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According to new court filings, the pregnant wife of a USAID worker was denied emergency assistance due to a freeze in USAID medical evacuations by the Trump administration. We have the details over on COURIER's Instagram.

COURIER correspondent Allan Piper breaks down a deeply disturbing tweet from Trump – and why it's especially concerning as it could be interpreted as an open invitation for further political violence on the part of his followers.

Nina Burleigh, author of COURIER's American Freakshow newsletter, is kicking off a new video series profiling a new MAGA "freak" each week. The most recent episode has your deep dive on Trump's new OMB director, Russell Vought.

In an op-ed for COURIER, DJ Koessler of Koessler Strategies unpacks why this new resistance era must be powered by a proliferation of progressive media projects designed to inform, persuade, and activate people.

COURIER congressional correspondent Michael Jones breaks down exactly how the budget reconciliation process – which congressional Republicans will use to implement the Trump administration's agenda – works and will proceed.

Veteran journalist and author of COURIER's Stop The Presses newsletter Mark Jacob explains why mainstream media seems to be “fighting the last war" and using vague descriptions that ultimately endanger our democracy.

Supporters of the bill say teaching the Bible as literature is essential to an education. Iowa schools can already offer these classes, but Republicans say that’s not enough – COURIER's Iowa Starting Line has the full story.

COURIER DFW reports on how Republicans in the TX state legislature have already introduced more bills seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol.

Per COURIER's New Hampshire newsroom, Granite Post, an NH state senator posted her recent experience watching one of her constituents buy “junk food” with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds on social media.