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Democratic Reporter Podcast
by Democratic Reporter
A grassroots progressive news platform. democraticreporter.substack.com
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Trump Fires Katie Zacharia After 5 Days And Controversy Over Her Bar Exam
Donald Trump has fired press secretary Katie Zacharia after just 5 days, and the people tearing her apart are not Democrats. They are Trump’s own senior officials, texting each other that she “could barely read” and that the White House is collapsing under real pressure. Trump hired her in about…
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Trump Is Forcing AI Data Centers Onto Public Land After Towns Voted No
The Trump administration approved the first AI data center ever permitted on federal public land, three miles from Boulder City, Nevada, where residents had just voted the same project down. The BLM signed off by recycling an old environmental review written for a solar farm, and a judge has…
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Trump’s Gas Lies Are Lazy And Easy To Disprove
Donald Trump stood on a stage in Youngstown, Ohio Monday night and told a crowd that their gas is cheaper than it was under Joe Biden. It isn’t, and it isn’t even close. AAA has the national average at $4.34 a gallon, more than a dollar higher than when he took office, and in Ohio gas has climbed...
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Trump’s Agents Just Raided Ilhan Omar’s Home As The DOJ Becomes Increasingly Weaponized
Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington home before sunrise this morning as part of a criminal investigation into immigration paperwork her late father filled out when she was a child, roughly three decades ago. She has not been charged with a single crime, and the raid comes just…
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Trump Was So Unprepared For The Iran War That Billion Dollar US Bases Were Destroyed In Days
Donald Trump chose the war with Iran, chose the start date, and still left American forces exposed. Within days of the first strikes, Iranian missiles and drones had damaged US bases in 8 countries, including the Navy's 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and the 8 billion dollar Al Udeid Air Base…
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Trump Has A Total Meltdown After Navi Pillay Wins The Nobel Peace Prize
Donald Trump spent years demanding the Nobel Peace Prize, and this week the committee gave it to Navi Pillay, an 85 year old South African judge who defended Nelson Mandela, led the Rwanda genocide tribunal, and sits today on the International Court of Justice. Trump responded with one of the...
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Begged A Trump Donor To Secretly Pay Off Her $100,000 Credit Card Debt
Days before her Senate confirmation hearing, Kimberly Guilfoyle texted a Trump donor payment instructions for her $100,000 American Express bill and promised to be his “Trump ride or die, forever and ever” if the money never showed up anywhere. That donor is now on camera calling it quid pro quo,...
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Trump's Switzerland Rant Is Built On A 40 Billion Dollar Lie
Democratic Reporter Host James Kosur breaks down Donald Trump's latest rant about Switzerland and the fake 40 billion dollar deficit behind it. Every claim gets fact checked, from the watch math to the phone call where Trump bragged about berating Switzerland's president. The real trade gap in…
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Trump’s Top 6 Moves To Control The 2026 Midterms
Donald Trump shut out the international observers who have monitored every US federal election since 2002, and with four weeks to the midterms that decision is final. On this episode, Democratic Reporter Host James Kosur breaks down all six of the most troubling moves Trump has made on the 2026...
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Donald Trump Has Been Building His Rhetoric Of Violence For Over A Decade, It Boiled Over This Week
Donald Trump has been calling for violence against Americans for more than a decade. It started with calls of violence against protestors, grew to include lawmakers and other adversaries, and this past week, it spilled over into targeting entire cities in California. Get full access to Democratic...
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Scott Bessent’s Lies About U.S. Socialists And Their Desire To Work Is Easy To Tear Apart
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a theory about the Americans drifting toward socialism. They are highly educated but under-earning, he argued, people who feel something has passed them by. What passed them by, he said in a clip of the exchange that spread rapidly across social media, was...
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Trump Just Insulted The 70% Of Americans Who Don’t Want A Data Center Next Door
President Donald Trump opened the week by telling American communities that resisting data centers means choosing poverty. In a Monday morning Truth Social post, Trump told communities rejecting data centers that the only reason to oppose the facilities “is if they want to end up being backwards...
