That thing that everyone insists never happens has happened again, in New Jersey and with documented evidence exposed by the governor herself. The major networks covered it on the Elitist Media evening news, with one of the newscasts mitigating a damaging counternarrative story with “But Trump” filler.Watch as ABC World News Tonight counterprogrammed news of the discovery with whataboutism on President Trump. Watch the full report as aired on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026: WATCH: ABC mitigates 58 seconds on New Jersey's discovery of 6000+ illegal aliens on the voter rolls with 48 seconds of "But Trump". A story so damning it needs "seasoning" in order to air.DAVID MUIR: Now to the election error revealed here in the Northeast, New Jersey's… pic.twitter.com/g715ZCtHhT— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 DAVID MUIR: Now to the election error revealed here in the Northeast, New Jersey's governor tonight revealing more than 6000 noncitizens were mistakenly added to the voter rolls in that state. So how did this happen and how many actually voted? Here's Mary Bruce tonight.MARY BRUCE: Tonight, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill revealing that because of a computer error, about 6600 noncitizens applying for a driver's license were also improperly registered to vote.MIKIE SHERRILL: In the case of this error, some individuals indicated that they weren't citizens and weren't eligible to vote, but the software registered them anyway.BRUCE: The governor says about 400 of those noncitizens actually voted, but that there's no evidence their votes swayed any elections. She says officials became aware of the issue last week, and that all 6600 people are being scrubbed from the voter rolls.SHERRILL: We don't deflect, deny or exploit problems for our own gain. We find them and we fix them.BRUCE: The White House says the episode, quote, “underscores the absolute necessity of the SAVE America Act, President Trump's bill requiring voter ID and proof of citizenship. The President has been amping up his unproven claims of widespread election fraud, pointing a finger at China.DONALD TRUMP: …of China's sinister election meddling.BRUCE: Just three months ago, Trump heaped praise on China's longtime leader Xi Jinping.TRUMP: You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader. Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it's true.BRUCE: Today, asked if China will now face consequences for their alleged election meddling. Trump brushing it off.TRUMP: Well, we're going to talk to them about it. It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then.BRUCE: And David, back to New Jersey, the governor there says they are now scrubbing their voter rolls. And she vows this will never happen again, saying when they find problems, they fix them. David.MUIR: Mary Bruce live at The White House tonight. Mary, thanks.It is interesting that ABC keeps wanting to relitigate the President Trump speech on election security that they refused to air. Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce, at her Mary Bruciest, conjures up a mishmash of the election security speech, President Trump’s trip to China, and the SAVE America Act in order to deflect from the fact that a blue state (albeit in error, as we are told) registered ineligible noncitizens to vote. The story is too damaging to the prevailing narrative and therefore can’t just be allowed to run alone on ABC. Hence Bruce, the most overtly partisan of the White House chiefs, ran mitigation. Bruce, true to form, concludes her report by parroting Gov. Sherrill’s line on finding and fixing problems almost verbatim. And that really sums up Bruce’s reporting. Sherrill gets fluff, Trump gets “unproven claims” and “Xi-lover.”CBS, on the other hand, ran the cleanest story of all. Here is Weijia Jiang’s brief at the end of her Iran roundup, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, July 21st, 2026: WATCH: In contrast to ABC, CBS offered a clean brief on NJ's discovery of 6600+ noncitizen voters TONY DOKOUPIL: Weijia, in other news, New Jersey's Democratic governor today announced that some noncitizens were indeed able to vote in recent elections. What can you tell us… pic.twitter.com/50BUPj2tm2— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Weijia, in other news, New Jersey's Democratic governor today announced that some noncitizens were indeed able to vote in recent elections. What can you tell us about that?WEIJIA JIANG: Tony, that's right. Governor Mikie Sherrill revealed about 6600 noncitizens were accidentally added to New Jersey's voter rolls. And about 400 of them cast improper ballots in recent elections. Sherrill said it was a serious software error in the state's motor vehicle system that led to the mistake. When these people were applying for driver's license, they answered no when asked if they were U.S. citizens but they were registered to vote, anyway. Sherrill says she is taking action to prevent anything like that from happening again. Tony.DOKOUPIL: Weijia, thank you.There is none of the fluff or mitigation included in the ABC report. Jiang performs a straightforward