John Knefel

A conspiracy theory about overseas voting spread from an election denial website to Trump — and now to the MAGA media infrastructure

Right-wing media spread falsehoods about Minnesota’s abortion law after Trump’s poor debate performance

Project 2025 leader The Heritage Foundation pushes anti-worker apprenticeship and contracting policies

Delayed book by The Heritage Foundation president echoes Project 2025's attacks on unions. JD Vance wrote the foreword.

Project 2025, a sprawling right-wing plan to provide policy and staffing to a future Republican president, proposes an extreme anti-worker agenda that would severely curtail unions’ ability to collectively bargain on behalf of their members and reverse gains organized labor has made in recent years. It would also weaken overtime regulations, give corporations wider latitude in misclassifying workers as independent contractors, and dismantle safety regulations that prohibit young people from working dangerous jobs. The initiative’s policy book, Mandate for Leadership, is an attempt to roll back New Deal-era, working class victories by allowing state-level exemptions from the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, and by creating nonunion “employee involvement organizations” to undermine unions’ negotiating power. It additionally calls for sharp reductions in the budgets of the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor and a freeze on new hires. Project 2025 is

Right-wing media have long railed against rules requiring corporations to pay overtime to workers for work done in excess of regular working hours. Project 2025 reflects this fixation, pushing for regulations and laws that would roll back overtime pay requirements. A survey has shown that this is wildly out of step with the sentiment of the American public.

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point connects far-right extremists with the Republican National Committee and the Trump ... - Media Matters for America

Over the course of former President Donald Trump’s roughly six-week hush-money trial in New York City, MAGA media figures and top GOP vice presidential contenders have used similar rhetoric to undermine the case and criticize the jury’s guilty verdict. On May 30, a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to buy the silence of adult film actor and director Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, in the run-up to the 2016 election.…

Russ Vought, a frequent guest on right-wing media shows and key figure in Project 2025, a broad effort to staff a future Republican administration, will have a top role in drafting the platform for the GOP’s convention this July, virtually ensuring the document will be a wishlist of MAGA priorities. The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign made the joint announcement on May 15, highlighting Vought’s new role “as the committee’s policy director” for the RNC’s 2024 Committee on the…

Mainstream media gushed over “vocal Trump critic” NH Gov. Chris Sununu, who has now endorsed Trump - Media Matters for America