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Trump Calls It The Biggest Oil Deal In World History But The Venezuela Deal Won't Move Oil For Years
Donald Trump spent the weekend celebrating what he called the biggest oil deal in world history, an agreement he says hands the United States majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil at no expense to taxpayers. On Truth Social, the president declared the transaction…
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Ken Paxton Spent Six Hours Under Oath. A Judge Who Donated To The Paxtons Sealed It
On Wednesday, James Talarico’s campaign asked a Collin County court to unseal two depositions Ken Paxton gave under oath. These six hours of testimony have never been made public. Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, gave these depositions in 2019 and 2022 as...
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Donald Trump’s New 50% Auto And Metal Tariffs Will Hurt American Companies As Canada Moves On
Donald Trump started the week with a threat. On Monday morning, he posted on Truth Social that tariffs on all Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts, and steel would go up to 50% on January 1, 2027. He accused Canada of “ripping off the United States of America for years” and said, “Canada will be...
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A Bribery Empire, a $5 Million Check, And a Private Jet: The Beef Deal Trump Hopes You Won't Trace
On Friday, Donald Trump said the United States will let in up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef over the next 90 days without the usual tariffs, and claimed it will sell for 25% less than current prices. When reporters asked, he would not say which countries are involved. A White House…
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Trump Cuts Military Drills With South Korea To Please Kim Jong Un, Then Threatens To Bomb Oman
President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to reduce American participation in the drills that the United States runs every summer with South Korea, delivering the directive by social media post less than a day before the 11-day exercise was scheduled to begin. He gave three reasons…
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Todd Blanche Just Explained Why Trump’s January 6th Pardons Were Not Wrong, And It's A Very Dumb Argument
Todd Blanche has only been the confirmed attorney general for about a week, but he has already shown how justice works under Donald Trump. In his first Sunday show interview with Kristen Welker since taking the job, Blanche was asked directly about the January 6th pardons and gave an answer that...
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Trump Begs Supreme Court To Push His Vanity White House Ballroom Project Forward
President Donald Trump has filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, asking for permission to finish building the ballroom and bunker complex he started at the White House. This request comes after the East Wing was already demolished and after two lower courts ruled he never had the...
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Trump’s Handpicked Board Just Found A Loophole To Put His Name Back On The Kennedy Center
You could tell this story by focusing on the details instead of the drama, but that’s not what happened here. On Thursday morning, the board of trustees at the Kennedy Center voted to add a new inscription under the main sign. It will say, “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.”…
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Blanche Sent The Justice Department to Rescue Trump’s IRS Settlement One Day After Taking Office
Attorney General Todd Blanche took the oath at the White House on Monday. The next day, the Justice Department filed a brief in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals supporting Donald Trump’s private lawyers as they tried to overturn a federal judge’s sanctions order, according to court records...
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Twelve January 6 Defendants Want $12 Million From Taxpayers
Twelve people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol have sued the federal government, with each plaintiff seeking at least one million dollars in damages for what the filing calls malicious prosecution and emotional distress. The case, Andrews v.…
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Appeals Court Rules Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Unlawful
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Donald Trump has no legal authority to build his 90,000 square-foot ballroom on the ruins of the White House East Wing, upholding an injunction that blocks above-ground construction until Congress signs off on the project. The two-to-one decision came…
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Trump Tells His Own Supporters Their Status Has Been Cancelled In Email That Feels A Lot Like Guilt-Based Extortion
Donald Trump sent an email blast to his supporters on Wednesday informing them that their “supporter status” had been cancelled and that a payment was required to restore their standing in the MAGA movement, a fundraising tactic first flagged by media watchdogs tracking the president’s donor...
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Trump Signs Two Executive Orders Attacking Birthright Citizenship Five Weeks After Losing at the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Thursday designed to strip birthright citizenship from thousands of people born on American soil, five weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that his first attempt to do so was unconstitutional. The orders take a different route than the one the...
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Ted Cruz Says Democrats Want to Cancel Christmas, Then Calls Two Muslim Democrats Islamists
Sen. Ted Cruz told a Fox News audience Tuesday night that Democratic candidates want to cancel Thanksgiving and Christmas, then accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and newly nominated Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of being communists and Islamists engaged in what he called a...
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Cornyn Reverses On Filibuster Again After Losing His Primary
Senator John Cornyn has reversed his position on the Senate filibuster for the second time this year, and the timing of both reversals maps almost perfectly onto his own political fortunes. Earlier this year, the Texas Republican broke with his longstanding support for the rule and announced he...