recitation of the story and allows viewers to assess the presented facts for themselves. A rare occurrence on the Elitist Media evening news.The same can almost be said for NBC Nightly News: WATCH: NBC' s brief on NJ discovery of 6000+ noncitizens on the voter rolls. No "But Trump" mitigation like ABC, non-specific description of the SAVE America Act without describing it by name.TOM LLAMAS: And tonight we are learning hundreds of noncitizens in New Jersey were… pic.twitter.com/jVnRML5G1M— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 22, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: And tonight we are learning hundreds of noncitizens in New Jersey were able to cast ballots because of a software glitch. Ryan Nobles joins us now live. And Ryan, the governor came out today and revealed this herself.RYAN NOBLES: Yeah, that's right, Tom. New Jersey's Governor Mikie Sherrill said that a DMV software error led to more than 6,000 noncitizens being registered to vote when they signed up for driver's licenses or identification cards. 400 of those noncitizens actually cast ballots in New Jersey elections between 2023 and 2024, though it’s unclear which elections. The governor said they were registered as Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters and there's no evidence that any elections were swayed as a result. The state is now in the process of removing all of those names from the voter rolls. The number of noncitizens accidentally registered to vote were a tiny percentage of the overall New Jersey electorate. Now, President Trump, of course, putting pressure on Congress to pass new laws that would require all voters to demonstrate proof of citizenship before being eligible to vote. Tom.LLAMAS: Ryan Nobles for us.The difference between this report and CBS’s is that Congressional Correspondent Ryan Nobles did a bit of mitigation by stating that “there’s no evidence any elections were swayed as a result” of the 400 ineligible noncitizen voters. There isn’t any evidence that they didn’t sway an election, either. Nobles doesn’t say that. Nobles also goes on to mention the SAVE America Act in a weird, non-specific way, without actually saying its name.The good news in all this is that the Elitist Media evening news DIDN’T suppress a counternarrative story that bolsters President Trump’s arguments in favor of election security laws. On the other, the most Trump-deranged network reported the story in the most Trump-deranged way.

Snapstream Recently, the Democratic Party has found itself divided between the establishment wing of the party and a new, much more radical gang of socialists calling for revolutionary changes to party policy. After welcoming the socialist faction into the Democratic Party with open arms the previous day, on Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough did a complete 180, attacking “socialist Republicans” for being the real communists in a bizarre and hypocritical rant.Irate that Republicans were calling out the Democrats were embracing the socialist faction that openly embraces Communist figures like Mao Zedong and Karl Marx, Scarborough shouted about how Republicans were somehow the real socialists:This president is seizing control of private companies. That is socialism! That is communism! And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services. Yesterday, Scarborough was supporting socialists in the Democratic party. Today he's suddenly blaming the "socialist Republicans" for the US debt crisis. Last I checked, the Dems (actually socialist!) are the ones going gung-ho for big spending. The cognitive dissonance is clear. pic.twitter.com/KlU8sltbV4— James Waterman (@jwatermaniv) July 21, 2026 In his ridiculous attack against President Trump’s “socialist” policies, Scarborough appears to have forgotten his freakout about Trump’s cuts to government spending. In fact, everything he accuses Trump of is really just a projection of his own positions. Scarborough himself was terrified by Republican spending cuts back during the Biden administration, yet now he claims to care about the U.S. debt?Scarborough also pretends to care about the armed forces, emphasizing that U.S. debt interest spending has exceeded defense spending. This coming from the guy who has repeatedly endorsed cuts to the military budget and defended radical DEI policies in the military. The only kind of military spending he seems to want is the kind that funds sex-change surgeries for soldiers!Oblivious to his hypocrisy, Scarborough continues his attacks on the “socialist” Republicans, digging deeper into them “seizing control of private companies”:I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.When Scarborough referenced the administration “seizing tech companies,”  he was likely referring to the government’s move to buy minority stakes in a number of U.S. tech giants. Is investing in the stock market is socialist now?On the other hand, he has also argued for the government to break up major tech companies by force, a move that’s much more in line with socialist policy. So which is it, Scarborough? If Trump’s a socialist, are you one