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Today: "Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here" Plus, Trump’s 11 most senile moments this year; JD Vance is a cynical shapeshifter; Nigerian foreign ministry is fact-checking Trump; and more... Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts. By The New Republic Staff

Join Us: This Is Not Us—ICE in America Today Tuesday, January 6 · 4–5 p.m. EST To complement The New Republic’s January/February 2026 issue, "This Is Not America," our writers discuss Trump’s immigration policy and how communities are resisting, from refugees defying the administration’s orders to protests against ICE raids and the National Guard’s deployment in U.S. cities. RSVP now

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Mike Johnson: The Man Who Knew Too Little The House speaker has perfected the art of turning a blind eye to Donald Trump’s rampage. By Edith Olmsted Trump Spent This Christmas Having His Most Deranged Meltdown Yet Donald Trump posted more than 150 times—including about Jeffrey Epstein. By Edith Olmsted What subscribers are reading: Bari Weiss Has Thrown the CBS News Killswitch By Parker Molloy The Right-Wing Campaign to Bring Back Gender Segregation in Schools By Steve Kennedy ICE Agents Detain Man on Christmas Eve—and Then Steal His Groceries By Malcolm Ferguson Nigeria Clarifies What Really Happened With Trump’s Airstrikes The Nigerian foreign ministry is fact-checking Donald Trump. By Malcolm Ferguson Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here By Radley Balko  Donald Trump’s assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly. As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb of Franklin Park on his way to his job at a diner on the northwest side. Villegas-Gonzalez had come to the United States in 2007 to flee the violence in his home state of Michoacán, Mexico—violence wrought by the Mexican government’s militarization of its drug war, a policy encouraged and funded by the United States. (In November, the mayor of the city of Uruapan was assassinated after calling for a crackdown on organized crime.)   Described by friends and co-workers as kind and soft-spoken, Villegas-Gonzalez had two sons and met a woman from his hometown as he worked long hours in kitchens around the city. Continue reading this article.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go? By Greg Sargent Read now

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