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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton

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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
TONIGHT - The Supreme Court hands Trump massive wins on immigration, while JD Vance downplays Watergate and makes a bizarre comparison to Nixon. Plus, author/writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins to speak on the role of Gaza in the November midterms and beyond.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"We need a big tent Democratic party and right now we have a fake big tent where there is room for you as long you are not going to question those in power... but if you start jeopardizing those things, suddenly there's no room for you in our party." Gen-Z activist Morris Katz's advice for Dems.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@anthonycoley.bsky.social on Republicans breaking with Trump on Iran. "It looks like damage control... 13 Americans have died... Republicans are starting to see the downstream political impact of their inaction."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
TONIGHT - America's hopes for a peace deal with Iran once again rest on JD Vance's shoulders, for better or worse. Plus, what Father's Day looks like under Trump's immigration crackdown.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Donald Trump is about “power for the sake of oppression.” @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social rips Trump’s obsession with power and comparisons of himself to leaders like Hitler.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@ravireports.bsky.social on how he interprets President Trump’s latest Truth Social threat: Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz if a deal isn’t reached within 60 days: “We need to follow the rules, but if we don’t follow the rules only I can break the rules”
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
TONIGHT: Donald Trump's desperate push to end his war with Iran starts to collapse before his eyes as he faces a tough opponent: reality. Plus, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, Jack Schlossberg, joins to discuss his bid for Congress.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@ahylton26.bsky.social: "Are we better off right now... than we were when this whole war began?" Ayman: "No, we are not better off... you've had 13 American service members killed, thousands of Iranians, including schoolchildren killed... from a sheer human toll, we are not better off."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
TONIGHT: It’s Donald Trump’s birthday and he is celebrating like everyone does on their 80th… with a cage fight on the White House Lawn. Plus, State Sen. Mallory McMorrow joins to discuss her contentious bid for the Senate in Michigan
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@ross.house.gov weighs the possibility of Trump pardoning Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: “Pardons are given out like Halloween candy. But he knows that this one is directly tied to him.”
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"Texas has bigger problems... we are number one in school shootings... and from what I've seen... Ken [Paxton] seems to be focusing on Trump, Trump, MAGA, Trump, MAGA, Trump." Former Ken Paxton impeachment lawyer Dan Cogdell on why he's supporting James Talarico.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
"[Mike Johnson] is not a Speaker of the House... he's President Trump's boy and he does whatever Trump wants." @repcohen.bsky.social
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
TONIGHT - Americans cheer Trump's latest humiliation: having his name stripped from the Kennedy Center. Plus, Trump is set to mark his birthday (and America's) with a White House cage fight, and can Americans believe ANYTHING the White House says about Trump's health?
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@gtconway.bsky.social breaks news on The Weekend: Primetime on his campaign in the NY-12 Dem primary. "I'm only doing this for one term... I'm doing this because we need to do something now. We can't survive thirty-two more months of what we've seen for the past sixteen.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
@daniellemoodie.bsky.social: "If [Trump] decided tomorrow, he wanted to come here with a crane and take down the Statue of Liberty and put himself in its place, [Republicans] would clap like seals."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"People should be up in arms!" @nickakerman.bsky.social sounds off on Trump nominating his former lawyer, Todd Blanche, to serve full-time as attorney general.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"This is like holding a winning lottery ticket next to an open flame... "60 Minutes" is a cash cow... if they were to burn this, it does great damage." @macfarlanenews.bsky.social
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"I've seen war... what I saw in Gaza was not a war... I couldn't just go back to my practice and say I've contributed, and I'll do another trip next year." @hamawyfornj.bsky.social explains why he decided to run for Congress after serving as a doctor in Gaza.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
TONIGHT - Despite Trump’s unpopular polling GOP Senators still fall in line behind him on immigration policy, meanwhile the president continues spreading election fraud conspiracy theories as California’s election results roll in. Plus who is Trump’s new spy chief?
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@crampell.bsky.social: "I'm very curious about what happens in both of these (California] elections where Republicans have gotten a lot closer... to securing the leadership of the state and a deep blue city. Former Sen. Barbara Boxer: "No way... I don't want to leave here before saying no way."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
TONIGHT: New restrictions at a New Jersey ICE facility after another night of chaos, plus the countdown to Tuesday's high-stakes primary for California governor. Also... where in the world is Congressman Tom Kean?
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"If anybody is digging up this footage in the future, I just want them to know it is exactly as stupid as I thought. For my grandkids... it was exactly this dumb." @pablo.show reacts to Trump saying he'll hold a rally for his Freedom 250 event after several artists backed out.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@esglaude.bsky.social: "What Trump and America 250 or Freedom 250... what they're going to try to do is to tell a story of the country that emphasizes a particular understanding of America as White."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@skyeperryman.bsky.social an.bsky.social on her legal victory against Trump's $1.8B fund. "This administration is facing over 750 lawsuits, and they are losing far more than they are winning... they want to avoid any accountability... and yesterday you saw the federal courts flat-out say no way"
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
TONIGHT: Trump melts down after a brutal night of legal losses, our Primetime focus into Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton’s shady history, and why on earth is the White House talking about Harambe?