too?The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read.MS NOW’s Morning JoeJuly 21, 202607:18:06 a.m. Eastern(...)JOE SCARBOROUGH: And I would just say if I were in that position, you know, you've got the Speaker of the House and Donald Trump talking about communists, talking about socialists.Jon Lemire, I've never seen in my time a president spending more money, blowing more money, centralizing power, seizing the means of production from some of our most powerful tech companies, than this president. This president is seizing control of private companies! That is socialism! That is communism!And our debt, our debt is so massive, Social Security is running out of money. Our debt is so massive that we are now spending- you talk about socialists, these socialist Republicans in Washington DC, now have us for the first time spending more money paying the interest on their debt than we spend on defending our country with money to the armed services.I mean, it's- these people are not spending money like drunken sailors. They're spending money like drunken socialists, and they have the nerve, after seizing tech companies - they have the nerve, after spending us into massive debt, to point fingers at anybody else and say, “Oh look at them! They're the socialists! They're the communists!” No they're not. They need to just look in the mirror if they want to see who the real socialists are.JONATHAN LEMIRE: The call is coming from inside the house, comrade Trump.SCARBOROUGH: Yes.LEMIRE: This is the attack line they've settled on as we head into the midterms. And at least so far, polls suggest it's just not working.(…)

Image YouTube Screenshot  Kirchick's obvious attempt to placate liberals with the absurd DSA/MAGA comparison appeared in "The DSA Is Only Using the Democratic Party." The subtitle made clear the low opinion Kirchick held of the DSA, "The left-wing faction is a parasite."Following a long-winded treatise on how Neil Kinnock, whom Joe Biden notoriously plagiarized, saved the British Labour Party by severely denouncing a far-left group that attempted to take it over, Kirchick finally gets around to his own slapdown of the DSA for similarly trying to take over the Democrat Party:...The DSA’s agenda is alien to mainstream Democrats—or at least it should be. The organization’s draft platform calls for “fully abolishing the police and prison system,” drafting a “new constitution,” extending voting rights to noncitizens, and creating a “democratic socialist republic.” The group holds the U.S. and NATO responsible for Russia’s war against Ukraine, defends the Communist dictatorship in Cuba, and pledges to shut down the Department of Defense and all overseas American military bases.To gain leverage within the Democratic Party, the DSA is employing a tactic that Trotsky dubbed “entryism”—the willful effort by a small, disciplined cadre of radicals to infiltrate a more moderate organization and subvert it from within. It’s the same tactic that, throughout history, far-left organizations such as the Militant Tendency have routinely used to amass power. Unless the Democrats respond forcefully to the DSA’s entryism, they risk being overrun by extremists who will poison the party’s national brand and sap its capacity to compete with an already radicalized GOP.And here we see the first glimmering of Kirchick's shtick, namely the pretense that the GOP has somehow gotten as "radicalized" to the far right as what is happening to the Democrats being pushed to the loony left by the DSA.After several more paragraphs of DSA slamming for trying to take over his beloved Democrats, Kirchick goes to the theme of MAGA as DSA.One of the less remarked upon adverse effects of the Trump presidency is the way in which it has radicalized the left, giving license to bad actors and bad ideas. Fearful of appearing weak in the eyes of their base, most elected Democrats have adopted a “no enemies on the left” approach to dealing with the DSA and other radical forces. If such pusillanimity continues, Democrats risk losing their party to a band of true believers no less destructive than the furthest extremes of the MAGA movement....Democrats can look across the aisle to see what a vigorous contest for the soul of a major political party looks like. Given how slavishly the GOP has fallen into line behind Trump, it’s hard to remember the ferocity of the ideological battles that took place within the conservative movement while he was attempting a hostile takeover of that party in 2015 and 2016. The conservative-activist-and-intellectual space was galvanized by debates over Trump and what he represented, and a whopping 16 other candidates competed against Trump for the party’s nomination.Notice what was missing from Kirchick's critique of a GOP influenced by MAGA: Any specifics even remotely approaching his charges against the leftists attempting a Democrat Party takeover with such policies as abolishing the police and the prison system along with ditching the U.S. Constitution. Basically, Kirchick wants us to believe that the GOP and MAGA is just as "destructive" as the DSA without providing the least bit of evidence as to why this is so.

