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Matt Walsh rants against Native American reservations: "You got conquered. OK? It happens."

The Heritage Foundation is gunning for your Social Security

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The Daily Signal, a media outlet supported by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, recently published two blogs fearmongering about the future of Social Security. The pieces pushed for reductions in benefits for future retirees, argued against raising taxes on the wealthy to cover the program’s long-term financial requirements, and advocated for a privatized retirement system through “personal ownership” of Social Security benefits or so-called “personal retirement” accounts.

The Heritage Foundation has played a central role in organizing the planned conservative takeover of the federal government known as Project 2025, which aims to implement its reactionary right-wing agenda should Donald Trump succeed in his bid to return to the White House.

Silence from major news outlets helps Trump conceal his position on medication abortion

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Fox & Friends calls inflation report that was in line with expectations a “nasty report”

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April’s consumer price index report showed that inflation cooled slightly from March and was in line with expectations. (It also showed that inflation was lower than expected on a monthly basis.) Yet according to Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy and guest Kevin O’Leary, it was a “nasty report,” with Doocy declaring “that’s not good” as he read off headline inflation numbers that were, in fact, good.

War Room guest: "Minnesota has been conquered. It is now Islamist."

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Fox host Ainsley Earhardt says she wouldn't trust migrants to watch her children swim

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Jesse Watters claims Kamala Harris is being used "like a DEI prop"

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Watch CBS Evening News highlight how the election deniers in local governments could impact the 2024 election

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Major print outlets fail to adequately cover extreme agenda laid out by Trump in Time interview

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On April 30, Time magazine published an in-depth interview with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence, during which the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee described various far-right policies he intends to enact should he win reelection. Even though Trump discussed his plans for a potential second term in some detail, print media have not adequately covered his agenda in the days since the interview.

Media Matters reviewed articles about Trump from three of the top U.S. newspapers by circulation — The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post — for whether they included mention of Trump's plans to undermine or subvert democracy and democratic institutions, his proposed immigration policies, or his position on reproductive rights. (We excluded articles covering only the court proceedings in Trump’s ongoing New York hush-money trial.)

The New York Times and The Washington Post did focus on potential attacks on democratic institutions but failed to adequately address Trump’s extreme positions on reproductive rights and immigration. Meanwhile, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal failed to meaningfully address any of these topics in its coverage of Trump outside of its reporting on his hush-money trial.

Our findings showed:

The Wall Street Journal made just 1 mention of Trump’s anti-democratic agenda and 1 mention of his abortion policy.
All three newspapers largely failed to cover Trump’s plan to deport 11 million immigrants, among other extreme immigration policies, mentioning it in only 10% of all the articles Media Matters examined.
The Wall Street Journal published significantly fewer articles on Trump than The New York Times and The Washington Post (19 for the Journal compared to 29 and 35 for the Times and the Post, respectively). Additionally, a smaller percentage of The Wall Street Journal’s articles discussed Trump’s agenda (21% for the Journal compared to 41% and 43%, respectively, for the Times and the Post).

Fox News' Mollie Hemingway: Politicians won't “have a future in the Republican Party” if they don't attack the prosecutions of Donald Trump

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