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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, nicknamed the Jug, was an American World War II fighter built by Republic Aviation that served as a bomber escort and ground-attack aircraft.
Republic Records
Republic Records is an American record label founded in 1995 by Monte and Avery Lipman, now a Universal Music Group division; Billboard's #1 label of the last decade, home to Taylor Swift, Drake, and The Weeknd imprints.
Republic Services
Republic Services is an American environmental services company providing solid waste collection, recycling, and landfill disposal across the United States and Canada, with 2025 revenue of $16.6 billion.
Republic TV
Republic TV is a private free-to-air English news channel in India, launched 6 May 2017 by Arnab Goswami and Rajeev Chandrashekhar under ARG Outlier Media. Owned mainly by Goswami via SARG Media Holding, it anchors the four-channel Republic Media Network and leads English news viewership claims, while bias raters classify it as right-leaning.
Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech
The Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech was an American experimental turboprop fighter tested in 1955 and 1956, canceled after 12 flights and infamous for its deafening supersonic propeller.
Republic: The Revolution
Republic: The Revolution is a 2003 Elixir Studios PC political strategy game, designed by Demis Hassabis, about overthrowing a president-for-life in fictional Novistrana using Force, Wealth, and Influence; Metacritic 62.
Republica
Republica: British rock band formed in London in 1994, fronted by Saffron (Samantha Marie Sprackling), blending acid house, punk, and guitars. Known for the 1996 debut album (UK No. 4) and hits "Ready to Go" and "Drop Dead Gorgeous." Not the Polish band Republika.
República de indios
The república de indios, one of the two sociopolitical orders of Spanish America alongside the república de españoles, took shape in the mid-sixteenth century under royal cédulas.
Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)
The Republican faction (bando republicano) of the Spanish Civil War was the Popular Front coalition of republicans, socialists, communists, and anarcho-syndicalists defending the Second Republic against Franco's Nationalists, 1936–1939, defeated April 1, 1939.
Republican Guard (الحرس الجمهوري) (Iraq)
Iraqi Republican Guard (Al-Haris al-Jamhuri, الحرس الجمهوري), Saddam Hussein's elite volunteer ground force founded 1963, expanded to 8 divisions by 1991; dissolved by CPA Order 2 in May 2003.
Republican in name only
Republican in name only (RINO) is a US political pejorative for a Republican seen as insufficiently conservative or disloyal; the phrase dates to 1875, the acronym to the early 1990s, and in the Trump era it signals personal disloyalty to Trump rather than policy deviation.
Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
Republican insurgency in Afghanistan: armed campaign by pro-republic groups, mainly the National Resistance Front (NRF) led by Ahmad Massoud and the Afghanistan Freedom Front, against Taliban rule since the 15 August 2021 takeover; guerrilla attacks, no territorial control.
Republican Left of Catalonia
Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC), Catalan left-wing pro-independence party founded in Barcelona in March 1931 by Macià, Companys, and Lluhí; governed Catalonia under the Second Republic and won the Catalan presidency in 2021.
Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee is the national governing committee of the Republican Party. It manages the party between quadrennial conventions and operates alongside the NRSC and NRCC.
Republican National Convention
The Republican National Convention (RNC) is the quadrennial nominating convention of the United States Republican Party, where delegates nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates and adopt the platform.
Republican Party (United States)
Republican Party (GOP), US party founded 1854 against slavery extension; now Trump's party holding a 2024 trifecta; 48% of voters lean Republican heading into the November 3, 2026 midterms.
Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election
Coordinated Republican National Committee, Trump campaign, and allied litigation, poll watching, voter roll challenge, and certification pressure campaigns around the 2024 U.S. presidential election, rooted in 2020 election denialism, largely rejected by courts.
Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 United States presidential election
Republican Party efforts to disrupt voting after the 2024 US election took four forms: executive orders asserting control over election rules, proof-of-citizenship legislation, restrictive state voting laws, and litigation.
Republican Party of Alberta
The Republican Party of Alberta, formerly the Buffalo Party of Alberta, is a registered provincial party that campaigns for a binding referendum on Alberta's independence.
Republican Party of Chile
The Republican Party of Chile (Partido Republicano de Chile), commonly known as Republicanos, is a far-right Chilean political party founded in 2018 by José Antonio Kast, whose 2025 candidacy won the presidency.
Republican Party of India
Republican Party of India (RPI), Ambedkarite party founded 1957 as successor to the Scheduled Castes Federation; strongest in Maharashtra and western UP, later split into factions including RPI(A) and RPI (United).
Republican Party of São Paulo
The Republican Party of São Paulo (Partido Republicano Paulista) was a Brazilian party founded in 1873 by coffee planters, which led the republican movement and dominated politics until 1930.
Republican People's Party
The Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi, CHP), founded by Atatürk in 1923, is Turkey's oldest party and main opposition. It ruled the single-party republic until 1950 and in 2024 local elections outpolled the AKP with 37.8 percent.
Republican People's Party absolute nullity crisis
CHP absolute nullity crisis: Turkish courts declared the Republican People's Party's November 2023 congress (mutlak butlan) void, ousting Özgür Özel, reinstating Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, and ordering a new congress.
Republican Revolution
The Republican Revolution: the 1994 US midterm sweep in which Newt Gingrich's Contract with America gave Republicans House and Senate control for the first time in 40 years, producing the 104th Congress, budget shutdowns, and the 1996 welfare reform law.
Republican Sinn Féin
Republican Sinn Féin (Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is an Irish republican party founded in 1986 by members who walked out of the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis to keep abstentionism.
Republican-era Turkish novel
The Republican-era Turkish novel (Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Romanı) covers novels written in Turkey from the Republic's proclamation in 1923 to the present, with major early works appearing in 1922.
Republican-era Turkish short story
The Republican-era Turkish short story (hikâye, öykü) is short fiction written in Turkey from the Republic's founding in 1923 onward, in plain language focused on social themes.
Republican-era Turkish theatre
Republican-era Turkish theatre (Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk Tiyatrosu) is the Western-style theatrical tradition of Turkey from 1923 onward, when the new state treated theater as a vehicle for spreading republican principles.
Republicanism
Republicanism, in political theory, a tradition and contemporary doctrine (civic/neo-republicanism, Skinner, Pettit) treating liberty as non-domination rather than non-interference; contrasts with liberalism over arbitrary power, civic virtue, participation, and institutional protection against misrule.