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Luke Russert
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Co-Host The Weeknight @ms.now 🇺🇸
M-F 7pm ET/4pm PT
Author of NYT/WSJ bestseller
📘 “Look For Me There.”
Emmy Award Winner 📺
Traveler—72 📍Countries 🗺️
#BillsMafia 🦬

https://www.lookformethere.com
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Hi! I’m seeing a lot of folks take measure and beginning to process their own lives against what’s happening in the 🇺🇸. Sometimes you need a reset, to listen to that impulse for self-discovery, to process grief or other trauma. I hope my book can help www.barnesandnoble.com/w/look-for-m...
Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself|Paperback
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with new afterword from the author. In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the...
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On our air—Rep Beatty recounts be berated by Trump for having the audacity to defend the integrity of the Kennedy Center.
“He went into a tantrum”: @repbeatty.bsky.social, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center board, joins The Weeknight to detail the tense exchange she had with Trump after a judge ruled that he cannot put his name anywhere on the Kennedy Center building or its grounds.
September 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The President called concern over the emerging threat of AI a “hoax” earlier today. Whereas the Senator who survived brutal live combat in Iraq is terrified.
“A true existential threat”: @gallego.senate.gov joins The Weeknight amid alarming calls for more government regulation from leading voices in the AI industry.
September 15, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Reposted by Luke Russert
“Subvert democracy”: A shocking new whistleblower report alleges DHS agents have possibly been ordered to illegally access state voter rolls. The Weeknight hosts react to the breaking news.
September 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Tim Russert’s finest hour. 🇺🇸
September 11, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Some people spent $88k to take a picture with Donald Trump at this thing. 💸
“Rally the cult”: @lukerussert.bsky.social reacts to the RNC's "Trumpapalooza" convention in Dallas, Texas, where Republicans are struggling with how to navigate Trump's sinking brand.
September 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Hi @ms.now fans! Today we’re launching our membership service. It’ll be a great place to interact with your favorite on air hosts and reporters. More importantly we’re trying to build out a likeminded community. Hope you give it a chance! www.ms.now/membership
Membership
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September 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Look for me there— @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social we’re back 7pm ET. I’ll have at least one more loyal viewer than before!
September 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
We’ll do it live! 🤠
@symonedsanders.bsky.social, @michaelsteele.bsky.social, and @lukerussert.bsky.social will take you live to Texas for the RNC midterm convention! Tune in next Thursday, September 10th at 7 PM ET / 6 PM CT on MS NOW.
September 4, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The U.S. Mint is selling a $1 Trump
Coin. 100 for $154.50! 🙃🙃🙃
September 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Reposted by Luke Russert
“The president is a LOSER!”: The Weeknight hosts react to Donald Trump posting AI-generated photos of himself with the one-and-only Dolly Parton.
August 29, 2026 at 1:53 AM
9/26/26, don’t miss the chance to attend “Together in Texas: We The People 2026,” As 🇺🇸 heads toward the 2026 midterm elections, we’re bringing conversations with top newsmakers and insights from your favorite MS NOW hosts to the place at the center of it all: Texas 🤠 www.ms.now/together-in-...
Together In Texas: We the People 2026
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August 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Of course it's UNSIGNED.
August 24, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Reposted by Luke Russert
In its new rule to implement Trump’s anti-mail voting order, the United States Postal Service compared mail ballots to fake bombs and human and animal remains. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
USPS compares mail ballots to fake bombs, cremated remains
“Although ballot mail does not present precisely the same operational issues as cremated remains or replica explosives, it is unquestionably sensitive mail that raises unique operational consideration...
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August 24, 2026 at 8:43 PM
The Supreme Court is so compromised.
August 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
It’s gratifying to see people embrace solo travel. Take the trip! You can do it. No matter your age, gender, race, religion, orientation-there’s a solo trip for you in this world 🌍! www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Solo travel searches hit a record high in 2026
More people are embracing the freedom of going wherever they want, whenever they want — without waiting for someone else.
www.axios.com
August 19, 2026 at 4:32 PM
🚨 ‘Stranger things have happened’: Trump hedges when pressed on declaring election emergency
The fact that the president left the door open to a constitutional crisis ahead of the midterms is, to understate matters, profoundly unsettling.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
‘Stranger things have happened’: Trump hedges when pressed on declaring election emergency
The fact that Trump left the door open to a constitutional crisis ahead of the midterms is, to understate matters, profoundly unsettling.
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August 12, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Reposted by Luke Russert
We’re so excited to welcome Catalina Teresa Russert to The Weeknight family! @lukerussert.bsky.social will be taking a few weeks away to spend time with his wife and baby girl.
July 28, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I’ll be back in September. Time to go work the most important job I’ll ever have. 🙌 ❤️
We’re so excited to welcome Catalina Teresa Russert to The Weeknight family! @lukerussert.bsky.social will be taking a few weeks away to spend time with his wife and baby girl.
July 28, 2026 at 2:05 AM
“both the Old and the New Testaments call for people of faith to do the opposite of almost everything that Miller celebrates through the prism of white Christian Nationalism.” My latest homily www.ms.now/opinion/step...
Opinion | Stephen Miller laid bare the White House’s religious hypocrisy
His rhetoric about leftists betrayed a broader blasphemy of the second Trump administration.
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July 25, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Luke Russert
How are Democrats preparing for the next election? MS NOW's @alivitali.bsky.social spoke exclusively with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about exercises Senate Democrats and election officials are doing to combat potential threats to election integrity posed by President Trump.
July 23, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I asked Liz Oyer what it was like to work for Todd Blanche. He sent armed U.S. Marshals to her home to try and stop her from speaking to Congress.
Fired DOJ attorney @lawyeroyer.com calls Todd Blanche “totally beholden” to Trump and “totally unfit to be the AG”
July 22, 2026 at 2:59 AM
The Trump Adm and the right wing media echo chamber will jump on this hard. 1. Less than 400 actually voted. 2. The Dem Gov investigated, reported and corrected: www.onnj.com/governor-mik...
Governor Mikie Sherrill Announces Software Glitch Led to Erroneous Registration of 6,600 Non-Citizens - On New Jersey
Governor Mikie Sherrill revealed Monday that a software error in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) system improperly registered approximately 6,600
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July 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Millennial reflections with @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social on the Iran War dead. What did they lose their life for?
July 21, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Reposted by Luke Russert
@agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov joins The Weeknight to discuss his huge legal win in the fight over Paramount’s potential merger with Warner Bros, after a federal judge paused the $110 billion merger thanks to an antitrust lawsuit brought by Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general.
July 21, 2026 at 1:03 AM