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Can James Talarico Win Texas?
Left Reckoning Sep 13, 2025

Can James Talarico Win Texas?

It’s Never Too Soon For the Right to Blame Trans People
Mother Jones Sep 13, 2025

It’s Never Too Soon For the Right to Blame Trans People

When Utah authorities announced on Friday morning that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson had been apprehended in connection with the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, they quelled a storm of rumors and inaccurate reporting about the gender identity and motivations of Kirk’s shooter. Almost immediately after Kirk was shot on Wednesday, right-wing social media accounts began […]

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk - Read by Eunice Wong
Chris Hedges Sep 12, 2025

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk - Read by Eunice Wong

Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

Streaming Star Hasan Piker Was Set to Debate Charlie Kirk. Now He’s Warning of a “Reichstag Fire Moment.”
Mother Jones Sep 12, 2025

Streaming Star Hasan Piker Was Set to Debate Charlie Kirk. Now He’s Warning of a “Reichstag Fire Moment.”

On September 25, the left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was supposed to debate Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. But one hour into an eight-hour stream on Wednesday, Piker’s chat started posting that Kirk got shot. “Oh my God, he definitely got shot in the neck,” Piker said, his hand covering his […]

How Top “Progressive” Influencers Compromised Their Independence
Current Affairs Sep 12, 2025

How Top “Progressive” Influencers Compromised Their Independence

Taylor Lorenz is a technology journalist, the host of the Power User podcast, and the author of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet. She joined Current Affairs’ Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson and Digital Editor John Ross (who was formerly a producer for the David Pakman Show) to discuss her recent bombshell article for Wired: an investigation into Chorus, Good Influence, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, the dark money network secretly funding Democratic influencers.

The Full Weight of the Federal Government Is Being Used to Memorialize Charlie Kirk
Mother Jones Sep 12, 2025

The Full Weight of the Federal Government Is Being Used to Memorialize Charlie Kirk

After the shocking murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, tributes and expressions of grief poured in from conservative politicians and activists, along with expressions of sympathy and denunciations of political violence from both sides of the aisle. Now, however, numerous government and elected officials are taking their protection of Kirk’s legacy a […]

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words
Zeteo Sep 12, 2025

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.