Harry Tukis
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When Fear Becomes Policy: What the President Didn’t Tell You About Voter Fraud
The president addressed the nation last night, and if you believed what you heard, American elections are under siege. Rampant fraud. Compromised systems. Democracy on the brink. Here’s what President Trump didn’t…
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The Hearings You Didn’t Watch — And Why That Should Terrify You
Senate confirmation hearings this week: Todd Blanche for Attorney General. Jay Clayton for Director of National Intelligence. You worked today. Maybe you dropped kids at school, sat in traffic, answered emails that…
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The Blunt Instrument: How Executive Orders Became a Sledgehammer to Democracy
By Harry Tukis, Sr. Political Reporter Executive orders democracy advocates fear is under threat. There’s a peculiar irony in watching a president who campaigned against executive overreach wield the executive order like…
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Trump’s Undeclared War: How a President Bypassed Congress and Lost the Strait of Hormuz
The Trump administration's escalating military conflict with Iran — a war in everything but name — has never received congressional authorization, yet American forces remain engaged in hostilities that have fundamentally reshaped…
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Trump’s Iran MoU: When “Best Deal Ever” Meets Worst Foreign Policy in Decades
The focus keyword here is simple and damning: Trump Iran deal disaster. Let’s begin with what we know. The Trump administration released a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran last week — a…
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The Billionaire Philanthropist Who Never Worked in Intelligence Now Runs U.S. Intelligence
The Trump administration's appointment of Bill Pulte as Director of National Intelligence represents either a bold experiment in disruptive leadership or a dangerous gamble with America's most sensitive secrets. Given Pulte's complete…
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America Was Always Great — But We Keep Forgetting What That Means
America was always great — but have we forgotten what made it so? There’s a phrase that’s been rattling around our politics for nearly a decade now, and it rests on a…
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Ukraine War Briefing: $3.8 Billion Still Frozen as Kyiv Holds Eastern Lines
The war in Ukraine enters a grim calculus as winter 2025 approaches: American military aid sits unused while Ukrainian forces face renewed Russian pressure along a 600-mile front. Nearly $3.8 billion in…
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn Stumbles Out of the Gate While Musk’s Starship Keeps Exploding Forward
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has given the space race a new spectacle, and it's not the one Jeff Bezos wanted. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket successfully reached orbit on its…
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The Man With the Golden Grift: Trump’s Gilded Obsession and the Villains Who Came Before
There's something about gold that makes certain men lose their minds. Not the quiet appreciation of a wedding band or the historical weight of Fort Knox. I'm talking about the gaudy, ostentatious,…
