Brittany M. Hughes
Managing Editor
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Brittany is the managing editor of MRCTV and MRC Culture. She hosts the weekly podcast "The Brittany Hughes Show" and previously hosted "Reality Check" on MRCTV. She's a graduate of the College of William and Mary. Before coming to MRCTV, she worked as an investigative reporter for CNS News. Prior to that, she was an education and politics reporter in Danville, Virginia. 

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Brittany M. Hughes | January 29, 2020
Massachusetts Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said she’s got a plan to criminalize “disseminating [false] information” online, saying she’ll target big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google for “false information that disempowers voters and undermines democracy.” “I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 29, 2020
Six men arrested in connection with running a massive drug ring, including reportedly harboring millions in illegal fentanyl, were released Wednesday morning without bail due to New York’s crazy new law banning cash bail. According to the New York Daily News, Livo Valdez, Jaslin Baldera, Frederick Baldera, Frandi Ledema, Diego Tejada and Pafraimy Antonio were all charged with criminal possession…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 29, 2020
South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 presidential contender Pete Buttigieg and his campaign reportedly handed out questionnaires to employees of color asking them to identify whether they’d been discriminated against in the workplace by being… …left off of email chains? Per a lengthy exposé by the New York Times, Buttigieg’s camp handed out a survey to their staff intended only for “people of…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 29, 2020
Not only can’t he recall when the Obama administration passed legislation (was it the ‘70s, or the 2000s?), now former vice president and current 2020 candidate Joe Biden can’t seem to remember when he was last elected. Speaking at a recent town hall in Marshalltown, Iowa, Biden tried to recall when the Obama administration – of which he was the second-highest member – won their reelection bid,…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 29, 2020
Days after mocking conservative Trump supporters as a bunch of illiterate hicks who're too stupid to read a map -- and only after the clip had gone viral and sparked widespread backlash -- CNN host Don Lemon gave what was perhaps the most insincere non-apology in the history of mea culpas, claiming that he hadn't heard the joke and therefore couldn't be held accountable for laughing at it. "One…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 28, 2020
In a recent segment on his CNN “news” show, host Don Lemon and his guests, CNN commentator Wajahat Ali and ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson, openly mocked Trump supporters as a bunch of illiterate hicks who’re too stupid to know how to read a map, imitating them with exaggerated Southern accents.   The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents. If Donald Trump wins re-election…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 28, 2020
Get ready, America: drag queens are coming to a Super Bowl ad near you. According to The Hill, Sabra Hummus -- because, why wouldn't a chickpea spread need crossdressers? -- has unveiled a short clip from their upcoming Super Bowl commercial featuring two drag queens ("Kim Chi" and "Miz Cracker," to be exact) from the show RuPaul's Drag Race. The ad features two men dressed as women in heavy…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 28, 2020
CNN host Don Lemon and his two-panel of "expert" guests mocked Trump voters as a bunch of illiterate country bumpkins who are too stupid to read a map during a segment Monday night. "[Pompeo] also knows deep within his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it," said ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson. "He knows…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 27, 2020
After his tragic death Sunday afternoon in a helicopter crash that also killed eight others, NBA star Kobe Bryant left behind his wife and three children, the youngest of which was born just last summer. His daughter, Gianna, had planned on carrying on her dad’s legacy as a talented athlete. But who cares about all that when you can use their horrific death to blast Trump and call people racists…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 27, 2020
A Virginia state delegate who just proposed a bill banning so-called “assault weapons” in the state legislature may have just given the most embarrassingly uninformed speech on gun control in history. And, if not, it sure as heck came close. During a recent town hall event, Democratic Del. Mark Levine, who represents parts of Alexandria, Arlington and Northern Virginia's Fairfax County (so we'…