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2 days ago | 
mediamatters.org | Jack Winstanley |Jack Wheatley |Helena Hind |Jane Lee
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has warned that Medicaid cuts in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would cause millions of people to lose health coverage. Right-wing media figures — who have continued to support the legislation in spite of this warning — have misled their audiences about the extent of the cuts and who will be impacted by them.
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1 week ago | 
mediamatters.org | Gideon Taaffe |Chloe Simon |Noah Dowe |Helena Hind |Isabella Corrao
Following Israel’s attacks on Iran and Iran’s counterattack on Israel, many right-wing media personalities have chimed in to advocate for or against U.S. military intervention.
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1 week ago | 
mediamatters.org | Chloe Simon |Gideon Taaffe |Helena Hind |Isabella Corrao |Noah Dowe
Israel’s initial attacks on Iran over the weekend have quickly escalated in the following days, with both nations now exchanging missiles. Although President Donald Trump has warned people to evacuate Tehran and claimed that “we now have complete and total control” over Iranian skies, the administration has not outright said that the U.S. will join the conflict.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Isabella Corrao |Courtney Hagle |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Alicia Sadowski |Chloe Simon
On February 18, President Donald Trump pushed multiple false claims about the war in Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s involvement in it, falsely suggesting that Ukraine started the war and that Zelensky is a “dictator without elections.” Both claims echo Russian propaganda about the war. Many right-wing media figures praised Trump's comments, with some commentators even following in his footsteps to target Zelensky.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind |Chloe Simon |Sage Hodil
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Imagine if that's just what we started to do. What do you think the Democrats would do? Well, let's — let's — let's expand it out to social issues. Oh, well, we have a lot of people who believe that their First Amendment rights have been violated in protesting near abortion clinics, prayerful protests. You know something? I know the Supreme Court has said this, that, or the other thing.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Helena Hind |Alicia Sadowski
A federal judge said on Monday that the White House had defied his order to release billions of dollars in federal grants, marking the first time a judge has expressly declared that the Trump administration is disobeying a judicial mandate. The ruling by Judge John J. McConnell Jr. in Rhode Island federal court ordered administration officials to comply with what the judge called “the plain text” of a ruling he issued on Jan. 29.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Noah Dowe |Helena Hind |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Alicia Sadowski |Alex Kaplan | +1 more
On Tuesday, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over” and take “ownership” of Gaza, displacing its population and redeveloping it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Right-wing media immediately justified — and in some cases, outright endorsed — Trump’s statements, with some figures arguing Palestinians and others in the region “should be grateful” and declaring that “the strategic goal in...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
mediamatters.org | Alicia Sadowski |Jane Lee |Isabella Corrao |Helena Hind
President Donald Trump has issued pardons or commuted the sentences of all January 6 offenders, violent and nonviolent, flouting the advice of Fox hosts who previously urged him to grant a narrower pardon.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nationalmemo.com | Helena Hind |Jane Lee
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, making it abundantly clear that this will be round two of the revolving door between Fox News and Trump’s administration.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
nationalmemo.com | Helena Hind
After a truck-ramming attack killed at least 14 people at a New Year's celebration in New Orleans, Fox News misreported that the vehicle used came across the southern border two days earlier, implying that the suspected perpetrator — later identified as an Army veteran born in the U.S. — had also crossed the border.
