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Anthony Coley

@anthonycoley.bsky.social
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MS NOW political analyst. Former Head of Public Affairs, U.S. DOJ. Obama Treasury official. Former Capitol Hill aide. North Carolinian. Morehouse Man.

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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In other words, Trump's rally in Gastonia (9/16) and Vance's stop in Greensboro (on 9/21) couldn't turn things around for Whatley...
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Florida should be tailor-made for Byron Donalds. But his historic run for governor is colliding with two forces: brutal nat'l political headwinds & a racial barrier no Black Republican has ever broken. My latest for @msnownews.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/byro... www.ms.now/opinion/byro...
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Opinion | Florida Republican Byron Donald's run for governor hits expected trouble
Anthony Coley: No Black Republican has ever been elected governor in the United States
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump telling supporters he'll release the Epstein files...
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump’s oil investments have gained millions during Iran war as his accounts keep trading www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/t...
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Trump's oil investments have gained millions during Iran war as his accounts keep trading
Donald Trump retained major oil and gas investments as the Iran war has moved energy markets. CNBC analyzed his holdings, trades and estimated gains.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
www.axios.com/2026/09/05/r...
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Scoop: Republican midterms convention speakers revealed
The party is using the event to try to fire up core Trump voters.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AG Blanche is speaking @ this GOP convention 51 years ago, a GOP pres sent Ed Levi to DOJ to clean up after Watergate. @ the swearing-in, Ford said politics have no place in law enforcement. Levi said the law is not an instrument of partisan purpose That was the post-Watergate standard. Until now
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nothing burnishes a reporter’s credibility faster than a Trump attack. In July, Kristen Welker took heat for yukking it up w/ Stephen Miller at the WHCA dinner. Now Trump’s attacking her over a benign, accurate statement. Maybe Trump world is helping her more than hurting her
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The rookies arent doing so well in court….
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Jeanine Pirro’s Office Failing to Get Convictions in an ‘Increasingly Alarming Number’ of Cases, CNN Reports
CNN reported that Pirro’s office has struggled to persuade juries even in violent crime cases prosecutors believed presented straightforward evidence.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Blanche says Trump never calls him and says, "Go prosecute X or Y." He doesn't have to. Blanche understands the assignment. And when Trump thinks DOJ is moving too slowly, he says so as he did at 6:44 pm on 9/20 when he pressured Bondi to pursue Schiff, James, & Comey truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Truth Social
Truth Social is America's "Big Tent" social media platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Todd Blanche says Trump's $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is "dead." 🤔  But if DOJ can use existing law instead, does it matter? **My latest: Blanche's nomination may be stalled, but payouts to Trump allies are already underway.** www.ms.now/opinion/todd...
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Opinion | Todd Blanche is leaving out an important part of the ‘anti-weaponization’ fund story
Congress spent the spring in an uproar over Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. That fight was necessary. But it was also, in a sense, the easy one.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The DNC is right to center Black voters in the Dem primary process. But why not do it in competitive states that decide presidential elections? Ga and NC fit that bill. SC doesn't. The Dem primary calendar shouldn't just choose the nominee. It should expand the playing field.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New Jersey found an error, and disclosed it. Trump fabricated a fraud narrative, and more than 60 courts rejected it. Those are not the same thing.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Todd Blanche is an architect of the Epstein cover-up. Any vote to make him AG is an endorsement of it. There is no split-the-difference vote here. Every senator who votes yes owns it.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Hey there👋 It’s from Sid Mashburn — my first time wearing it on air… you’ll see it again soon lol Thanks for watching!
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
2007: I had to prove a governor wasn’t dying. 2026: Watching the same rumors swirl around Mitch McConnell. Some lessons never expire.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Jan. 6 insurrectionists don’t need Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund to get paid. That’s a problem. If Congress doesn’t want the government paying the people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then it needs to change the law.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Jan. 6 insurrectionists *don’t* need Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund to get paid. That’s a problem. I write about here: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | The reported end of Trump's $1.8 billion ‘slush fund’ isn't enough
Anthony Coley: What Congress must do to stop the people who attacked the Capitol from getting paid
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
#DOJ just deleted 100s of #January6th press releases and called them “partisan propaganda.” I ran public affairs at DOJ. I oversaw that website. Those releases were grounded in court records, federal law, and facts. Deleting them doesn’t change the truth, it just tells you what they’re afraid of.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris misread the moment: 2024 was a change election and Democrats ran a continuity ticket. #DNCautopsy
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
But they say “Back the Blue” In response to @coons.senate.gov, Todd Blanche didn’t rule out taxpayer funds going to convicted Jan 6rs who attacked law enforcement on Jan 6
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My message to former DOJ colleagues: Silence, at this dark moment in American history, is NOT an option. When you see something that is not right, something that’s undermines the rule of law, SAY something, DO something. Shine the bright light of transparency on it. @msnowreports.bsky.social
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Trump is attacking Iran. He's attacking the Pope. He's attacking Norah O'Donnell. He's doing everything but attacking these high gas prices and attacking this cost-of-living crisis. @theweekendprime.bsky.social
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
If only Trump could focus on these gas prices like he’s focused on Jim Comey….
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
They’re using Saturday night to sell you a ballroom. Don’t fall for it. This isn’t about a building. It’s about systemic failure….
