CURE News Digest: Thursday, March 19, 2026
CURE News
3-18-26 e pluribus cartoonum
“Dualing Senators” by RJ Matson (editorial cartoonist)
“There Was a Blockbuster Faceoff At The Senate Confirmation Hearing For Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s New Nominee To Head The Department Of Homeland Security”
https://rjmatson.substack.com/p/dueling-senators3-18-26 Adam Kinzinger substack
“A Blueprint for Staying in the Fight” by Adam Kinzinger
“The most important battle we face isn't in Congress, in the courts, or at the ballot box. It's the one happening right now inside each of us.”3-19-26 Letters from an American
“March 18, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
On the Senate Finance Committee, “Wyden also posted today on social media: ‘HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche—Trump’s former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer to a cushy club fed—has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team…. This is stunning interference. The document I’m after literally says ‘unclassified’ at the top. The investigation it details is closed. Given Blanche’s close personal ties to Donald Trump, this reeks of a continued coverup to protect key names in the Trump administration.’”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-18-20263-19-26 The Existentialist Republic
“What Do Countries Do When the Head of Their Country Is a Foreign Asset?” By Christopher Armitage
“Other democracies have been here. Here is what they did.”
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/what-do-countries-do-when-the-head3-18-26 Popular Information
“The new, bigoted leader of the College Republicans” by Noel Sims
“Kai Schwemmer, a 23-year-old college student from Utah, was named the new political director for the College Republicans of America (CRA) on March 5. The appointment has drawn criticism because Schwemmer has been an outspoken supporter of white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Devoted fans of Fuentes are known as ‘groypers.’”
https://popular.info/p/the-new-bigoted-leader-of-the-college3-17-26 The Up and Up
“Gen Z men are Obama-pilled” by Rachel Janfaza
“They distrust institutions but admire the former president. Here’s why.”
https://www.theupandup.us/p/gen-z-men-are-obama-pilled
3-18-26 Lincoln Square Media
“Why the DOJ’s Antifa Terrorism Convictions Threaten the First Amendment” by Frank Figliuzzi
“A Fort Worth, Texas case shows we’re on a slippery slope toward labeling any president’s ideological opponents as organized terrorists.”
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/why-the-dojs-antifa-terrorism-convictions3-18-26 The Contrarian
“Hard Truths” by Jennifer Rubin
“I did not want the day to pass without addressing the horrifying and deeply researched New York Times report that farm worker labor leader César Chávez sexually abused numerous girls for years.”
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/hard-truths
3-18-26 The Red Letter
19-minute video recording featuring Tara Palmeri & Alex Isenstadt, Axios White House reporter
“Trump Won’t Endorse – and Republicans Are Paying the Price”
“Trump’s fear of picking the wrong side in Texas is paralyzing the primary – and could force the GOP to spend over $250 million defending a seat that was never supposed to be competitive.”
https://www.tarapalmeri.com/p/trump-wont-endorseand-republicans
2-24-26 Propublica
“As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content” by Craig Silverman
“Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-contentEnd of CURE News Digest: Thursday, March 19, 2026
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
in a final sense, [is] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed.” (1953)
~Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States