MSNBC announced a new name for the network on Monday after being thrown out of the NBCUniversal club and forced to drop both the NBC and the peacock logo from their branding. The network’s new name will be MS NOW.

If Trump is taking tactical advice from Putin about how to hold an election, that doesn’t bode well for the future of American democracy.

In a monologue entitled "It's Not Coming, It's Here," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow declared, "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.

The MSNBC anchor warned viewers that the United States is not headed towards an authoritarian state under President Donald Trump: W

Rachel Maddow points out that the thing most Americans were dreading has come to pass, and the United States has changed profoundly in only six months of authoritarian rule. "We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow offered a half-hour diatribe accusing President Donald Trump of turning the U.S. into an “authoritarian country,” rambling about immigration enforcement and Texas redistricting.

MSNBC ’s Rachel Maddow says Americans no longer have to fear potential authoritarianism in their own country, because “we are there” already — and cited President Donald Trump ’s widespread immigration raids, detainments without probable cause and use of military force.

RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Trump said Putin says that people shouldn't be allowed to vote by mail. Says that he got that idea from Putin. And so today Trump says that he will sign an executive order banning Americans nationwide from voting by mail.

The MSNBC host, who lives in Western Massachusetts, opened her show Monday night by citing data that show D.C.’s crime rates have dropped in recent years.