John Knefel

Right-wing media outlets are claiming regime change in Venezuela would be easy. Evidence and history suggest otherwise.

Right-wing media’s dystopian Portland coverage feeds into Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard

Right-wing media concoct their own legal justification for Trump’s extrajudicial strike on Venezuelan boat

Election denier Jenny Beth Martin told Steve Bannon she’s pushing to pass SAVE Act in September

Steve Bannon just laid out the MAGA media playbook to subvert the midterms

This segment exemplifies how Fox feeds garbage anti-immigrant slop to its audience

Inside the alliance between right-wing media and Trump “Border Czar” Tom Homan

Right-wing media downplay harms of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even as its impacts are felt throughout the country

Two analyses of the House of Representatives’ version of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” found that its deep Medicaid cuts — which right-wing media figures have supported for months — would result in more than 11,000 preventable deaths annually. When all aspects of the legislation are included, according to one of the analyses, the bill could cause an estimated 51,000 preventable deaths per year. Right-wing media figures, however, have repeatedly claimed that people who “deserve” to be on Medicaid won’t be affected by the bill. Instead, they falsely argue that Medicaid will be strengthened for “the people that actually need it,” as Fox News’ Sean Hannity put it recently.  It remains to be seen exactly how much congressional Republicans will end up slashing Medicaid, as the House legislation passed on May 22 and the Senate is currently finalizing its own version. The House version of the bill finances massive tax benefits for the extremely wealthy with its steep Me

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill threatens rural hospitals. Fox News personalities have falsely claimed immigrants are “bankrupting” them.