TREASON - Miles Taylor - Bias and Credibility

LEFT-CENTER BIAS

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Overall, we rate TREASON as Left-Center biased based on Miles Taylor’s consistent criticism of Donald Trump and emphasis on defending democratic institutions, which aligns more with liberal democratic than conservative perspectives. We also rate them Mostly Factual due to generally accurate reporting and transparency of authorship, though limited sourcing within articles prevents a higher rating.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER (-2.4)
Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL (3.0)
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

History

TREASON is a personal newsletter by former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor that publishes “raw dispatches from inside the fight to protect democracy’s guardrails,” with frequent updates on his legal challenge to an alleged “revenge” order and broader warnings about authoritarian backsliding.

The About page identifies Taylor, summarizes his government service, and frames the outlet as a whistleblower-driven project focused on threats to free speech and democratic norms. Taylor’s background and authorship are also well documented, as well as his prior “Anonymous” op-ed, I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.

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Funded by / Ownership

The site is authored and owned by Miles Taylor; subscriptions (free and paid) fund the project, and paid plans explicitly support a related legal defense fund. The About page states that paid subscribers get archive access and members-only features, while the linked initiative End Presidential Revenge seeks donations “to end presidential revenge against Miles Taylor & others.” Taylor is also associated with the Forward Party, a centrist political organization founded by Andrew Yang.

Analysis / Bias

The editorial direction is openly anti-authoritarian and highly critical of Donald Trump and the current administration, but that stance is not inherently “left”; Taylor’s Forward Party alignment and long Republican/DHS pedigree indicate a moderate liberal, pro-rule-of-law orientation rather than partisan progressive advocacy. That said, the content routinely argues that Trump is politicizing law enforcement and erecting an illiberal “deep state,” e.g., “Trump is creating the ‘deep state’ he decried”, and calls for robust nonviolent resistance to National Guard deployments in opposition-run cities, e.g., “The GOP would call this ‘civil war’”.

The tone is opinion-forward and urgent, with limited in-text sourcing typical of personal newsletters; however, claims are generally consistent with contemporaneous reporting about retaliatory governance and agency purges (see, for example, recent analyses in mainstream outlets). Overall, the slant is democracy-defensive and anti-Trump, yielding a Left-Center bias under MBFC’s spectrum, rather than “Left,” because the worldview is institutionalist/centrist-reformist more than ideologically progressive.

Failed Fact Checks

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Overall, we rate TREASON as Left-Center biased based on Miles Taylor’s consistent criticism of Donald Trump and emphasis on defending democratic institutions, which aligns more with liberal democratic than conservative perspectives. We also rate them Mostly Factual due to generally accurate reporting and transparency of authorship, though limited sourcing within articles prevents a higher rating. (D. Van Zandt 09/09/2025)

Source: https://www.treason.io/

Last Updated on September 9, 2025 by Media Bias Fact Check