Jim Swift
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Alexandria, VA, United States
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Shut Down the Cheney 2024 Chatter
Plus, Liz vs. Nikki. → Read More
Maryland GOP Throws It All Away
Republicans turned their backs on their popular two-term governor, Larry Hogan, by elevating a crank over his chosen moderate successor. → Read More
Don’t Read Too Much Into Madison Cawthorn’s Defeat
The GOP isn’t turning the corner. → Read More
Larry Hogan’s Successor May Be an Insurrectionist
The choice facing Maryland voters: a candidate endorsed by their popular governor or one preferred by the disgraced former president. → Read More
Josh Mandel Gets Schlonged
Ohio’s Senate primary is a little over two weeks away and while the MAGA field has been split, Donald Trump has finally picked his horse, endorsing former author, former professional Never Trumper, and current Thiel protégé J.D. Vance. Vance has been the favored choice of the MAGA elites to this point, with Tucker Carlson gifting […] → Read More
J.D. Vance Gets Canceled
Can’t a Republican Senate candidate make one little crack about not caring about Ukraine? → Read More
“Pain, Blood, Mud, and Death”: Putin Attacks Ukraine
Vladimir Putin launched his new war on Ukraine early Thursday morning local time (late Wednesday night EST). Sanctions and weeks of nearly universal condemnation failed to deter the Russian dictator from his unprovoked invasion. Just hours before Putin’s long-anticipated attack began, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, made an appeal to the Russian people in […] → Read More
Dear White Staffers: It’s Time We Listened
The Instagram account that shines a light on why working on Capitol Hill can be so disheartening. → Read More
To Honor MLK, Focus on His Actual Work
Stop pretending to know what he’d be like today. → Read More
Florida Is Now a MAGA Megachurch
With Donald Trump as the Almighty and Ron DeSantis as the prosperity-gospel pastor. → Read More
John Eastman Is Not Good With Computers
The legal scholar who advised Trump on his Jan. 6 strategy is making a lot of mistakes. → Read More
How McAuliffe Lost Virginia
An uninspiring candidate with no big ideas and terrible messaging. → Read More
Swab Job: Fox Folks Nix Vax
Dozens of Fox News employees in the Washington bureau apparently refuse vaccination, preferring daily nasal swabs. → Read More
What Happened to the Babylon Bee?
Until a few years ago, the Babylon Bee was a niche humor site—the Onion, for conservative protestants. The Bee was founded seven months before Donald Trump took office and became popular mostly because many of the jokes were very funny—but also, if we can be honest, a little bit for purposes of lib-owning. The Bee […] → Read More
Josh Mandel Lets the Mask Slip, a Little
He doesn’t believe what he’s saying, at least not all of it. And that’s sad. → Read More
The GOP Is Playing Itself
Senate Democrats barely have a majority, but they’re legislating and trolling the GOP at the same time. → Read More
Virginia GOP Makes a Mockery of the Redistricting Process
Virginia V. Trost-Thornton is why we can’t have nice things. → Read More
Nina Turner Wants to Be the Squad’s Nick Naylor
She thought Biden was half a bowl of shit; now she’s offering Democrats a different flavor. → Read More
The Legend of the Restaurant Workers Too Lazy to Work
After a year of applause—or worse, silence—about “Trump Bucks,” the consensus on the right is that restaurants are in trouble because “Biden Bucks” are bad. The story is that government benefits are now so magnificent that only suckers get jobs. Between the three rounds of stimulus checks and the federally supplemented unemployment insurance, life has […] → Read More
The War on Critical Race Theory: A Quagmire
Partisans have been itching for a new culture war. CRT might be just what they’re looking for. → Read More