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Text • Josh Marshall

Grand Jury Skullduggery, Reflecting Pool Edition?

Lawyers for former Olympian David Hearn, charged with felony vandalism of Trump’s already falling apart Reflecting Pool refurb, went to...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Sherrill Signals She Won’t Hand Over Names of Noncitizens Who Voted as DOJ Seeks Scapegoats

‘We Have Seen Them Weaponize It’ It appears as though New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) will not comply with...

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Text • Emine Yücel

Senate Poised to Once Again Collapse Into Chaos Over SAVE Act 

President Donald Trump on Monday morning called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to cancel the upper chamber’s lengthy...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Please Stop What You’re Doing

Sorry for the brusque headline. But we really need your help here. We’re at the hardest part of our Annual...

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Text • Josh Marshall

The West Bank Electoral Strategy

This short passage in an article (paywalled) in Haaretz focuses on a point that hasn’t been sufficiently visible in the...

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Text • Kelcie Moseley-Morris, States Newsroom

The Trump Admin’s New Teen Pregnancy Prevention Plan Hinges on MAHA and Abstinence

This story was originally published by States Newsroom. The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy:...

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Text • Josh Marshall

The Paramount Merger and the Power of the States

Yesterday I was reading this piece from Status about the agreement between Paramount and the states suing the company on...

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Text • David Kurtz

Another Abrego Garcia: Man Unlawfully Deported Twice

Now Lost in Salvadoran Prison System A new court order Friday in federal court in south Texas, first flagged by...

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Text • Kate Riga

Appeals Court Prevents Trump Administration from Messing with Mail-In Voting Before Midterms

A First Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court ruling Sunday that blocks the federal government from overhauling...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Thoughts On Immigration Rhetoric and the Gnashing of Teeth

Perhaps I’m flattering myself or my country. But the language and mindset of great replacement and race armies overrunning a...

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Text • John Light

The Brief: Trump Admin Concedes a Blunt Truth About Russ Vought’s OMB

Hello there. We’re back after a week away. Administration Explains to Court How It Has Weaponized Federalism  It’s becoming a...

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Text • Derick Dirmaier, Hunter Walker and Allegra Kirkland

Are Politicians Ready to Stop Turning Back the Clock?

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Text • Josh Marshall

New WSJ Article Paints Trump in ‘Downfall Video’ Type Scenes in the Oval

The Journal has an article today about the increasing unreality of the strategy, if one can call it that, the...

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Text • Kate Riga

Federal Judge Rules That FDA’s Mifepristone Restrictions Are Excessive, Unscientific and Unlawful

A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of an abortion provider Thursday, finding that the Food and Drug Administration’s...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Trump’s New ‘Forced Labor’ Tariffs Were Set Under Sham Pretenses

President Donald Trump has made clear from very early in his second term that he intends to reorder global trade...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Important Drive Update!

We need to get to $325,000 today to stay on track for our goal in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

Extremely Online: Minnesota ‘Antifa’ Cases Born of Internet Beef With Far-right Activists

In two cases this year, federal prosecutors announced that they had finally done it: charged the “antifa” cells and its...

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Text • David Kurtz

A Huge Win for the NYT In Air Force One Subpoena Debacle

Blanche and Clayton Own This Mess The responsibility for the Trump DOJ’s unlawful use of subpoenas as a tool of...

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Text • Kate Riga

Troy Jackson Cruises Towards Maine Senate Nomination 

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson is on track to become the official Democratic Senate nominee as the Saturday convention...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

DOJ Was Never Not Gonna Use New Jersey Noncitizen Error to Bolster Trump’s Delusions

‘Working Very Hard to Protect Them’ The Trump administration has been salivating for something — anything! — that could help...

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Text • Josh Marshall

From a Correspondent in Wisconsin #2

Another take on the governor’s race in Wisconsin, from TPM Reader BC … Just listened to this week’s podcast and...

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Text • Kate Riga

Tennessee Gerrymandering Challenge Fails, Just as Supreme Court Intended

A panel of judges on Thursday unanimously rebuffed Black Tennesseans’ attempt to block the state’s new 9-0 Republican gerrymander. The...

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Text • Khaya Himmelman

Election Deniers’ Grip on the Republican Party Strengthens in Arizona

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Three prominent 2020 election deniers won GOP primary elections in Arizona for secretary...

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Text • Candice Norwood

Trump Is Reshaping Immigration Courts With Help From a Brutal Comic Book Character

This story was originally reported by Candice Norwood of The 19th. Meet Candice and read more of their reporting on...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Bubble Don

Perhaps some of this is by design. But Trump adding Israel normalization to an apparently already signed nuclear deal with...

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Text • Josh Marshall

From Our Correspondent in Wisconsin

Longtime TPM Reader JB gives us a rundown on the rather suboptimal gubernatorial situation in Wisconsin … If I may,...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Democratic Activism in an Anti-Institutional Age

A few days ago I wrote about popular constitutionalism and Slate’s new podcast series on that topic. This is a...

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Text • David Kurtz

What’s Really Behind Trump’s Corrupt US Attorney Scheme

Only Loyalists Need Apply A new and ironic development in the first-of-its-kind legal challenge to President Trump’s U.S. attorney scheme...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Lindsey Graham’s Sister Pledges Her Allegiance to Trump by Way of SAVE Act

Freshly sworn-in Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) made her loyalty to President Trump and the rest of the MAGA movement...

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Text • Hunter Walker

A Key House Dem Breaks Down the White House’s ‘Unfathomable’ Iran War Funding Requests

Weeks after the Iran War began, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY) predicted to TPM that it would become a billion-dollar-a-day “mess.”...