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Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent is a staff writer at The New Republic and the host of the podcast The Daily Blast. A seasoned political commentator with over two decades of experience, he was a prominent columnist and blogger at The Washington Post from 2010 to 2023 and has worked at Talking Points Memo, New York magazine, and the New York Observer. Greg is also the author of the critically acclaimed book An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics.  

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January 21, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Awful New “Invasion” Executive Order is One of His Darkest Yet
One E.O. appears to give Trump extraordinary powers as long as we’re facing “invasion.” Who gets to decide when the “invasion” is over? Take one guess.
January 18, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Handed Steve Bannon a Big Weapon in His War With Elon Musk
The onerous new immigration bill would empower state attorneys general to force wholesale visa denials. It turns out Bannon can use this to his advantage in the MAGA civil war over immigration.
January 14, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump Just Laid a Brutal Trap for Dems, and They’re Walking Into It
As some Senate Democrats try to amend the awful Laken Riley immigration bill, will the party unite to force Republicans to accept changes? The prognosis is not great.
January 9, 2025
Greg Sargent
Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way
The immigration bill the Senate is taking up has some horrible provisions. With worse on the way, Democrats should not be caving like this.
December 19, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie
Trump says Cheney might be “in trouble,” based on something cooked up by House Republicans. That demolishes the GOP’s spin about Kash Patel’s plans for the FBI.
December 14, 2024
Greg Sargent
How GOP Senators Are Secretly Getting Ready to Surrender to Trump
Trump wants to turn the FBI into something so draconian that the political press many not grasp it until it’s too late. And Republican senators are already giving themselves cover to go along with all of it.
December 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems
Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.
December 5, 2024
Greg Sargent
Suddenly, Trump’s Ugliest Threats Are Facing Surprise GOP Resistance
One of Trump’s central campaign claims was that green energy and immigration pose a massive threat to American workers. But now it seems local Republicans think otherwise.
November 27, 2024
Greg Sargent
Mexican President’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Exposes an Ugly MAGA Scam
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
November 23, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump A.G. Pick Pam Bondi Is About to Regret What She Signed Up For
Trump’s choice to run the Justice Department may win confirmation, but Senate Democrats can lay down some serious markers during her confirmation hearings.
November 21, 2024
Greg Sargent
A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.
November 15, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption
The elevation of Elon Musk to a key role suggests that right-wing elites are set to embark on a spree of sordid self-dealing.
November 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Why Did Trump Win? These Dems Have Discovered a Very Disturbing Answer
Are you sitting down? Turns out it proved very hard to persuade swing voters that Trump was a bad president.
November 5, 2024
Greg Sargent
How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris Slip Away
Harris has been dinged for not focusing enough on the economy. Her swing-state advertising says dramatically otherwise—and the media largely missed it.
October 28, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument
The Madison Square Garden rally didn’t devolve into a hate fest. The hate fest was the point all along.
October 23, 2024
Greg Sargent, Michael Tomasky
“Red Wave” Redux: Are GOP Polls Rigging the Averages in Trump’s Favor?
Polling by right-leaning firms has exploded this cycle. Maybe they want to be accurate—or maybe they’re trying to create a sense of momentum for Donald Trump.
October 17, 2024
Greg Sargent
Harris’s Harsh Takedown of Fox’s Bret Baier Exposes MAGA’s Biggest Lie
For 10 years, Fox has built a fictional informational cocoon around Donald Trump. Kamala Harris just burst it open.
October 11, 2024
Greg Sargent
Could Trump Win? Yes, and Some Dems Are Quietly Saying They Know Why
Insiders are raising some tough questions about the strategic decisions made by Future Forward, the biggest Super PAC pulling for Kamala Harris.
October 9, 2024
Greg Sargent
Vance’s Fake Autoworkers Just Exposed the GOP’s Big Con
If elected, Trump plans to cancel huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the heartland. Democrats should put them on the defensive.
October 4, 2024
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Midnight Rants Face Rude Awakening: Stunning New Jobs Report
Harris has been escaping Biden’s shadow and catching Trump on economic trust—and the huge September jobs gains can only help.

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