Pete Hegseth’s New Task Force

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uNbSHj0ZDsE

Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon - POLITICO

Two of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/02/pentagon-hegseth-musk-palmer-commission-01104908

 

'That's A Yes Or No': Jamie Raskin Grills Newt Gingrich Over GOP Calling to impeach judges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlMBdSSWCI

Interview with historian Nicole Hemmer (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast)

Nicole Hemmer is a political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the interplay of social movements, electoral politics, and political culture in order to probe the complexities of political identity and practice in the 20th century United States.

In this bonus episode, Jess and Dr. Hemmer discussed the rise of the Evangelical right, why Newt Gingrich was so effective at whipping the GOP into shape, and some fun J. Edgar Hoover counterfactuals.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-44ptp-1a38f3a8

Gingrich decries ‘insane’ Florida bill for register of bloggers critical of DeSantis

"hard to imagine a proposal that would be more violative" of free speech rights under the US constitution...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/06/newt-gingrich-florida-register-desantis-bloggers-insane

Newt Gingrich warns Republicans that Joe Biden is winning the fight | Joe Biden | The Guardian

"… We dislike Biden so much, we pettily focus on his speaking difficulties, sometimes strange behavior, clear lapses of memory and other personal flaws. Our aversion to him and his policies makes us underestimate him and the Democrats." 

Gingrich's words pleased the White House – Ron Klain, Joe Biden's chief of staff, tweeted a link with the message: "You don't have to take my word for it, any more."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/03/newt-gingrich-republicans-joe-biden-winning

Judge orders Newt Gingrich to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe | PBS NewsHour

The petition says Gingrich was involved along with others associated with the Trump campaign in a plan to run television ads that "repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election" and encouraged members of the public to contact state officials to push them to challenge and overturn the election results based on those false claims…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-orders-newt-gingrich-to-testify-in-georgia-2020-election-probe

The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up Of The Republican Party (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank examines how the GOP got to where it is today, with some elected leaders and candidates still endorsing the lie that Trump won. His book is The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five-Year Crack-Up Of The Republican Party.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116281152/how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-conspiracy-theories-and-denialism

Newt Gingrich Goes Full ‘Great Replacement Theory’ in Maria Bartiromo Interview on Fox Business

His comments are just the latest example of the network's elevation of a racist fringe theory...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/newt-gingrich-goes-full-great-replacement-theory-in-maria-bartiromo-interview-on-fox-business

Trump is starting to put together his own Contract with America. And he’s teaming up with Newt. - POLITICO

… The 45th president has sat down with the former speaker, as well as Mark Meadows and Lindsey Graham in recent weeks to begin crafting a policy document...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/25/trump-is-starting-to-put-together-his-own-contract-with-america-and-hes-teaming-up-with-newt-490829

A new era of incivility in Congress brings 'The Birth of a Nation' full circle - The Washington Post

… the Republican Party began holding bipartisan comity in contempt decades ago. In the 1980s, when Newt Gingrich began asserting control over Republicans still chastened by the Watergate scandal, he famously advised them to stop apologizing and start going negative, treating politics like a cage match and turning opponents into enemies, never missing a chance to other-ize Democrats as "sick," "radical" and "un-American."…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/congress-incivility-recalls-racist-movie/2021/05/17/913833f6-b4b0-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html

Newt Gingrich: Democrats are trying to 'brainwash the entire next generation'

"Particularly if we win the two Georgia seats, which I think we will, Biden's going to have to decide, does he want to try to move to being a moderate Democrat, in which case his left will rebel and go crazy, or does he want to stick with the left in which case nothing will get done? And Mitch will be happy with either outcome."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/29/newt-gingrich-democrats-brainwash-next-generation-trump-us-politics

Newt Gingrich Is Still the Worst Person in the World – Mother Jones

You can date the beginning of the modern era of scorched-earth conservativism to Rush Limbaugh. Or Drudge. Or Fox News. And they all deserve their share of the blame. But I’ve always dated it to Newt Gingrich, and this tweet is a perfect example of why.....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/newt-gingrich-is-still-the-worst-person-in-the-world/

Twitter removes David Clarke’s tweets as he and other Trump allies sow coronavirus conspiracy theories and doubts - The Washington Post

It's not just that Trump is playing down the threat of coronavirus; it's that some of his top allies are taking it quite a bit further.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/16/twitter-takes-down-david-clarkes-tweets-he-other-trump-allies-seed-coronavius-conspiracy-theories-doubt/

Newt Gingrich just gave away the game - The Washington Post: Opinion

Trump's attacks on four nonwhite Democrats, explained with great clarity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/07/23/newt-gingrich-just-gave-away-game/

Newt Gingrich Claims ‘War on the Border’ Was Funded by ‘Leftists’ - The Daily Beast

During a segment on 'Fox & Friends,' the former speaker of the House baselessly claimed leftists launched a 'psychological war' at the border to 'embarrass' the U.S. government. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/newt-gingrich-claims-war-on-the-border-was-funded-by-leftists

Newt Gingrich’s shameless smear of the FBI - The Washington Post: Opinion

Republicans' rhetoric is more and more beyond the pale. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/04/13/newt-gingrichs-shameless-smear-of-the-fbi

Newt Gingrich tests out new Trump-backing attack on Mueller: Flynn was 'set up' by the ‘pro-Hillary’ FBI -- Raw Story

According to former House Speaker and current Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich, there's "corruption and dishonesty" in Washington -- but not within the White House. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/newt-gingrich-tests-out-new-trump-backing-attack-on-mueller-flynn-was-set-up-by-the-pro-hillary-fbi/

The latest silly lie Republicans are using to push a tax reform plan for the wealthy -- ThinkProgress.org

The Job Creators Network, a group of wealthy CEOs partnering with Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to lobby for Trump's deeply regressive tax cuts for the rich, is running a new television ad in three states this week taking President John F. Kennedy's words out of context to suggest that tax cuts are urgent. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/wealthy-ceos-jfk-tax-reform-00d96acaa023/

Pope Francis Makes Everything That Donald Trump and Steve Bannon Say Sound Stupid -- The Daily Beast

In a few short weeks, if the U.S. Senate confirms her appointment as ambassador to the Holy See, which is expected, Callista Gingrich should be unpacking her bags alongside husband Newt and settling into the lavish Villa Richardson atop one of Rome's famous hills. The Washington couple will be the talk of the town, no doubt trailed by paparazzi and sought after by local media as they acquaint themselves with the Eternal City. But Mrs. Gingrich's job will be no Roman holiday. ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-makes-everything-that-donald-trump-and-steve-bannon-say-sound-stupid