are resisting calls from the nation’s largest union representing federal workers — a longtime political ally — to accept...

29.10.2025 20

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House Republican introduces bill to fund WIC during shutdown

Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-Pa.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)...

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The Movement: When does Trump 2028 become a serious push?

Is there a point at which Republicans and the broader conservative movement take President Trump’s third-term push seriously and start trying to...

28.10.2025 3

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Speaker Johnson says GOP working on Republican health care plan amid shutdown

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) is working with the chairs of three House committees to...

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Republicans grapple with shutdown – and why more are blaming the GOP

Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they...

25.10.2025 3

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Bill to fund SNAP in shutdown introduced in House

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) on Friday introduced a bill to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government...

24.10.2025 2

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