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
TONIGHT - California Congressman Robert Garcia joins to talk Trump's controversial “anti-weaponization” fund. Plus, Keisha Lance Bottoms discusses her race for the Georgia governor's seat, and Jemele Hill on a Black sports boycott over gerrymandering in the South.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
TONIGHT: After a week of blatant Trump corruption Andrew Weissmann joins to discuss, plus David Hogg breaks down what we did and did not learn from the controversial DNC 2024 autopsy. Also California Rep. Robert Garcia talks Trump’s so-called anti-weaponization fund.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“A meth lab of conservative grievance” – @profmmurray.bsky.social jokingly describes how conservative ideals from Supreme Court Justices make their way down to lower courts and end up becoming a real legal theory
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Cuba doesn't pose a threat to the U.S. National Security." Cuban Ambassador to the UN, Ernesto Soberon Guzman, weighs Axios report that the U.S. is assessing a drone threat from Cuba.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Can't you get one woman? Can't you get one person who isn't an older white man? I sound woke; I sound positively woke here!" @elisejordan.bsky.social jokes about the guests for Stephen Colbert's final shows.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@bradleyonishi.bsky.social: "We've gone past Christian nationalism to a form of Christian supremacy that says unless you align with... this government's understanding of religion, then you're not real American... that's what makes it incredibly dangerous."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Mike Johnson is from the South... he absolutely knows that this is bollocks... he is celebrating the return of Jim Crow to the South and that is a terrible thing for America." @staceyabrams.com responds to Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that redistricting will "bring back fairness."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lindsey Graham says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) will lose his GOP primary for going against Trump saying, "this is the part of Donald Trump." Ayman: "What does Donald Trump have on Lindsey Graham?"
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
TONIGHT - Stacey Abrams joins to talk GOP redistricting wars across the country. Plus, Cuba's U.N. ambassador on heightened tension between countries as the U.S. eyes potential drone threats, and a Primetime Focus on the former private prison executive appointed to lead ICE.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
@esglaude.bsky.social: "Racism still occupies the throne of this country... it's also a challenge because we have to raise our babies in this. One of the most difficult challenges of a Black parent in the U.S. is to ensure that their babies grow up not believing what the world says about them."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Rev. Sharpton on Alabama protests: "It's always going to be a percentage of young people and old people that will pay the price for the many... there's enough young people... willing to organize and get this done.”
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
TONIGHT - Thousands march for voting rights in Selma and Montgomery as the redistricting wars heat up. Plus, questions swirl over Trump’s China trip as he appears to leave Xi holding all the cards, and new insight on the fabled DNC autopsy and what it means for 2028.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social : "This is all typical for Brendan Carr, who is Donald Trump's lapdog FCC chairman... he's trying to chill the speech of Donald Trump's critics here."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Former federal prosecutor @glennkirschner.bsky.social says we’re seeing not just a brain drain, but “an ethics drain” from the Department of Justice in the midst of President Trump’s retribution tour.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"This is basically, essentially, surrendering America's attempt to deal with the worst of its racial past." @imarajones.bsky.social on the right's gerrymandering push.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
TONIGHT - The man big tech wants to be CA governor, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. Plus, Iowa Democrat Rob Sand whose governor's race is making Republicans sweat, and Jemele Hill responds to Stephen A. Smith asking Black voters to go Republican.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@crampell.bsky.social: "The fact that Donald Trump's favorite movie is 'Citizen Kane', which is about a child kind of robbed of their childhood. I feel like maybe that would explain what's going on here."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@ahylton26.bsky.social asks TN State Sen. Raumesh Akbari if the state's new gerrymandering map is another Jim Crow moment. She says yes. "I think we will see the largest rollback in Black representation in power since end of Reconstruction."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social: "There is not a single man or woman who carries a badge that I've met that has the slightest iota of respect for Kash Patel... someone who's writing children's books about wizards... this isn't somebody you would trust as a leader."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
TONIGHT - Democrats' new midterm fears after a major redistricting setback in Virginia while red states gerrymander majority-Black districts with no consequences. Plus, one-on-one with Katie Porter and Sheriff Chad Bianco on the high-stakes race to lead California.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“I always talk about going to where the silence is. That is our job as journalists.” @democracynow.org's Amy Goodman on the power of independent journalism.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
“He is a president that is drowning in his dismal poll numbers” @repespaillat.bsky.social responds to why Trump attacked House Minority Leader Jeffries in a new post tonight. @profmmurray.bsky.social then jokes and says the president should take a page out of her new book on the Constitution.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social: "[Alex Jones] has done such irrevocable harm to the biggest victims among us... It’s poetic justice that... a comedy site is very close to owning 'Infowars'."
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"What is likely to happen is that people are likely to spiral on and off of Medicaid... they're going to be at the hospital. The hospital's not going to get paid for their case so we'll see hospitals in decline." NYU's Sherry Glied on the dangers people will face over Medicaid work requirements.
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The Assignment with Antonia Hylton @theassignmentmsnow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized in Florida and is in "critical but stable condition" according to his spokesman.
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