Outlet profile

The National Pulse

U.S. far-right / MAGA

Owned byIndependently operated; editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam, a British political activist and former editor of Breitbart News London, controls editorial direction

FundingReader memberships via the Pulse+ subscription program; the outlet states it accepts no corporate, billionaire, or political campaign money

On the administrationbroadly supportive

Background

The National Pulse traces its origins to the 2016 U.S. presidential primary cycle, when its founding team began publishing out of stated concern about mainstream media misinformation. Raheem Kassam — who had previously served as editor-in-chief of Breitbart News London and as chief political adviser to UKIP leader Nigel Farage — became the site's editor-in-chief in late 2019, and the outlet expanded into a full news and podcast operation by early 2020. Its tagline, 'Where MAGA Goes to Know,' signals an explicit, self-declared alignment with Donald Trump's political movement rather than a claim of neutral reporting. The publication is funded entirely through a reader-membership model called Pulse+ and publicly refuses corporate advertising and political campaign money. Media bias trackers place it on the hard right: Media Bias/Fact Check rates it far-right with low factual reporting, AllSides rates it Right, and Ad Fontes Media also rates it Right; Ground News aggregates these into a low factuality score. Kassam has co-authored books promoting strong anti-immigration arguments and has been a regular contributor to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast and One America News, cementing the outlet's place in the hard-right U.S. media ecosystem. Coverage of the Trump administration's second term has been consistently favorable, amplifying MAGA-aligned narratives on immigration enforcement, mainstream media criticism, and cultural conservatism.

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Profile compiled 2026-07-19; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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