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 | February 1, 2017
Immediately following President Donald Trump’s announcement nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court Tuesday night, the Freedom From Religion Foundation – a militant atheist group known for targeting police departments and Gideons International over even the most basic religious expression – released a statement condemning Gorsuch for his past history of affirming religious freedom and…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
President Donald Trump tapped Neil Gorsuch as his pick to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, announcing his choice at precisely 8 p.m. on Tuesday night. And in less than one hour, Sen. Chuck Schumer, anti-Trump protester extraordinaire, had already issued a statement expressing "serious doubts" over whether Gorsuch will be able to "vigorously defend the Constitution from…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
A new report published Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office on Medicaid reveals the federal government lost a stunning $36 billion in fraudulent and improper payments made under the Medicaid program last year alone. "Medicaid is a joint federal-state health care program for low income and medically needy people, with an estimated $36 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2016…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
In a pretty clear message to liberal LGBT activists who seem to think Donald Trump will revoke gay Americans’ rights and start stoning queer people to death in the streets, the White House on Tuesday released a statement Tuesday saying the 45th president will uphold an Obama-era executive order that protects LGBTQ individuals who work for federal contractors from workplace discrimination. Here’s…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
In case you took a trip to outer space this weekend and missed all the madness, President Donald Trump signed an (admittedly flawed) Executive Order this weekend temporarily banning refugees from seven Middle Eastern countries while the State and Homeland Security departments review the refugee vetting process and make sure it's up to snuff. The move sent shockwaves through the liberal community…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
After only 11 days in office, President Donald Trump is set to announce his nominee to the Supreme Court Tuesday at 8 p.m. The ninth SCOTUS seat has sat empty for nearly a year, ever since Justice Antonin Scalia suddenly passed away last February. GOP leaders in the U.S. Senate refused to confirm President Obama’s pick to fill the seat, Merrick Garland, during the presidential campaign – a risky…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
According to a new poll out from Gallup, Republican states dominate those that identify as Democratic by a full 33 percent, marking a significant flip in state-by-state politics over the last eight years. The number of states identifying as Democratic has dropped by a full 60 percent since 2008, while the number of Republican-leaning states has more than quadrupled, according to Gallup. The…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 31, 2017
In a win for American safety, U.S. border agents nabbed a Mexican national coming through a U.S. port of entry who was listed among the FBI’s top 10 most wanted fugitives. Guadalajara native Robert Francis Van Wisse, 51, crossed the U.S. border on foot at a port of entry in Laredo, Texas on Jan. 26 and was referred for a secondary inspection. After running his biometric data, agents discovered…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 30, 2017
The moral outrage over President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration Friday slammed into social media like a wrecking ball over the weekend, generating copious knee-jerk reactions that effectively buried any ounce of truth beneath an avalanche of emotional hyperbole. Seeking to justify himself following the (albeit badly implemented) new visa policy, Trump asserted that his temporary…
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Brittany M. Hughes | January 30, 2017
Once upon a time, more than two decades ago, then-President Bill Clinton used a State of the Union address to slam the number of illegal aliens who’d been allowed to stay in the United States – sounding an awfully lot like now-President Donald Trump, who’s been called racist, bigoted and anti-American for daring to say the same thing. Back in 1995, Clinton (whose wife was recently held up as a…