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They know this lawsuit won’t survive a courtroom. So they’re trying it in the court of public opinion, while handing defense counsel a textbook jury-pool poisoning argument.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They know this lawsuit won’t survive a courtroom. So they’re trying it in the court of public opinion, while handing defense counsel a textbook jury-pool poisoning argument.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If people can’t see Christ in the Christian, then reading the entire Bible out loud in one week doesn’t really matter
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
On Kash Patel and his frivolous lawsuit against The Atlantic magazine…
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The beneficiaries aren’t hard to identify: Big business + the evangelical right; an alliance decades in the making. Now it sets the Court’s direction. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@jodikantor.bsky.social & @adamliptak.bsky.social bombshell brings a blurry picture into focus: The shadow docket + Dobbs decision are difft tactics, same strategy: set aside precedent whenever it blocks policy goals. (1/2)
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump had time for the Easter Egg Roll on Monday. Just not for church on Resurrection Sunday? The most Christian president ever. People are saying.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It happened again. It always happens. Trump discards loyalists the moment they won’t bend the law or can’t deliver what the courts won’t allow. Sessions. Barr. Pence. etc. Now Pam Bondi. The pattern never changes. Only the names do.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
You don't stop a fight because of the round number. If a fighter can go another round — if he can still throw a punch & stand his ground — you let him fight. (I see you @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social). Age isn’t the question. Ability is.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Mercy should follow genuine remorse. Genuine remorse means taking responsibility for your actions. Tina Peters has chosen defiance. My latest for @ms.now: www.ms.now/opinion/colo...
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Opinion | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis shouldn’t free Tina Peters
Anthony Coley: Capitulation doesn’t end pressure. It invites more of it.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
If it was fair game to grill Fani Willis about her relationship with Nathan Wade, it is absolutely fair game for @RepKamlagerDove to ask Kristi Noem if she is sleeping with her subordinate Corey Lewandowski
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
But the affordability crisis is a "hoax" WSJ (gift link): More Americans are digging into their retirement savings because of financial emergencies. The data paint a divergent financial picture of American workers’ finance www.wsj.com/personal-fin...
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Record Numbers of Workers Are Raiding Their 401(k) Savings
A divergent economy has given people record retirement savings and more need to dig into them.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fun Fact: Trump's AGs last, on average, 21 months. Bondi is at month 13 — and 5 GOPers just joined Dems to subpoena her over Epstein. She's been on thin ice since she 'whiffed' — Susie Wiles' word — on the files early on. Prediction: gone by Labor Day. Festivus at the latest.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
9/11 proved that when we fail to connect the dots, Americans can die. Trump’s purges have gotten rid of people and weakened systems responsible for connecting them. Read my latest for MSNow here: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump's short-sighted decision to weaken the FBI before attacking Iran
Anthony Coley: Before attacking Iran, Trump made the U.S. less safe
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Using law enforcement to intimidate journalists doesn't just silence one voice; it creates a chilling effect designed to blind the public and muzzle the free press.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This raid is a frontal assault on the 1st Amendment. Hannah provided a secure channel for whistleblowers to expose the corrupt and immoral subversion of the presidency, and THAT is why she was targeted....
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F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material
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The Weeknight on MS NOW @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“Borrowed time”: @ms.now political analyst @anthonycoley.bsky.social joins The Weeknight to respond to the growing turmoil inside the Trump Justice Department.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Can we go back to disliking Jim Comey now? That October ’16 hit on Hillary still stings.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
But why does that lady already have her Christmas tree up? [my inner dialogue 🤦🏾‍♂️ 😂]
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Just brutal numbers for Trump in latest Fox News polling —76% of voters view the economy negatively. — Voters blame the president. About twice as many say President Donald Trump, rather than Biden, is responsible for the current economy. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Fox News Poll: Voters say White House is doing more harm than good on economy
Trump's approval hits new lows as 76% view economy negatively in the latest Fox News poll. Rising costs for groceries, utilities spark voter dissatisfaction nationwide.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
What I told Amie Parnes @thehill.com why my views on Schumer are changing…
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
2. Dems like Ron Wyde were on the Epstein money trail *years* before this latest noise.👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
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In Epstein Case, Follow the Money, Democratic Senator Says
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Let’s clear up this lazy GOP spin that Dems were “MIA” on Epstein during the Biden Administration. 🧵 1. The Biden DOJ couldn’t release the files while Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal was pending — even felons get due process. SCOTUS closed that chapter, declining to hear her appeal last month.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Insightful reporting by @alivitali.bsky.social But effective political leaders (think Pelosi) wouldn't have allowed this kinda freelancing: "Sen Schumer knew we were meeting with Sen Thune,” Shaheen said. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
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Inside the backroom negotiations that led to the shutdown deal
For many of the Democrats who eventually supported the Republican spending bill, the shutdown strategy was one they were never comfortable with.
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Michelle Obama said it best: “Being president doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are"
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Anthony Coley @anthonycoley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Read more about the ex-speaker of the Tenn House that Trump just pardoned, and how he and his chief of staff deceived (and profited from) fellow Rs with a sham political consulting firm. From justice.gov
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Department of Justice | Homepage | United States Department of Justice
Official website of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). DOJ’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threat...
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