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Trump May Fire Jeanine Pirro Because Her Office Admitted His Renovation Wrecked The Reflecting Pool
President Donald Trump is weighing the removal of Jeanine Pirro as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after her office told a federal judge that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by a rushed and defective renovation he ordered, not by vandals. Two people familiar...
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Trump Says It’s “Just Accusations” But Twenty-Seven Days Ago, Republicans Bragged They Walk Away.
On the night of July 6, Kevin McCarthy sat down with guest host Charlie Hurt on Jesse Watters Primetime and delivered a line so confident it deserves to be preserved. Democrats in Maine were in crisis. Politico had just reported that a woman who dated Senate candidate Graham Platner accused him…
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Todd Blanche Killed Trump’s $1.8 Billion Payout Fund To Save His Own Nomination
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche formally rescinded the Justice Department order that created a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” late Sunday, ending months of pressure over a pot of money the Trump administration built to potentially compensate the president’s allies and people charged…
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Trump Attacks His Own Prosecutor After Her Office Admits Reflecting Pool Installation Was Botched
President Donald Trump publicly attacked his own U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia on Saturday morning, hours after her office admitted in a court filing that the damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by the administration’s own rushed renovation and not by a vandal.…
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Donald Trump Accuses Minnesota, Not Iran, Of Hacking Its Own Water Treatment Facilities
There is a version of this story in which a president is briefed on a coordinated cyberattack against American drinking water, expresses concern, and directs his agencies to find out who did it. That is not the version we got. At a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, Donald Trump was asked...
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Trump’s FCC Just Banned Your Next Robot Vacuum
The Federal Communications Commission added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its national security blacklist on July 28, and the agency has since confirmed that the rule does not stop at the humanoid robots and robot dogs that dominated the coverage. It also covers the robot vacuum...
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Ice Detention Centers Are Killing People At Record Rates, As They Continue To Dismantle Medical Support
On the morning of January 22, a man being held by ICE inside an Indiana state prison waited for his medication, and nobody came. He has epilepsy. He had been prescribed Keppra since 2020, two 1,000 milligram doses a day, and missing even one dose can trigger a seizure. He had gone nearly a year...
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Prosecutors Charged an Olympian Over a Pool Liner, Then the Evidence Disappeared
Attorneys for David Hearn, a 67-year-old three-time Olympian charged with a felony over roughly two square feet of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, have asked a judge to throw the case out after discovering that the physical evidence underlying the indictment is gone. Their motion to…
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The Pentagon’s New Priority: Your Testosterone
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Pentagon will begin mandatory annual testosterone screening for every service member age 30 and older, with troops under 30 able to opt in voluntarily. He delivered the news the way he delivers everything now by wasting taxpayer money on…
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A Gold Coin Stamped “Liberty” — From the Administration Taking It Away
The Treasury Department has a new product to sell you: a $1 commemorative gold coin bearing the face of Donald Trump and, without a hint of irony, the word “Liberty.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled the coin Wednesday morning, pitching it as a tribute to America’s 250th anniversary and...
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Bipartisan Wisconsin Panel Finds Probable Cause Elon Musk Broke Election Bribery Law
The tweet Elon Musk deleted may finally have caught up with him. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has found probable cause that the billionaire violated the state’s election bribery law during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, referring two complaints to the Brown County district…
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Tucker Carlson Says MAGA Sold Out America And Lied About Everything
Tucker Carlson spent the better part of a decade as Donald Trump’s most valuable media asset. He defended him on Fox News. He campaigned for him. He interviewed him ahead of the 2024 election and told his millions of followers that Trump was the answer. Now he’s saying MAGA turned on the United...
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The GOP Just Nominated A Man For Governor Who Couldn't Survive One Local News Interview
Colorado Republicans have chosen their nominee to succeed Governor Jared Polis, and his name is Victor Marx, a self-described “high-risk humanitarian,” seventh-degree black belt in “Cajun Karate,” ministry leader, and Marine veteran whose extraordinary life story began falling apart the moment a...
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Trump Just Fired Every Commissioner at the Agency That Helps Run Your Elections
On Thursday, the White House ousted all three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — the bipartisan federal agency that helps state and local officials actually run elections. The two Democratic commissioners, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, were fired via email...
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