Casey Wexler

In letters to the editor in papers across several red states, readers who identified themselves as Republicans or veterans have expressed frustration with the Trump administration. Complaints have covered a variety of issues, including the administration’s treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, cuts by the Trump administration, and the decision to allow unvaccinated soldiers back into the military.

Fox News repeatedly misled viewers about Virginia’s last-minute voter purge

Right-wing media have spent over a decade attacking and calling for cuts to vital food assistance programs, with particular focus on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly known as “food stamps”) as well as free school lunch programs. Now, Project 2025 — an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration — proposes  fulfilling their wish of cutting off hundreds of thousands of Americans from vital food assistance.

Fox contributor pushes Hurricane Helene misinformation about migrants after Fox reporter obtained House GOP memo noting it is false

Right-wing media outlets have turned an uncertain story that a Venezuelan gang “commandeered” apartments in Aurora, Colorado, into a lie that gangs are “taking over” and have fully “overrun” the city of 390,000 people.

Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro pushed misinformation about the Harris campaign’s proposed tax on ultrawealthy Americans — people with a net worth of more than $100 million — because the tax includes unrealized capital gains, which the podcast host also falsely suggested would apply to a typical homeowner or entrepreneur.

Right-wing talk radio hosts are spewing misinformation and hate about the Hamas-Israel conflict, with some spreading anti-Islamic bigotry, defending the thousands of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, and even calling for ethnic cleansing.

Fox hosts and guests are pushing the false narrative that the GOP has become the party of labor as the United Automobile Workers strike makes headlines, ignoring their own support of the Republican Party’s years of anti-union rhetoric. Meanwhile, Fox figures continue to criticize the union for striking in the first place.

Fox incorrectly attacks the Inflation Reduction Act by claiming it will raise taxes on individuals

Texas newspapers offer uneven coverage of state policy classifying trans health care as “child abuse”  Media Matters for America

Myths and facts about the end of Title 42

NYT report highlights problems with calling Project Veritas operatives journalists

Anti-immigrant hate groups should not be weighing in on the Ukrainian refugee crisis  Media Matters for America

Report: Kremlin memo tells Russian media to feature Fox host Tucker Carlson

Sinclair stations earned over half a million views on live streams of an anti-vaccine rally

YouTube is taking a victory lap for its latest vaccine misinformation policy. Meanwhile, Project Veritas is gaining millions of views on anti-vaccine conspiracy videos on the platform.

An anti-immigrant group with links to white nationalism is all over local media -- and it's being falsely billed as left-wing  Media Matters for America

Nexstar Media cited a group founded by a white nationalist and eugenicist to discuss immigration policy, airing it on at least 24 local news stations

Major Portland broadcast news outlets largely didn't mention Patriot Prayer's violence, extremism in reports on recent shooting

The mainstream media need to stop using euphemisms to describe Trump’s racism