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Tina Nguyen

Senior Reporter, Washington
Senior Reporter, Washington
Tina Nguyen is a Senior Reporter for The Verge and the author of Regulator, a newsletter covering the second Trump administration, political influencers, tech lobbying and Big Tech vs. Big Government. Before joining The Verge, Nguyen was a founding partner at Puck, where she covered the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem; a White House reporter for Politico covering the first Trump administration; and a staff writer at Vanity Fair covering politics and media. She is the author of The MAGA Diaries: Life Among the Fanatics, Extremists and True Believers that Created the Modern Right, published by One Signal/Atria/Simon and Shuster in January 2024. Nguyen is based in Washington, D.C.
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