How Trump’s first-year blitzkrieg stalled out ^73.9%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 6/21/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 64% - Biased Writer Voice 49.7% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 37.6%

After President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2025, he signed a series of executive orders designed to reshape America’s political landscape. The waves of action from the White House deluged the press, put elected Democrats off balance and left liberal groups scrambling to respond. “When you’re winning, it’s like blitzkrieg,”... more

Trump’s crypto windfall comes at the expense of his supporters ^60.1%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 6/10/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 78.1% - Negativity Bias 64.4% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 25.2%

President Donald Trump and his family have cashed in big since he won the 2024 election. Of the billions of dollars they have accrued over the past 18 months, the lion’s share has reportedly come from cryptocurrency assets that bear the president’s name or his family’s endorsement. The technology may be novel, but crypto lets the Trump... more

How gerrymandering is holding the MAGA movement together ^78.1%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 5/13/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 38.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 33.3% - Pessimism Bias 23.9%

Everywhere you look, the MAGA coalition that propelled Donald Trump back into the Oval Office is fracturing. The president’s poll numbers are plummeting across key demographics and dragging down congressional Republicans hoping to keep their jobs in November. Two weeks ago, the outlook for the GOP was looking especially grim, with... more

The House GOP is stuck in neutral ^86.5%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 4/29/2026, 6:01 PM

Negativity Bias 54.3% - Biased Writer Voice 30% - Pessimism Bias 23.8%

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is struggling to get several pieces of must-pass legislation through his chamber. In other words, it is a day ending in “y” on Capitol Hill under the ever dysfunctional, deeply unpopular GOP majority. What is remarkable about the straits in which Johnson finds himself this week, though, is not the fact... more

Trump’s legal fees slush fund is drying up ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 4/17/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 62.7% - Negativity Bias 60.2% - Appeal to Emotion 17.6%

President Donald Trump’s army of lawyers may be the largest of any Oval Office occupant in history. Aside from the attorneys who work for the office of the president, he has retained a veritable phalanx of personal attorneys over the years to represent him in court. That kind of legal firepower doesn’t come cheap. But according to recent... more

DOJ wants to make Trump’s Mar-a-Lago document hoarding legal ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 4/8/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 26.4% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 19.5% - Pessimism Bias 18.7%

The Justice Department issued a memo last week asserting that one of the key laws passed in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal is unconstitutional. The law in question — the Presidential Records Act — was at the core of one of the federal criminal cases filed against President Donald Trump after his first term ended. The DOJ memo’s... more

Trump’s DHS paycheck promise is a major problem ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 4/6/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 44.4% - Negativity Bias 30.9% - Appeal to Emotion 18.1%

The end of the longest partial shutdown in history is in sight — but thanks to some House Republicans refusing to rush back to Washington to pass it, the finish line is still almost two weeks away. These pouting House conservatives, however, are getting a reprieve from President Donald Trump. Trump posted on Truth Social last week that... more

Donald Trump is the world’s worst friend ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 4/1/2026, 10:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 63.5% - Negativity Bias 41.5% - Hasty Generalization 20.3%

President Donald Trump’s interactions with America’s allies since launching an unprompted war against Iran have been nothing but bullying, cajoling and finally whining about those same allies’ lack of subservience. Iranian attacks on boats traveling within the Strait of Hormuz have prompted the president to ask for aid that will not come... more

The Supreme Court sent Trump a warning shot over deployments ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 12/24/2025, 10:19 PM

In a term that has been largely defined by its acquiescence to President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court issued a rare bit of good news for democracy Tuesday. A majority of justices refused to block a lower court’s decision barring Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. Even though the Supreme Court didn’t rule on the... more

Stephen Miller's push to attack alleged drug boats is primed to backfire ^0%

MS NOW - By Hayes Brown - 12/19/2025, 11:00 AM

The Trump administration has killed almost 100 people in a string of military strikes against boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. While officials claim the attacks are to prevent the flow of deadly fentanyl into America, the overall goals of the campaign are muddled at best. But according to The Washington Post, the “war” against... more