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The “Warrior Dividend” Is Trump’s Latest PR Stunt to Act Like He Cares About the Troops
A measly $1,776 check for members of the military can’t undo years of insults and cuts.
Alain Stephens
Alain Stephens is an investigative reporter covering gun violence, arms trafficking, and federal law enforcement. A two-branch military vet and former law enforcement officer, Stephens has earned national recognition as a Livingston Award finalist, and recipient of the First Amendment Coalition’s Free Speech & Open Government Award. His podcast The Gun Machine, tracking the history of America’s arms industry, won a national Edward R. Murrow Award. Stephens’s reporting has been the catalyst for multiple federal, congressional, and legal policy actions to public safety.
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“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
Everyday Americans in Appalachia and the Southeast show that resisting ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
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War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq
Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.
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Epstein Is the Only Thing That Could Turn Trump’s Base Against Him
Americans were already seething about the shutdown and the economy. Then they saw Epstein write that Trump “knew about the girls.”
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The President Is Perfectly Fine If You Starve
The message behind the government shutdown is loud and clear: Hunger is acceptable collateral damage in service of Trump’s agenda.
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Inside the World of Leftist Gun Nuts
Graham Platner’s firearms trainings are only the most public example of the left’s efforts to arm themselves.
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The Right Wing Desperately Wants to Make Charlie Kirk Its MLK
On Kirk’s “National Day of Remembrance,” white supremacists want to replace a tradition of justice with their own manufactured myth.
The State Department Isn’t Telling Congress When U.S. Weapons Fall Into the Wrong Hands
Congress is being left in the dark about the fate of U.S. weapons transfers, a new federal watchdog report found.
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Black People Knew This Would Happen
Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.
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The Bullet as Shitpost: Media Won’t Publish Manifestos but Reproduces Scrawls on Casing
From “ANTI-ICE” to “Notices bulges OwO,” the media latches onto memes on bullets. At its core, it’s the shooters trolling.