MS NOW's The Last Word on SnapStream The left has shown time and time again their willingness to use every weapon they can against their political opponents. These weapons range from smears to lawfare to actual weapons, as we saw in several Trump assassination attempts and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk last September. They hounded Trump throughout the 2024 election with lawfare, raiding Mar-a-Lago and posting his mugshot everywhere. And they’re still trying to accuse the President of election interference, as pushed by MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Monday as he guest hosted The Last Word.In the midst of the controversy rising around Elon Musk’s payments to Wisconsin voters last year, Soboroff and his guest, author and former Wisconsin state Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler, reverted to their old trick of equating Musk and Trump.  According to Wikler, if Musk is under fire for possibly violating election law, then Trump must be trying to take over elections again:So whenever Donald Trump has a freak out about the fact that he is so incredibly, hideously unpopular, he starts trying to come up with ways to take over the election system. He can't, as long as there are Democratic governors, attorneys general, state supreme court justices who stand in his way, they actually have the power over this. The Constitution entrusts elections to the states, but there are federal voting laws and restrictions, which the executive enforces. But for Democrats scared about those enforcements impeding their voter rolls, whenever Trump breathes towards election security, they have to panic and imply that he’ll launch January 6th, 2.0, "So this book is a battle plan to make sure that that line of defense is secure before we get to 2028 and his next chance to attempt a national coup."And, is it even an MS NOW segment without accusing Trump of being a kingly authoritarian? No, it’s not:WIKLER: We know that these local county clerks, we know that secretaries of state that do - never get in the national headlines.SOBOROFF: They're threatened with arrest.WIKLER: Yeah, they're threatened with arrest right now because Trump knows that they could actually thwart his ambitions to become a king. Of course, Soboroff and Wikler don’t name any examples of these secretaries of state. They just act like it’s a self-evident, everyday occurrence. Additionally, Trump doesn’t order someone’s arrest just because they “thwart his ambitions to become a king.” That’s more from the Democrats’ playbook, to engage in meaningless lawfare. Trump’s DOJ can and should, however, enforce federal voting laws. And no, attempts to secure our elections from foreign and domestic interference are not fascist.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:MS NOW's The Last Word7/20/2610:48:07 p.m. Eastern JACOB SOBOROFF: Tonight, Elon Musk could be facing criminal charges in Wisconsin, because it turns out that the world's richest Republican cannot just buy his way out of losing an election.  In April of 2025, just weeks after Elon Musk was seen on television upstaging Donald Trump in the Oval Office, you might remember that Wisconsin held a state Supreme Court election, the first big election anywhere in the country since Donald Trump was inaugurated for the second time. And what happened? Elon Musk spent more than $20 million backing the conservative candidate in that race. He traveled to Wisconsin. He put on a Green Bay Packers cheesehead hat at a rally of about 2,000 people, and he handed out two $1 million checks to two voters while offering cash incentives to others tied to that election. And now the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has concluded that Elon Musk likely broke the state's election bribery law. This commission voted 5 to 1 to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney, who will now decide whether to pursue criminal charges for Elon Musk's election tactics.Musk had repeatedly argued that the judicial election would shape the future of congressional redistricting in Wisconsin, and that matters, because that could ultimately affect which political party controls the United States House of Representatives next year.  But Wisconsin voters rejected Musk's preferred candidate by ten points, and they voted instead for the liberal candidate, former prosecutor Susan Crawford, on that particular election night.Our next guest, Ben Winkler - Wikler, excuse me, who was then Wisconsin's Democratic Party chair, called into this program, you remember, just after the liberal victory was announced and said Wisconsin voters saw exactly what Elon Musk was up to.[Cut to audio]BEN WIKLER [4/1/2025]: They know that he is grabbing money out of their pockets in order to stuff them into his own pockets. He was trying to buy the state the way he bought Brad Schimel, his preferred Supreme Court candidate, and voters found that outrageous. They flatly rejected it.  Now we know, and the jig is up.[Cut back to live]SOBOROFF: "The jig is up."That election offered Democrats a lesson that extends well beyond Wisconsin. State supreme courts, legislatures, governors too increasingly determine everything from voting rules to congressional maps.  Winning those down ballot races can be just as consequential as winning at the federal level. National generic congressional polls right now show Democrats with an advantage in single digit margins, though mostly still within the margin of error.  In his new book, This Is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy, Ben Wikler argues that the battles shaping American democracy are often decided far from Washington. They're decided in state courts and in state legislatures and local elections where the rules of democracy are written.Ben writes of the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, quote, "This is a book about why elections like Susan Crawford's are so important — maybe not to the entire future of the human race, which will hopefully be pretty long — but to the future of democracy and the possibility of a fair economy in the United States. But this book isn't just an analysis. It's a prescription. The point is not to monitor the situation, but to change it."  Joining us now is Ben Wikler, the former Democratic Party chair of Wisconsin. He is author of this book, This Is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy, which is out tomorrow.  It's so good to see you. It's good to hold this in my hands. It feels pretty meaty.WIKLER: I'm pretty excited it's in your hands, and it's about to be in a lot more people's hands.  I wrote this book after six years leading the Democratic state party in Wisconsin. It was a state that, not very long ago, was more rigged, more gerrymandered, more voter suppression, more dominated by a far-right state supreme court than the United States of America is right now. It seemed more hopeless to people in our state, but thousands of people rolled up their sleeves.  And we tested and we tried a million different ways to fight and win elections and figured out how to unrig our state step by step. So in this book, I take that blueprint, that battle plan, and I map it out on the national stage for what people can do everywhere in this nation to get us out of this flaming train wreck that Donald Trump and the current GOP has - have driven the United States into.SOBOROFF: It's the exact book we need right now.  But this, even more recent news, when you hear that the Elections Commission says that Musk may have very well broke election law in Wisconsin, what goes through your head?WIKLER: The first thing that goes through my head is that Donald Trump's pardon power does not apply to convictions in state courts.SOBOROFF: You better believe it.WIKLER: States are, frankly, where a lot of the action is right now, and there, rightly, is a ton of energy to elect a new majority, a Democratic majority in the House and the U.S. Senate this cycle.  But it's states that the U.S. Constitution puts in charge of running elections. So whenever Donald Trump has a freak out about the fact that he is so incredibly, hideously unpopular—SOBOROFF: Yeah.WIKLER: —he starts trying to come up with ways to take over the election system. He can't, as long as there are Democratic governors, attorneys general, state supreme court justices who stand in his way, they actually have the power over this. So this book is a battle plan to make sure that that line of defense is secure before we get to 2028 and his next chance to attempt a national coup.SOBOROFF: It was really amazing to hear you — to play back that clip that I think viewers of this program will definitely remember, and think about what you said on that night that Wisconsin voters rejected the influence of billionaires in your state.  Does this new development vindicate that?WIKLER: Absolutely. The opening scene in the book is Elon Musk going in Green Bay and putting that cheesehead on his head and saying, “this race will affect the entire future destiny of all of humanity.”  And he thought that he was going to demonstrate that, as the richest man in the world, he had unchallengeable power, that he could buy whatever election he wanted, just as, in the view of Donald Trump at the time and a ton of the country, he had bought the presidential election for his preferred presidential candidate. If he had won, then candidates at all levels of government would have run screaming from the possibility that he might throw a few tens of millions of dollars at them.SOBOROFF: And hold those stupid, giant, fake checks up in order to convince these voters.WIKLER: Absolutely. It was the most disgusting and obscene and frankly, cynical approach to politics that you can imagine. And for a lot of people, it seemed like it might work. You know, later financial disclosures showed that his total investment in that race, including all of his, kind of, attempted election bribes, $56 million—SOBOROFF: Wow.WILKER: — more than anyone's ever spent in a judicial election anyway - anywhere. But we won in Wisconsin. Susan Crawford won that race not just because he pissed everybody off, and not just because she was an amazing candidate. She was, but also because of this neighbor-to-neighbor organizing across the state. The unions, the grassroots groups that decided not just to fight in the big elections where everyone's paying attention, but to fight in every election that might affect the future of democracy in our state.  And that's the kind of approach that we need now in this country. We know that these local county clerks, we know that secretaries of state that do - never get in the national headlines.SOBOROFF: They're threatened with arrest.WIKLER: Yeah, they're threatened with arrest right now because Trump knows that they could actually thwart his ambitions to become a king.(...)

A completely synchronized news landscape is hard to picture today. Yet in the late 1990s, as media outlets uniformly shifted to the left, a massive audience was left hungry for conservative perspectives, paving the way for outlets like Fox News. Today, that struggle over balanced representation continues in the digital sphere. Tuesday afternoon on the podcast Next Up with Mark Halperin, Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell sat down with Mark Halperin to discuss why both left- and right-leaning platforms should be equally accessible to everyone. The Big Four news apps (Apple, Google, Yahoo, and MSN) favor liberal sources and largely ignore conservative sources, and the MRC is actively working to combat that issue. The Minnesota Star Tribune made it to the top 50 websites in January, all because Apple News linked to them 11 times and Google News linked to them 6 times. @DavidBozell exposes the power of Apple and Google News with @MarkHalperin on @NextUpHalperin pic.twitter.com/8Zlddn4Vxv— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 21, 2026Every month, Press Gazette publishes a breakdown of the top news websites in America. The New York Times consistently leads, followed by CNN, with The Wall Street Journal ranking in the top 15. MRC research shows how public views and opinions are shaped directly by the news sources they read. A Reuters poll revealed that 58% of the country gets their news directly from either Apple News, Google News, Yahoo, or MSN as points of entry—all of which disproportionately push left-wing news outlets. Bozell stated:“The goal is to address where the blockage remains. Right now, conservative outlets are largely blocked at digital points of entry. If we can level the playing field on these news apps, users will get a far more balanced feed."The conservative ecosystem, if given an equal opportunity to thrive, it typically wins." @DavidBozell @MarkHalperin @NextUpHalperin pic.twitter.com/q8HpH36fqM— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 21, 2026Balanced coverage is a necessity— every American should be able to open up their phone and get the news in its entirety, for all that it is. Watch the full episode here: